Ever since I saw 2006’s London to Brighton, I knew that Writer Director Paul Andrew Williams was a filmmaker to keep an eye on, and I wasn’t wrong. London To Brighton was Paul’s first feature film and to this day remains one of my favourite films and most certainly one of my favourite UK films…
The Shudder Original Halloween special Joe Bob’s Halloween Hoedown will premiere Friday, October 8 with special guests from the upcoming Halloween franchise installment, Halloween Kills: director David Gordon Green and producer/Blumhouse CEO and founder Jason Blum, as announced today during Blumhouse’s second annual BlumFest celebration. Joe Bob’s Halloween Hoedown premieres live on the Shudder TV feed at 9pm ET/8c on October 8. Fans can also watch on demand on…
When people ask me what are some of the coolest things ive done since starting up frompage2screen with all its side projects there is a wonderful list of things I do talk about. Always high on that list of that I have I have a friendship with Mr Mark Savage and Tony McPherson, whilst only…
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streamer for horror, thriller and the supernatural, welcomes the beloved Halloween queen of camp Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) for a one-night movie marathon event, Elvira’s 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special Special. Joining Shudder’s annual “61 Days of Halloween” lineup, the special debuts Saturday, September 25 at 8pm ET in the US and Canada via the…
Children of the Corn star Courtney Gains will release an NFT (Non-Fungible Token) art collection called “Malachai Rising”. The 9-piece collection is a mixture of digital and physical artworks produced by the master of horror painting, Gary Pullin A.K.A. Goulish. More and more artists are using an NFT to display and sell their digital assets…
A musical by Dylan Schlosberg & Michael Conley. Inspired by the novel by Jack Engelhard Directed by Charlotte Westenra PREVIEWS 22nd OCT // PRESS NIGHT 2 NOV // RUN ENDS 27th NOV 2021 SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE TICKETS 10 to 4 Productions is delighted to announce that Lizzy Connolly (The Windsors TV/Sweet Charity at The Donmar) has been cast the role of Rebecca in…
FRIED BARRY is giving away a ton of official merch to the artist who creates the most jaw-dropping FRIED BARRY inspired artwork. FRIED BARRY has inspired hundreds of artists to create their own acid-drenched creations based on the film and they want to see YOURS. 1. Create your FRIED BARRY inspired artwork 2. Post on…
Established in 2016 to celebrate the work of emerging UK genre talent, FrightFest teams up for the fifth year with Screen International, the UK’s top film industry magazine. to present the Genre Rising Star Award. This year’s short-list embraces the work of three emerging directors and two outstanding performers. The nominated directors are: Leroy Kincaide for his…
Following hot on the heels of the physical event at the Cineworld Leicester Square, Arrow Video FrightFest is presenting a five-day online edition, which will take place between Sept 1 and Sept 5. This ‘Best of the Fest’ gives audiences the opportunity to experience this year’s genre celebrations at home, while giving others the chance…
Arrow Video FrightFest 2021 has traditionally showcased the best in genre short film from the UK and around the world since 2004, and this year is, despite the additional challenges faced, no exception, with ten countries representing three continents. From creeping terrors to outrageous scares, from spooky laughs to genuine fear, this year’s selection, which…
It’s Full Scream ahead as Arrow Video FrightFest 2021 announces its second wave of hugely anticipated Discovery Screen and First Blood titles – a summer collection of provocative, edgy and transgressive entertainment to die for. There are fourteen World and ten European / International premieres amongst the thirty-four films on offer. Eleven countries are represented,…
EartH Theatre plays host for one night only as two masters of the Horror Soundtrack come together to create an evening of instrumental terror, performing tracks from such classic films as Demons, Demons 2, Suspiria, Tenebre, Dawn of the Dead, Shallow Grave, Dust Devil, Santa Sangre, Stage Fright and Lord of Illusions First brought together by Italian filmmaker Dario…
Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s biggest horror and fantasy film festival, is back at the Cineworld Leicester Square from Thurs August 26 – Monday 30 August, 2021 for five days of the very best of global genre cinema. The internationally renowned event leads the way in attesting to the versatility of the genre and, despite the interruptions…
