UK News: Details of FrightFest’s Halloween All-Nighter
by Ben Bussey.
UK readers: hopefully you’re up to speed on all the horror film fests coming your way this season (if not, click here). Now there’s another date to add to your diary: 29th October, on which FrightFest’s annual Halloween all-nighter will be taking place at the Vue West End in London’s Leicester Square. Who knows, perhaps by then this unseasonable heat we’ve been putting up with will finally have given way to the cool breezes and browning leaves we know and love this time of year for. (Yes, I’m allowed to talk about the weather if I want to…)
So if you’ll pardon me going into cut & paste mode, here are the specifics (click the pics to enlarge):
We kick off with the world premiere of BAD MEAT, director Lulu Jarmen’s splatter sensation – so under-the-radar it doesn’t even have an imdb listing. A Boot Camp for troubled teens becomes a nightmarish charnel house when spoiled meat transforms the staff from sadistic fascists into something much, much worse… Get ready for spilt blood, vomit, faeces and bile – and not only on screen – in the strangest, weirdest destined-for-cult-dom gross-out in ages.
90 mins. Canada 2011 Cast: Elizabeth Harnois, Dave Franco, Mark Pellegrino, Tahj Mowry & Jessica Parker Kennedy
Next up is the UK premiere of LIVID, from those Inside guys Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo. LIVID won’t be released in the UK until next year so this is the first chance to see what everyone is raving about. It’s young Lucie’s first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She discovers here is treasure hidden somewhere in the home but little does Lucy and her friends know their hunt will lead them into a horrifying supernatural series of events.
90 mins. France 2011. Cast: Beatrice Dalle, Jeremy Kapone, Catherine Jacob, Chloe Coulloud & Felix Moati
MIDNIGHT FILM – To be announced soon. You won’t be disappointed!
French director Julien Magnat (Bloody Mallory) is back with the UK premiere of FACES IN THE CROWD, an inventive and irresistible giallo-style thriller starring Milla Jovovich Jovovich stars as Anna Marchant who witnesses the latest attack of serial killer Tear Jerker Jack. But when he tries to murder her too, she survives by falling from a bridge and wakes up with ‘face blindness’ – a condition meaning everyone’s facial features change each time she loses sight of them.
95 mins. USA 2011 Cast: Milla Jovovich, Marianne Faithfull , Michael Shanks, Julian McMahon & Valentina Vargas
What would happen if you crossed Hostel with The Wages of Fear? Find out in the UK premiere of COLD SWEAT – from Argentina’s rising star director Adrian Garcia Bogliano. When a young man attempts to track down his ex-girlfriend his investigations lead him to the last geriatric members of a right-wing terrorist group still carrying on their evil: a horrifying manifesto. This unique chiller is a fun display of gaucho gore and creative carnage.
90 mins. Argentina 2010 Cast: Facundo Espinosa, Marina Glezer, Camilla Velasco, Omar Gioiosa & Omar Muso
Last but by no means least is the UK Premiere of THE WATERMEN, a stomach-churning costal fight for survival directed by Matt L. Locklhart and starring Jason Mewes of JAY AND SILENT BOB fame facing an inbred menace. A group of young friends set out for a deep sea fishing trip aboard a luxury boat. When an electrical fire rocks the vessel, it leaves them marooned with no communications, no food and no water. A bad situation turns far worse when their hope of being rescued by a passing trawler sees them drugged and captured by evil fisherman…
98 mins. USA 2011 Cast: Jason Mewes, Richard Riehle, Luke Guldan, Tyler Johnson & Tara Heston
Plus there’s the first showing of a great short by Jen Moss called THE MORNING AFTER: It’s the morning after Halloween and Angel (Kate Nash) awakens to the chaotic debris of the night before. She stumbles around her flat surveying the damage from what must have been the mother of all parties. When she receives a voicemail reminding her of her parents’ imminent visit, Angel realises that dealing with her hangover is the least of her worries. She’s been a very bad girl and it’s time to deal with consequences…
The entire Halloween 6 programme (minus LIVID) will be repeated at the Watershed in Bristol on Friday November 4th.
Tickets cost £50 and go on sale on Saturday October 1. To book call 08712 240240 or go online http://www.myvue.com/latest-movies/info/film/frightfest-all-nighter. Tickets can also be bought at the cinema. For full programme & timetable log onto www.frightfest.co.uk.
Films kick off at 6pm, and run to the early hours; tickets go on sale tomorrow, Saturday 1st October. At which point we can start singing “30 DAYS TO HALLOWEEN, HALLOWEEN, HALLOWEEN…”
Also, Britt’s review of Livid is here, and Marc’s review of Cold Sweat is here.
