My main middle aged family man reporter, Shawn Boyer, sent me over a little update on this years British Horror Film Festival. He seems genuinely excited as always and lets us know the line up for this years festival. Check out Shawn's update after the jump...
Hi Gore fans
Your roving reporter is back from the dead to cover the British Horror Film Festival 2012.
This is happening again at the Empire Leicester Sq on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th October 2012.
The line up for this year is as ever the best of budget horror.
Kicking off the line up this year on Friday night is Mark Duffield’s Demon.
Demon is the bloodiest love story of all. Set in Victorian London it tells the tale of Lorcan a young handsome man cursed by love that transforms him into a blood thirsty demon.
Mark sites his influences as the two David’s; Lynch & Lean.
This recreates Victorian London extremely well on a budget of only £500,000 which means you have to be very creative.
Marks clever way to shoot London of old when you don’t have the budget to shut down city streets is to do most of your filming on rooftops and filming at low angles and so cutting the city streets out of frame. I love the gothic London of Sherlock Holmes so mixing it up with Demons as well is well good in my book. Mark says he was inspired by the image he had of a demon in a Victorian top hat, and thought it would make an original monster.
Saturday opens with Three’s a Shroud which stars Emily Booth and is an anthology piece but it stars Emily Booth so that’s enough for me.
This is then followed by Art House Massacre which is a suspense horror set over one gruesome night starring Emily Baxter and Martin Lawrence (No not the crap comedian) where a wife takes a modelling assignment in the middle of nowhere and guess what the photographer turns out to be a psycho and it is up to her husband to rescue her as he is the only person who believes she really is in danger.
Then a selection of short films with subjects including: Banshees, buried alive, new nannies in strange families, Tunnel creatures, house spirits, Vampires (yes they had to be here somewhere) killer virus & “infected” people and finally the end of the world.
Next up is horror comedy Darkwood Manor. Students desperate to save their school stay at a haunted house for two nights to win a reward. Then one by one they start to disappear. What is the resident evil that lurks there? Now comedy horrors are notoriously difficult to pull off so it will be interesting to see how this one turns out but in its defence it was only made for £1000!
Then a final selection of shorts – see above.
An excellent and cheap weekend for the horror buff.
Tickets can be bought here http://www.thefilmfestivalguild.com/#/british-horror-2012/4566322742
If you see me in my pink & black zig zag jumper come and say hello J
Shawn Boyer
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