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“It's way, way beyond my expectations,” says Richard Raaphorst, the Dutch director whose monstrous movie Frankenstein's Army is proving popular with film festivals around the world. “I though it would only be picked up by horror festivals... I never dared to dream about anything like this.”
Frankenstein's Army has screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and is now showing in Karlovy Vary as well as being selected by the UK's biggest horror festival, Film4 Frightfest. This success has thrown Richard in at the deep end. He admits that he has little experience of interviews and finds the whole experience disorientating. “It's great to stand in the spotlight but it makes me feel that I almost cannot handle it. All this attention makes me look like an important person but I've only made a movie, meant to entertain people.”
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