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British Horror
- 28 Years Later wraps filming as producer shares surprising update about new trilogyscreenrant.com 28 Years Later Wraps Filming As Producer Shares Surprising Update About New Trilogy
Things are moving fast.
> 28 Years Later and its planned sequels get a surprising update from producer Andrew Macdonald. Released in 2002, Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later follows Cillian Murphy's Jim as he attempts to survive after the "Rage Virus" turns British citizens into zombie-like monsters. After a mixed-reviewed sequel from director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo in 2007, Boyle is set to re-team with Murphy and original movie writer Alex Garland for the upcoming 28 Years Later, which is intended to serve as the first installment in a new trilogy. > >Now, Macdonald reveals to THR that 28 Years Later has just wrapped filming. According to the producer, work on 28 Years Later Part II is also set to get underway imminently. The planned fifth film in the franchise, however, seems less concrete at this stage, though Macdonald seems hopeful. Check out his comment below: > >> “We’re making, hopefully, three more 28 films with the first one called 28 Years Later that Alex has written, and Danny has directed, and has finished shooting. Then we’re just about to start, tomorrow morning, actually, part two. And then we hope there’s gonna be a third part and it’s a trilogy.”
- First trailer for Line of Duty star Kelly Macdonald's vampire moviewww.digitalspy.com First trailer for Line of Duty star Kelly Macdonald's vampire movie
"Drinking blood is pure bliss."
> The first trailer for new vampire thriller The Radleys, starring Line of Duty's Kelly Macdonald, has been released. > >Adapted from Matt Haig's novel of the same name, the film centres around a married couple who are hiding a dark secret from their children: they're vampires. > > The film will receive its world premiere at the upcoming Edinburgh International Film Festival on Tuesday, August 20. Sky has also confirmed The Radleys will then be released on Sky Cinema and in cinemas on October 18. > > ... > > "The Radleys are an ordinary family who hold a dark secret... they are abstaining vampires," reads the official synopsis for the film. > >"As if being a teenager wasn't bad enough, bloodthirsty instincts take over the teens of the family, revealing the terrifying truth and opening the door for an extended family member to re-enter and upend The Radleys' once perfect slice of suburbia."
- Lore review – Brit-horror anthology tells its gruesome stories around the campfirewww.theguardian.com Lore review – Brit-horror anthology tells its gruesome stories around the campfire
Richard Brake is well cast as the host for this portmanteau of grisly yarns, where the girls’ tales are made of stronger stuff than the boys’
> Anthology films are notoriously hard to pull off but, though it starts shakily, this low-budget British portmanteau has an ace in the hole: horror stalwart Richard Brake, whose grimy leer is normally a kitemark of something at least halfway chilling. (Hopefully his dental hygiene is better in real life.) In Lore, he is a Cryptkeeper-style host for four hikers out for an “immersive” experience in the wilds; informing them that they have pitched their tents above the site of some ancient evil, this campfire compere bids them bring forth their most blood-chilling yarns.
- The Scottish horror film finally released 17 years after filmingwww.bbc.com The Scottish horror film finally released 17 years after filming - BBC News
The Bench is a grisly slasher story where a group of friends take a trip to a remote cabin.
> A Scottish horror film has finally been released - 17 years after filming first got under way. > >The Bench is a grisly slasher where a group of friends take a trip to a remote cabin in Renfrewshire, only to disappear one by one. > >However, the production was struck by a host of difficulties, from badly misjudging the Scottish weather's suitability for filming to money running out half way through. > >Writer and director Sean Wilkie told BBC Scotland News that he was a mixture of being "pleased, nervous and relieved" now that The Bench can be seen by the public. > > ... > > Filming began in Lochwinnoch in 2007, using a cabin owned by friends of the film's director of photography. > >For indoor filming, the Caves venue in Edinburgh was used, with Drumpellier Country Park used for occasional outdoor shots. > >The film has a cast that includes Two Doors Down star Joy McAvoy and Matt McClure from American horror show Penny Dreadful. > > "The first two weeks on location were fine but we couldn’t keep that up," reflects Sean. > >"I wish we’d have someone following us all the way though, as it would have made some documentary. Due to the weather and other things we couldn’t finish filming as planned, so we were coming back on odd weekends here and there to complete it." > > That was only the start of the film's issues. Initial financing had fallen through at an early stage, but Sean decided to "charge ahead" anyway, something he admits now was "probably a mistake." > >The film's original editor departed, so Sean took on that role as well, and by the time reshoots were needed many of the cast and crew were working on other projects.
