Italy may be the spritual home of the video nasty, but there’s been a sad downward trend for years now, masters like Argento paddling increasingly ridiculous and hackneyed, non sensical tripe. So it’s with a wary eye that we approach Shadow – currently being hyped as ‘The Renaissance of Italian Horror’.
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FrightFest 2009: Trick R’ Treat
0 CommentsSeptember 3, 2009 – 2:30 pm
A fantastical, scary and funny update of 70s and 80s horror anthology flicks that provides laughs and chills aplenty.
FrightFest 2009: Triangle
3 CommentsSeptember 3, 2009 – 9:54 am
You’d be forgiven for not expecting much of a Christopher Smith film as the opener to FrightFest’s ‘09 schedule, what with him being the chap who made the lacklustre Creep and the amusing but silly Severance.
FrightFest 2009: Human Centipede
4 CommentsSeptember 2, 2009 – 6:54 pm
One for the rimmers in the audience, as director Tom Six bypasses any notions of horror in the traditional sense, and goes straight for the gag reflex with a tale of unnecessary surgery that’s “100% Medically Accurate!”
FrightFest 2009: Giallo
5 CommentsSeptember 2, 2009 – 10:41 am
There’s no sign of the legendary Dario Argento as the curtain goes up on his latest, and after viewing this laughable thriller it’s not hard to see why he chose to avoid the attentions of the massed legions of gathered gore hounds. Indeed, FrightFest’s Alan Jones actually tells the audience they’ll need therapy after watching this, perhaps forgetting that laughter is the best medicine…