Jonny (Norman Bowman; 42nd Street Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; Eugenius! London Palladium; King Lear Royal Exchange Theatre) and Rebecca (casting to be announced) are very much in love and very much in debt. Jonny’s a struggling singer-songwriter who spends most of his time playing backup for Annie (Jacqui Dankworth; Into the Woods, original London cast, Phoenix Theatre; Les Liaisons Dangereuses, RSC and celebrated Jazz recording artist),…
In 2020 the beloved UK horror label VIPCO crawled out of its grave, and in 2021 VIPCO is opening up for the very first time it’s darkened crypt for the VIPCO Vaults of TerrorFest 2021! The TerrorFest is the inaugural online film Festival from the VIPCO label, and they are looking for spine tingling shorts and…
Fantasia International Film Festival, the iconic Canadian genre film festival, has announced its first wave of programming for the upcoming 25th edition. Once again the festival will be a virtual event, and will run from August 5-25th of this year and one of those films is Ultrasound, starring Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men), Chelsea Lopez (Novitiate), Breeda Wool (UnREAL), Tunde Adebimpe (Marriage Story, Spider-Man:…
Joshua Winch (Fall of Grace) joins Tyler Mane (Rob Zombie’s Halloween), Linnea Quigley (The Return of the Living Dead), Danielle Harris (Halloween 4 & 5), Rob Mello (Happy Death Day), Oliver Robins (Poltergeist), Clint Howard (Evilspeak) and many more for the HOUSTON HORROR FILM FEST 2021. The weekend of June 25 – 27 the Marriott…
OUTDOOR SHAKESPEARE PERFORMANCES HELD IN FULLER’S PUB GARDENS Theatre company Open Bar perform plays in the gardens of pubs around London and the south of England. Pubs, as the natural hubs of our communities, are the perfect setting in which to recapture the raucous, accessible and inherently social spirit of a Shakespearean troupe performance. In a…
Grimmfest announces May Madness, a startling selection of double bills for the late May Bank Holiday Weekend. May is on the way. A month with not one, but two Bank Holidays. The Maypoles are going up, the wells are being dressed. Summer is ycumen in. Or it would be, were the UK not still largely…
Not only is influential horror host Joe Bob Briggs back with a new season of The Last Drive-In on Shudder, but he has also returned in action figure form from Fright-Rags. The horror apparel company also has other new merchandise from The Last Drive-In and Shaun of the Dead.Fright-Rags has reissued its popular Joe Bob…
Shudder and FANGORIA announced today presenters at the 2021 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards, premiering Sunday, April 18 at 8pm ET/5pm PT exclusively on Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. The ceremony, which recognizes outstanding achievement in horror film and television, will be hosted by actor and writer David Dastmalchian (Ant-Man and the Wasp) and…
Fright-Rags has teamed with EMCE Toys to create limited edition Night of the Living Dead merchandise, which is up for pre-order for five days only. A vintage-style tin lunchbox features embossed artwork for George A. Romero’s seminal classic and a matching tin-wrapped thermos. Fright-Rags’ Night of the Living Dead Nanoforce figure set includes 13…
Final Days (also known as Alone, in some territories ), tells of a viral outbreak that ravages the country, Aidan ( played by Tyler Posey) barricades himself inside his apartment and starts rationing his food supplies. His apartment complex is soon overrun by infected “Screamers”, and with the world falling apart into chaos, he is…
Grimmfest releases further details of ‘Grimmfest Easter Horror Nights’, a new annual event, taking place over the Easter Weekend, and complimenting the long-established festival in October. Like the October Festival, Grimmfest Easter will be a competitive festival, and the Grimmfest team are delighted to announce the Jury and Awards for this event. The fine folk…
Free of the shackles of corporeal existence, TCAF’s marketplace will have more days than ever before, and include a week of on-demand programming. Comic and art lovers will be able to visit TCAF 2021 online to peruse and shop hundreds of exhibitors’ amazing works, sit in on classic Q&As, workshops, talks, and so much more! TCAF’s new exhibition website…
February 1st 2021 sat the launch of Birdbox.Film’s shorts channel with a selection of Oscar and BAFTA award-winning titles and the premiere of Sadie Frost’s Running Man, starring Raff Law which will be available for 48 hours from 7.30pm on the 1sth of February . Running Man also marks the launch of Birdbox.Film’s first monthly ‘Film Club’. At…
