GREETINGS/MORE IS SCARIER

First rule for a successful party: Don’t allow uninvited guests, especially those with an axe to grind, or blood will flow, as it does here.

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Greeting’s Kathy is a smart girl and thought she had this element of her big night sorted, and she might have, had the lads not ferreted out an old ouiji board and started larking about.

You know the drill: put your hands on a glass on the board, ask a question and wait for the glass to start moving to indicate answer (above, left to right, Matthew Reynolds, John Rackham, Henry Dunn and Ben Shockley).

A big laugh, usually, because everyone knows it’s blarney.

Except at Cathy’s party, all too soon, weird and unpleasant things start to happen, like guest Kristy Cox finding some mysterious writing in the bathroom (main photo).

As the film’s catchy log line says: 'Someone special’s coming to the party, and they don’t have an invite…'

Let the horror begin. Nothing too OTT. This is a ‘slow burn’ psychological film rather than an outright slasher, and all the more effective for that moderation.

Of course, as with so much independent filmmaking, this focussed approach was somewhat dictated by a limit on the funding resources.

The project cost under £100,000 and, along with a simple script, it was wrapped in just twenty days, using a single private house in Kent.

The force behind the film is actor Ken Colley, who has already made two short films, and here has not only written the script but produced and directed it.

Colley came to the project following forty years as an actor, starting as far back as Performance in the Sixties and including a memorable turn as Admiral Piett in the original Star Wars trilogy.

The Greetings trailer is at: www.greetings-movie.com.

Posted July 21, 2008.