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Post by carolinec on May 18, 2009 15:53:47 GMT
My favourite films festival is nearly here! Check out the website: www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/fantastic/2009/And the blurb from the site: From Friday 12 – Sunday 14 June 2009, it’s our eighth annual trawl through the vaults of new and classic sci-fi, horror and fantasy movies and television.
Highlights of a packed weekend include Carl Dreyer’s silent chiller Vampyr with live musical accompaniment, a new print of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring Fredric March and the camp extravaganza Flash Gordon with a special guest appearance by director Mike Hodges.
Serbia’s very first zombie movie Zone of the Dead, starring horror legend Ken (Dawn of the Dead) Foree, will be screened for the first time in Bradford as well as The Call of Cthulhu, a lovingly-crafted adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s most famous and influential tale of terror.
Other vintage titles set for the big screen are Hammer’s The Satanic Rites of Dracula, Amicus’s Madhouse, Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre and the Ozploitation epic Razorback.
Sounds like a good 'un already. Seriously, if you're into old horror films, it's well worth taking a trip to Bradford for this. The event seems to get better every year ... |
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Post by franklinmarsh on May 18, 2009 16:30:31 GMT
I should be there this year!
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Post by carolinec on May 18, 2009 18:40:17 GMT
Ooo, let's see if we can meet up. I'd love to meet a fellow Vaulter. I don't know exactly what I'll be going to see, but you can bet your life if it's got the name Hammer or Amicus attached to it, I'll be there. Once they start to announce guests, I might get to see if I can interview somebody again.
Anyway, I'll buy you a drink if we meet up there, Franklin - promise! ;D
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Post by franklinmarsh on May 18, 2009 19:21:01 GMT
That's awfully decent of you, Caroline. I'm hoping to pop up to Whitby for a couple of days, then journey on down to Bradford and meet up with TTMC contributor Ms Washington and some of the BHF crowd. Hope to see Vampyr, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Madhouse, The Satanic Rites Of Dracula and some of the modern ones - if nothing clashes. Heard a rumour that Aliens in 70mm might be shown.
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Post by franklinmarsh on May 18, 2009 19:22:30 GMT
Oh, and Flash Gordon - the chance to see the director of Get Carter is really too good to miss.
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Post by carolinec on May 19, 2009 9:55:31 GMT
Hope to see Vampyr, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Madhouse, The Satanic Rites Of Dracula Funny, those were the very ones I had on my list so far too!  |
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Post by franklinmarsh on May 20, 2009 12:08:17 GMT
Line ups on the site, Caroline!
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Post by carolinec on May 20, 2009 19:54:29 GMT
Ooo, thanks Franklin. Not been around today. Must go take a look ...
*dashes off in eager anticipation*
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 17, 2009 13:02:17 GMT
Hope you made it Caroline.
Had a lovely few days in Whitby, at the Gothic Guest House, who's available to guests DVD/Video pile included Razorblade Smile, Taste The Blood Of Dracula and The Devil Rides Out. (Couldn't help watching The Rutles and the Sex Pistols live at the Brixton Academy 2007 as well). And there was satellite. The controls were beyond me but I did catch the end of The Monster Club via The Paranormal Channel by accident.
Bradford was great. Couldn't fault Friday, what with Madhouse (1974) which I hadn't seen for far too long, Aussie killer boar potboiler Razorback and (Huzzah!) The Satanic Rites Of Dracula on the big screen!
Saturday brought the short films, A Night At The Museum 2 at the IMAX (with Hank Azaria of Simpsons fame channelling Karloff rather well), Dreyer's Vampyr with live musical accompaniment, and Watchmen (at the IMAX - incredible!) All this and Christopher Lee's knighthood too!
Sunday featured Gnaw (a would be Suffolk Chainsaw Massacre), The Call Of Cthulu (a weird labour of love by Lovecraftians - made in 2005 in the style of a 1920s silent), The Terminal Man (bloody SF but bloody good) Star Trek (more IMAX) and The Scar Crow (more low budget Brit Horror - far more original than Gnaw but tragically less technically proficient). Incidentally I believe the team behind The Scar Crow are going on to The Franken Staines Monster - a low budget Brit horror set in a fish and chip shop in Staines. Does Richard know about this?
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Post by carolinec on Jun 17, 2009 14:15:21 GMT
Glad you enjoyed it Franklin - there was a great line up of films, if not many interesting guests this year. I've PMed you - I'm afraid I didn't make it to anything at all that weekend  Sorry if you spent all weekend looking for plump middle-aged ladies and wondering if they were me!  Sounds as though it was a good weekend anyway. ;D ;D |
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Post by bushwick on Jun 17, 2009 15:46:12 GMT
I totally forgot about this, bugger, and I'm only 10 miles away in Leeds.
Glad it was good - to be honest though, the only thing that really appealed to me this year was seeing 'Razorback' on the big screen.
Went last year to see 'Savage Streets', outrageous revenge-exploitationer starring Linda 'Exorcist' Blair, which was up my street.
edit: just noticed 'Santa Sangre' was showing as well! balls!
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Post by andydecker on Jun 17, 2009 18:34:51 GMT
Razorblade smile. I love this movie. I mean, it is terrible trash, often laugh out loud bad, still I love it. Call of Cthulhu is a strange one. Couldn´t resist and bought the DVD and it was interesting. If you think how they made this, it is quite astonishing. |
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Post by dem bones on Jun 17, 2009 19:53:38 GMT
Glad you had a good time FM. The Gothic Hotel. Is that the place where they leave you a bible at the bedside to ward off Dracula, or am i thinking of some other Whitby Guest House? Always thought that was a nice touch.
Commiserations Caroline because i know you were looking forward to it, and it's such a shame you didn't get to meet up with Franklin - and Bush! God knows, we've had some scary vault presences at London events in the past but the prospect of you three being unleashed on a city ....
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 18, 2009 7:14:45 GMT
Glad you had a good time FM. The Gothic Hotel. Is that the place where they leave you a bible at the bedside to ward off Dracula, or am i thinking of some other Whitby Guest House? Always thought that was a nice touch. Hee! It's a place called Bats and Broomsticks. It ain't cheap, but the people who run it are great (associates of a Northern Sutch tribute band The Savages). They leave a copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula by your bedside (the book! Mine was a Penguin edition featuring Bela Lugosi on the cover). Apparently Captain Sensible had stayed there the week before. |
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