FrightFest's new home at the OWEThe quality of short films was pretty high this year with The Ten Steps being the best of the bunch and kicking off Sunday's programme in style. After The Collingswood Story we had the very odd Japanese shocker Marebito which really divided the audience - Steve walked out, whereas I found it compelling and exciting. The screening of Boo! was replaced by Red Eye and Rich made everyone laugh by exclaiming "12A??" when the certificate appeared on screen.
Hideo Nakata - cheer up!When the organisers announced a satellite link-up with Ring director Hideo Nakata we all knew that it wasn't going to go smoothly... and so it proved, a farcical - but hilarious - situation as we waited for the director to show. He appeared on screen momentarily (oblivious that we were already eavesdropping) and was caught slagging off his current project, a remake of The Eye, so someone shouted out "cheer up" which made us all laugh. Then the satellite link went down and we lost him again, until eventually Ian got hold of him via mobile phone, but of course then no-one else in the audience had any idea what was being said!
After the high security screening of the Russian epic Night Watch we ended with a rare chance to see Dominion: Prequel To The Exorcist, Paul Schrader's version of the film which Warner Bros. then completely reshot. It was a marked improvement on Renny Harlin's effort and we finally got to see why Ralph Brown took fourth billing on the cast list.
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great funny story moment :)
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