Frightfest 2009 Main Screen Timetable

Thursday 27 August

18:30 Triangle
21:00 Hills Run Red
23:15 Infestation

Friday 28 August

11:15 The Horseman
13:45 Beware the Moon
16:10 American Werewolf in London – remastered
19:15 Shadow
21:25 The Horde
23:30 Macabre

Saturday 29th August

11:30 Smash Cuts
13:45 Heirro
15:45 Millennium
19:00 Giallo
21:00 Trick ‘r Treat
23:15 Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl

Sunday 30 August

11:30 Dead Snow
13:45 Human Centipede
15:50 Coffin Rock
18:45 Night of the Demons
21:00 Dread
23:15 100 Best Deaths

Monday 31 August

11:00 Zombie Women of Satan
13:15 The House of the Devil
15:30 Case 39
18:30 Heartless
21:15 The Descent 2

Frightfest 2009 Discovery Screen Timetable

Friday 28 August

12:00 Best Worst Movie
14:15 I Sell the Dead
16:15 I Think We’re Alone Now
18:45 Colin
21:00 Black

Saturday 29 August

12:00 The Horror of Writing
13:45 Evil Things
16:15 Fragment
18:45 It’s Alive
21:00 Pontypool

Sunday 30 August

12:00 Black
14:40 Pontypool
17:00 I Think We’re Alone Now
19:00 I Sell the Dead
21:00 Best Worst Movie

Monday 31 August

11:00 Colin
14:15 It’s Alive
16:15 Fragment
18:45 Evil Things

Festival and day passes will be on sale at London’s Empire Leicester Square from 11am tomorrow to people in the queue, and from midday you can book via phone (08714 714 714) or online. Single tickets will be available from 1 August. For more ticket details check out the Frightfest website

Scariest thing you’ve seen recently?
Sam Raimi’s new film Drag me to Hell had dozens of jump scenes in it.  I watched it recently in a small cinema in my home town, where the sound was cranked up really loud and people were screaming in the aisles. The film itself wasn’t the best, but I applaud any film-maker who can strike terror into the audience like that. It even made me jump a couple of times and normally I can see the jumps coming a mile off! If you want to leap out of your seat, go see that film!

Recommend a book/film/game
I’ll recommend one of each:
The Walking Dead graphic novel series is a must read for zombie fans.
Jorge Grau’s The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue is a brilliant Spanish/Italian zombie film from the 70’s that was actually shot in the UK. This film is dripping with atmosphere and importantly, flesh devouring zombies!
Finally, Resident Evil 5 currently occupies my PS3 and is a great 3rd person zombie shoot em up.

Give us a link to something zombie!

My good friend Nick Nicholson from the Philippines starred in this cult classic zombie movie shot over there in 1988 called Zombie 4 – After Death. Nick was in Platoon and Apocalypse Now and involved in many movies over a 32 year period in the Philippines. This scene features Nick fighting a horde of terribly choreographed zombies and will give you a few laughs I’m sure. Nick’s been very ill recently, suffering a heart attack, so I thought it would be great to mention him and wish him well. If you want a few pointers on how zombies shouldn’t behave, this is the clip!

Kevin Gates is writer/director/producer of The Zombie Diaries.

In order to comply with the pesky rules of zombie classification though, we’ve had to declare some obvious choices null and void, much as we’d like to big them up. No 28 Weeks Later because they’re not zombies, they’re ‘infected’. No Resident Evil 4 for the same sort of reasons. The list goes on, but this is meant to be a Top 10 of Zombie, not a Top 10 of Not-Quite-Zombie.

The infected are not-quite-zombies?? Well given that our film is post-zombie-viral-infection we might just have to skim over that bit. Still, the list is great, go check it out.

And while we’re looking at lists, here’s one from the Film4 vaults: New horror classics from the 21st century so far.