- The 5 most terrifying films to see at this year’s FrightFestwww.timeout.com The 5 most terrifying films to see at this year’s FrightFest
Festival founder Alan Jones picks a handful of horrors for only the strongest stomachs
> You’d have to travel many miles for a more concentrated array of frights than the one assembled each year by FrightFest, the UK’s biggest horror film festival. Even in a year already replete with classy horror flicks, the line-up for August’s five-day fest looks like a seriously unsettling one. Gorehounds, midnight movie aficionados, cult-heads and more casual horror fans are catered for across 69 films and five days and nights between August 22-26. > >But what are this year’s proper FrightFest frighteners? The cortisol-inducing films that will lurk in your nightmares? We asked festival co-founder and all-round horror maven Alan Jones to pick five gnarly cuts that will give even the hardiest movielover pause. Book them if you dare.
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- Test Screening
- A Desert
- Strange Darling
- Shelby Oaks
- Charlotte
- First look at Line of Duty star Kelly Macdonald's vampire moviewww.digitalspy.com First look at Line of Duty star Kelly Macdonald's vampire movie
The Radleys are coming.
> We've got something to sink your teeth into as the first-look images from The Radleys has landed. > >Adapted from Matt Haig's novel of the same name, the movie stars Kelly Macdonald and Damian Lewis as parents Helen and Peter. They might seem normal on the surface, but they're hiding a dark secret from their children: they're vampires. > > They're abstaining vampires who don't drink blood, but when their vegan daughter Clara (Bo Bragason) is attacked at school, it unlocks her bloodthirsty true self leading Clara and her brother Rowan (Harry Baxendale) to question their identity. > > And when Peter's twin brother Will (also played by Lewis) arrives on the scene, showing off his proud, practicing vampire lifestyle, the entire family face a battle to hold back their hidden bloodlust. > > ... > > The Radleys will receive its world premiere at the upcoming Edinburgh International Film Festival on Tuesday, August 20. > > ... > > When filming started in June 2023, it was reported that The Radleys would be released on Sky Cinema in 2024 in the UK and Ireland. We don't yet have a confirmed release date for the movie though.
- Ella Purnell joins Craig Roberts’ killer squirrel comedy ‘The Scurry’ (exclusive)www.screendaily.com Ella Purnell joins Craig Roberts’ killer squirrel comedy ‘The Scurry’ (exclusive)
Purnell will play a park attendant who must use her skills to survive the killer squirrels.
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> > Fallout star Ella Purnell has joined the cast of Craig Roberts’ comedy-horror The Scurry, which is now filming in the UK. > > > > Purnell will play a leading role, of a park attendant who must use her unique skills and strength to survive a band of killer squirrels. > > > > True Brit Entertainment is co-producer and UK distributor on the film, which is shooting on location and at Dragon Studios in South Wales. > > > > Previously announced cast members include Rhys Ifans, Screen Star of Tomorrow Paapa Essiedu, and Antonia Thomas. The Mash Report writer Tim Telling penned the script. > > ... > > > > The film follows two pest controllers called to a country park café to investigate a routine vermin problem, only for an avalanche of deranged squirrels to descend at nightfall, wreaking mayhem on the staff and visitors in the park. > > IMDb
- Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Ralph Fiennes To Star In ‘28 Years Later’ For Danny Boyle And Sony Picturesdeadline.com Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Ralph Fiennes To Star In ‘28 Years Later’ For Danny Boyle And Sony Pictures
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes have boarded Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, a sequel movie to 28 Days Later.
> EXCLUSIVE: The new 28 Years Later trilogy from director Danny Boyle and Sony Pictures is gaining momentum, and some serious star power. Sources tell Deadline that Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes have boarded the first pic, a sequel to the original 28 Days Later. > > ... > > Deadline recently broke the news that the studio has already tapped Candyman director Nia DaCosta to helm the second part of the trilogy, and that the plan is to shoot both films back to back. As for the three newest cast members, the studio is clearly showing it means business, adding star power instead of going the lesser-known-actor route like in previous installments
- Warrington church is main setting for new horror filmwww.warringtonguardian.co.uk Warrington church is main setting for new horror film
A BEAUTIFUL Warrington church is the main setting for a newly released horror film.
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> > The ancient grounds of the old St Werburgh's Church in Warburton were transformed into a film set for new folk horror, A Caution for The Wise. > > > > And the 13th century church, based on Wigsey Lane, has since been described as a ‘one in a million’ film location by film producer, Gaius Brown. > > > > Filming from both within the grounds of the old church and inside the Grade I listed building can be seen in the new short film which was released earlier this month and is currently circulating film festivals across the country. > > > > ... > > > > The short is loosely based on a chapter from the hit 2013 novel 'Skendleby', written by Nick Brown and also based in leafy Cheshire, in the affluent area of Alderley Edge. > > > > While the old St Werburgh's Church was used as the set for the parish church in the film, other areas of Cheshire were also used during the filming of the horror, including the picturesque grade II listed Hawthorn Cottage located on Twemlow Lane in Cranage.
