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Every year a horror festival by the name of Film 4 Frightfest takes place on August Bank Holiday weekend in London in the UK. It’s a haven for British horror film fans, featuring some of the latest and greatest of what the horror genre has to offer that are almost always UK, European and World Premieres.

For the first time in the Frightfest’s history, the films will be shown on two screens: The Main Screen will show the biggest films (the Premieres, the ones with the biggest stars/directors etc), and the Discovery Screen will play some of the more riskier stuff, along with doubling up on some of the bigger stuff to give folks the chance to see them if they missed them on the other screen.

Here is the full line-up for the 2009 Film 4 Frightfest (thanks to Frightfest and /Film):

MAIN SCREEN:

THURSDAY 27 AUGUST

18:30 Triangle – dir. Christopher Smith UK/Australia 2009
21:15 The Hills Run Red – dir. Red Dave Parker USA 2009
23:30 Infestation + Deadwalkers – dir. Kyle Rankin 2009

FRIDAY 28 AUGUST
11.00 The Horseman – dir. Steven Kastissios Australia 2008
13.45 Beware the Moon (World Premiere) – dir. Paul Davis UK 2009
16.10 An American Werewolf in London – dir. John Landis USA 1981
19.20 Shadow (World Premiere) – dir. Federico Zampaglione Italy 2009
21.35 The Horde (Special Sneak Preview) – dir. Yannick Dahan & Benjamin Rocher France 2009
00.00 Macabre (UK Premiere) – dir. The MO Brothers Singapore 2009

SATURDAY 29 AUGUST
11.30 Smash Cut (UK Premiere) – dir. Lee Demabre Canada 2009
13.45 Hierro (UK Premiere) – dir. Gabe Ibanez Spain 2009
15.45 Millennium: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (UK Premiere) – dir. Niels Arden Oplev Sweden 2009
19.00 Giallo (London Premiere) – dir. Dario Argento USA/Italy 2009
21.00 Trick’r Treat (UK premiere) – dir. Michael Dougherty USA 2008
23.15 Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl (UK Premiere) – dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura and Naoyuki Tomomatsu Japan 2009

SUNDAY 30 AUGUST
11.30 Dead Snow (UK Premiere) – dir. Tommy Wirkola Norway 2009
13.45 The Human Centipede: First Sequence (World Premiere) – dir. Tom Six Holland 2009
15.50 Coffin Rock (World Premiere) – dir. Rupert Glasson Australia 2009
18.45 Night of the Demons (World Premiere) – dir. Adam Gierasch USA 2009
21.00 Clive Barker’s Dread (UK Premiere) – dir. Anthony DiBlasi UK 2009
23:15 100 Best Deaths – Andy Nyman Presents

MONDAY 31 AUGUST
11.00 Zombie Women of Satan (World Premiere) – dir. Warren Speed & Steve O’Brien UK 2009
13.15 The House of the Devil (UK Premiere) – dir. Ti West USA 2009
15.30 Case 39 (UK Premiere) – dir. Christian Alvart USA 2009
18.30 Heartless (World Premiere) – dir. Philip Ridley UK 2009
21.15 The Descent: Part Two (World Premiere) – dir. Jon Harris UK 2009

DISCOVERY SCREEN:

FRIDAY 28 AUGUST
12.00 Best Worst Movie (UK Premiere) – dir. Michael Stephenson USA 2008
14.15 I Sell the Dead (London Premiere) – dir. Glenn McQuaid USA 2008
16.15 I Think We’re Alone Now – dir. Sean Donnelly USA 2008
18.45 Colin (Preview Screening) – dir. Marc Price UK 2008
21.00 Black (UK Premiere) – dir. Pierre Laffargue France 2008

SATURDAY 29 AUGUST
12.00 The Horror of Writing Competition
13.45 Evil Things (World Premiere) – dir. Dominic Perez USA 2009
16.15 Fragment (World Premiere) – dir. Andrew Miles Australia 2009
18.45 It’s Alive (UK Premiere) – dir. Joseph Rusnak USA 2008
21.00 Pontypool (London Premiere) – dir. Bruce McDonald Canada 2008

