Do you know when Christmas for horror fans is?
If you said Halloween, I hate to break it to you, but you’re wrong.
Because horror Christmas starts this Thursday, August 23, 2018, when the FrightFest Film Festival kicks off in London, England.
As a genre, horror rarely receives the respect it deserves. Imaginative, crowd-pleasing horror films are too easily dismissed and underestimated by major studios and audiences alike. That’s not to say that there aren’t plenty of horror films that have wowed both dedicated horror fans and critics (a la Get Out, Hereditary, see my whole blog). But honestly, there are way more horror films deserving of attention, if not acclaim.
That’s why I started blogging about horror movies at film festivals and why I’m so excited about this year’s FrightFest. I wanted to bring attention to horror films that, against harsh odds, broke out of their confines and stampeded into the spotlight. From Sundance to Cannes to TIFF, horror movies are proving that they can hang with the best of the best.
Still, it’s exhausting always having to prove that point, isn’t it?
But this week, my horror-fan prayers will be answered by the 18th annual FrightFest, a unique film festival dedicated to horror and other genre-bending films. FrightFest initially started as a quest to give British horror fans a high-caliber horror film festival before quickly becoming an internationally renowned festival. FrightFest is the festival where Danny Boyle debuted the first reel of 28 Days Later, where Guillermo del Toro chose to premiere Pan’s Labyrinth instead of the more glitzy London Film Festival, and where Neil Marshall held a gala preview for The Descent.
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