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October 31, 2024

Review – Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters (2024)

Hammer Film Productions has long been a concrete part of British cinematic history, defining the horror genre and cementing itself as a key component in the world of iconic horror cinema. To celebrate the production company’s prodigious 90th anniversary, Hammer has teamed with Sky Arts to create the epic documentary ‘Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters’, […]

September 29, 2024

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) – Review

(The Reveal, 2024) Beetlejuice first graced our screens in 1988 establishing a whacky and absurd world which introduced many of us to director Tim Burton’s unique visuals and infamous filmmaking style. Now, 36 years later, a sequel to this timeless, cult classic promises to recapture the magic of the original and reimagine it in the […]

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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