MAYHEM HORROR FILM FESTIVAL

Saturday November 1st:

1.00pm
SORCERERS (15) - Michael Reeves
Boris Karloff, Ian Ogilvy. (1967 UK)
The perfect way to kick off a packed day of gruesome goings-on! A cutting critique of the swinging sixties, Reeves first masterpiece before Witchfinder General sees Karloff subvert his mad scientist roles as the inventor of a mad hypnosis machine allowing him and his elderly wife live out their fantasies vicariously - leading inexorably to terrible violence.

'Michael Reeves' British directorial feature debut, is a distinctive and memorably visceral piece of horror cinema' Screen Online

3.30pm
WHAT ARE YOU SCARED OF? (18) - with Mark Gatiss
MARK GATISS, co-creator and star of the LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, writer, actor and huge horror fan, presents WHAT ARE YOU SCARED OF? exploring his influences and his favourite horror films and television. Mark Gatiss will also be introducing a special screening of the cult classic:

BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW (18) - Piers Haggard
Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden (1971 UK)
When an unearthly skull is ploughed up in a field, evil explodes across the countryside and the local children are soon corrupted, under the spell of an horrific power, a behemoth that needs fresh blood for it's resurrection. A brilliantly British slice of horror playing like a demented take on both the Wicker Man and Witchfinder General this is a rare chance to catch Blood on Satan's Claw on the big screen.

6.30pm
BAD BIOLOGY (18) - Frank Henenlotter
Anthony Sneed, Charlee Danielson (2008, USA)
A lurid blend of sleaze and shocks coming on like the demented love-child of John Waters and David Cronenberg, Bad Biology is a truly twisted love story where, unfortunately, boy meets girl. This is provocative, explicit, disturbing and a deliberately shocking tale of sexual excess from Frank Henenlotter - the director of cult favourites BASKET CASE and BRAIN DAMAGE.

“Henenlotter hasbeen…able to maintain his zeal and talent for the sleazy and offensive. Bravosir!”
DREAD CENTRAL

“Self proclaimed solution to the movie world’s need for ‘something wrong’.”
Liz Flix ElitesTV.com

8.30pm
THE DISAPPEARED (18) - Johnny Kevorkian
Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise (2008, UK)
A haunting urban horror debut from a great new talent. Trying to put his life back together after the disappearance of his younger brother, devastated Matthew finds that in the shadows of his housing estate something truly sinister lurks. A compelling mix of realism and the really scary.

"Clammy-palm scares, occult secrets, brooding emotions and environments, escalating into a subterranean fight for life and justice" Quiet Earth

11.30pm
MUM & DAD (18) with director Steven Sheil. Special Preview Screening
Perry Benson, Dido Miles, Ainsley Howard. (2008 UK)
When young airport cleaner Lena (Olga Fedori) misses the bus home, she is happy to accept the help of colleague Birdie, who lives nearby. But behind the closed doors of a seemingly normal family home a sinister nightmare waits. Brutally perverse, Mum & Dad is a pure horror film.

"Full-blooded debut… the juxtaposition of kitchen-sink banalities alongside unspeakable nastiness is disturbingly convincing - and sometimes jaggedly, unexpectedly comic."
Hollywood Reporter

Mayhem is pleased to announce that the films director Steven Sheil will introduce his debut fear flick.

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