Here is all our coverage of the Film4 FrightFest 2010 - the UK's premier fantasy and horror film festival. Now in its 11th year, each August thousands of genre fans gather together in the heart of London's West End at the prestigious Empire Cinema for five days packed full of premieres, previews, personal appearances, signings and surprises ...
BLOGPOSTS, NEWS AND INTERVIEWS
• Film4 FrightFest's full line-up revealed | Adam Stephen Kelly
• FrightFest announces its International Short Film Showcase | Adam Stephen Kelly
• Screenjabber Pubcast Special: FrightFest 2010
Stuart O'Connor is joined by FrightFest directors Alan Jones, Paul McEvoy and Ian Rattray for a chat about this year's festival – the good, the bad and the downright terrifying.
• Preview: It's FrightFest Time! | Stuart O'Connor
• Preview: Let the fun 'n' guts begin! | Adam Stephen Kelly
• BBFC cuts A Serbian Film and I Spit on Your Grave | Stuart O'Connor
• FrightFest drops A Serbian Film from lineup | Stuart O'Connor
• Welcome to FrightFest! | Julia Hardy
Julia Hardy – the host of Bravo TV's Gameface – joins Team Screenjabber this year to bring you all the glitz, glamour and ghouls of Film4 FrightFest 2010.
• Video interview: Alan Jones | Julia Hardy
• Video interview: Hatchet II World Premiere | Adam Stephen Kelly
• Video interview: Dead Cert | Adam Stephen Kelly
• FrightFest Day 1 | Adam Stephen Kelly
• Video interview: horror legend Tobe Hooper | Stuart O'Connor
• FrightFest Day 2 | Stuart O'Connor
• Video interview: 13Hrs | Julia Hardy
• FrightFest Day 3 | Adam Stephen Kelly
• Video interview: The Loved Ones | Stuart O'Connor
• FrightFest Day 4 | Stuart O'Connor
• Video interview: Chillerama | Adam Green & Joe Lynch
• Video interview: Video Nasties | Stuart O'Connor
• Video interview: The Last Exorcism | Julia Hardy
• FrightFest Day 5 | Stuart O'Connor
FILM REVIEWS
• Dead Cert | Adam Stephen Kelly
It’s a splatter Disco Inferno as East End gangsters and Eastern European vampires battle it out for the ultimate prize.
• Burning Bright | Stuart O'Connor
Sometimes, the simplest ideas make the best films. And the idea behind Burning Bright is one of the simplest we've seen in a long time – two people trapped in a house with a hungry tiger. During a hurricane. And it's an idea that works a treat.
• Eggshells | Adam Stephen Kelly
Tobe Hooper’s little seen and long thought lost debut feature is now a must-see hippy trippy head space fantasy time capsule containing many portents of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to come
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Stuart O'Connor
Allegedly based on a true story, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is one of those films that you probably grew up hearing about, but never got around to actually seeing.
• Cherry Tree Lane | Mike Martin
Cherry Tree Lane was Mary Poppins' address, but there's nothing remotely Disney in this cautionary tale of our times from Paul Andrew Williams, director of the critically acclaimed London to Brighton and The Cottage.
• The Last Exorcism | Stuart O'Connor
Produced by Eli Roth, The Last Exorcism is a creepy, intelligent and effective thriller – thanks mainly to the performances of its two leads.
• 13Hrs | Adam Stephen Kelly
In the stormy darkness of the Sussex countryside, something holds a terrifying secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out an entire family's bloodline.
• Primal | Stuart O'Connor
Primordial nature runs amuck in a smartly played, well scripted slice of neo-Ozploitation.
• F | Stuart O'Connor
The college day ends, the school building becomes a vast complex of dark corridors, eerily quiet classrooms, empty save for a few staff and children. What none of the remaining teachers and pupils realise is tonight is going to be a night they will remember for the rest of their lives.
• After.Life | Adam Stephen Kelly
What happens when you wake up on the mortician's table with a hole in your head after being involved in a horrific car crash?
• Hatchet II | Adam Stephen Kelly
Boasting a body count that is over double that of the first movie and once more providing ground-breaking work in old school practical cinema special effects to deliver unapologetically unrestrained gushers of gore.
• Alien vs Ninja | Adam Stephen Kelly
In the tradition of Tokyo Gore Police comes killer Kung Fu, gratuitous violence, silly splatter, high-powered action - and men in grey rubber suits. Total bliss.
• The Loved Ones | Stuart O'Connor
When Brent turns down an invitation to the school dance from shy, unassuming Lola, he enters a nightmare beyond imagining.
• I Spit on Your Grave | Adam Stephen Kelly
Arguably the most notorious title in horror history, the original 1979 exploitation classic became an iconic Video Nasty. So prepare for the one remake everybody has been anticipating, a violent, shocking story of bloody revenge.
• Damned by Dawn | Adam Stephen Kelly
You wanted Evil Dead 4, well here it is, Down Under, over the top and with enough gothic chills and atmospheric thrills to drill spookiness into the back of your screaming skull.
• Buried | Adam Stephen Kelly
Paul is a US contractor working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
• Fanboys | Adam Stephen Kelly
It’s Halloween night 1998 and Star Wars fanboys across the globe eagerly await the release of Episode I - The Phantom Menace. But for Eric, Linus, Hutch and Windows, the term fanboy is more than just a title – it’s a badge of honour.
• We Are What We Are | Justin Bateman
A middle-aged man dies in the middle of a shopping mall leaving his widow, two sons and daughter destitute. The devastated family is confronted not only by their terrible loss, but also a massive challenge. For they are cannibals, driven to eat human flesh because of poverty rife in the Latin American urban jungle.
• Higanjima: Escape from Vampire Island | Adam Stephen Kelly
No one has ever returned from the island of Higanjima, especially Akira’s older brother Atsushi who went missing there two years ago. But out of the blue a beautiful woman Rei approaches him and hands over his brother’s ID card. Desperate to see Atsushi again, Akira talks his friends into joining him to search the island. Once there they realize they have been routinely lured to the island of the dead where vampires drink the blood of their victims.