Edinburgh Film Festival review: Boyz in the Wood

Given the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s propensity for screening wretched homegrown comedies such a Scottish Mussel — surely a candidate for the most incompetent film ever screened at the event — one could be forgiven for fearing the worst when the Highlands-set Boyz in the Wood was announced as this year’s opening film. Happily though, Edinburgh-born filmmaker Ninian Doff’s debut feature is properly funny — a riotous teen movie/horror mash-up that confidently veers from gross-out humour to surreal flights of fancy to crude, but surprisingly pointed, social commentary without overstaying its welcome.