Världens främsta skräckfilmsfestival

Tidigt i våras gick Fantasporto för 26:e året i rad. Festivalen, som rankas som en av världens främsta skräckfilmsfestivaler, pågår varje år i den portugisiska staden Porto.
  Vi har ju tidigare skrivit om att Portugal har runt 30 filmfestivaler varje år, där en av de främsta är Indie Lisboa som börjar imorgon och håller på i tio dagar i huvudstaden Lissabon.
  På årets Fantasporto visades den svenska filmen Frostbiten av Anders Banke och webbplatsen Filmthreats Jay Slater skriver bland annat så här om filmen, i sin mycket utförliga filmfestivalrapport:

Sweden is best known for the zipper, safety match, adjustable spanner, Abba and Ikea – it’s not known for its horror cinema. Director Anders Banke changes that view with "Frostbite", a black comedy horror with plenty of bloodshed and cheesy gags. "Frostbite" drags from the coattails of "The Lost Boys" and "From Dusk Till Dawn" but it’s a fun movie with great effects despite some lousy acting; besides, when have you seen a movie with a vampire talking Swedish? "The most gratifying experience was the audience reaction to the film at its first major international movie festival", Banke says. "As 'Frostbite' is a horror comedy, and comedy doesn’t always travel well across language and cultural barriers, we had been worried as to whether the film’s humour would make it a local affair, or whether it would work internationally. As it turned out, the Portuguese audience laughed – and screamed! – at exactly the same places as Swedish audiences! It has not been easy to get something as unorthodox as a Swedish vampire horror comedy off the ground: the standard fare back home is Bergmanesque dramas, folksy comedies and cop shows. Fantastic filmmaking isn’t part of Swedish filmmaking tradition. But it seems that things are slowly changing, and 'Frostbite' is certainly part of that."

Det är alltid väldigt intressant när folk utifrån tittar in på svensk filmkultur. Men ärligt: "Fantastic filmmaking isn’t part of Swedish filmmaking tradition". Nog har vi en del bra film på vårt samvete, även om det så klart finns fullt med botten-napp?
  Nästa år kommer Fantasporto att börja den 19 februari.

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