Desert Island Movies - The Movie Podcast
Aug 30, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 13 segments
FrightFest co-director Greg Day sits down for Desert Island Movies as FrightFest 2026 runs this weekend in London, Thursday 27 to Monday 31 August at the ODEON Luxe Leicester Square and the ODEON Luxe…
Greg DayGuestMattHostSo now we're on to Flight Fest.
So you said you came in about a year afterwards with the PR and stuff.
Was there any point when you came in or when it was first starting up, because I'm sure they had plenty of challenges getting it moving in the first place, was there a moment you thought to yourself, you know, does London really need a horror festival or was it it absolutely needs a horror festival?
Yeah.
You
I think it was about year four when it kicked in that we realised that it had become something we were doing all year round.
It was at that time, if we go back to the 2000s, that was the time when a lot of distributors were ambivalent about giving horror film cinema releases.
So the appetite to see horror films in the cinema grew and Frightfest was positioned to be able to take advantage of that.
You know, that's why we've had to keep moving and moving and moving into bigger and bigger markets.
um, because what's happened over the years is the same people keep coming and they become friends with each other and they, then they, they get married, have kids and the kids.
And then you realize that we, you know, I'm now meeting, you know, I said, Oh, hi, no, who's that? Oh, you know, that's my son.
So now we're on to Flight Fest.
So you said you came in about a year afterwards with the PR and stuff.
Was there any point when you came in or when it was first starting up, because I'm sure they had plenty of challenges getting it moving in the first place, was there a moment you thought to yourself, you know, does London really need a horror festival or was it it absolutely needs a horror festival?
Yeah.
You
I think it was about year four when it kicked in that we realised that it had become something we were doing all year round.
It was at that time, if we go back to the 2000s, that was the time when a lot of distributors were ambivalent about giving horror film cinema releases.
So the appetite to see horror films in the cinema grew and Frightfest was positioned to be able to take advantage of that.
You know, that's why we've had to keep moving and moving and moving into bigger and bigger markets.
um, because what's happened over the years is the same people keep coming and they become friends with each other and they, then they, they get married, have kids and the kids.
And then you realize that we, you know, I'm now meeting, you know, I said, Oh, hi, no, who's that? Oh, you know, that's my son.
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