Fright Fest Virgin

I have just spent a whole day sitting in a cinema watching 6 "fright" films. Fright Fest is a yearly 5 day festival celebrating new as well as classic horror films. And as a fright "virgin" Saturday the 28th was my official induction - and it was awesome. Our first film started at 11.00 am and we were treated to the Cherry Tree Lane - which was a tense film about a group middle age couple whose evening meal is interrupted by 3 teenagers looking for revenge on the couples son after he snitched on someone. On a low budget and short filming time they made an amazing film that had me feeling anxious and tense about what was going to happen.

Next at 1.15pm we sat down to watch The Tortured - which was quite gorey in the torture scenes, loved that, but sadly was a tad corny in their lines and acting.

3.15pm was 13 Hours - nice up to date UK take on the old werewolf theme. Can't say too much about this one as it looked good, but the baldcaps kinda ruined it for me, get the clippers out next time.

6.30 I Spit on Your Grave - was a quite disturbing story reminiscent of that film (which I cannot name - but lets say hillbillies, banjo theme tune and a fishing trip going wrong) . Yes I was disturbed by this film, my heart was beating, the adrenaline was pumping around my highly sugared out body so much that my blood almost turned to syrup. But the ending scenes were truly awesome and I have never ever heard an audience grimace, laugh and generally praise the originality in the thinking behind those scenes!

9pm saw us sitting down (did I say that our bums still felt fine at this point? comfy cinema seats make so much of a difference !) to watch the Monsters . A beautiful film, beautiful locations and so well put together - I definitely recommend watching this. Not so much a fright film but almost like Close Encounters of the Third Kind film - know what I mean? I don't want to give too much of the story away but see this one when it's out on general release.

Finally, 11.30pm, onto some Japanese gore - and boy these guys know how to make it! Dream Home - supposedly based on a true story is about one persons frustration on trying to buy a house to please her hard working but poor parents. This was gore, gore, gore and pretty darned good gore too.

I'm tired now - only got three hours sleep before my youngest monster decided to wake me up. That will teach me to come home at 3.30 in the morning from London.