- 28 Years Later: Everything We Know About the Sequel Trilogywww.joblo.com 28 Years Later: Everything We Know About the Sequel Trilogy
We have compiled a list of everything we know about 28 Years Later, a trilogy of sequels to Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's 28 Days Later.
> Alex Garland is expected to write the scripts for all three of the 28 Years Later movies, but apparently didn’t want to direct them. Danny Boyle will only be directing the first one. For the second film, possibly titled 28 Years Later Part 2, he’ll be passing the helm over to Candyman and The Marvels director Nia DaCosta. Production on DaCosta’s sequel will begin immediately after Boyle wraps filming on his. They wanted to have the sequel director signed on before filming on the first movie begins, as they want to “make sure each director is on the same page in regard to the story while also having time to bring their own vision to life.” > > ... > > While doing the press rounds for Oppenheimer last year, Murphy told Collider, “I was talking to Danny Boyle recently, and I said, ‘Danny, we shot the movie at the end of 2000.’ So I think we’re definitely approaching the 28 Years Later. But like I’ve always said, I’m up for it. I’d love to do it. If Alex [Garland] thinks there’s a script in it and Danny wants to do it, I’d love to do it.“ Despite the fact that Murphy is willing to reprise the role of Jim and is on board 28 Years Later as an executive producer, we still haven’t heard confirmation that he’ll actually be in the movie. While talking to Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast a couple months ago, Murphy said (with thanks to Coming Soon for the transcription), “It’s for (Danny Boyle and Alex Garland) to speak about, I suppose, but I think it’s been brewing for a while. The first movie was so important for me, as an actor. I love working with those guys. Alex has an idea. And Danny directing is just huge. Watch this space.” > > ... > > While we wait to hear for sure if Cillian Murphy is or isn’t in the movie, other casting rumors have been floating around. According to industry scooper Daniel Richtman, Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) and Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) are in talks to play the lead roles. Details on the characters they might be playing are, of course, being kept under wraps. > > ... > > There was a bidding war over the distribution rights to the 28 Years Later trilogy, with Warner Bros. and Sony emerging as the final competitors – and Sony taking the win in the end. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Each movie will have a budget in the $60 million range but it’s unclear how goalposts or compensation may have changed during the high-stakes negotiations. A theatrical release was of great import to the filmmakers.” Sony had an edge in this race due to the fact that it’s headed up by Tom Rothman, who used to be at Fox and worked with Boyle on eight different movies there. Release dates have not yet been announced.
- The celebration of weird rural England in 'Sightseers'faroutmagazine.co.uk The celebration of weird rural England in 'Sightseers'
Ben Wheatley's 2012 black comedy 'Sightseers', starring Steve Oram and Alice Lowe, celebrates the most weird and wonderful aspects of the English countryside.
> While England is undoubtedly the target of criticism when it comes to the many facets of its cultural offerings – say cuisine, for example – there’s no denying that the country provides some truly breathtaking natural scenery. It’s equally valid that English people possess offbeat humour and sometimes outright weirdness. In very few movies is this combination as succinctly married as in Ben Wheatley’s 2012 black comedy Sightseers. > > Sightseers focuses on the journey of an admittedly odd couple, Chris and Tina, played by Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, respectively, as they take a short holiday through the English countryside in a caravan. However, there’s a darkness to the pair that leads them to commit a series of violent murders, taking their inner turmoil out on a handful of unsuspecting victims. > > ... > > Throughout the film, Wheatley details the stranger side of life in rural England, beginning with the rather uncomfortable relationship between its protagonists. Weirdness drips throughout the runtime of Sightseers, whether it be in the sickening nostalgia of Tina’s needy mother or in the violent banality of Chris’ immoral actions, then made all the more bizarre by the pair’s aggressive lovemaking.
- 'Shaun Of The Dead' returning to cinemas for 20th anniversarywww.rollingstone.co.uk 'Shaun Of The Dead' returning to cinemas for 20th anniversary
Shaun Of The Dead will return to cinemas later this year to mark the 20th anniversary of the iconic British comedy.
> Shaun Of The Dead will return to cinemas later this year to mark the 20th anniversary of the iconic British comedy. > > The iconic comedy – which starred Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as two no-hopers navigating a zombie apocalypse in Britain – arrived in cinemas 20 years ago today (April 9). > > Now, it’s been confirmed that Universal will treat audiences to another slice of fried gold when the film returns to cinemas at an unconfirmed date later this week.
