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The Film4 FrightFest Is Jam-Packed With Horror!
FILM PROGRAMME
MAIN SCREENS (5, 6, 7)
THURSDAY AUGUST 27
OPENING FILM: CHERRY TREE (European Premiere)
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Director: David Keating. Cast: Anna Walton, Naomi Battrick, Sam Hazeldine, Patrick Gibson, Minnie Phipps. Ireland 90 mins.
Faith’s world is turned upside down when she finds out her father is dying. When the mysteriously alluring Sissy Young becomes her field hockey coach, Faith finds a compassionate spirit and much-needed mother figure. Little does she know that Sissy is the head of a centuries-old witches coven using the fruit of an ancient cherry tree in a secret ritual that restores life. And soon Sissy has enticed Faith into making a fateful bargain that is about to change everything… From David Keating, the director of the critically acclaimed neo Hammer horror WAKE WOOD, comes another blood-freezing rural nightmare.
TURBO KID (London Premiere)
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Film4 FrightFest Line-up Announced; Image Blow-Out!
One of the best damned film festivals on the planet, Film4 FrightFest, has unveiled its line-up; and as always, it is absolutely killer. Read on for the details and DOZENS of new stills.
From the Press Release:
Bigger, bolder, bloodier… Film4 FrightFest marks its 16th year with its largest line-up ever. From Thurs 27 August to Mon 31 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will return to the Vue West End, Leicester Square, to present seventy-six films across five screens, plus a host of special events. There are eighteen countries representing five continents with a record-breaking sixteen European premieres and twenty-six UK premieres. In addition, there is a further ‘Discovery’ strand at The Prince Charles Cinema, signalling a welcome return to FrightFest’s spiritual home.
FrightFest always takes great pride in platforming the brightest British and Irish talent and is an outstanding year. Apart from opening with D • From the Editor’s Desk: Journal of the Plague Year ARTICLES The Four Black Deaths The Justinianic Plague and Global Pandemics: The Making of the Plague Concept Writing Apartheid: Ethnographic Collaborators and the Politics of Knowledge Production in Twentieth-Century South Africa AHR CONVERSATION: BLACK INTERNATIONALISM Monique Bedasse, Kim D. Butler, Carlos Fernandes, Dennis Laumann, Tejasvi Nagaraja HISTORY UNCLASSIFIED A Shared Toxic History AHR REVIEW ROUNDTABLE The Iron Cage of Erasure: American Indian Sovereignty in Jill Lepore’s These Truths Truths… Audacious and Flawed Lepore’s America, “Our America”? A Civics Primer for American History FEATURED REVIEWS ERICA FUDGE. Quick boskap and Dying Wishes: People and Their Animals in Early Modern England. KATIE JARVIS. Politics in the Marketplace: Work,
Monica H. Green
Merle Eisenberg, Lee Mordechai
Joel Cabrita
Heather F. Roller
Ned Blackhawk
Mary Beth Norton
Matt Garcia
Paul Ortiz
Ingrid H. Tague