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Assembling the best of that which crawls skin and chills the blood cannot be easy, and to do it twice a year consistently is the kind of minor miracle only Frightfest can achieve. Frightfest's Glasgow appearance bisects the year and picks the very best of new horror.

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OutlanderGrace
(Country: US; Director: Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel; Writer: Trent Haaga; Cast: Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan, Michael Bowen, Candice Accola, Andrew DiPalma, Eric Podnar, Nolan Gerard Funk, Christina Blevins, Kelle Cantwell, Shushig DerStepanian)
After two teenagers find a dead girl in the basement of a disused mental asylum, the boundary between right and wrong becomes sickeningly blurred.

(Country: Ireland, France; Director: Agnès Merlet; Writer: Agnès Merlet, Juliette Sales; Cast: Carice van Houten, Jenn Murray, David Wilmot, Ger Ryan, David Ganly, Gary Lewis)
A psychiatrist tries to help a disturbed girl but finds herself drawn into a mystery that may have violent supernatural origins.

(Country: US, Canada; Director: Paul Solet; Writer: Paul Solet; Cast: Jordan Ladd, Gabrielle Rose, Samantha Ferris, Malcolm Stewart, Stephen Park, Serge Houde, Evan Lanier, Shelly Gant)
After losing her unborn child, Madeline Matheson insists on carrying the baby to term. Following the delivery, the child miraculously returns to life, but when the baby develops a desperate appetite for human blood, Madeline is faced with a mother's ultimate decision. See: ,

(Country: US; Director: Glenn McQuaid; Writer: Glenn McQuaid; Cast: Dominic Monaghan, Ron Perlman, Larry Fessenden, Angus Scrimm, Daniel Manche, John Speredakos, Eileen Colgan, Brenda Cooney)
A grave robber looks back on the life he has led and the unburied bodies that haunt his memories. ,

(Country: US; Director: Adam Fields; Writer: Adam Fields, Jordan Fields; Cast: Amber Benson, Jason Graham, Ron Jeremy, Charles Napier, Jeff Denton, Caleb Mayo, Bart Fletcher, Jenny Guy, Veronica Hart, John Edward Lee, Carmen Hart, Frank Noel)
An alien monster wreaks havoc on an 'adult' movie set in a comedy horror whose cast list reads like a who's who of the porn industry. See:

I Sell The DeadDeadgirl
(Country: US, Germany; Director: Howard McCain; Writer: Dirk Blackman, Howard McCain; Cast: James Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, John Hurt, Cliff Saunders, Patrick Stevenson, Aidan Devine, Ron Perlman, Bailey Maughan, John Nelles, James Preston Rogers, Scott Owen, Petra Prazak, Owen Pattison, Matt Cooke)
Crashing on Earth during the time of the Vikings, a lone hero must meld his futuristic technology with the local weaponry and lead an army to destroy the alien monster he has brought with him, pausing only to pursue a Viking girl. ,

(Country: US; Director: David S. Goyer; Writer: David S. Goyer; Cast: Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Meagan Good, Cam Gigandet, Idris Elba, James Remar, Carla Gugino)
A young woman is gradually possessed by a malignant spirit that has haunted her family since her grandmother was in a concentration camp. ,

(Country: USA, France, Canada; Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner; Writer: Serge Brussolo, Gilles Paquet-Brenner, Rodolphe Tissot, Olivier Volpi, Sylvain White; Cast: Mischa Barton, Darla Biccum, Cameron Bright, Shannon Jardine, Noam Jenkins, Sophi Knight, Rob Roy, Josh Strait, Deborah Kara Unger, Rob van Meenen)
Demolition man chased across remote location by mad killer. News at 11.


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

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