SUNDAY 30 AUGUST
12.00 Black (UK Premiere) – dir. Pierre Laffargue France 2008
14.40. Pontypool (London Premiere) – dir. Bruce McDonald Canada 2008
17.00 I Think We’re Alone Now – dir. Sean Donnelly USA, 2008
19.00 I Sell the Dead (London Premiere) – dir. Glenn McQuaid USA 2008
21.00 Best Worst Movie (UK Premiere) – dir. Michael Stephenson USA 2008

MONDAY 31 AUGUST
11.00 Colin (Preview Screening) – dir. Marc Price UK 2008
14.15 It’s Alive (UK Premiere) – dir. Joseph Rusnak USA 2008
16.15 Fragment (World Premiere) – dir. Andrew Miles Australia 2009
18.45 Evil Things (World Premiere) – dir. Dominic Perez USA 2009

To view the information on all the films showing at this year’s Frightfest you can head over to the official website.

BEST WIDE-RELEASE FILM
HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
CLOVERFIELD
THE STRANGERS
THE RUINS
QUARANTINE
Write-ins: FUNNY GAMES; DOOMSDAY; MIRRORS

BEST LIMITED-RELEASE/DIRECT-TO-VIDEO FILM
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER
ROGUE
STUCK
THE LIVING AND THE DEAD
Write-ins: INSIDE; MACHINE GIRL; MOTHER OF TEARS

BEST ACTOR
Ron Perlman, HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
Kare Hedebrant, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
Marc Senter, THE LOST
Trevor Matthews, JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER
Leo Bill, THE LIVING AND THE DEAD
Write-ins: Brian Cox, RED; Anthony Stewart Head, REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA; Jay Hernandez, QUARANTINE; Kiefer Sutherland, MIRRORS

BEST ACTRESS
Lina Leandersson, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
Naomi Watts, FUNNY GAMES
Eliza Dushku, THE ALPHABET KILLER
Jess Weixler, TEETH
Alysson Paradis, INSIDE
Write-ins: Asia Argento, MOTHER OF TEARS; Jennifer Carpenter, QUARANTINE; Liv Tyler, THE STRANGERS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Doug Jones, HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
TIE: Michael Pitt, FUNNY GAMES/Vinnie Jones, THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN
Robert Englund, JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER
A.J. Bowen, THE SIGNAL
Write-ins: Luke Goss, HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY; Jean-Pierre Jorris, FRONTIER(S); Noah Segan, DEADGIRL

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Beatrice Dalle, INSIDE
Anna Walton, HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
Lauren Roy, THE CHAIR
Jennifer Ellison, THE COTTAGE
Lou Doillon, SISTERS
Write-ins: Selma Blair, HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY; Megan Henning, THE LOST; Mylene Jampanoi, MARTYRS; Laura Ramsey, THE RUINS

BEST SCREENPLAY
John Ajvide Lindqvist, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
Guillermo del Toro, HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
Mitchell Lichtenstein, TEETH
TIE: John Ainslie, Jon Knautz, JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER/John Strysik, STUCK
Write-in: Dario Argento, Adam Gierasch, Jace Anderson, MOTHER OF TEARS

BEST SCORE
John Soderqvist, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
tomandandy, THE STRANGERS
TIE: Michael Giacchino, CLOVERFIELD/Ryan Shore, JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER
Robert Miller, TEETH
Write-ins: Danny Elfman, HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY; Claudio Simonetti, MOTHER OF TEARS

BEST MAKEUP/CREATURE FX
Mike Elizalde, Cliff Wallace, David Martí, Montse Ribé, HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
Robert Hall, QUARANTINE
David Scott, JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER
Jacques-Olivier Molon, INSIDE
Todd Tucker, Drac Studios, TRAILER PARK OF TERROR
Write-in: John Cox, ROGUE

WORST FILM
The top five vote-getters were:
PROM NIGHT
CLOVERFIELD
THE HAPPENING
SAW V
TWILIGHT

 With a tie for second place here, we’re inducting three new members into the FANGORIA HORROR HALL OF FAME:
Doug Jones, Forrest J Ackerman and Roger Corman.