- Glasgow’s disastrous Wonka character inspires horror filmwww.theguardian.com Glasgow’s disastrous Wonka character inspires horror film
A villain devised for the catastrophic Willy’s Chocolate Experience, who makes sweets and lives in walls, is to become the subject of a new horror movie
> Yet the Wonka experience may yet enjoy its moment in the cinematic sun. A new movie from Kaledonia Pictures is being rushed into production to capitalise on the global infamy enjoyed by the story. > > The horror film will focus on The Unknown, a character devised – possibly not by a human – for the Glasgow show. Actor Paul Connell, who played Wonka in the experience, said the script was “15 pages of AI-generated gibberish,” and introduced the “Unknown [who] is an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls.” > > ... > > The Kaledonia movie follows an illustrator and his wife who are haunted by the death of their son, Charlie. They attempt to escape their grief in the Scottish Highlands where “an unknowable evil awaits them”. > > Warner Bros, which owns the film rights to Roald Dahl’s character – but not to The Unknown – has yet to comment. > > Recent horror versions of children’s classics such as Winnie-the-Pooh have not met with positive notices.
- Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 Trailer #1 (2024)
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- Zombies Remain Unkillable: Danny Boyle and Alex Garland Hope to Launch a New Trilogy with 28 Years Laterwww.tor.com Zombies Remain Unkillable: Danny Boyle and Alex Garland Hope to Launch a New Trilogy with 28 Years Later - Reactor
I’ll save you the math: It has not (yet) been 28 years since 28 Days Later. The 2002 movie, directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland, was a surprise hit for many reasons, including the facts that a) the speedy zombies were terrifying and b) people really enjoy watching Cillian Murphy on ...
> I’ll save you the math: It has not (yet) been 28 years since 28 Days Later. The 2002 movie, directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland, was a surprise hit for many reasons, including the facts that a) the speedy zombies were terrifying and b) people really enjoy watching Cillian Murphy on film (see also: Oppenheimer). > > Now, the writer and director are hoping to launch a whole new trilogy of zombie films with 28 Years Later. > > Very little is known about this potential film or trilogy, though The Hollywood Reporter notes that the creators are “expected to hit studios, streamers and other potential buyers later this week.” Boyle (Trainspotting) will direct at least the first film, and Garland—now also a well-regarded director (Annihilation)—is set to write all three films. > > Murphy is not officially part of the new project, at least not yet, though he has spoken about the possibility of reteaming with Boyle and Garland. When NME asked in 2022 if the gang might get back together, Murphy said, “[E]very time I do bump into Danny or Alex I always mention it. Because I showed it to my kids recently, some Halloween about four or five years ago, and they loved it. It really stands up, which is amazing for a film that’s 20 years old. So yeah, I love the idea and it’s very appealing to me.”
- The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
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> > When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
- Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome tour tidbits (2022)
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> With his Incarcerat tour starting up I thought I'd grab the tasters released from his TerrorTome tour last year. If you get the chance it's well worth going - it's a book tour that's a spoof of a book tour while working perfectly as a book tour. First half is a reading of a selection from the book that is, presumably, picked because he's contractually obliged not to cause heavy soiling of the seats, followed by a Q&A in the second half where he deftly avoids getting cancelled again. He then does a heroic book signing afterwards. > > Videos previously posted on various social media outlets and liberated for your delectation: > > ! > > ! > > ! > > If you so wish you can follow: > * Matthew Holness on Xitter > * Garth Marenghi fan on TikTok
- The Furred Man (2010) (Comedy + Horror) [Full Short]
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> > Max Naughton sits in an interrogation room sporting a black eye, a bruised cheek and dressed in a furry costume which is caked in dry blood. He will explain. > > IMDb > > Direct YouTube link
- Re-vamped: British horror film-makers Hammer and Amicus are back from the deadwww.theguardian.com Re-vamped: British horror film-makers Hammer and Amicus are back from the dead
The British studios, which filled screens with bloody fangs, gothic monsters and heaving bosoms, have been resurrected for the 21st century
> Hammer and Amicus were the studios that defined British horror cinema and bestrode the 1960s and 1970s, employing a wealth of British acting talent including Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Casts included names such as Michael Gough, Ralph Bates, Ingrid Pitt, Patrick Magee and Joan Collins. > > ... > > But by the late 1970s, the landscape of supernatural cinema was changing. The Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby and The Omen had redefined horror and the schlocky period scares of Hammer and Amicus fell out of favour. Now, after decades in the wilderness – aside from the Hammer name’s brief resurgence in 2012 with the Daniel Radcliffe-led adaptation of Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black – both film houses are, well, back from the dead. > > Hammer has been revived with a bang with its first new movie – Doctor Jekyll – hitting cinemas this week, following the announcement in August that the studio had been taken over by the John Gore Organisation, primarily known as a producer of blockbuster Broadway and West End theatre shows. > > ... > > And what of Amicus? It, too, is back, but on a slightly smaller scale. > > “Can we elevate Amicus Productions beyond the confines of what the BBC labelled in 1971 as Britain’s ‘tiniest film studio’?” says Lawrie Brewster, the man behind the revival. “Unquestionably. Our primary aim is to create films that respect and honour the legacy of Amicus. We don’t aspire to outshine the Amicus classics – that’s not our prerogative. Our mission is to craft films that celebrate the golden era of British horror, paying respect to the rich traditions of yesteryear.” > > Can either Hammer or Amicus be relevant to modern audiences? There’s certainly the nostalgia factor to take into account. Jeremy Dyson of The League of Gentlemen, co-author of the novel The Warlock Effect with Andy Nyman, is one of many people working in TV and film today who remembers them fondly. > > “Both Hammer and Amicus were so much a part of my imaginative landscape,” says Dyson. “My first introduction to them was through books, in which were frozen these stills from the movies, which fascinated me long before I got to watch the films. > > “These studios were the British film industry for many years, and even so a lot of these films were considered down and dirty, and disregarded by the establishment. Can they come back? They’re just names, really, so it means getting as talented a group of people working on them as they had in their heyday, and if they can do that, I don’t see why not, if the stars are aligned.”
