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Abigail (Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett)  Abigail is part heist movie, part monstrous horror. A film of two halves. The first half plays on its own genre stereotypes and known ploys, lulling us into a sense of familiarity, before ripping the curtain back and unveiling an exhilarating ride that ceases to calm right ...

It goes without saying the entire selection for this years fest deserve recognition for their talents as film makers and artists. So narrowing this down to just a handful of award winners has been extremely difficult for this year’s judges panel! With that said, lets take a look at all the incredibly deserving award winners ...

Late Night with the Devil sees the excellent David Dastmalchian as Jack Delroy, a 1970s host of the late night chat show, Night Owls. Desperate to gain viewers back after a tragedy in his personal life, Jack themes his latest episode around occultism, however, the broadcast goes horribly wrong when a possessed guest unleashes a ...

1- MaXXXine (Directed by T.I. West) Completing T.I. West’s zealous ‘X’ trilogy is MaXXXine, a cinematic epilogue following massacre survivor Maxine’s (Mia Goth) journey to stardom in the early 1980s. With West’s signature homage to gritty nostalgia-driven thematics and Goth’s ability to immersive herself into her characters with visceral ease, MaXXXine will certainly be an ...

Gin and horror films – a combination as old as time, no? Well, at the Sinner’s Distillery, we make gin and happen to love horror films, so they work well together in our mind! Imagine then, when we got offered the chance to team up with the gang at Dead Northern, how could we say ...

Dead Evil Clothing is a grass roots start up horror & alternative apparel brand based in York, the most haunted city in Europe! We are life long horror fans, and our mission is simple: to clothe the masses in the darkest and most spine-chilling fashion possible. We believe that true style comes from embracing your ...

Saturday, 19th August 6:00PM – 10:30PM Join us on Saturday 19th August at 6pm for a special Troma film event, featuring the viewing of two exceptional films, My Bloody Banjo and Eating Miss Campbell – both directed by a great local talent, Liam Regan. After a successful tour in the U.S. with Lloyd Kaufman and ...

Our student write Hayley is back with a review of Beau is Afraid. Beau is Afraid is the 3rd feature length film directed by Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) It stars Joaquin Phoenix as Beau who is trying to get back to his mother’s funeral. To go into more of the plot would take away from ...

Burnt Portraits: Filmmaker Leo X. Robertson’s Spiral into Madness in a Dank Basement Stavanger, 23 May 2023–Robertson Rojas Productions is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of their latest independent film, Burnt Portraits. This well-received film, directed by Leo X. Robertson and Sam Crichton, promises to take audiences into the heart of artistic and existential darkness ...

CELEBRATE THE BEST OF INDIE HORROR ON THE BIG SCREEN! Dead Northern Film Festival returns for a fourth year with a three-day horror and fantasy film festival in the heart of the UK’s spookiest city, York. The festival will be held from Friday 29 September to Sunday 1 October 2023 The programme will feature a ...

Supporting up-and-coming talent is a massive part of what we do here at Dead Northern, so when we received a message from a student looking for an opportunity to review for us we jumped at the chance. We’d like to introduce Hayley to the Dead Northern family. Without further ado, here’s Hayley’s review of Nightsiren. Nightsiren ...

Dead Northern takes a look at the big horror film anniversaries of 2023, which films will be on on your re-watch list? 1- Night of the Living Dead (Directed by George A. Romero, 1968) – 55th Anniversary It can easily be said that without Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, the well-exercised zombie era would not ...