Well, I’m all set for FrightFest 2015, which starts in
earnest tomorrow. This involves night buses home and little sleep and by the
third day you are barely human. Last year (which I did not write about) I discovered that seeing a lot of
good films in a day is just as draining and seeing a lot of average or mediocre
stuff… you see a good film and you kind of want it to marinate and percolate a
little before you launch into another good film. But of course, I’m sure I
prefer it that way. Yum. I might try as-I-watch twitter updates. I’ll see how
it goes….
I’ve been going the past few years and here are some of
my memorable moments:
1: I went to see “WeAre What We Are” and chanced to see if I could get tickets for “A Serbian Film”, which was already causing
a buzz, only to be told at the ticket desk that it had been banned! It was like
the Video Nasty days all over again for a moment!
2: A brief chat with Alan Jones about Dario Argento, who
was then being interviewed.
3: People breaking out into spontaneous applause at the
car lot kill scene in “Maniac” (2012).
4: Sitting behind Simon Pegg.
5: Being totally won over by Bobcat Goldthwait and
getting genuinely unnerved by his “Willow Creek”.
6: Stepping out for something to eat and heading for China
Town and seeing a red ribbon on the floor, finding my brain was so hardwired
for Horror cues that I nonchalantly thought, “Oh, there’s some entrails.”
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