The Swerve

(Frightfest Day 4)

A deep, dark scrape on the soul. Superb.

AV: The Hunt

(Frightfest Day 4)

Takes some balls to make a movie that says ‘every guy in my country is a fucking dick’ and furthermore then actually be right about it. The director of this clearly has planet sized balls.

Enhanced

(Frghtfest Day 4)

A film adaptation of the colour beige that managed to stand out at this year’s Frightfest simply by not being unwatchably awful.

A Ghost Waits

(Frightfest Day 3)

Quirky and fun, until it isn’t. When it’s quirky and fun it’s quite, quite brilliant, when it isn’t you can keep smiling about when it was and this will carry you through to the end.

Hall

(Frightfest Day 3)

Lives up to its name, long and featureless.

Two Heads Creek

(Frightfest Day 3)

Plenty of fun to be had.

Skull: The Mask

(Frightfest Day 3)

13 year old me would’ve dug it, old me says dumb shit like ‘The foley work was extremely lacking, ruining what is already a shallow parade of gore’.

Wish I was 13 again.

Dark Place

(Frightfest Day 2)

Anthology movie where the odd numbered ones were pretty good and the even numbered ones not so much. More odds than evens in this one though, so that’s ok.

Blind

(Frightfest Day 2)
Interminable risible shit.

Playhouse

(Frightfest Day 2)
Confused gibberish. The main source of confusion being all the actors look roughly the same age but are all playing different generations.

The Columnist [De kuthoer]

(Frightfest Day 2)

A sort of Schrodingers Cat exercise in freedom of speech where it’s simultaneously both a really good thing and a really bad thing and only settles in one state when observed.

Visitor Q [Bijitâ Q]

In which a litany of taboos are unflinchingly deployed in the service of heartwarming family bonding and the darkest of humours.

12 Hour Shift

(Frightfest Day 1)
Deliciously dark and deliriously twisted. A bit like if Kevin Smith remade Bad Lieutenant in a hospital. Ace.

There’s No Such Thing As Vampires

(Frightfest Day 1)

Although evidently there is such a thing as utterly bollocks vampire movies.

Tenet [IMAX]

Nolan at his Nolaniest. Best summed up by a character early on in the movie who says “Don’t think too hard about it”.