- Doctor Jekyll review – gives Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing a run for their moneylwlies.com Doctor Jekyll review – gives Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing a run for their money
Hammer Horror returns with a genderflipped take on Robert Louis Stevenson's iconic novel, starring Eddie Izzard as a leading figure of the pharmaceutical industry with a dark secret.
> Hammer Horror returns with a genderflipped take on Robert Louis Stevenson's iconic novel, starring Eddie Izzard as a leading figure of the pharmaceutical industry with a dark secret. > > In a delicious example of nominative determinism, British horror powerhouse Hammer Film Productions was recently acquired by theatre producer John Gore. He will oversee a revival of schlocky, low-budget British horror – starting with a new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 Gothic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. It is well-worn territory for the studio, including Hammer staple Terence Fisher’s The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), and Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) directed by Roy Ward Baker. > > The latter version rode on a wave of gender-swapped horror remakes, playing to the suspense potential of an oh-so-innocent female secretly veiling the monster inside. As with bigger-budget horror movies from Hitchcock’s Psycho to De Palma’s Dressed to Kill, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde played to the most terrifying trope of all – the man whose alter-ego is a woman. It’s important to have all of this in mind when watching Joe Stephenson’s Doctor Jekyll, which goes one step further than previous iterations by changing the genders of both Jekyll and Hyde, now Nina and Rachel. > > ... > > Doctor Jekyll revives a missing element of British cinema – you can see the walls shaking, the cheapness of the props, the hamminess of the acting. But that’s what Hammer is all about, the sort of horror that has you laughing one minute and throwing your popcorn in the air in fright the next. Izzard also subverts the fear of gender that has long haunted horror cinema by both playing to and away from the ongoing ‘trans scare’. It looks like Hammer has returned from the dead.
- Starve Acre review – intelligent performances in sinister Yorkshire folk horrorwww.theguardian.com Starve Acre review – intelligent performances in sinister Yorkshire folk horror
London film festival Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark play an unhappy couple who have moved to the moors with their young son, and soon become entwined in the occult
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> > Award-winning director Daniel Kokotajlo made a real impression five years ago with his fiercely distinctive debut feature, Apostasy, set in an enclosed religious world. Here is his diverting but frankly more generic follow-up, adapted from the novel by Andrew Michael Hurley. It is billed as contemporary folk horror but borders on film-school pastiche, and “contemporary” means set in the era of The Wicker Man in the early 70s – a British world of brown corduroy, Austin 1100s, no central heating, odd locals and a persistent, sinister encroaching gloom in the countryside. The movie teeters on a knife-edge between scary and silly, and yet without that weird flavour of silly, the scares wouldn’t mean as much.
- Garth Marenghi extends Incarcerat tourwww.chortle.co.uk Garth Marenghi extends Incarcerat tour : News 2023 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
Garth Marenghi extends Incarcerat tour - New dates to promote his next horror novel
> Garth Marenghi has announced 18 extra dates in his book tour to promote his latest horror novel, Incarcerat. > > Matthew Holness’s alter-ego is publishing the follow-up up to his Sunday Times bestseller, Terrortome, on October 31. > > Now promoters Live Nation have unveiled 18 new tour dates in February and March, following the success of an initial 14 gigs, starting in Leeds on the eve of publication.
- The inspiring true story of Otto Baxter and the making of The Puppet Asylumuk.movies.yahoo.com The inspiring true story of Otto Baxter and the making of The Puppet Asylum
Otto Baxter and documentary filmmakers Peter Beard and Bruce Fletcher spoke to Yahoo UK about the director's journey to making his first film.
