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Our friends from Frightfest are back with another weekend of thrills and chills almost certain to sell out, so if you want to go along, get your tickets early. There's gore, supernatural scares and thrillers that put the 'psycho' in psychological, so don't expect to get a good night's sleep.

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2001 Maniacs: Field Of Screams and [REC] 2

2001 Maniacs: Field Of Screams (Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Tim Sullivan; Stars: Bill Moseley, Lin Shaye, Christa Campbell)

A cannibal clan goes on the move in search of fresh meat, which is bad news for two beautiful heiresses making a reality TV show. Plus read our exclusive interview with Bill Moseley.

Full Review See: Bill Moseley Interview on 2001 Maniacs: Field Of Screams, Devil's Rejects

Bitter (Amer) (Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Hélène Cattert, Bruno Forzani; Stars: Marie Bos, Delphine Brual, Harry Cleven)

A giallo about obsession and murder.

Frozen (Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Adam Green; Writer: Adam Green; Stars: Emma Bell, Ed Ackerman, Rileah Vanderbilt, Adam Johnson, Chris York, Peder Melhuse, Kevin Zegers, Shawn Ashmore, Kane Hodder, John Omohundro, Joshua Cameron)

Three skiers are mistakenly stranded on a chairlift, forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.

Lizard In A Woman's Skin (Una lucertola con la pelle di donna) (Country: Italy; Year: 1971; Director: Lucio Fulci; Writer: Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti, Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti, José Luis Martínez Mollá, André Tranché, Ottavio Jemma; Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel)

A rich socialite is accused of the violent sexual murder of her nymphomaniac neighbour, but has she been framed by her scheming husband?

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[REC] 2 (Rec 2) (Country: Spain; Year: 2009; Director: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza; Writer: Jaume Balagueró, Manu Díez, Paco Plaza; Stars: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Pablo Rosso, Àlex Batllori, Javier Botet, Jonathan Mellor, Claudia Font, Ariel Casas, Nico Baixas, Andrea Ros, Martha Carbonell, Juli Fàbregas, Óscar Zafra, Pau Poch, Alejandro Casaseca), Official Site, Trailer

Satanic zombie action following on from where [Rec] left off as a TV crew's abandoned camera keeps rolling in a quarantined apartment building.

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Lizard In A Woman's Skin and Splice

Rejkjavik Whale Watching Massacre (Country: Iceland; Year: 2009; Director: Julius Kemp; Stars: Aymen Hamdouchi, Gunnar Hansen, Miranda Hennessey, Terence Anderson)

A group of tourists commission s boat to go whale-watching, but when the boat breaks down and crew get hungry, they find themselves fighting to stay alive in Iceland's first contribution to the exploitation genre.

Splice (Country: Canada, France, US; Year: 2009; Director: Vincenzo Natali; Writer: Vincenzo Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant, Doug Taylor; Stars: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, David Hewlett, Delphine Chanéac, Abigail Chu, Brandon McGibbon, Amanda Brugel, Stephanie Baird), Official Site, Trailer

An experiment gets out of control after scientists go on the run with their human-animal hybrid creation.

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Stag Night (Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Peter A Dowling; Stars: Breckin Meyer, Vinessa Shaw)

Three guys out on a stag night, and two young women they manage to offend, accidentally get off at the wrong underground stop and find themselves hunted by primitive cannibals who have lived in the tunnels for generations.