FILM
NEWS (UK): Film4 FrightFest 2014 announces guest line-up
ROBERT
ENGLUND GETS HIS CLAWS INTO FRIGHTFEST, RISING STAR MAIKA MONROE MAKES ‘GUEST’
APPREARANCE AND COMIC-BOOK LEGEND ALAN MOORE GIVES RARE PUBLIC INTERVIEW.
This
year’s Film4 FrightFest guest list brings together the great, the grand and the
gifted as over 100 filmmakers, performers, writers and producers from all over
the world make their way to the Vue West End for the 15th Film4
FrightFest event which runs from Thurs 21st – 25th August.
He
lit up the 1980s and 90s genre landscape with one of the classic horror
performances of all time as Freddy Krueger in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. Cue
rounds of ecstatic applause for the one and only Robert Englund who will be
attending the festival to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of that Wes Craven
classic (screening on Sunday Aug 24) and to launch the latest production
in which he stars, THE LAST SHOWING, which screens on Friday Aug 22.
Festival
co-director Alan Jones commented today “Englund is one of the genre’s originals
and we are thrilled to host such an icon of fright”.
In
support of the opening film THE GUEST, today’s hottest Scream Queen, Maika
Monroe, will be present to celebrate the UK premiere of her tension-laden
shocker. Monro is also the star of horror sensation IT FOLLOWS and is rapidly
becoming the go-to-girl for genre glamour.
In
a major coup for his legion of fans, Alan Moore will be introducing and talking
about his short film trilogy SHOW PIECES with director Mitch Jenkins. Dubbed
the best graphic novel writer in history, this is rare public appearance from a
National Treasure.
Then
there’s director John McNaughton who changed the horror movie forever with his
once-seen-never-forgotten masterpiece HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER.
McNaughton is here to promote his unusual thriller THE HARVEST.
Essie
Davis is currently winning a plethora of Best Actress awards for her emotionally
complex and stunning role as the stressed out mother Amelia in the Australian
phenomenon THE BABADOOK. We are thrilled to have her with us as the Total Film
Magazine sponsored guest of honour.
Other
key directors include Nacho Vigalondo, who has three films on show – the epic
crowd-pleaser OPEN WINDOWS, his sci-fi comedy EXTRATERRESTRIAL and V/H/S:
VIRAL, Belgian filmmaker Fabrice Du Welz, for his extraordinary thriller
ALLELUIA, Till Kleinert, director of post-modern slasher THE SAMURAI, STARRY
EYES directors Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer and the ever-popular Adam
Green with his unusual offering, DIGGING UP THE MARROW. From South America come
Argentine director Adrian Garcia Bogliano with his werewolf winner LATE PHASES
and Venezuelan director Alejandro Hidalgo with THE HOUSE AT THE END OF TIME.
Additional
directors travelling to the Vue West End to introduce their work are Milan
Todorovic (NYMPH), Luke Hymans (XMOOR), Jay Weisman (SHOCKWAVE DARKSIDE 3D),
Ivan Kavanagh (THE CANAL) Phil Hawkins (THE LAST SHOWING) Ben Wagner (DEAD
WITHIN), David Campbell (LEMON TREE PASSAGE), Ate De Jong (DEADLY VIRTUES),
David Gregory (LOST SOULS), John Shackleton (THE SLEEPING ROOM), Jeremy Wooding
(BLOOD MOON), Jessica Cameron (TRUTH OR DARE), Alexandre O Philippe (DOC
OF THE DEAD, Ollie Frampton (THE FORGOTTEN), Ed Boase (THE MIRROR), Adam
Spinks (THE EXPEDITION), Simeon Haligan (WHITE SETTLERS), Jorg Buttgereit
(NEKROMANTIK), Matthew A. Brown (JULIA) and Federico Zampaglone (REMEMBER).
The
stars of the films are out in force (with more to be confirmed) Pit Bukowski
and Michel Diercks (THE SAMURAI), Rupert Evans and Steve Oram (THE CANAL), THE
LAST SHOWING stars Emily Berrington, Finn Jones and Malachi Kirby, XMOOR stars
Nick Blood & Sofie Harkness, DEADLY VIRTUES actor Edward Akrout, Shaun
Dooley (BLOOD MOON), Leila Mimmock & Joseph Beatty (THE SLEEPING ROOM),
Ashley C. Williams (JULIA), Joshua Dickinson & Nate Fallows (THE MIRROR)
and Emily Booth (SELKIE)
Key
producers also attending include Jan Harlan (THE SHINING), Alex Baranska (THE
LAST SHOWING) Christian Arnold-Beutel (SHOCKWAVE DARKSIDE 3D) Gallien
Chanalet-Quercy (I SURVIVED A ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST), Michael Vine (BLOOD MOON) and
Gareth
I
Davis (THE SLEEPING ROOM)
Tickets
for Individual films are now on sale.
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.
For
full programme details go to: www.frightfest.co.uk
To
download images: http://www.cloutcom.co.uk/picture-gallery/film4-frightfest-2014/
@film4frightfest
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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.
Film4
Channel Channel 4’s free-to-air film channel, is the UK’s number one film
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.
Formed in May 2003, Vue Entertainment is a world class
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,
Germany, Denmark, Portugal, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Taiwan. For further
information visit www.myvue.com
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