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Let The Right One In won top prize at Tribeca
Let The Right One In won top prize at Tribeca
Now in its ninth year, the FrightFest continues to cut a trail of bloody success.

This year's festival will run at London Odeon West End from August 21 to 25. Among the highlights are Tribeca Film Festival favourite and low-budget Brit horror .

FrightFest Latest Reviews

Red Mist
A coma victim with psychic powers hunts down the medical students who tormented him.

The Disappeared
A youth released from a mental hospital tries to get back to normal but is haunted by the voice of his younger brother, who disappeared.

Martyrs
After being abducted and abused when she was younger, a young girl seeks revenge on those she believes to be responsible. Plus read our .

Trailer Park Of Terror
A bus load of high school kids stumble upon a trailer park full of blood-thirsty zombies.

The Midnight Meat Train
A photographer stalks a serial killer who picks off his victims on the LA underground.

Scar 3D
Torture porn taken to the next dimension, which may well not be a good thing.

Mirrors
Something nasty is lurking through the looking glass...

Death Race
A prisoner is offered his freedom if he can win a motor race - but just staying alive is hard enough!

Eden Lake
A young couple spending a romantic weekend in the woods fall foul of an angry group of teenagers.

The Strangers
A young couple are terrorised by a group of masked home invaders.

FrightFest Festival Features

Twisting time
Director Nacho Vigalondo talks exclusively about his mind-bending feature debut Timecrimes... and the upcoming Hollywood remake.

This is hardcore...
Exclusive interview with director Pascal Laugier about his disturbing horror film Martyrs.

Resurrecting the past
FrightFest's Spring Awakening has an older gem but the modern films are stuck in a time warp.

Back from the dead
After a lacklustre horror showing at festivals in the first half of 2008, the FrightFest all-nighter proves there's life in the corpses yet.

Scarily familiar
Although some of the films at FrightFest had a cutting edge, many offered variations on older movies - we examine the killers and the copycats in our postmortem.

Sparkling Perry
In our exclusive interview Brit acting stalwart Perry Benson talks about his contrasting roles in Somers Town and Mum & Dad.

Hot city frights
A look forward to Film4 FrightFest this August Bank Holiday.

FrightFest News

A look back before Doomsday
Neil Marshall Celebrated at Film4 FrightFest Event


News & Features Repo

Jean-Pierre Améris talks about his comedy Romantics Anonymous.

Michel Hazanavicius, the Dardennes and others on cinematic and fairy tale influences.

McQueen, Fassbender, Cronenberg, Durkin, Olsen, Payne talk about clothes and authenticity

Events include a rare screening of The Blue Angel

2012 event will recover its glamour, says Chris Fujiwara
Playing Now! Italian Film Festival - Giovanna's Father


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