Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Celluloid Screams 2012...


We're already well into preparations for Celluloid Screams 2012, so we thought we'd update you with a few important details...

Celluloid Screams 2012 will take place at Sheffield's Showroom Cinema from 26th to 28th October 2012. Festival pass and ticket information will be updated soon, and for now you can visit our new Facebook page for the latest on the festival and our monthly "Celluloid Screams presents..." events.

If you're a filmmaker with a short or feature-length film you'd like to submit, you can do so via our festival partner Withoutabox, by clicking through on the link below.



Posted by at 0 comments

Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Celluloid Screams 2011: The Aftermath


Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Film Festival is over for another year. It's been our most successful year yet, with a bunch of sold-out screenings and a great turnout overall.

Audience members voted on all of the new feature films (including our secret closing film, which was Snowtown) and the winner of the Celluloid Screams 2011 Audience Award for Best Feature Film is Keith Wright's HAROLD'S GOING STIFF.

A new element to this year's festival is the addition of the Celluloid Screams Short Film Jury, who deliberated over all selected short films completed in 2010/11. After viewing over three hours of short films in a single block, our intrepid jury members deliberated and awarded Sebastian Marka's INTERVIEW as the winner of the Celluloid Screams Jury Award for Best Short Film. Hugo Lilja's THE UNLIVING was awarded the Jury's special mention. Special thanks to Tony Earnshaw, Gareth Bailey, Rachael Clegg, Shelley O'Brien and Joan Parsons for making up our Jury for 2011...

Congratulations to Keith, Sebastian and Hugo on the awards...

It's always a huge pleasure and a privilege to programme the festival each year, and your reaction as an audience is always at the centre of our programming. As such, your feedback and comments are always welcome and encouraged. Your feedback on the films, the venue, the facilities and the festival as a whole are really important to us in developing Celluloid Screams for the future, so please do email us with your thoughts to info@celluloidscreams.co.uk

Our monthly screenings continue on 8th November with a very special screening of THE EVIL DEAD, and we are currently working on an event for December as our Christmas Special. Keep an eye on our Facebook Page or twitter @sheffhorrorfest to hear the latest info first...

Thanks again to everyone who came along and made Celluloid Screams 2011 so special...

Robert Nevitt
Festival Director, Celluloid Screams





Posted by at 0 comments

Thursday, 8 September 2011

CELLULOID SCREAMS 2011 IS HERE!


The Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Film Festival 2011 Programme is here!

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL WEEKEND SCHEDULE

Click on the titles below for more information...

FEATURE FILMS
















SHORT FILMS
















Weekend Passes are on sale now, priced at £60/£50 Concessions

Individual Tickets are available now - Click here

Celluloid Screams has negotiated a special festival rate of £50 per night (including breakfast) at our recommended hotel Jurys Inn Sheffield.

To book, call Venue Options on 08712 881388 or email reservations@venueoptions.com
Please quote 'HORROR' in all correspondence to qualify for the £50 festival rate.





Posted by at 0 comments

HELLDRIVER


Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura | Japan | 2010 | 106mins | Subtitled

From the mind of director Yoshihiro Nishimura, the man behind Tokyo Gore Police and Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl comes Helldriver, his most ambitious and deranged gorefest to date. After a comet crash-lands, a mysterious alien mist descends upon the northern half of Japan and transforms the population into slavering zombies, complete with antennae-like horns. As the country’s economy crumbles and all hope of survival seems lost, a saviour emerges in the form of Kika, a pole-dancing Samurai warrior with an artificial heart and a mean command of her chainsaw katana sword. Kika is deployed by the government to infiltrate the zombie wasteland and destroy the evil zombie queen Rikka (Audition’s Eihi Shiina.) who also happens to be her homicidal mother.