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> > Otto Baxter's musical horror-comedy short The Puppet Asylum debuted at FrightFest in August to much critical acclaim, but it's the filmmaker's six-year journey to bring his movie to the screen that proves even more inspiring. > > > > The filmmaker has spent much of his life in front of a camera. As an advocate for the Down syndrome community, he has appeared in many news reports and documentaries helping to raise awareness about the condition, but now he is ready to tell his own story, on his own terms. > > > > Baxter does this in two ways: through his semi-autobiographical horror film The Puppet Asylum, which he wrote and directed, and the making-of documentary Otto Baxter: Not A F****ing Horror Story that he filmed with Peter Beard and Bruce Fletcher (both come to Sky Documentaries and NOW from 23 September). > > Mentioned in the latest TV Tonight but worth flagging up separately.
- Garth Marenghi reveals Incarcerat coverwww.chortle.co.uk Garth Marenghi reveals Incarcerat cover : News 2023 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
Garth Marenghi reveals Incarcerat cover - New horror epic out on Halloween
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> New horror epic out on Halloween
- Cornwall Cinema Is on the Map Thanks to Two Horror Movies From One Directorcollider.com Cornwall Cinema Is on the Map Thanks to Two Horror Movies From One Director
Unsettling and awe-inspiring, the coastal region is proving itself to be a great landscape for terrifying tales.
> Cornwall is the English county famed for its stunning coastal beauty and historic villages which have turned it into a sought-after destination. However, more recently it may be recognized as being the home of innovative, startling, and vaguely unsettling cinema. Mark Jenkin is the one to thank for the bold new addition to cinema, as the inventive director hailing from Cornwall who also fits the description of a skillful screenwriter, cinematographer, and producer. He won the 2020 BAFTA award for Outstanding British Debut with his first feature film Bait (2019) and followed it up a few years later with Enys Men (2022), both of which he also wrote. Both features establish Cornwall as their setting, theme, plot, and arguably, as their main character. Bait and Enys Men could also reasonably be categorized as two of the freshest entries into horror of the last few years - especially Enys Men - but the haunting films also seem to create a wholly new genre of their own, blending drama, folk, and at times, thriller. With these films, Jenkin triumphantly puts Cornish cinema on the map.
- Farmaggedon 2023 return dates and ticketswww.liverpoolecho.co.uk Farmaggedon 2023 return dates and tickets
The scare attraction is back with a brand new, adrenaline-filled zombie area
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> > Horror-fest Farmaggedon returns to Farmer Ted's on October 6. > > > > The monster-filled adventure park is back with a terrifying new experience for 2023. This year, guests can take on the zombie warzone, an adrenaline-filled, pyrotechnic, zombie shoot-em-up experience that puts you on the frontline. > > > > Firm favourites including 'the beast of terror', 'the meat locker', 'maze of death', and 'the fear-go-round' will also return in one of the country's top scare attractions. > > > > Across the Farmaggedon grounds, guests can enjoy a range of live music, dancers and street performers as well as on-site food and drink. Kicking off on October 6, horror fans can book tickets for varying dates up until Halloween.
- Hull Horror Fest makes a return in time for Halloween 2023www.hulldailymail.co.uk Hull Horror Fest makes a return in time for Halloween 2023
Tickets are on sale for the city’s creepiest event of the year
> Described by its organisers as “like a comic con with a horror twist”, a huge festival with horror at its heart is heading for Hull. > > With guest appearances from stars of film and TV, including Stranger Things, IT and Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, to meet, scary photo opportunities and one of the UK’s largest horror-themed markets on offer, Hull Horror Fest is the perfect place to get into the spirit of Halloween. It takes place at the Costello Stadium, in Anlaby Park Road North, on Saturday, October 28, from 10am to 4pm.
- Tickets for Merseyside's only horror film festival go on salewww.liverpoolecho.co.uk Tickets for Merseyside's only horror film festival go on sale
Seven films will be screened as part of the festival
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> > Tickets for Merseyside's only horror film festival have today gone on sale. > > > > The Dead of Night Film Festival has been running for the past four years and is Liverpool's only film festival dedicated to horror. The aim is to bring new independent horror short and feature-length films to the general public. > > > > The festival will take place at Southport's Bijou Cinema and will run from October 7 to 8. This year, seven films will be screened and twenty short films. A one-day ticket for the festival is £12, while a weekend ticket is £20. > > > >The Bijou Cinema is a community cinema tucked into Post Office Avenue with 75 seats and an Optoma 8000-lumens projector.
- The History Of Amicus Productions (1962-1977)
> In its 15 years of existence, Amicus became the studio that dripped blood, specialising in portmanteau (anthology horror) films and quirky side projects, it retains a fond place in the memory of movie buffs.
As Amicus are in the new right now, here's an overview of their history.
