After a night’s sleep, I was rested enough to stay awake properly during this day’s films! This was probably helped by a more solidly entertaining line-up of films and a general high quality overall. There was a varied and interesting line-up of movies today, ranging from sci-fi themes through a brief slasher and torture phase, right down to straight-up action movie for the finale. We also had a sneak preview of Federico (Shadow) Zampaglione’s upcoming giallo tribute Tulpa, which is still in the process of shooting. The 7 minutes we saw were excellent, very much capturing the spirit of the genre it’s referencing, with enough sleaze and mystery to make the full film appealing. It should hopefully be screened at the main event in August, assumning Zampaglione can get the film finished in time.

As ever, I left myself with little time for anything other than movies, with no sleep before the early morning flight back after the festival and just enough time for a couple of drinks, food or shopping in between the films. It was all worth it though, roll on August for the big 5 day event in London!

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This year’s Frightfest segment of the Glasgow Film Festival was as enjoyable as ever, now expanded to 11 films over 2 days (there was even talk of making next year’s event a 3 day event!), and a huge success as ever. While I was less than wowed by the year’s lineup beforehand – only The Raid has much hype from my POV, and that wasn’t even a horror film! – it turned out to be very solid with only 2 films I thought were bad, and even then they were more entertaining than much of the dross we could have seen. The formerly scheduled The Devil Inside was advertised on GFF literature, but thankfully that movie (which has terrible reviews) found a replacement beforehand.

So, without further ado, let’s get to the films!
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