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July 11, 2025

BODY HORROR “KILL YOUR LOVER” NOW AVAILABLE ON VOD IN UK & IRELAND

KILL YOUR LOVER (Winner of Dead Northern’s Best Feature 2024), a razor-sharp and visceral exploration of toxic love with a punk edge, is releasing July 7th, 2025 on digital platforms across the UK and Ireland. Directed by writer-director team A/K (Alix Austin & Keir Siewert), KILL YOUR LOVER was originally shot in the UK and […]

November 3, 2024

Dead Northern 2024 – Award winners!

It goes without saying the entire selection for this years fest deserve recognition for their talents as film makers and artists. So narrowing this down to just a handful of award winners has been extremely difficult for this year’s judges panel! With that said, lets take a look at all the incredibly deserving award winners […]

September 23, 2024

Dead Northern 2024 Festival Review – Mad Props (Sunday Surprise screening)

Our Surprise Sunday feature is revealed below! To be able to hold Freddy Krueger’s bladed glove, to sit and admire the luminescent glow of a real Lightsaber from the Star Wars universe in person, to be in reaching distance of the camera that shot the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo (1958) is a dream of many […]

September 22, 2024

Dead Northern 2024 Festival Review – Slasher, Thriller and Creature Shorts

Safe (Directed by David Yorke)  Shattering all predictions is David Yorke’s Safe, a microshort that stuns with its humour and dark wit as we follow a unique ‘home invasion’ by a knife-wielding masked killer. The clever amalgamation of horror and comedy is not an unfamiliar sight, yet Yorke’s ability to create thrilling scenes of intense […]

September 22, 2024

Dead Northern 2024 Festival Review – Mysterious Shorts

Les Bêtes (Directed by Michael Granberry) Inspired by the works of Ladislas Starevich, the creator of the first puppet-animated film The Beautiful Leukanida (1912), is Les Bêtes, a haunting stop-motion horror akin to a dark fairytale that follows a mysterious rabbit who summons a myriad of wonderfully strange creatures. This four-year project, conceived by Michael […]

September 22, 2024

Dead Northern 2024 Festival Review – Demonic Shorts

Collection Only (Directed by Alun Rhys Morgan) Estranged friends Nye (Steffan Evans) and Daf (Tomos Gwynfryn) go to collect a free armchair from a seemingly lonely, frail elder woman (Olwen Medi); however, when a cascade of sinister events unfold, the pair must fight to make it out alive. Collection Only defies expectations as this thoroughly […]

September 22, 2024

Dead Northern 2024 Festival Review – Student Shorts

Tasty Tongue (Directed by Pearl Zheng)  A-Zhe has a bitter soul (Shang-Ting Chung), continuously cursing others, but when he encounters Mia (Wen-Ling Cheng), a beautiful and mysterious woman, he develops a grotesque appetite for human tongues. The curiously disturbed story of A-Zhe is one of great significance, with director Pearl Zheng basing the film on […]

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