- Short sharp shocks: the glorious return of the Amicus portmanteau horror filmwww.theguardian.com Short sharp shocks: the glorious return of the Amicus portmanteau horror film
The studio that mastered the art of the gleefully ghoulish cinematic short-story collection in the 60s and 70s is set to return. It may just raise a terrific genre from the dead
> Although Hammer usually receives the bulk of the recognition, there would be no real British horror movie scene without Amicus Productions. Between 1962 and 1977, Amicus produced 28 movies, many of which have become cult classics. The Psychopath. The Deadly Bees. And Now the Screaming Starts! Fine films, all. > > But where Amicus really sang was in its “portmanteau” films, made up of five or six short stories connected by a loose overarching theme. These films were not only masterpieces of creativity (after all, it’s much easier to string out one bad idea for 90 minutes than to cram in half a dozen) but also of marketing. Most of the seven Amicus anthologies were sold on the star power of one actor who, given the brevity of each story, might have only appeared on screen for a couple of minutes. > > I’m telling you this because Amicus is back. According to Variety, its new president, Lawrie Brewster, has set the goal of re-establishing Amicus “as a beacon of independent British horror”. And it will try to achieve this by, you’ve guessed it, bringing back the portmanteau. The first new Amicus production will be In the Grip of Terror, a collection of four short spooky stories themed around the medical profession
- Death Lines: Walking London’s Horror Historystrangeattractor.co.uk Death Lines - Strange Attractor
The first walking guide to London's role in horror cinemaMore →
> Death Lines is the first walking guide to London’s role in the evolution of horror cinema, inspired by the city’s dark histories, labyrinthine architectures, atmospheric streetscapes, and uncanny denizens. Its eight walks lead you on a series of richly researched yet undeniably chilling tours through Chelsea, Notting Hill, Westminster, Bloomsbury, Covent Garden, and the East End, along the haunted banks of the river Thames, and down into the depths of the London Underground railway. > > Each tour weaves together London’s stories and takes the reader to magnificent, eerie, and sometimes disconcertingly ordinary corners of the city, unearthing the literature, legends, and history behind classics like Peeping Tom and An American Werewolf in London, and lesser-known works such as mind-control melodrama The Sorcerers; Gorgo, Britain’s answer to Godzilla; tube terror Death Line; and Bela Lugosi’s mesmeric vehicle The Dark Eyes of London. Tinged with humor, social critique, and more than a few scares, Death Lines delights in revealing the hidden and often surprising relationship between the city and the dark cinematic visions it has evoked. Whether read on the streets or from the comfort of the grave, Death Lines is a treat for all cinephiles, horror fans, and lovers of London lore.
- Peter Cushing’s Best Hammer Horror Movie Let Him Be the Romantic Herocollider.com Peter Cushing’s Best Hammer Horror Movie Let Him Be the Romantic Hero
Over 60 years later, we are still swooning!
> When it comes to which classic Hammer Horror film was Cushing's best, it's easy to nominate an obvious choice. Surely it's The Curse of Frankenstein, right? With no shade intended toward the opulent masterpiece that is Curse, the correct answer is The Brides of Dracula. The 1960 sequel to Hammer Film Productions' smash hit Horror of Dracula might have been a cash cow in lesser hands. Instead, it epitomizes and distills all of Hammer's hallmarks into a product that’s so damn good, it’s hard to find fault. The studio's creative reinvention of the Dracula novel continues with a unique vampire story that could've stalked its way out of any epochal Gothic book. Most notably, Brides marks the one time Cushing returned to the Van Helsing role and the only Hammer Dracula to which Christopher Lee's vampiric maelstrom didn't return. Brides of Dracula had to sell itself on the strength of its returning hero rather than the appeal of its titular villain. Spoiler: it does. Just because it's “the sequel without Dracula” doesn’t mean Hammer spared expense. Brides even goes further than Horror of Dracula by employing Cushing's unfairly underutilized versatility. In short, Brides walked so Crimson Peak and The Invitation could run, but Brides ran an Olympic Gold Medal marathon.
- BBC 2's Horror Cafe (September 1990) with Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, John Carpenter, Lisa Tuttle and Peter Atkins
I've focused a bit too much on films here, so thought I'd throw in something on British horror books and Clive Barker seemed a bit too obvious, so I was fishing for some kind of documentary on Ramsey Campbell and found this, which also includes Clive Barker as well as Peter Atkins (wrote Hellraiser 2) as well as American horror luminaires. Oddly all three British guys were born in Liverpool. Not sure what to make of that, for now.
- How to Kill Monsters (2023)
Part of the Frightfest line-up but as it's a British comedy horror and it looks interesting, I thought it deserved it's one post.
The Kickstarter proof-of-concept, as I couldn't find a trailer.
