A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio is a anthology of 8 short stories. Some are really good, like the one about the pile of clothes on the chair at the end of the bed. There’s certainly variety, with a period monster, angry mermaid, and scary clown.
With the radio announcer reading out the stories, it kinda sounds like the videos of reddit creepy pasta set to thunderstorms. Definitely got a bit of creep to it.
Drinking whiskey shots with VFW director Joe Begos
That was fucking awesome!
Assault on Precinct 13-style siege movie. Crackhead punks attack a veterans’ bar, mayhem ensues. Beautiful gore, mesmerising score. Stephen Lang leads an amazing cast.
See it!
Butt Boy is what happens if someone takes a Chuck Tingle story and films it like a gritty cop drama. A man with a portal in his ass is abducting kids and sticking them up there. Hot on his trail is a jaded, hard-bitten cop, and they play a game of cat-and-mouse throughout the movie.
Butt Boy has, without a doubt, the stupidest premise for a film of the entire festival, yet it is played entirely straight. All the humour is from how ridiculous that is, rather than any standard jokes in the movie.
Silly and weird.
A series of shorts of varying quality made by and about women. Some are very promising, some are not for me.I liked Safe Space, less so Panoptia.
A sensational film about religious frenzy. A nurse sets out to save the soul of her dying patient. Jennifer Ehle is wonderful as the patient, and Morfydd Clark is extraordinary as Maud.
Reminiscent of something like The Witch, this focuses on the ecstatics of devotion. A psychological horror with an unreliable narrator, Maud’s perspective on what is happening differs massively from the secular audience. The tension just winds up as that divide gets wider and wider.
Hold your breath.
Another Frightfest freebie
Really fun zombie comedy. A family of grifters manage to turn the zombie apocalypse to their advantage.
Look what I got
The Mortuary Collection is a horror anthology, with 4 short stories told by the undertaker to a prospective new recruit. Clanchy Brown plays a Tall Man-type character, a looming Lurch with a gorgeously ominous voice.
Side bar: How old is Clancy Brown now? Coz I would still ride him til my fanny got scorch marks.
Each of the short stories vary in tone and tightness. Some are concise and punchy. Some are longer and wind up more tension or humour. The last one is the best.
Thoroughly enjoyable.