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 ...

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 ...

Dead Northern 2024 festival review – The Blair Witch Project (1999) 25 year anniversary screening

The Blair Witch Project opens with the infamous title card announcing the disappearances of three student filmmakers. What follows is the discovered footage of what went on during the fatal trip, culminating in their mysterious and unexplainable vanishings. Legend has it, the trio’s bodies have never been found… In 1993, film students Daniel Myrick and ...
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