FrightFest The 13th reveals guest lineup
FrightFest The 13th has revealed its full lineup of special guests, with a whole host of horror directors and actors confirmed to attend this year’s celebration of the hottest new entries to the genre canon.
Dario Argento, Jennifer Lynch and the Manetti Brothers are among the high-profile auteurs who will be in attendance, while the likes of Sheridan Smith, Russell Tovey, Andy Nyman, Sean Pertwee and Ross Noble will represent some familiar on-screen faces…
![20 Greatest Horror Directors
DAVID LYNCH
What’s David Lynch’s secret? Mystery. “To me, mystery is like a magnet,” he says. “Whenever there is something that’s unknown, it has a pull to it. When you see a part, it’s even stronger than the whole.” It’s this affinity for the unknowable that gives his films their uncanny power – whether it’s demonic forces, splintering identities or the freaky shit people get up to behind closed doors. No wonder curtains and corridors are two of his big motifs, alongside strobing lights, crushed innocence, nightmare logic and ghastly head wounds. His painter’s eye is matched by the most dread-sensitive ear in the business; even The Straight Story, the only one of his movies that doesn’t disturb on some level, opens with an ominous thud. Must See: Eraserhead (1977), Blue Velvet (1986), Twin Peaks (TV, 1990-91), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Dr. (2011)
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20 Greatest Horror Directors
DAVID LYNCH
What’s David Lynch’s secret? Mystery. “To me, mystery is like a magnet,” he says. “Whenever there is something that’s unknown, it has a pull to it. When you see a part, it’s even stronger than the whole.”
It’s this affinity for the unknowable that gives his films their uncanny power – whether it’s demonic forces, splintering identities or the freaky shit people get up to behind closed doors.
No wonder curtains and corridors are two of his big motifs, alongside strobing lights, crushed innocence, nightmare logic and ghastly head wounds.
His painter’s eye is matched by the most dread-sensitive ear in the business; even The Straight Story, the only one of his movies that doesn’t disturb on some level, opens with an ominous thud.
Must See: Eraserhead (1977), Blue Velvet (1986), Twin Peaks (TV, 1990-91), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Dr. (2011)
