Film news (UK): Film4 FrightFest announces Short Film
showcase. Including world premieres from Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins,
Federico Zampaglione and Emily Booth
Film4
FrightFest will be screening a record twenty short films, twelve of them world
premieres, at this year’s August event at the Vue West End, Leicester Sq.
Spearheading
this year’s selection is the world premiere of SHOW PIECES, three tales of
terror written by Alan Moore, the genius 2000 AD writer behind WATCHMEN, THE
LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, FROM HELL and V FOR VENDETTA. Moore has
never previously written specifically for the screen, until now. Directed by
his close friend and internationally acclaimed photographer Mitch Jenkins,
this interconnected trilogy kicks off with. ‘Act of Faith’ in which a
young woman looking for the next step in sexual excitement unfortunately finds
it. ‘Jimmy’s End’ tails a serial philanderer down a dark alley into a very
unusual club where the top-billed attraction is The Bad Brides and their Danse
Macabre and ‘His Heavy Heart’ reveals the horrifying price paid for his
adultery. We’re delighted to announce that Alan Moore will be attending,
alongside Mitch Jenkins and some of the cast. SHOW PIECES will be screened
separately in the Discovery Strand.
Also attending will be Italian macbre-meister Federico Zampaglione, who
has written and directed REMEMBER, a haunting apocalyptic scene of
devastation seen through the eyes of a young girl. And Horror Channel’s Emily
Booth presents SELKIE, which she has written, produced and stars in as a
captured sea-creature out for revenge (pictured left). Her brother, Simon
Booth, directs.
Other
highlights include ABDULLAH, Evrim Ersoy’s darkly-mesmerising portrait of
a Turkish London taxi-driver and VIBES, a deliciously nasty take on
infidelity by the Spanish Guis brothers.
Paul McEvoy, Co-director of FrightFest said today: “This year’s crop of
Film4 FrightFest short films is the biggest and best line-up we have ever had.
We are thrilled to be showcasing an outstanding programme of worldwide talent
both in front of and behind the camera including many well-known names and an
enormous array of new and exciting talent. Making the final selection from the
many hundreds of submissions received was a mammoth task which myself and my
short film programming partner Shelagh Rowan-Legg attacked with gusto and we
are excited to unleash so many beautiful gems to the FrightFest audience. Covering
everything from SF / horror / thriller and so much more we feel the selections
will delight, shock and astound”.
Full
line-up
SATURDAY
AUG 23 – DISCOVERY SCREEN 2 , from 12:45
THE
LAST MAN (World Premiere)
Director:
Gavin Rothery. Cast: Richard Glover. UK 2014. 20 mins.
A
soldier is awoken from stasis to find the world completely destroyed. Venturing
into the wasteland he is faced with the devastating loneliness of being the
last man alive.
PENANCE
(World Premiere)
Director:
Nicholas Principe. Cast: Maria Kanellis, Dave Gere, Mike Bennett. USA 2014. 4
mins.
Confessionals
are places of sanctuary and solace. But one woman has something else on her
mind to divulge.
SELKIE
(World Premiere)
Director:
Simon Booth. Cast: Emily Booth, Joseph Rye, Julia Lamoral-Roberts. UK
2014. 14 mins
A
fisherman finds a strange woman by the sea, and holds her captive to his will.
But he underestimates her desire to return home.
APHELION
POINT (World Premiere)
Director:
Dan Auty. Cast: Steve Rogers, Dan Auty. UK 2014. 7 mins.
A
damaged ship floats through deep space. A malevolent star draws closer and
begins to exert a terrifying influence upon the remaining crew members.
GOBLIN
(World Premiere)
Director:
Christian James. Cast: David Oakes, Holliday Grainger. UK 2013. 7
mins.
Elizabeth
has got her hands full with her boyfriend Harry, who’s convinced there’s a Goblin
in the wardrobe. It’s either the wrong relationship, or the wrong wardrobe.
CALL
GIRL (UK Premiere)
Director:
Jill Sixx Gevargizian. Cast: Laurence R. Harvey, Tristan Risk. USA 2014. 5
mins.
In
one man's attempt to exploit his date night through video-chat, he ends up
sharing something far more disturbing.
FOUND
(UK Premiere)
Director:
Rebekah McKendry. Cast: AJ Bowen, Darren Lynn Bousman, Morgan Peter Brown, Ryan
Turek, Larry Zerner. USA 2014. 4 mins.
Making
a found footage film isn’t as easy as it looks. Luckily, a new organization is
here with innovations and tips on how to have a successfully scary shoot.
GHOST
TRAIN (UK Premiere)
Director: Lee
Cronin. Cast: Owen McDonnell, Steve Wall, Matthew Dillon, Sean Gormley, Matthew
Broe. Ireland 2013. 16 mins.
Michael
and Peter make their annual pilgrimage to the fairground where, years before,
their friend Sam went missing on a mysterious ride. But something has been
waiting for them.
SHE
(World Premiere)
Directors:
Chelsey Burdon and Mark Vassey. Cast: Fiona Dourif, Phillip James. UK 2014. 14
mins.
