The FrightFest Halloween All-nighter returns to the Vue in London’s Leicester Square on Saturday October 27 for another helping of choice shock around the clock horror. And this year horror fans around the country can join in the fearful fun as, on Saturday November 3, the event travels to the Picturehouse Cambridge, the Empires in Sunderland and Newcastle and The Watershed Bristol.
London
line-up:
6.30pm EXCISION (UK Premiere)
Alienated and mentally unhinged teen
Pauline struggles with the pressures of high school, pleasing her demanding
mother and loosing her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side
of life, Pauline retreats into her fantasy world of becoming a great surgeon. Be
prepared for a central performance by Annalynne McCord that will move, challenge
and ultimately creep you out.
81
mins Director: Richard
Bates USA 2012 Cast: Annalynne McCord –
Pauline,
Traci
Lords – Phyllis, Roger Bart – Bob, John Waters – William, Marlee Matlin – Amber,
Malcolm McDowell – Mr. Cooper
9.00pm SURPRISE FILM (UK Premiere)
11.45pm THE TALL MAN (UK Premiere)
Director Pascal
Laugier’s follow-up to his classic MARTYRS is another sensational thriller of
astonishing depth. In the depressed Canadian town of Cold Rock, children are
disappearing, Witnesses say they have seen a Tall Man at the scenes of the
crimes, When this ‘tall man’ kidnaps the son of Julia Denning (Jessica Biel),
the town nurse, Julia finds herself at the centre of an unravelling legend.
99 mins Director: Pascal Laugier USA 2012 Cast: Jessica Biel – Julia Denning,
Jodelle Ferland – Jenny, Stephen McHattie – Lt. Dodd, Eve Harlow – Christine,
Jakob Davies – David
2.15am BAIT 3D (UK Premiere)
From CUT director Kimble Rendall comes a new
dimension in deep sea terror as shoppers at an Australian underground Oceania
supermarket are under attack by a crazed bandit. Suddenly, the unimaginable
happens. A monster freak tsunami swallows up the town Now trapped, with
rushing waves threatening to entomb them in a watery grave, the survivors
discover they are not alone…
90 mins Director: Kimble Rendall Australia 2012 Cast: Xavier Samuel – Josh,
Julian McMahon – Doyle, Phoebe Tomkin – Jaimie, Sharni Vinson – Tina, Cariba
Heine – Heather
4.00am ZOMBIE FLESHEATERS - Retrospective Spotlight
To celebrate the launch of the restored
version by Arrow Films (the DVD features a commentary by FrightFest’s Alan
Jones), the Italian godfather of gore Lucio Fulci’s classic as you’ve never seen
it before. It’s all here: the underwater shark vs. zombie face off, the
splinter-in-the-eye sequence, the cannibalistic disembowelling and completely superfluous nudity. What
more could anyone want?
89 mins Director Lucio Fulci Italy 1979 Cast: Richard Johnson – Dr.
David Menard, Ian McCulloch – Peter West, Tisa Farrow – Anne Bowles, Al Cliver –
Brian Hull, Olga Karlatos – Paola Menard
5.45am THE HELPERS (UK Premiere)
Seven
friends on a road trip to Las Vegas break down in the desert. They find help at
a nearby Motel and it seems like they’ve lucked out with a group of good
Samaritans. Yet when they wake in their rooms the next day, they are bound up,
tied down and posed in several different weird scenarios. Each ending only one
way – painful, gruesome death. Who is responsible for such fiendishly clever
bloody terror?
82
mins Director: Christopher B.
Stokes USA 2012 Cast: Kristen Quintrall –
Claire, Christopher Jones – Ryan, JoJo Wright – Phil, Black Thomas – Jordan,
Rachel Sterling – Anna
Tickets
for the London event cost £50 and go on sale on Monday Ist October. To book call 08712
240 240 or go online
http://www.myvue.com/latest- movies/info/film/frightfest- all-nighter Tickets
can also be bought at the cinema
For
details of regional screenings please visit www.frightfest.co.uk
Note
that the regional venues will not be playing all of the titles screening at the
London event so please check local listings