So you spent five days inside a cinema with a hundreds of your fellow horror fans watching such great films like THE WOMAN and FINAL DESTINATION 5, You made new friends and caught up with some of the old faithfuls so what is better than heading back to London for a whole night of horror greatness with the same people!That's right Film4 FirghtFest is back with the 6th annual Halloween All-nighter. We have the fantastic line up for October's bloodfest  and I must say the films look pretty cool. However this year we have a change of venue as the boys take us over to the VUE in the West End

 
BAD MEAT:  A Boot Camp for troubled teens becomes a nightmarish charnel house when spoiled meat transforms the staff from sadistic fascists into something much, much worse

90 mins.   Canada 2011   Cast: Elizabeth Harnois, Dave Franco, Mark Pellegrino, Tahj Mowry & Jessica Parker Kennedy

LIVID: It's young Lucie’s first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She discovers here is treasure hidden somewhere in the home but little does Lucy and her friends know their hunt will lead them into a horrifying supernatural series of events.

90 mins.  France 2011.   Cast: Beatrice Dalle, Jeremy Kapone, Catherine Jacob, Chloe Coulloud & Felix Moati

MIDNIGHT FILM: we have no info no this title but we are promised that this will be an unmissable film!

FACES IN THE CROWD: starring Milla Jovovich.  Jovovich stars as Anna Marchant who witnesses the latest attack of serial killer Tear Jerker Jack. But when he tries to murder her too, she survives by falling from a bridge and wakes up with ‘face blindness’ - a condition meaning everyone’s facial features change each time she loses sight of them.

95 mins.  USA 2011   Cast: Milla Jovovich, Marianne Faithfull , Michael Shanks, Julian McMahon & Valentina Vargas

 COLD SWEAT:When a young man attempts to track down his ex-girlfriend his investigations lead him to the last geriatric members of a right-wing terrorist group still carrying on their evil: a horrifying manifesto. This unique chiller is a fun display of gaucho gore and creative carnage.

90 mins.   Argentina 2010   Cast: Facundo Espinosa, Marina Glezer, Camilla Velasco, Omar Gioiosa &Omar Muso

THE WATERMEN: A group of young friends set out for a deep sea fishing trip aboard a luxury boat. When an electrical fire rocks the vessel, it leaves them marooned with no communications, no food and no water. A bad situation turns far worse when their hope of being rescued by a passing trawler sees them drugged and captured by evil fisherman…

98 mins.  USA 2011   Cast: Jason Mewes, Richard Riehle, Luke Guldan, Tyler Johnson & Tara Heston

Plus  the first showing of a short by Jen Moss called
THE MORNING AFTER: It’s the morning after Halloween and Angel (Kate Nash) awakens to the chaotic debris of the night before. She stumbles around her flat surveying the damage from what must have been the mother of all parties.  When she receives a voicemail reminding her of her parents' imminent visit, Angel realises that dealing with her hangover is the least of her worries. She’s been a very bad girl and it’s time to deal with consequences…

The entire Halloween 6 programme (minus LIVID) will be repeated at the Watershed in Bristol on Friday November 4th. 

Tickets cost £50 and go on sale on Saturday October 1. To book call 08712 240 240 or go online  http://www.myvue.com/latest-movies/info/film/frightfest-all-nighter

Tickets can also be bought at the cinema

For full programme & timetable log onto www.frightfest.co.uk.

Horror Author Wayne Simmons is hitting the road on an apocalyptic road trip along with fellow horror writer David Moody this October. Here are the dates fro the upcoming signings:


UN:BOUND VIDEO EDITIONS

Zombie Apocalypse Signing and Filming (With David Moody and Jasper Bark).

Date: Saturday 8th October

Venue: The Phoenix, Leicester.

Time: 12 noon

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GRIMMFEST Showing of THE DEAD

Zombie film showing followed by panel discussion on zombie culture featuring David Moody and myself.

Date: Sunday 9th October 

Time: 1.50pm

Venue: AMC Cinemas, Manchester

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MADE IN ROATH reading

Date: Sunday 16th October

Time: 6pm onwards

Venue: The Coffi house, Wellfield Road, Roath (Cardiff)

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Bristolcon Sci-Fi convention (reading, signing, panels, the works!)

