Peterborough Zombie Walk this Saturday!!!

This Saturday, October the 26th, is the annual Peterborough Zombie Walk in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. The meeting point is at Charters Bar, and the walk sets off at 4pm prompt. The walk takes you through the city centre, through the Queensgate shopping precinct, out through the bus station and finishes at The Brewers Tap. Where there will be a Halloween party aftwards.

 

 

The walk is free to attend and open to all and, but if you wish to join the Halloween party afterwards, there is a £4 charge.

 

For more info, visit their Facebook Page.

 

 

Halloween Drive-In Horrors in Peterborough.

 

If you live anywhere near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough Garden Park Retail Outlet, near Eye, are turning their Car Park into a Drive-In movie theatre this weekend (Fri 25 - Sun 27).

 

For 3x nights, they'll be showing a family movie at 7pm and a horror film at 10pm.

 

Dates and Showtimes are as follows...

Friday 25th October   7pm  -  PARANORMAN  (PG)

Friday 25th October  10pm  -  FRIDAY THE 13TH [1980] (18)

Saturday 26th October  7pm  -  CORALINE (PG)

Saturday 26th October 10pm  -  HALLOWEEN [1978] (18)

Sunday 27th October  7pm  -  DESPICABLE ME (U)

Sunday 27th October  10PM  -  DAWN OF THE DEAD [1978] (18)

 

All you have to do is drive onto Peterborough Garden Park, park your car in front of the screen , tune your car radio into the movie soundtrack and enjoy the experience.

Tickets cost £15 per vehicle per movie.

 

For more info visit Peterborough Garden Park Website.

UK Festival of Zombie Culture - Final Film Announced!!!

OK, following up my post last week of the films announced for this years "Day of the Undead - UK Zombie Film Festival" in Leicester, they have finally announced the last film in the line up, which will be the Dolph Lundgren film "Battle of the Damned" (2013).

 

All you need to know about this is it contains 3 things, Dolph Lundgren, Robots and Zombies.

 

Other films showing include...

 

The Battery (2013)

Meteletsa: Winter of the Dead (2012)

Zombie Hood (2013)

Wasteland (2013)

Stalled (2013)

 

Other activites include...

 

• The chance to vote in The Ultimate Zombie Short Film Competition
• Guest stars including David Moody, Adam Millard and Sean Page
• The Arcade of the Dead – Retro Zombie Games to die for
• Best dressed Zombie Award – Come Dressed to Impress
• Zombie Killing Challenge – Kill the Undead on a Cinema Screen
• Make Up Artists – Make you look like your favourite cadaver
• Zombie Authors – Signing books and talking about zombies
• Goodie Bags – 1st 250 people through the door get lucky !!!
• Horror Traders – Get your late Halloween or Early Xmas presents
• Spot Prizes, giveaways, themed food & drink
• All of this for ONLY £25 for a full day pass...

All day passes can be purchased from the Pheonix cinema website.

Tickets for individual films can be purchased, subject to availability, from the box office on the day.

Hockey Mask Makeover Video

In case you're off to a Halloween party this weekend and want a half decent looking cheap Hockey mask that actually looks like the ones from the Friday the 13th films, here's a video I made showing you how to custom paint one of those cheap masks you get from novelty stores...

Visit my YouTube channel for more..

*EXCLUSIVE* Cannibal Holocaust's Francesca Ciardi to join "Death Walks"!!!

OK, you read it here first, "Cannibal Holocaust" actress Francesca Ciardi has returned to acting and is joining the cast of Spencer Hawkens new zombie film "Death Walks"!!!!!

 

It's the ultimate fanboy fantasy, to lure the lead actress from one of the most notorious horror movies of all time, and persuade her to appear in your zero budget movie.

 

For almost three decades Francesca Ciardi has managed to maintain a relatively low profile, the notorious "Cannibal Holocaust" being firstly banned for many years, then suddenly being thrust back into the limelight due to the arrival of DVD in the early 2000's. The result is that while many have been fans of the Italian actress for many years, she has also developed a brand new following.