SCIFIWire has a cool interview with the writer/director behind the Night of the Demons remake, Adam Gierasch. It seems that he was a little worried about doing a remake; he says, “[I was worried] that people were going to hate me. I do look at the Internet message boards, and they do hurt my feelings, and I know in a lot of ways it’s a lose-lose situation. But if I could put f–king punk rock, demon buttf–king and have the ultimate Halloween party movie, then I would be happy, and I did that. So I just tried to please myself more than please others.”

The original Night of the Demons wasn’t that great so if he’s turning out a decent movie I’m down with it.

Plus he had me at “demon buttf–king.”

from: SCIFIWire

Todos los años, el festival After Dark Horrorfest nos regala al menos 8 producciones de terror, donde generalmente, 2 de ellas son realmente destacables, 2 son muy buenas, y el resto quizas queden en el olvido. Como todos los años tambien, la salida de las 8 peliculas al mercado del DVD es practicamente simultanea, por lo que, si queremos, podemos ver todas juntas de un tiron. En este caso, siguiendo los consejos de la critica especializada, Autopsy fue la elegida para disfrutar. Con un estructura muy clasica, de jovenes que por algun motivo quedan en el medio de la nada, la historia se centra en las andanzas de un enfermizo mad doctor que, como suele pasar en estos casos, ha superado la cordura que le quedaba en nombre de la ciencia, pero con fines personales. Si hablamos de un After Dark Horrorfest, hablamos de terror, y hacia ahi iremos: slasher, algo de gore, y algo de suspenso condimentan la cinta, en mayor o menor medida, aunque, para los mas exigentes, no es suiciente. Se destaca la genialidad del director por la idealizacion de los personajes, y por la enfermiza mentalidad a la hora de crear una escena como la de los organos expuestos. Completamente genial, quizas lo mas llamativo de la cinta. Su dinamica y su ritmo hacen que no aburra, mostrando algo por aca, algo por ella, pero no esperemos mucho en estos aspectos, ya que las dosis de terror podriamos decir que “se quedan cortas” con su desempeño. Por otro lado, la historia tiene varios huecos argumentales y espacios en blanco, haciendo todo “poco serio”. Como toda esta clase de cint, es mas lo que reimos que lo que nos asustamos.
La cinta esta dirigida por Adam Gierasch en lo que es su primer largometraje, aunque es conocido en el ambiente por escribir algunos guiones de cintas de Tobe Hooper como Toolbox Murders y Mortuary. Ademas, no podemos olvidar que escribio la ultima entrega de la trilogia de las Tres Madres de Argento, llamada Mother of Tears. Actuan la hermosa Jessica Lowndes en lo que marco su debut en los largometrajes (recientemente hizo The Haunting of Molly Hartley). Le sigue Robert T-1000 Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Double Dragon,The Faculty), Jenette Goldstein (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Lethal Weapon 2, Aliens), la tambien bella Ashley Schneider (Stupid Teenagers Must Die!, The House Bunny, Extreme Movie) y Michael Bowen (Walking Tall, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Magnolia).
Una entretenida cinta de terror, con pocos condimentos pero aun asi sabrosa.

Puntaje: 7/10

A group of friends at Mardi Gras get into a car accident and wind up at a local hospital where they find a doctor performing some unorthodox experiments.

Directed by – Adam Gierasch

Written by – Adam Gierasch, Jace Anderson, E. L. Katz

Starring – Jessica Lowndes, Michael Bowen, Robert Patrick, Jenette Goldstein, Ashley Schneider, Robert LaSardo, Arcadiy Golubovich, Ross Kohn, Ross McCall, Janine Venable

Another in the After Dark Horrorfest series and sadly another disappointment. This movie made me realize that I’m becoming jaded after having seen so many films in the last few months. Normally I would have enjoyed this one. It’s chock full of jump scares and some really gory stuff but after so many horror movies lately I’m finding it hard to enjoy some of the simpler ones.