- Frightfest 2023deadline.com UK Genre Event FrightFest Unveils Lineup For 2023 Edition
FrightFest runs August 24-28.
Anyone going?
I've yet to make it and I suspect this year won't be my year but there look to be a tonne of good films there. I am digging through the list but will post a few trailers for anything that stands out.
- Simon Pegg says people need to “move on” from ‘Shaun of the Dead’faroutmagazine.co.uk Simon Pegg says people must “move on” from ‘Shaun of the Dead’
Simon Pegg has said that people need to "move on" from 'Shaun of the Dead', the 2004 Edgar Wright comedy movie starring himself alongside Nick Frost
It's a clickbait headline ('no Simon Pegg, it's great and I won't move on!") but, when you read what he says, he is right:
> Pegg said, “If I ever do an Instagram Live or whatever, people are always like, ‘I need Shaun of the Dead 2 in my life.’ And I’m like, ‘No, you don’t fucking need Shaun of the Dead 2! The last thing you need is Shaun of the Dead 2! It’s done. Move on!’”
If people want SotD2 it suggests that a) they have misunderstood the Cornetto Trilogy idea and b) they haven't watched the film.
The film did an important job (along with 28 Days Later) of revitalising the British horror movie industry and the zombie genre in general and that's it's legacy.
- 28 Years Later?www.inverse.com '28 Days Later' Sequel? Danny Boyle Wants to Direct, But There’s a Catch
Also, original '28 Days Later' screenwriter Alex Garland reveals why it’s taken so long to make a third movie.
> “A few years ago an idea materialized in my head for what would be really 28 Years Later,” Garland says, suggesting the next movie will skip the obvious “28 Months Later” naming convention and jump into the future. “Danny always liked the idea.”
> In the two decades since 28 Days Later, Garland has also become a respected director in his own right. So who will direct this sequel? Danny Boyle has some ideas.
> “So we’re talking about it quite seriously, quite diligently,” Boyle says. “If he doesn’t want to direct it himself I’ll be well up for it if we can execute a similarly good idea.”
> ...
> “I resisted [making a sequel] for a long time because there were things about 28 Weeks that bugged me,” Garland says. “I just thought, ‘F*ck that. I’d rather try to write a different story in a different world.’”
> But clearly, something changed. Maybe enough time has passed. Or maybe the decision to skip “28 Months Later” and jump straight to “28 Years” offers the opportunity to ignore the bad parts of 28 Weeks. Either way, we’re definitely not complaining — assuming all this talk actually leads to something, of course.
All sounds promising, although I hope they don't plan on releasing it in 2030, which would be 28 years after the first film.
- The X-Ray Fiend (1897) - the first British horror film
Writing the community information got me thinking about what was the earliest British horror film.
A handy article, The First 10 Horror Films in Recorded History, obviously covers the work of Georges Méliès, who was a real leading light and innovator in the field but George Albert Smith was right up there alongside him, making the fourth (the one linked above) and the sixth (1898's now lost Photographing a Ghost) ever horror films:
> Prior to becoming a photographer and filmmaker, Smith worked as a stage hypnotist, psychic, inventor, and lecturer. He was also a key member of an informal group of British film pioneers called Brighton School, and a close friend and collaborator of Georges Méliès. Throughout his career, he contributed to advances in film editing and the color film process.
edit: switched link to the BFI version, which seems more fitting and they supply more background information in the description.
- Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat Book Tour
I went to see him on the Terrortome tour and it was well worth it if you are a fan of any of his many novels or Darkplace, also Man to Man With Dean Learner (if you are prepared to overlook his recent convictions). The author, visionary and dreamweaver brought the goods with the first half being a captivating reading and the second half which was part audience-led drilling, part Q&A (not the same as the drilling) and part settling scores. The queues were long to get your book signed but that's part of the experience too as you get to be treated like a bumbling idiot by the great man (or was that just me?).
Dates:
2023:
- 30th October - Leeds
- 31st October - Newcastle
- 1st November - Glasgow
- 2nd November - Manchester
- 3rd November - Birmingham
- 4th November - London
- 5th November - Canterbury
- 8th November - Brighton
- 9th November - Southampton
- 10th November - Colchester
- 15th November - Bournemouth
- 16th November - Bath
- 17th November - Cardiff
- 18th November - Nottingham
- 19th November - Sheffield
- 22nd November - Belfast
2024:
- 1st March - Dublin
edit: added tour dates - I'll update the dates when more are added. I'm hoping for a more local one.
- The Wicker Man 50th Anniversary
As I am off to see The Wicker Man at the Odeon tonight, I thought it worth a post for it's 50th anniversary year (it was out in early December 1973, so there'll be more through the year, I am sure), especially as it is a very British horror that pretty much single-handedly launched the Folk Horror sub-genre.