FrightFest Day 2 - Saturday

Our zombie comedian

This guy was simply hilarious! We were all queued up outside the Cinema Store waiting to meet George A. Romero and Greg Nicotero when a couple of Friday's zombie army reappeared to entertain us. This bloke was truly a star, embracing his role to the full and he soon realised that there's nothing funnier than hiding behind a tree (or in a telephone box) and then lurching out to scare upright British citizens - or, even better, groups of female foreign students. Steve even thought it was funny to phone up Troy and get our zombie to groan onto his voicemail! Honestly, sod the movies, I could have watched this all day long...

George A. Romero & Greg Nicotero

Well, the long queues meant that we missed the screening of Do You Like Hitchcock? but it's not every day that you get to meet a horror legend. George welcomed everyone with a firm handshake and signed away, and Greg is surely the nicest bloke working in Hollywood. A big favourite with the FrightFest audience.

Before Dead Meat we watched a documentary on the video nasty era entitled Ban These Sadist Videos! I swear that one of the naysayers really did say, "...and I'm sure they have an affect on dogs too." Next up was The Neighbor No. Thirteen, probably the worst film of the weekend, and then a decent Scottish flick called Wild Country.

Craig Strachan and the Wild Country cast

The two young ladies from the film found themselves mobbed afterwards and were patiently signing programmes and posing for photos with their new fans. The hotly anticipated film of the day was Ti West's The Roost which was sadly disappointing, but the director was witty, sincere and enthusiastic and I'm sure will go on to bigger and better things. Thankfully the final film, 2001 Maniacs, provided more than enough late night laughs to send us home with a smile on our faces.