Making its UK Premiere on World Cancer Day RUNNING NAKED is a wonderful new British feature from Emmy winning director Victor Buhler (Rikers High, The Negotiators), that’s guaranteed to make you laugh and cry A story with cancer at its heart – yet so very much more, the film stars Matthew McNulty (The Terror, Misfits) and Andrew Gower (The Village, Being Human, Carnival Row) as…
Welcome to the 16th edition of Arrow Video FrightFest Glasgow, which, despite continuing COVID-19 restrictions, is back to present a virtual six-pack of tasty titles; an extravaganza of the dark arts that will leave you stirred, shaken and shocked. There will be six online presentations, including the UK premiere of Kyle Rankin’s controversial high school…
This January, NBCUniversal is offering classic film fans the chance to dive into some of Universal Pictures’ most gruesome classic films ever made on one of the world’s biggest horror YouTube channels, ‘Fear: The Home of Horror.’ for FREE. Yes, you read that right. Starting on 15 January, 2021 you’ll be able to scare away the…
On 29th January 2021, STUDIOCANAL presents a very special event to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the ground-breaking cult Sixties TV series THE AVENGERS, with an ourscreen online event, offering 5000 fans a unique chance to enjoy episodes of the show ‘together’, hosted by some very special guests, with Q&As, discussion of the series, and tributes to stars Diana Rigg and Honor Blackman.…
Fans of Shudder’s The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs have turned a shared love of Christmas horror movies into generous donations, totaling $44,327 in winning bids across twenty eBay charity auctions that were first announced during the December 11 premiere of the Shudder Original special, Joe Bob Saves Christmas. “I was amazed by the generosity of our Last…
Before computer games there were board games, and before Dr Smolder Bravestone there was Alan Parrish. 25 years ago earlier this month, the much loved Jumanji premiered in cinemas across the US. (December 15th 1995) In 1969, a unique and mysterious board game falls into the hands of a young Alan Parrish (Adam Hann-Byrd). The…
This year for World Kindness Day (which is today (but should be everday) Friday 13th November) eOne’s My Little Pony: Pony Life has been talking to kids across the UK to find out what kindness means to them. They have interviewed children directly about their thoughts in an adorable vox pop video, they have polled 1000s of children across the…
After a successful Summer event (Online) The UK Motion Picture Festival has returned for its Winter Season (Also an online event due to the year 2020) which is running from November the 1st to February the 14th 2021 Still primarily focused on UK film (short and feature length) but also of course open to International…
If you are of a certain age you would remember the video label VIPCO, scattered throughout video stores you would find their name on a good amount of horror movies on VHS and that would be true into the advent of DVD. Unfortunately the original incarnation of VIPCO disappeared years ago… NOW in 2020 the name VIPCO returns…a NEW label…
Independent cinema Pop Up Screens is back this winter, taking over Peckham’s popular Copeland Park and Bussey Building with ‘Cinema in the Snow’ – a stunning cinematic Christmas experience set in a magical snow-filled wonderland. The month-long festive-themed cinema will kick off on 20 November with The Greatest Showman and feature new and classic Christmas movies such as: Last…
2020 has easily been the ‘strangest’ year that most of us will remember and whilst the year has of course given the world many things that we didnt want or didnt need, we have also had the time to come up with new ventures and tick off a few things of that never ending ‘to…
My first memory of the work of Ray Harryhausen was a cinema trip in 1977 at the age of 6 years old to see Sinbad and The Eye of the Tiger. Now I dont remember being 6 years old and going to the cinema, but I do remember seeing the film at the movies, and…
In light of the latest guidance and restrictions put in place by the Government in Liverpool yesterday the Liverpool Film Festival has come to the decision to move ALL screenings at this year’s festival online.The festivals aim was to host a selection of screenings at the Odeon, Liverpool One with filmmakers invited to attend to…
Following the success of the ‘ABC TV Nights In’ via watch.networkonair.com, Network are terrifically delighted to present something very special for Halloween: KIM NEWMAN’S NIGHTMARE NIGHT IN.Hosted and curated by horror aficionado Kim Newman, Network have prised open the mausoleums to bring you a themed evening of scary (and not-so-scary) gems with the streaming premiere of the…
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