Mayhem Film Festival reveals full line-up for 2019 edition

Mayhem Film Festival is proud to announce the full line-up for its 2019 edition, which will take place at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham on 10-13 October. The festival showcases the best features and short films in horror, sci-fi and cult cinema, through premieres, previews, and special events each year. 

Mayhem is delighted to open this year’s festival with hilarious horror comedy Extra Ordinary on Thursday 10 October. A small-town driving instructor with supernatural abilities tries to get through life without communicating with the dead - but the spirits have other ideas. Also screening on Thursday is the brain-twisting Daniel Isn’t Real, in which a deeply troubled student summons his childhood “imaginary” friend but his grip on reality slips as the malignant alter ego unleashes a vicious, evil side.

From the producers of hallucinatory fever dream Mandy (a sell-out at Mayhem 2018) comes the most sought-after – and similarly psychedelic - genre film of the year, Richard Stanley’s Color Out of Space, screening at this year’s festival on Friday 11 October. This eerie H.P. Lovecraft adaptation sees a meteor fall to earth and onto the property of a New England family — its increasingly unhinged patriarch played by the one-and-only Nicolas Cage — with insidious and delirious results. It’s a doublehelping of Cage this year as his 1989 cult black comedy Vampire’s Kiss takes the coveted Saturday late-night slot - it’s Nic Cage at his full-powered, cockroach-eating, and utterly insane best. 

The 15th edition of Mayhem will play host to three UK Premieres, with exclusive first screenings of high-octane serial killer thriller The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, Polish historical drama Sword of God (The Mute), and outrageous survival horror The Pool – all previously announced.

Taking a look back into the archives, Mayhem is pleased to present a rare screening of 1967 Russian folk horror Viy, and 1987’s cult sci-fi favourite The Hidden, featuring a standout performance from Twin Peaks’ Kyle MacLachlan as an alien-hunting FBI agent. 

Mayhem 2019’s final day will begin with the unclassifiable Bullets of Justice. Having created human-pig hybrid super soldiers, mankind now finds itself dominated by these “Muzzles” who farm and eat human beings – a truly “what did I just watch?” experience to start off your Sunday morning. 

Mayhem’s 15th edition also includes screenings of female-led horror She Never Died and genre-bending monster movie, Something Else – both previously announced – alongside preview screenings of the gleefully explosive revenge rampage Why Don’t You Just Die!, high-suspense thriller Door Lock, and sci-fi nightmare Vivarium, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots. 

Vengeful spirits are stirred into gory action in haunted house horror Girl on the Third Floor, and twisted thrill-ride Come to Daddy, starring Elijah Wood, will close the festival on Sunday.

Mayhem’s ever-popular Short Film Showcase and the fiendish film quiz, The Flinterrogation - hosted by author David Flint - both return to round off this year’s line-up.

Early Bird passes will remain on sale at the discounted price of £70 until Sunday 8 September 2019. Individual tickets and full festival passes – at the standard price of £80 – will go on sale at 10AM on Monday 9 September. We will also be introducing a new ‘Frankenstein Ticket Package’ for this year’s festival – piece together your choice of five films over the weekend for just £30. 

Full schedule...

THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER

7.30PM EXTRA ORDINARY

Dirs. Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman, 2019 (Ire)

9.45PM DANIEL ISN’T REAL

Dir. Adam Egypt Mortimer, 2018 (US) with Miles Robbins, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sasha Lane

FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER

1.45PM VIY

Dirs. Konstantin Yershov, Georgi Kropachyov, 1967 (Russia)

3.30PM SWORD OF GOD – UK PREMIERE

Dir. Bartosz Konopka, 2019 (Pol)

6PM GIRL ON THE THIRD FLOOR

Dir. Travis Stevens, 2019 (US) with CM Punk, Trieste Kelly Dunn

8PM COLOR OUT OF SPACE

Dir. Richard Stanley, 2019 (US) with Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson

10.45PM THE HIDDEN

Dir. Jack Sholder, 1987 (US) with Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri

SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER

12PM THE POOL – UK PREMIERE

Dir. Ping Lumpraploeng, 2019 (Thai) with Theeradej Wongpuapen, Ratnam Ratchiratham

1.45PM SHE NEVER DIED

Dir. Audrey Cummings, 2019 (Can) with Olunike Adeliyi, Peter MacNeil

3.30PM SOMETHING ELSE

Dirs. Jeremy Gardner, Christian Stella, 2019 (US) with Jeremy Gardner, Brea Grant

6PM MAYHEM SHORT FILM SHOWCASE (2019 line-up TBA)

Dirs. Various, 2019 (International)

8.15PM THE GANGSTER, THE COP, THE DEVIL – UK PREMIERE

Dir. Lee Won-tae, 2019 (Kor) with Kim Mu-yeol, Ma Dong-seok

10.30PM VAMPIRE’S KISS

Dir. Robert Bierman, 1989 (Italy) with Nicolas Cage, Jennifer Beals

SUNDAY 13 OCTOBER

12PM BULLETS OF JUSTICE

Dir. Valeri Milev, 2019 (Kazakhstan/Rus/Arg) with Timur Turisbekov, Danny Trejo

1.45PM DOOR LOCK

Dir. Kwon Lee, 2018 (Kor) with Hyo-jin Kong, Seong-oh Kim

3.45PM WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE!

Dir. Kirill Sokolov, 2019 (Rus) with Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Vitaliy Khaev

5.20PM The Flinterrogation Hosted by author David Flint

6.30PM VIVARIUM

Dir. Lorcan Finnegan, 2019 (US) with Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg

8.45PM COME TO DADDY

Dir. Ant Timpson, 2019 (NZ) with Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie

The Mayhem Film Festival will take place at Broadway, Nottingham on 10 – 13 October

2019. 

For more information, please visit www.mayhemfilmfestival.com