Line Up
Dream Home
THURSDAY 28th October 8.00pm
Ho-Cheung Pang Hong Kong (18) 100 mins. 2010 – Preview
A brutal, blackly comic satire where more than prices are slashed as Josie Ho carves her way through the neighbours determined to make a killing on the property market. One of the most violent films ever screened at Mayhem.
"Impressively crosses over the taste barrier." EAT MY BRAINS
I Spit on your Grave
THURSDAY 28th October 10.30pm
Steven R Monroe USA (18) 107 mins. 2010 - Preview
Utterly harrowing remake of the most infamous rape revenge film ever made and due to become as notorious and divisive as the original. A writer, brutally assaulted and left for dead, seeks bloody revenge on her attackers.
WARNING: contains scenes of sexual violence and extreme vengeance. Utterly uncompromising, savagely violent and brutalising, the film is sure to inspire heated debate.
“Well executed, punishing, viciously rewarding.” Dread Central
Scary Shorts
FRIDAY 29th October 7pm
MAYHEM PRESENT: SCARY SHORTS International (18) 90 mins.
A selection of the scariest shorts from the fear makers of the future from around the blood soaked globe and unsettlingly nearer to home.
The Reef
FRIDAY 29th October 9.30pm
Andrew Traucki Australia (18) 94 mins. 2010 – Special Preview
Intense, totally edge-of-the-seat viewing and definitely the best Great White shark film since Jaws. A true tale of survival against the odds as a small group of passengers have to make a fatal decision – stay with their upturned boat or swim for it. But it's not long before they realise that they aren't alone in the ocean... and they have miles to swim.
Piranha 3D
FRIDAY 29th October 11.30pm
Alexandre Aja USA (18) 88 mins. 2010
From the director of Switchblade Romance comes the remake of the year. An in-your-face mix of girls, gore and gross-out splatter! The first 3D horror film ever screened at Broadway. We welcome the tongue in lacerated cheek PIRANHA here at Mayhem through popular demand.
Monsters + Q&A
SATURDAY 30th October 2.00pm
BAFTA and Mayhem Horror Film Festival present MONSTERS + Q&A with writer/director GARETH EDWARDS
UK (12A) Total running time 2hrs - Preview
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border. Unique, totally original, even romantic take on the genre from debuting director Edwards marking him out as a talent not to be ignored.
“Thought-provoking... beautiful and disarmingly poignant. One of the most impressive debuts from a British film-maker in the last half-decade.” TRIBUNE
Stranded
SATURDAY 30th October 4.30pm
Hughes Martin and Sandra Martin France (18) 103 mins. 2010 – Preview
Brilliantly staged and performed by a great cast, Stranded is both haunting and harrowing, a claustrophobic ghost story set in the Algerian desert, as a lost squadron of French soldiers struggle to stay sane and alive as they battle an unseen enemy.
“Superb! Finally a true French fantasy film.” DEVILDEAD.COM
Gareth Edwards - A Masterclass in Making Monsters
SATURDAY 30th October 7.00pm
Having carved out a very successful career as a BAFTA award-winning & EMMY nominated visual effects creator for the BBC, Gareth Edwards decided the time had come to embark on his own feature and capitalise on his, by now, well-honed CGI skills. Monsters is part of a revolution in independent, low budget genre cinema set to inspire film students and filmmakers wondering how they can compete with Hollywood, with a budget of just £15,000, a laptop and off the shelf software for special effects. Unmissable.
‘I wanted MONSTERS to be set after where most monster movies normally end...’ Mayhem Special Guest, director GARETH EDWARDS.
These events form part of BAFTA’s UK-wide learning and events programme, giving audiences access behind the screens of the film, TV and video games industries. For more information and to sign up to our e-bulletin, go to www.bafta.org
Poltergeist
SATURDAY 30th October 8.30pm
Tobe Hooper USA (15) 114 mins. 1982 – Cult Classic
“They're here!” The perfect film to usher in Mayhem's annual fancy dress party – come as a ghost! Win prizes. But don't forget that this is a genuinely unnerving film, filled with now classic frights and moments of sheer terror.
“Everytime you think the film can't go any further in scaring you... it does.” ARROW IN THE HEAD
Street Trash
SATURDAY 30th October 11.15pm
Jim Muro USA (18) 90 mins. 1987 – Cult Classic
A genuinely grimy, grimly hilarious and totally twisted cult classic and possibly the best melt movie ever made. After the release of deadly booze, Viper, on the streets a war between hoods, corrupt cops and tramps breaks out interrupted only by melting, oozing, dripping violence. And laughs.
“If you're looking for high-low-brow this is where it's at... drink alcohol whilst watching it.” EAT MY BRAINS
AVN: Alien Vs. Ninja
SUNDAY 31st October 12.00pm
Seiji Chiba Japan (18) 80 mins. 2010 – Preview
Sushi Typhoon unleash a slice of mayhem in this hilariously frenetic tale of Medieval Ninjas, alien impregnation, weird jelly-babies and of course plenty of intestine-ripping gore - AvN comes on like a speed-fuelled, blood-soaked episode of Power Rangers. From the people who brought us TOKYO GORE POLICE and MACHINE GIRL.
“Turn-off-the-brain entertainment... If you see only one movie this summer in which extraterrestrial hunters duke it out with well-armed humans...” FANGORIA
Frenzy
SUNDAY 31st October 1.45pm
Alfred Hitchcock UK/USA (18) 116 mins. 1972 – Cult Classic
Back on the screen in 35mm where it deserves to be seen again, this late masterpiece from Alfred Hicthcock is surprisingly graphic - a truly disturbed tale of strangulation and the old school tie. Written by the creator of The Wicker Man the film mines a dark seam of jet black humour.
“Exceptionally gripping... surprisingly graphic artistic greatness.” DVD Times
Amer
SUNDAY 31st October 4.00pm
Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani Belgium (18) 90 mins. 2010 Preview
Ana returns to the home that haunted her as a child and becomes obsessed that she is being stalked by someone with a straight razor. A truly lurid, ultra vivid, head trip homage to all things Giallo and one of the most beautiful horror films ever made.
“Unique... a work of sexy horror-art.” ARROW IN THE HEAD
Altitude
SUNDAY 31st October 6.30pm
Kaare Andrews USA (18) 85 mins. 2010 - Preview
Easily one of the most anticpated horror films in years - comics star Kaare Andrews (Spider-Man: Reign, Astonishing X-men) creates a cinematic first: a tentacled cloud creature – Altitude is a potent mix of popcorn entertainment, Weird Tales creatures and Twilight Zone storytelling.
“Snakes on a Plane I wasn’t particularly interested in. Huge Tentacled Monsters Just Outside a Plane? — now that’s more like it!” Robert Hood, Undead Backbrain
We Are What We Are
SUNDAY 31st October 8.30pm
Jorge Michel Grau Mexico (15) 90 mins. 2010 - Preview
A subtle and effective blend of tragedy, social realism and cannibalism, We Are What We Are is already being called this year’s Let The Right One In. Alfredo must step into his father's shoes and prepare the families meal, but he harbours a secret of his own.
"Shocking, bloody and deeply moving... a film that all horror fans will fall in love with." BLOODY DISGUSTING
