FRIGHTFEST
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FRIGHTFEST 2018 MUST-SEES
Our FrightFest correspondents have picked a few fi lms you
can’t miss...ANTON BITEL: Speaking with extreme
prejudice, several titles immediately
grab my eye: Incident In A Ghost Land,
from Pascal Laugier, whose fi lms Martyrs
and The Tall Man have been previous
FrightFest standouts; What Keeps You
Alive, whose director Colin Minihan
goes from strength-to-strength (Grave
Encounters, It Stains The Sands Red);
Bodied, the latest from Joseph Kahn
(Detention); Piercing from Nicolas Pesce
(The Eyes Of My Mother); Chris Sun’s
Boar (because I cannot resist a killer pig
fi lm); and Matthew Holness’ Possum,
which looked simply astonishing in the
teaser shown at last year’s FrightFest. I can
also not recommend highly enough Issa
López’s Tigers Are Not Afraid, which also
screened at this year’s Glasgow FrightFest,
and which transforms the realities of a
drug-war orphan’s life on Mexico’s streets
into uneasy fairy tale fantasy.JONATHAN HATFULL: Having caught
a glimpse of Possum at last year’s fest, it
is at the top of my to-watch list, and who
isn’t looking forward to Puppet Master: The
Littlest Reich? I’m thrilled that Gaspar Noé’s
Climax is playing following its reception
at Cannes, everyone loves a Golem so the
new movie from the makers of Jeruzalem is
most welcome, and Dead Night looks right
up my street. It’s always interesting to see
what Darren Lynn Bousman has come up
with (especially following Abbatoir) so St
Agatha looks promising, Upgrade should
be fun to watch with the crowd, I’m there
with Anton on Bodied, Piercing and Boar
and the opening-night double of The Ranger
and Summer Of 84 should be killer. Most
of all, I can’t wait for The Man Who Killed
Hitler And Then The Bigfoot. The Lucky
McKee-produced fi lm stars Sam Elliott, and
if that title and casting doesn’t result in a
great fi lm then the world has gone wrong.