The story is really almost non-existent. The creepy doctor’s, played by Robert Patrick, wife has cancer but is getting better through an experimental treatment. It’s not too hard to see that the treatment is probably going to involve the death of our group of teens. The acting isn’t bad but it’s nothing to write home about and I really wanted more from the story itself. I’ll give them credit though there’s plenty of scares in this one, my girlfriend can attest to that one as I watched her jump numerous times and some of the gore is truly over the top. There’s one scene towards the end that was quite impressive along with a few others throughout the movie. Is it too much to ask that some great horror be accompanied by a great story as well?

As far as this one goes I would recommend it to the horror hounds out there. It’s got plenty of things going for it as far as gore and it should make some of your friends soil themselves in fright. Just don’t visit this hospital if you’re looking for great character development or an interesting storyline.

Under the marquee – Will

This is not a remake of the 1975 Italian horror film “AUTOPSY”. This is one of the films from the 3rd year of “8 Films to Die For” part of the After Dark Horrorfest. Starts out typical enough, with five attractive 20 somethings partying it up in New Orleans. Now, what they get right is this part of the film is extremely short, and is in fact just snaps shots shown during the credits. Too many horror films fail to create a group of people you might care about, making
their deaths later in the film that much more horrifying. If you can’t do this, than just get to the point already! There is nothing I find more annoying than having to watch 20 minutes of stupid people doing dumbass things and having incoherent conversations. By the time the action starts I can’t wait for them to die. This film gets right down to business and scores points right off the bat. The group get into an accident and much to their suprise find that they have hit a pedestrian. An ambulance shows up immediately and the emergency workers explain to the kids that it was not a pedestrian they hit but an escaped patient woozy from sedation. They suggest the banged up group come along so that they can be examined. Okay, so most of us would agree to go along. They don’t have a working vehicle now and they were in an accident after all. Enter Mercy Hospital. This is where the story really starts so I won’t go on from here in any detail. The head physician is Dr. Benway played by Robert Patrick. Patrick’s delivery is pretty wooden but not completely ineffective. It would have been more fun if he had played it a little more over the top though. The head nurse is played by Jenette Goldstein who played diamondback in Near Dark. It was good to see her in a horror film again and her character was interesting but also seemed a little too restrained. The hospital staff is rounded out by Michael Bowen and Robert LaSardo, two dastardly bastards playing bad ass orderlies. The story is a little patchy which is the films fatal flaw. Dr. Benway’s motives are explained to some extent but he does a lot of things that don’t make any sense in regards to achieving his final goal. Okay, he is suppose to be completely mad so you can buy some of the insanity. The main problem I had was the whole supernatural thread they ran through the story line. It appeared that people were coming back from the dead and there were random people walking aimlessly throughout the hospital. This made no sense at all to the plot and is never explained. And I would have ended it about 30 seconds sooner. With that said, I actually didn’t mind this film. There are some unique moments of grossness that are WAY over the top!! For a film with a relatively low body count there is a lot of gore. There are also a couple of very weird little scenes that are pretty damn amusing. To some extent I felt like I seen this film before but it was still pretty watchable.

Dungeon Review: 3/5

Directed By: Adam Gierasch

Starring: Jessica Lowndes, Michael Bowen, Robert Patrick, Jenette Goldstein, Ashley Schneider, Robert LaSardo, Eric F. Adams, Arcadiy Golubovich, Ross Kohn and Ross McCall

Un film del 2008, regia di Adam Gierasch, con Ashley Schneider / Eric F. Adams / Michael Bowen / Jenette Goldstein. Prodotto da (84min)

Horror / Thriller

Una giovane donna cerca di ritrovare il suo fidanzato ferito all’interno di un ospedale bizzarro e pericoloso.