 

"I flirted with the idea in my mind that I might be able to persuade Francesca Ciardi to join Death Walks in its early stages, now several months later and after a number of emails this dream is about to become a reality." Says director Spencer Hawken. " I never in a million years thought that I would be able to persuade someone of Francesca's horror calibre to participate in our little movie."

 

"Cannibal Holocaust" was one of the very first movies to become dubbed with the title of video nasty. The film itself is shocking enough, but the numerous back stories are what allowed the movie to generate such momentum. "Cannibal Holocaust" due to it's banning across much of the globe was almost the thing of urban legends, for a good many years. People spoke of it, but nobody ever got to see it.

 

"About a thirteen years ago, I sat down and watched "Cannibal Holocaust" for the very first time" Continues the director. "I remember looking at the film in total awe, not only was it a horrific film, but in a really good way, but it has created a legacy for a generation, being the first ever found footage movie. But the thing that struck me the most about this movie was Francesca's performance.

 

"Cannibal Holocaust" even by today's standards is a horrific proposition, and Francesca was an actress right at the cutting edge, doing things in this film that few would have dared to take on. Some years later when I started to think about making movies, I had it in my mind that I would try to persuade her to appear in my film. Now here I am in 2013, my chest almost exploding with excitement that the actress I have admired for a long time, is going to star in my film. There have been lots of conversations, and finally I showed her the yet unreleased trailer, and the plans I had for her, and those perceived barriers started to lift away. "

 

"Death Walks" has been dogged by issues since shooting begun, some of which have caused extensive reshoots, but the results have ultimately been positive for the film, regardless of the annoyances at the time. Just last week "Death Walks" secured child star Jess Williams who is known to a legacy of fans for her roles in BBC series Tracy Beaker Returns and The Dumping Ground, and Lucinda Rhodes from The Dream Team and Cavegirl has been with the project from the offset.

 

For director Spencer Hawken he knew that "Death Walks" would always be a little bit special, but even he confesses he never expected the movie to have quite the impact it's going to have with such a solid cast.

 

For more info about the films visit...

 

Death Walks - Facebook Page

 

Death Walks - Twitter Page

 

Jorg Buttgereit at the Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood.

One for my US site visitors, German Director JORG BUTTGEREIT celebrates the 2014 Special Edition BD and DVD releases of his classic film NEKROMANTIK with a special 35MM PRINT SCREENING at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood (US) on October 24th.

 

This new BD/DVD release of NEKROMANTIK will also feature his first short film HOT LOVE, The Making of NEKROMANTIK, Jörg Buttgereit film trailers, featurette, and the isolated soundtrack from the film.

 

Jorg will also be using the event to promote his new film GERMAN ANGST, which celebrates the return of cult director Jörg Buttgereit after a twenty-year absence from horror filmmaking, while Andreas Marschall continues his exploration of a dark underworld embodied by lust and sex and the psyche with Michal Kosakowski confronting us with violence in all levels of society today, tossing the viewer’s preconceptions aside for a psychovisual feast.

 

GERMAN ANGST began its Kickstarter run on October 10, inviting viewers and new fans to be a part of the filmmaking process.

For more info on his new film visit
German Angst - Official Website
German Angst - Facebook
German Angst - Kickstarter Page

 

For more info about the special Nekromantic screening visit the Egyptian Theatre Website.

 

Cult Epics continues releasing high-quality cult horror cinema throught 2014 with HYSTERIA on Blu-Ray & DVD in Feb., a Blu-ray of the surreal DEATH BED in March, and ZERO KILLED 2 Disc Extreme Edition DVD & Blu-ray April, and NEKROMANTIK later in 2014.

http://www.cultepics.com

Horror Channel (UK) - Brit Cult season

November on Horror Channel sees network premieres for a memorable collection of strange cult oddities and forgotten British horror classics, kicking off with the network premiere of Nicolas Roeg’s THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, starring David Bowie. Joining Bowie in the realm of the weird and wonderful is Roy Boulting’s psychological ground-breaker TWISTED NERVE, Michael Powell’s controversial PEEPING TOM, Robert Fuest’s Hitchcockian AND SOON THE DARKNESS and Jimmy Sangster’s Hammer classic FEAR IN THE NIGHT.

