London Still Rocks!

(As continued from earlier on Saturday ). So, when the time came, off we went to The Glenarma Tapes . Ah Kee-rist, what a waste of time. Complete rip-off of The Blair Witch Project - students and lecturers go missing in the woods (which have a bad reputation). In this case though, we get more exposition of what actually happened - not necessarily a good thing. Stars Emily Lamey , whom I know from Fair City . And so to Transmission - which I'm afraid was even worse. At least The Glenarma Tapes has a coherent plot - Transmission, on the other hand, is quite muddled. Oh, I get that it's about a dangerous transmission that seems to drive people mad - and that's all I really get out of this mess. What the people rating it on IMDB are thinking is beyond me. As someone in The Hideout said, the quality of Frighfest didn't seem great this year.. And so to bed - too late to blog, what with having to be up on Sunday , because I was meeting Ivan and James again, for our monthly...

Today, I succumbed to the pressure, and joined  The Hideout: Horror SciFi Club London  for the  Frightfest  at  Cineworld Leicester Square , where we saw  It Lives Inside , an  Indian  possession horror . Yes, a morning film - ah well, they have a huge schedule to pack in. I groggily took a couple of buses - the second , unfortunately, I rode facing backwards, which I hate: so I was a bit worse for wear when I reached my destination. Where the cinema wasn't open yet - cue lots of people in black t-shirts, many with appropriately horrific logos on them, wandering aimlessly around Leicester Square on a sunny Friday morning. To the bemusement of tourists. I found the organiser in due course, and after some time, we were indeed let in. (There's quite a cool moving graphic on the stairs, but I couldn't get a good shot.) I bought some chocolate to keep me going - which turned out to be in an unopenable pack. Which problem was solved when he decimated t...