In Helldriver, Nishimura has created a multi-faceted monster: a wonderfully over-the-top action horror hybrid, complete with cannibals, bizarre anatomical mutations, furious swordplay and ludicrously messy special effects. Your poor brain won’t know what hit it…

Screening with:

BRUTAL RELAX
Director: Adrián Cardona, Rafa Dengrá & David Muñoz | Spain | 2011 | 15 mins

Mr. Olivares has already recovered, but now he needs a vacation. To go to some heavenly place where he can relax and blithely enjoy himself.

Buy Tickets Here

Buy Full Weekend Festival Passes Here

Posted by at 0 comments

OPENING GALA: INBRED



Director: Alex Chandon | UK | 2011 | 95 mins

Welcome to Yorkshire! More specifically to the picturesque village of Mortlake, where the locals are friendly and you’re sure of a warm welcome… Call in at the local pub ‘The Dirty Hole’ and sample the local rustic cuisine (tip: try the homemade pork scratchings) and if you ask nicely you might even get in to see one of the locals’ “special” barn shows. We guarantee you’ll not be able to tear yourself away…

From director Alex Chandon comes Inbred, a deliriously un-PC gorefest that adds a warped new dimension to the notion of Northern hospitality. Four young offenders and their care workers embark upon a weekend of community service and after a minor run-in with some of the local youths, they run afoul of the Mortlake locals’ “unique” customs and traditions, and pretty soon they’re running for their lives.

We are delighted to welcome the cast of Inbred - Jo Hartley, Paddy Doherty, Seamus O’Neill, Terry Haywood, Chris Waller, Nadine Mulkerrin & James Burrows – and Line Producer Rob Speranza to Celluloid Screams for a Q&A after the screening.


Screening with:

SPIDER
Director: Nash Edgerton | Australia | 2007 | 9 mins

Jack and Jill are always hurting each other’s feelings. But like Mum said, “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.”

Buy Tickets here

Buy Full Weekend Festival Pass Here


Posted by at 0 comments

VAMPYRES + VERY SPECIAL GUESTS



Director: José Ramón Larraz | UK | 1975 | 87 mins

Never has the savage bloodletting and rampant eroticism of the vampire legend been so fully realized as in José Ramón Larraz’s Vampyres. Fran and Miriam, two alluring young women roam the English countryside in search of unsuspecting victims to feed their insatiable bloodlust. When a young couple unwittingly falls into the vampires’ trap, they find themselves embroiled in a nightmare vortex of sex, violence and forbidden desires. With a highly memorable score courtesy of composer James Clarke (who later moved into the director’s chair to helm the controversial video nasty Exposé), Vampyres is 70s Euro-Horror at its best.

At the witching hour(12am) three sexy vampire ladies with synthesisers will play a very special live set for ticket holders only before our screening of Vampyres. Please arrive promptly to avoid disappointment.

Buy Tickets Here

Buy Full Weekend Festival Passes Here

Posted by at 0 comments

DUST DEVIL



Director: Richard Stanley | UK | 1993 | 107 mins

A mysterious hitchhiker travels across the desert landscape in Namibia, preying on those lonely souls who are unfortunate enough to cross paths with him. After leaving her abusive husband, troubled housewife Wendy Robinson flees into the desert and encounters the hitcher, only to discover the truth behind his façade– that he actually is The Dust Devil – a shape-shifting demon intent on possessing the souls of the lost. With a police detective on the creature’s trail who is determined to stop its grisly task, time is running out for Wendy. Dust Devil is a distinctive and memorable British horror film that is guaranteed to stay with you.

Dust Devil is available on DVD from Optimum Releasing/Canal Plus.


Screening with:

MANDRAGORE (UK PREMIERE)
Director: Fabrice Blin | France | 2010 | 17 mins

Marie lives alone with her son Alex in a remote house deep in the forest. She cures David, a fugitive man, injured and with no memory. David’s health miraculously gets better in only a couple of days…

Buy tickets here

Buy Full Weekend Festival Passes Here



Posted by at 0 comments
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)