Eleven years ago, after the whole horror genre appeared to have disappeared Scream-ing up its own postmodern fundament in the Nineties, along came FrightFest, a then-marginal festival catering to rarefied tastes that those attending barely remembered they still had.

That was then, this is now. The Noughties have introduced J-horror and 'torture porn', reintroduced zombies, and reimagined the whole back catalogue of 70s (and latterly 80s) shockers – and as horror has spread through the decade like a virus, the Film4 FrightFest has expanded along with it, moving from the bijou, blood-red interior of the Prince Charles off Leicester Square to the bigger, if less sleazily soulful, Odeon West End, before last year celebrating its tenth anniversary by splitting its evil residency between screens One and Four of the mighty Empire (no relation).

This year, from Thursday 26th to Monday 30th August, the Empire will once again play host to twenty-five features in the main p...

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