Also, there are UK TV premieres for Emmerdale actor Dominic Brunt’s directorial feature film debut BEFORE DAWN, Lulu Jarmen’s disturbing BAD MEAT and Padraig Reynold’s festival favourite RITES OF SPRING.

Line up:

Fri 1 Nov @ 22:55 – THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976)
Based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, this cult classic stars David Bowies (in his debut film role), as an extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought. It also stars Candy Clark, and Hollywood veteran Rip Torn and is produced by Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings, who reunited for work on another epic, The Deer Hunter.

 

Fri 7 Nov @ 22:55 – AND SOON THE DARKNESS (1970)
Starring Pamela Franklin and Michele Dotrice this on the edge of your seat thriller, tells the story of two young English women on a cycling holiday in the French countryside. Cathy, distracted by a local man, parts company with Jane. When her friend fails to rejoin her, Jane returns to the last place she saw her. Cathy has vanished. Alone and with a limited knowledge of French, Jane frantically searches for her missing friend.

 

Fri 15 Nov @ 22: 55 – TWISTED NERVE (1968)
Director Roy Boulting brings out the best in actor Hywel Bennett, who plays Martin, a disturbed young man with a dysfunctional mother and a cold-hearted step-father. Martin, pretends, under the name of Georgie, to be mentally retarded to be near Susan (played by Hayley Mills), a girl he has become infatuated with, killing those who get in his way. But when Susan rejects him, she becomes the next target.

 

 Fri 22 Nov @ 22:55 – PEEPING TOM (1960)
Peeping Tom stars Carl Boehm as Mark Lewis a part-time photographer who is a serial killer, murdering women while using a portable movie camera to record their dying expressions of terror. The film's controversial subject and the harsh reception by critics effectively destroyed Michael Powell's career as a director in the UK. However, it attracts a cult following and is now considered a masterpiece.

 

 Fri 29 Nov @ 22:55 – FEAR IN THE NIGHT (1972)
This psychological horror thriller follows a young woman (Judy Geeson), recovering from a nervous breakdown, who takes up a new position working in a boys' boarding school. She soon begins to believe she is losing her mind when she starts being terrorised by a one-armed man. Directed by Jimmy Sangster and produced by Hammer Film Productions, it also stars Joan Collins, Ralph Bates and Peter Cushing.

 

Wed 6 Nov @ 22:55 – RITES OF SPRING (2011) *UK TV premiere
After kidnapping the nine-year-old daughter of a wealthy socialite and hiding out in an abandoned school, a group of kidnappers falls prey to a recurring terror, a bloodlust that comes every first day of spring. Part kidnap heist, part slasher movie, this is director Padraig Reynolds’s feature film debut, which scored highly on the festival circuit. It stars AJ Bowen, Anessa Ramsey, Sonny Marinelli and Katherine Randolf.

 

Wed 20 Nov @ 22:55 – BAD MEAT (2011) **UK TV premiere**
In Canadian director Lulu Jarmen’s splatter sensation, a boot camp for troubled teens becomes a nightmarish charnel house when spoiled meat transforms the staff from sadistic fascists into something much, worse. Get ready for spilt blood, vomit, faeces and bile – in the strangest, weirdest destined-for-cult-dom in ages. Stars Elizabeth Harnois, Dave Franco, Mark Pellegrino, & Jessica Parker Kennedy

 

Sat 23 Nov @ 22:55 – BEFORE DAWN (2012) * UK TV premiere
Dominic Brunt, better known as veterinarian Paddy Kirk in ‘Emmerdale’, has written and directed a terrific zom-rom horror. Alex (Dominic Brunt) and Meg (Joanne Mitchell) go for a weekend in the Yorkshire countryside in an effort to save their relationship. Unfortunately the picturesque holiday area chosen comes under attack from the walking dead and Meg is soon going to find out the depth of Alex’s love.

 

Plus there are network premiers for Brian Yuzna’s RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3 (1993), Sat 2 Nov, 22:40; David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001), Sat 9 Nov, 22:55; Jonathan Levine’s ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE (2006), Sat 16 Nov, 22:55 and Greg McClean’s WOLF CREEK (2005), Sat 30 Nov, 22:50.

TV: Sky 319 / Virgin 149 / Freesat 138
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