Date: Satuday 22nd October

Time: 10am onwards

Venue: Ramada Hotel, Bristol

It is almost time for the sharks to take over our screens as we count down to the release of SHARK NIGHT 3D.

One of two shark related films to be released this year as well as PIRANHA 3DD and they all look pretty cool to me! below this the trailer for SHARK NIGHT so ENJOY!

We have a new and damn creepy British ghost film hitting our screens this November in the form of AWAKENING which stars APPROPRIATE ADULT actor Domonic West. take a look at the trailer below as this looks like it will be a pretty decent watch.

Starring Dominic West (The Wire, 300), Rebecca Hall (The Town) and Oscar®-nominee Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), THE AWAKENING is the chilling new supernatural thriller from Nick Murphy, set for release on 11 November 2011. In post-World War I England in 1921, an author and paranormal sceptic (Hall) is invited to a countryside boarding school by the head master (West) to investigate rumours of an apparent haunting. But just when she thinks she has debunked the ghost theory, she has a chilling encounter which makes her question all her rational beliefs.

The Awakening is released 11 November 2011 from Studiocanal.

It is rare for me to get news straight off the bat but I have some pretty cool information on a brand new British zombie flick that is hoping to take Cannes by storm next year. RESURRECTION is a low budget film from the minds of First time Feature directors Jake Hawkins and Andy Phelps and was filmed for the space of 4 weeks in Hampshire England and has some cool zombie action set in a school which Jake Hawkins told us was a little eerie during the night:

"We were very fortunate to have worked with a great cast and crew. There were always happy faces on set a midst the gore and the undead, which is always nice when you are sat around in the cold waiting for a break in the rain in order to get some shots in before the heavens open once more! Empty schools are eerie enough, but at night under moonlight they are absolutely frightening. On our first week of shooting we had our zombie horde scene which comprised of over 45 zombie extras tearing around a school in full gore in the dead of night - a real sight to behold. "

Jake and his team now have 6 months to get the film ready for Cannes, and who knows RESURRECTION could even be one of the films picked for Film4 FrightFest next year when the festival goes film hunting at Cannes.

Here is a taste of the plot for the film:

Resurrection takes place 15 months after the outbreak where Zombies have become a decayed toothless pest. We follow an ensemble cast - a rag tag bunch of civilians and soldiers transporting a high risk prisoner across the badlands as they move from a small stockade to the UK's largest central populous Empyrean.  When the party leader loses a leg in an unfortunate accident along the way the group are forced to seek refuge in an abandoned school, where they encounter the first ripe zombie that they’ve seen in months; less than 24 hours since infection, the zombie is fast, powerful and absolutely terrifying. Convinced that there must be other survivors in the building, a faction splits away from the group to investigate, and discovers a gathering of zombies involved in a bizarre resurrection ceremony. A mysterious serene zombie lays his hands upon one of the horde, who violently returns to life. Petrified, the man struggles to escape but is immediately re-devoured; a continual recycling of the horde that keeps them fresh and extraordinarily dangerous. As the party fight to understand the mysteries of the school, they are confronted with their first real test of survival since the beginning of the outbreak. They rescue another survivor, a psychotic denizen whose only memories are of being brutally devoured a hundred times over, and attempt to kidnap the mysterious zombie from the midst of his horrifying congregation. Is he the answer to the zombie plague? How much faith can you have in something that science can’t explain? As tensions build among the group the characters wrestle with issues of belief, guilt and self-interest. With the party fractured, a deadly balancing act develops between survival and heroism, in an increasingly splatter-ridden game of cat-and-mouse through to a gore-tastic climax

To celebrate the release of JULIA'S EYES, Optimum Home Entertainment has been kind enough to show an exclusive Interview with Del Toro which has been done for the DVD release on 12th September. Enjoy!

SYNOPSIS

Everything points to suicide, but Julia is compelled to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case. Determined to retrace her sister’s final steps, she is drawn into a maze of threats and spiralling hidden dread – a dark world that seems to hide a mysterious malevolent presence. As Julia begins to uncover clues to her sister’s death, she is convinced that someone is watching her – someone who means her terrible harm. Those close to her begin to disappear and then to die. Her sight gone, confined to her sister’s house, Julia finds herself trapped in a nightmare from which she cannot wake. Will she survive?


DVD & Blu-ray: 12 September 2011
Director: Guillem Morales (The Uncertain Guest)
Producer: Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labrynth, Hellboy)