Five FrightFest Facts From Scott Mann director of Fall

The fantastic FrightFest returns to London for another year, bringing with it a gigantic horde of horror films playing across the August bank holiday weekend in Cineworld Leicester Square and the wonderful Prince Charles Cinema.

And if the brilliant blood filled horror festival is back so too are Love Horror’s Five FrightFest Facts, our exclusive series of interviews with the stars and creatives behind the horror that has been running since 2016.

Below we speak to Scott Mann director of Fall which receives its European Premiere in the ARROW SCREEN 29 AUGUST at 9.15 PM and the SHUDDER SCREEN at 9.45 PM.

1. Tell us about your film?
How long we got! Fall is about the horror of heights, the fear of falling and its about two young women who climb up a two thousand foot abandoned radio tower in the middle of nowhere to scatter a loved ones ashes.

2. How did you get into making horror movies?
I love cinema and I find horror to be one of the purest forms of film making and film experience. Its very much something that can be enjoyed best at the cinema with an audience. Tapping into something that collectively affects all of us, our innate fear like our fear of heights is cinema at its most pure.

3. What film would you love to see screened at FrightFest and why?
Ringu, the original Ring. I love the original and I have never seen that on the big screen but it definitely made its mark. I saw Blair Witch at the theatre but I would definitely see that again. It was fundamental as an experience to go through with an audience was just brilliant. I guess with Blair Witch you have to get the context right as you had to go into it thinking it was real or it might be real. It was such a powerful moment in time perhaps you couldn’t recreate it.

4. If you could create your own award to give at the FrightFest, what would it be and why?
I would say the Film Team Award or the Crew Award because I think, especially with this film, its been a combination of this small veery intimate group making the movie. The Film Family Award lets call it and I think our film would definitely deserve a nomination for that one.

5. If your life was made into a horror film, what would it be called and who would play the starring role?
I think my life at times is a horror film so I am already playing it! A friend of mine when I was younger once described me looking like an ugly Matt Damon melded with a drunken DeCaprio or vice versa so if they could play their attractiveness down a few notches, especially Matt Damon in his green underwear as Mr Ripley, then that would be good.

There is a horror in movie making actually that you live through, an unappreciated part of our process that only film makers see which is the hell you have to go through to bring a film to life. It is an incredibly hard process and most people that bring a film to life are behind the scenes and underappreciated. The wounds that are inflicted to get it to happen on the Film Family or the Film Maker are not shown and as part of a horror film I would love to see that because there is a lot of pain endured. I would have to call it Film Making Hell as a working title. Fuck Me is probably the genuine title!

Signature Entertainment presents Fall exclusively in Cinemas from 2nd September. Get your tickets for Fall at FrightFest HERE