BritFlicks Podcast host and Screenwriter Stuart Wright welcomes a hosts of filmmakers on the show to give the low-down on their movies, ahead of screenings at Arrow Video FrightFest 2022.
- DO NOT DISTURB writer/director John Ainslie
- THE HARBINGER writer/director Andy Mitton
- MEAN SPIRITED director/co-writer Jeff Ryan
- THE ONCE AND FUTURE SMASH + END ZONE 2 co-writer/director Michael J Epstein
- THE ONES YOU DIDN'T BURN writer/director/actor Elise Finnerty
- STALKER writer Chris Watt
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Written & directed by John Ainslie
DO NOT DISTURB - International Premiere
101 FILMS DISCOVERY SCREEN THREE
28 AUGUST 10.45 AM
Directed by John Ainslie.
Main Cast: Kimberley Laferriere, Rogan Christopher, Janet Porter, Christian McKenna.
Country: USA
Outline: From John Ainslie, the screenwriter of JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER, comes an all-consuming narcotic nightmare. Chloe and Jack travel to Miami for their honeymoon. Amidst the flashy neon and sunny beaches, they decide a peyote experience will strengthen their marriage. Unbeknownst to them, they've been given a rare and powerful strand of the drug that awakens a desire to eat human flesh.
Written & director by Andy Mitton
THE HARBINGER - European Premiere
ARROW SCREEN 26 AUGUST 1.00 PM
SHUDDER SCREEN 26 AUGUST 1.30 PM
Directed by Andy Mitton.
Main cast: Gabby Beans, Emily Davis, Raymond Anthony Thomas, Cody Braverman.
Country: USA
Outline: Monique leaves her family quarantine bubble to assist a good friend who’s suffering from terrible nightmares. But she learns too late that her friend’s bad dreams are contagious, along with the demonic presence behind them. The award-winning writer/director of the FrightFest attraction THE WITCH IN THE WINDOW returns with his unique brand of compassionate supernatural horror. Bursting with occult imagination and chilling imagery, Mitton’s menacing movie is THE OMEN for today’s lost pandemic generation.
Directed & co-written by Jeff Ryan
MEAN SPIRITED - World Premiere
101 FILMS DISCOVERY SCREEN ONE
28 AUGUST 1.15 PM
Directed by Jeff Ryan.
Main Cast: Michelle Veintimilla, Jeff Ryan, Will Madden, Daniel Rashid, Neville Archambault, Charlie Pollock.
Country: USA
Outline: When two estranged friends reconnect, things buried deep down are bound to surface. Wannabe famous vlogger Andrew Castellano, aka ‘The Amazing Andy’, sets off for a weekend at his former friend turned famous actor Bryce. After receiving the invitation to Bryce’s mountain cottage, Andy has decided to bury the hatchet. Unfortunately he isn't quite himself anymore… A thoroughly entertaining found-footage horror comedy executive produced by FrightFest stalwart Shaked Berenson of SLAXX, TURBO KID and TALES OF HALLOWEEN fame.
www.frightfest.co.uk/2022Aug/mean-spirited
Co-written & co-directed by Michael J Epstein
THE ONCE AND FUTURE SMASH + END ZONE 2 - World Premiere
101 FILMS DISCOVERY SCREEN THREE
29 AUGUST 4.00 PM
Directed by Sophia Cacciola, Michael J. Epstein.
Main Cast: Michael St. Michael, Bill Weedon, Laurene Landon, Lloyd Kaufman.
Country: USA
Outline: A spoof documentary about a faux exploitation film, join in the double bill fun. In 1970, Mikey and William both portrayed football cannibal Smash-Mouth in the influential cult hit END ZONE. Now, fifty years later, only one can wear the mask for the sequel END ZONE 2 in which the maniac Smash-Mouth returns fifteen years after original events to axe the cheerleaders who killed his mother. First watch the documentary about the Smash-Mouth cult featuring horror celebrity guests. Then listen to the Q&A with directors Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein. And then watch the sequel. Fake GRINDHOUSE heaven!
Written, directed & featuring Elise Finnerty
THE ONES YOU DIDN’T BURN - International Premiere
101 FILMS DISCOVERY SCREEN ONE
27 AUGUST 11.00 AM
Directed by Elise Finnerty.
Main Cast: Elise Finnerty, Samuel Dunning, Estelle Girard Parks, Jenna Rose Sander.
Country: USA
Outline: Nathan and Mirra are in no way close siblings. But their father’s passing means they must return to their old family farm to sell off the land. There, Nathan starts having vivid nightmares of a woman rising from the sea, feeling the same dread his father felt before his death. As Nathan spirals back into the addiction that caused the friction with his sister, Mirra is growing close to the very people the family exploited, giving way to a centuries-old secret regarding the land’s original owners.
Written by Chris Watt
STALKER - World Premiere
101 FILMS DISCOVERY SCREEN THREE
28 AUGUST 9.05 PM
Directed by Steve Johnson.
Main Cast: Sophie Skelton, Stuart Brennan, Bret Hart.
Country: UK
Outline: Rose Hepburn, a young actor working in horror movies, returns to her empty hotel. Forced to use the old freight elevator, it jolts to a halt on the twelfth floor, leaving her trapped with an unusual stranger. Left with no mobile phone signal as a storm approaches, tensions escalate and suspicions rise when Rose discovers the identity of the mysterious man is Daniel Reed, a camera operator on her latest movie, who is seemingly obsessed with her. As the elevator hangs precariously high about to plunge down at any minute, some harsh truths and actions start unfolding.
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment presents STALKER on DVD & Digital from 10th October.
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