A
woman can only take so much abuse before she fights back. And she will fight
back in the most vengeful manner.
CÓLERA
(London Premiere)
Director:
Aritz Moreno. Cast: Luis Tosar, Irati Azcuna Pascual, Iñaki Irastorza. Spain
2013. 6 mins.
The
residents of a town take justice into their own hands. But their enemy might
have the last revenge.
MONDAY
AUG 25 – DISCOVERY SCREEN 2 , from 18:00
THE
DARK (World Premiere)
Director:
Tom Hemmings. Cast: Toby Jones, Jessica Barden. UK 2013. 10 mins.
A
father teaches his daughter how to develop film the old-fashioned way. But
something else old is lurking in the negatives.
VIBES
(UK Premiere)
Directors:
The Guis Brothers. Cast: Macarena Gomez, Juan Carlos Vellido. Spain 2014. 12
mins.
A
husband gets his wife an unusual birthday present to spice up their life. But
he slowly finds himself being replaced.
THE
TOUR (World Premiere)
Directors:
Alex Mathieson and Damon Rickard. Cast: Jessica Cameron, Heather Dorff,
Tom Gordon-Gill. UK 2014. 14 mins.
Two
American women take a private tour of a British haunted house. But their guide
has more than just ghostly scares on his mind.
ZOMINIC
(Preview)
Director:
Michelle Fox. Cast: Eilidh Talman, Carl Kennedy, Kitty Boo Ford, James A.
Wilkinson. UK 2013. 2 mins.
What
wouldn’t a parent do for their child? Even a child with a monstrous appetite?
ABDULLAH
(World Premiere)
Director:
Evrim Ersoy. Cast: Gabriel Horn, Matthew Noble. UK 2014. 12 mins.
Abdullah
seems like the typical London minicab driver. But some customers want a service
only Abdullah is willing to provide.
THE
GAS MAN (World Premiere)
Direcror:
Matt Palmer. Cast: Birgitte Hjort Sorenson, Glenn Doherty, Conor McCarron. UK
2013. 13 mins.
Sometimes,
the gas man needs to read the meter. Sometimes, he has other things in mind.
REMEMBER
(World Premiere)
Director:
Federico Zampaglione. Cast: Rosa Enginoli. Italy 2014. 9 mins.
A
little girl wanders alone in an abandoned hospital, where memories of deadly
acts haunt her.
VARGULF
(World Premiere)
Director:
J.T. Child. Cast: Kathryn Prescott. UK 2013. 4 mins.
Grace
is just a normal teenager trying to enjoy a house party. But when she
experiments with drugs, strange things begin to happen.
BUDGET
CUTS (UK Premiere)
Director:
Jarret Gahan. Cast: Kieran O’Sullivan. Australia 2013. 11 mins.
Have
you ever wanted to commit murder, but didn’t know how to handle the
practicalities? One man can teach you how to do so efficiently and effectively.
GET
SOME (UK Premiere)
Directors:
Adam and Joe Horton. Cast: John Hannah, Warren Brown, Anna Skellern, Kieran
O'Connor. UK 2014. 14 mins.
After
a viral pandemic turns humans into flesh craving mutants, an adventurer fights
back by presenting Get Some, a TV show in which he tracks and kills the
infected.
Tickets
for Individual films are on sale from July 18
Bookings: www.myvue.com/Frightfest
08712
240 240 (24 hour booking line)
Screens
5, 6 & 7 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in
Screens 3 & 8.
This
year’s complete guest list will be announced on July 18.
For
full programme details go to: www.frightfest.co.uk
@film4frightfest
#F4FF14
Editors
notes:
Dubbed
“the Woodstock of Gore” by director Guillermo Del Toro, FrightFest was
created in 2000 by film producer Paul McEvoy, journalist and broadcaster Alan
Jones and film distributor/booker Ian Rattray. Greg Day, the festival’s long
standing PR, became a joint director in 2007. From its cult roots at the Prince
Charles Cinema it has grown to become one of the genre’s most vibrant, credible
and recognisable brands, helping to launch the careers of directors such as
Simon Rumley, Christopher Smith, Eli Roth, Neil Marshall and Simon Hunter.
Apart from the annual 5-day event in London, FrightFest has an ever-growing
strand at the Glasgow Film Festival, hosts a nationwide Halloween horrorthon
and showcases special screenings throughout the year.
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channel, and the UK’s 4th biggest digital channel. It screens a
mix of major Hollywood and British films, independent and world cinema,
timeless classics and cult favourites as part of an innovative schedule that
features regular themed strands and seasons – ‘Great films you know, great
films you don’t’. It also showcases the films made by Film4 Productions,
including the award-winning 12 Years a Slave, Under the Skin, A Field in
England and Starred Up.
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operator and developer of modern state-of-the-art multiplex cinemas. Following
the recent acquisition of the Apollo UK circuit in May 2012, the takeover of
CinemaxX in July 2012 and the acquisition of Multikino in May 2013, Vue is now
operating over 1,300 screens across 146 multiplex cinemas in the UK, Ireland,
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