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Autumn is the season for horror, and you can’t beat a scary vintage film or novel. The
BFI clearly think the same thing as they’ve got a massive season called
Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film coming up later this year. Some classic films have been restored and are being shown again in cinemas, there’s a shedload of books and DVDs coming out, and the BFI will be working with festivals and venues around Britain, including Aberystwyth-based horror festival
Abertoir and some National Trust properties, to bring retro shocks to the whole island. I hope some of the films come to one of my local cinemas! (Trowbridge’s shiny new Odeon is due to open in October - perfect Halloween timing, eh? Knowing my luck they’ll be showing something like
The Fast and the Furious 73 or
Ice Age 27, but I can hope...)
At the NFT there’s going to be a four-month long season of horror films. Lucky Londoners! The event I’d really want to go to is also in London: the whole season is kicking off with
Monster Weekend, showings of three films at the British Museum at the end of August. The three include
Dracula and
The Mummy. (Mmm, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing double feature...) I doubt I’ll make it as it would involve all the usual aggro and expense of trains and hotels, but it does look awfully splendid. If you’re in The Big Smoke while it’s on, it’d be well worth going to.
I do love a creaky old horror film! I cannot get enough of Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price! The four month run sounds fun but even though I can get to London easily, it's far too expensive to see a film unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteI wish these things would come out to us in the sticks! I'm hoping my local arthouse cinema will show some of the films; they don't usually announce their schedule more than a month in advance so it'll be a while before I know.
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