Here's a quick run down of what I did watch:
The Editor - Tribute/parody of giallo films that despite my love of the genre didn't raise a smile and bored me silly.
Rating - 2/10
Housebound - Horror comedy from New Zealand that had an unlikeable first half but picked up in the latter stages to attain the lofty heights of averageness.
Rating - 5/10
Creep - Disturbing and, well... creepy, this had some effective scenes and a quality wolf mask named Peachfuzz but was a tad reliant on cheap scares.
Rating - 5/10
Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla - Repetitive and dull for the most part, this could have been a lot better if there had been more killings in the second half once the main character of the ice-cream man was established.
Rating - 2/10
Starry Eyes - Rather than watching this low contrast dirge fest watch Black Swan or Mulholland Drive instead.
Rating - 1/10
Spring - Initially engaging love story that plummets down the ratings due to the second half dragging on for what seemed like years.
Rating - 3/10
Society - It's a fair while since I've seen this but it holds up pretty well; the shunting is still fairly disgusting.
Rating - 6/10
Suburban Gothic - From the director of Excision, this horror-lite film is more of a quirky comedy love story type thing but it does manage to have one really funny line from Ray Wise.
Rating - 5/10
Dagon - Despite some early ropey CGI work this manages to be atmospheric and brutal especially in the face removal scene.
Rating - 7/10
Asmodexia - Really low quality exorcism film that was a real disappointment as the secret film.
Rating - 1/10
Dead Snow 2 - I wasn't that enamoured with the first and this hasn't done much to change my opinion but maybe with a bigger budget (for more zombies) it could have tipped into above average.
Rating - 5/10
The highlights were easily Society and Dagon and it was great to listen to Brian Yuzna talking about his career. But as you can see from my ratings I wasn't that keen on the new films shown this year. I thought that last year was weak with only a couple of good films but this has easily been the worst. I can't blame the organisers because they can't magic up great new films. I've been thinking for a while that the horror genre is dying a death and this has cemented that opinion. Will I go next year? The jury's out...
evlkeith
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