I have no idea if any or many of you know about this annual film festival held in London over the August bank holiday weekend. This will be the 7th year I've attended and it is superb fun. Many who go are regulars so you get to know people over the years. Usually the films are shown in Leicester Square, but as there's a lot of work going on in the Square this year, the organisers have moved it to Shepherd's Bush for 2016's event.

Below is a post I've put on a number of website's I'm involved in. I've tailored it slightly as I won't be posting film reviews here, but there are still some festival and day passes, plus some single tickets available. The entire event is a blast. You get to meet film directors and can discuss their films with them, also actresses and actors. The link at the bottom will take you to 'What's on' and by clicking a film's name you can get details and/or watch trailers.



Well, it’s that time of year again and once more I’m looking forward to Frightfest.

There’s quite a selection of films this year including a number of documentaries and a couple of panels. The discussion panels are a new feature and one which I’m looking forward to. The subjects under discussion in the two I’m attending are; Women in Horror and The Future of British Horror.

So what films am I looking forward to seeing this time round?

Well, I’m a big fan of Henry James and his classic story ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is being retold by Brazilian director Walter Lima Jr. The art direction of this film looks stunning and I’m interested to see if Lima focuses on the psychological or supernatural elements embodied in this tale.

I quite recently read Stephen King’s ‘Cell’ and one of the films on Thursday’s opening night is a cinematic realisation of his novel. In addition, the closing film; Train to Busan from South Korea’s Yeon Sang-Ho, is receiving great reviews and looks to be the best zombie picture of the festival. I think these are the only zombie flicks I’m bothering with.

As ever, films from all around the globe are receiving their UK premier and, as ever, there will be a mixture of good and bad movies. But, it looks to be a strong field this year and I’ve put together a program of 23 films from the 60 plus on offer. I’m quite excited to see ‘From a House on Willow Street’ a supernatural suspense film from South Africa; White Coffin from Argentina which pays homage to Hammer horror and references Roger Corman; the graphic novel inspired ‘Abattoir’ from the USA, ‘Crow’, a UK film which explores the protectionist force of nature when threatened and ‘Karaoke Crazies’ a black humor serial killer romp from Korea.

There are also a couple of documentaries which caught my eye. ‘Hostage to the Devil’ concerns exorcism, whereas The Killing of America is a restoration of a film made in 1981, which examines the increase in the murder rate in America since the assassination of Kennedy.

Here is a link to the 2016 schedule where you can read info and watch trailers from the many films on offer this year.

http://www.frightfes...s/schedule.html

I think few years back (in 2010 I think) I used to download movies that were featured in Frightfest
Btw the link you wanted to share is EDIT: Nevermind. That was After Dark Horrorfest.

Thanks for correcting the link amrit9037 and for alerting me to the problem. I'm not certain what happened there - I'd better go check the other links I've given on forums.

Here in germany we have the Fantasy Filmfest and Fantasy Filmfest Nights. Lots of horror movies and some other genres. I'm a regular visitor since 1999 and watch about 20 movies there within one week.

http://www.fantasyfilmfest.com/index-eng.html

Sounds like fun. I'm very picky about horror films, unless it's hellraiser I'm decidedly unimpressed. :P

watch event horizon ;p

and i am generally so jaded by horror movies that all the get from me is a shrug
or an thats it ?!
..balls

i wasnt impressed by the cabin and most new horror movies are just torture porn

It was super fun bad_fur_day1 and I had a great time.

An amazing range of films and only 2 of those I'd selected were a disappointment. Those I saw, plus the panel regarding the future of horror, demonstrated that the horror film industry and the variety of films currently available are anything but jaded.

Over the years I've met people from all over the world including New Zealand at Frightfest - perhaps I'll see you there one year in the future. :)