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Frightfest 2004

post #1 of 17
9/1/04 at 5:00am
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Anyone else go to the Frightfest festival in London this past weekend? I managed to catch Oldboy, but that's all. However, Chan-Wook Park was there to give an introduction and I managed to spot a couple of celebs. Derren Brown and some bird that used to be on Hollyoaks! Whoopdy-Woop! Lots of goths too, but in hindsight thats not really surprising.

Apparently Del Toro was at the Hellboy screening doing a Q&A but I couldn't get tickets and there were various other actors/directors etc at other screenings or so they said.
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post #2 of 17
9/1/04 at 8:13am
Was there the whole weekend with alice's girl from the Corner.

It was fanasic and I'm making sure more british Chewers like Whitehead and Charles get their asses to Mars for next year's.

Hung with Don Mancini and Paco Plaza On Saturday and Sunday. Met Chanwook Park Friday. Was taken out by Brian Yuzna and his documentary crew (one of whom used to be my film studies lecturer at university, bizarrely enough) to a local metal bar, which Yuzna loved. He spilled two pints and had to leave to finish work on his new script. the next day he had done now work on his new script. Went to Soho House with the Frightfest gang and Grant Harvey and Paula Devonshire director and producer of Ginger Snaps Back on the Saturday night. Good people all. Del Toro was there or a couple days and Ron Pearlman, Selma Blair and the British dude all turned up to do a Hellboy signing on Saturday night as well. Which was quite special.

Best festival they've done so far, without a doubt.
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post #3 of 17
9/1/04 at 10:23am
I hate you.
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post #4 of 17
9/1/04 at 10:26am
I'll forgive him just as soon as he posts loads of pictures of goths. and selma.
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post #5 of 17
9/1/04 at 11:10am
Not too many Goths. Selma Blair was questionabley off her tits on something (grabbing onto various cast members as if it was her first time at the OSCARS rather than a bunch of very pale geeks). Nice girl. Really nice. Just a little wired. AG has a great photo of it i think.

Very drunk Brian Yuzna attached.
LL
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post #6 of 17
9/1/04 at 11:13am
Me and a friend of Nick's that looks as if Yuzna from the previous photo has taken it...
LL
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post #7 of 17
9/1/04 at 11:16am
Me, Don and the good girl of alice's who seems to come out of all my photos so much better than me it's not funny...

More soon.

Maybe.
LL
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post #8 of 17
9/1/04 at 11:25am
But be glad, you have the better t-shirt (no offense to Hellboy!)

Looks like you had a great time. Awesome stuff, sir. This just reminds me of how much we need to do it again.
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post #9 of 17
9/1/04 at 11:27am
You're all very handsome people. You could have shaved though.
I convinced myself that it was all to expensive, and that all the films i wanted to see would be in cinemas soon enough and bank holiday was for family and anyway i'm not as much a fan of horror as i was...
Who am I fooling.
Is Old Boy on a par with Sympathy for Mr Vengeance?
Tesseract and Casshern are the others i fancied. anyone care to give an English hype-free opinion of them?
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post #10 of 17
9/1/04 at 11:43am
Pop into the Asian Film Thread in Foreign Films Forum for my Casshern thoughts. I skipped The Tesseract and I Inside for booze with celebs. I'm a fucking whore.

Oldboy, for me, is better than SFMV. Just astonishing. Even the second, thrid, fourth, fifth time...
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post #11 of 17
9/2/04 at 6:38am
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Originally Posted by Charles B
But be glad, you have the better t-shirt (no offense to Hellboy!)
Hey, I'm wearing a creature-corner tshirt! But it doesn't really show on the pic so I'll forgive you just this once.

Giles, love your photo with Michael Moore

I'll try to post the Selma Blair pic along with a few others soon.
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post #12 of 17
9/2/04 at 8:27am
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Originally Posted by alice's girl (chucky's ex)
Hey, I'm wearing a creature-corner tshirt! But it doesn't really show on the pic so I'll forgive you just this once.
I thank you

But that is why I said apologies to Hellboy (he designed the fucker). It's a great shirt - I own one myself - but it just cannot compete with the coolness of BR.

In my opinion!

Giles, was there any news on Argento's latest (THE CARD PLAYER?)?
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post #13 of 17
9/2/04 at 9:00am
Aside from the fact that it's a viewing experience not unlike a particularly galling episode of stultifying Scottish cop show Taggart ? No.

My favourite part: in the aftermath of a shoddily rendered online murder, badly dubbed and/or language-taught Italian cops arguing and shouting at the screen in hopelessly fractured English (you shit! fackin' bastard!!) when suddenly expelled British MI5 agent (???!) Liam Cunningham bursts through the door and exclaims in a thick Oirish brogue. The room goes silent as this alien concept of proficient acting seeps through the throng like a noxious fart until someone proclaims (in hopelessly fractured English...) "Who thu fack are yooo?!!!".

Audience sentiments = echoed.

And online poker is about the most uncinematic activity of all time.
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post #14 of 17
9/2/04 at 9:03am
Well... it sounds good for comedy value... never thought I'd say that about an Argento...
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post #15 of 17
9/2/04 at 12:35pm
A and G, thanks so much for these pictures and spending time with Don. He said you were both so very nice. So what did you think of the "Seed" trailer???? Do you have more pictures..

You are both adorable. I can't wait to hang out Strax!!
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post #16 of 17
9/2/04 at 12:47pm
Seed... trailer was really great. Very funny. Looks like a B-movie fan's dream. I'm halfway through the screenplay too. Almost don't want to read anymore to spoil it for myself.

Don was great. Can't wait to hopefully meet him again outside of the quite frantic Festival atmosphere and pick his brain on all things horror.

Couple more pics for the famliy album, Tiff.
LL
LL
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post #17 of 17
9/2/04 at 12:54pm
Thanks for the pics. Mom loves them LOL!!
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