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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 ...

Evil Dead Rise (Directed by Lee Cronin) Release date: 21st April  2023 is hitting off with a “groovy” start as the fifth entry into the Evil Dead franchise will be hitting the big screen in just a couple of months. Rumours of a sequel to Fede Álvarez Evil Dead (2013) and promises of Sam Raimi ...

PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY WRAPS ON TOXIC RELATIONSHIP HORROR “KILL YOUR LOVER” WITH SPECIAL EFFECTS MAKE UP ARTIST FROM “WINNIE-THE-POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY” Married co-directing team Switchblade Cinema, Alix Austin and Keir Siewert (AK), have just wrapped on their debut horror feature KILL YOUR LOVER: A psychological drama with a punk edge and skin-crawling body horror, where ...

In Dreams Are Monsters is the latest theme for the BFI’s Blockbusters season. Unveiling the rich history and nightmarish lore that the horror genre thrives in is the basis for this upcoming tribute to the dark world of cinema.  Deriving from the midst of macabre works is the unique sensation that horror exudes, whether that ...

Conducting strange experiments that fuse together sci-fi and horror with a dash of absurd comedy is Troma Entertainment’s specialty. Troma is a production and distribution company that literally gives you as much bang for your buck as possible thanks to their sporadically glorious films that truly stand out amongst the rest.  During his time at ...

Neil Marshall, born and bred in Newcastle has long held a reputation for being both implausibly daring in his work and a true genre filmmaker. Over the past 20 years of his career, Marshall has managed to produce nothing but original work that tours every spector of horror and fantasy, exploring grizzly ghouls and monsters ...

Scream (Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gilett)  Release date: 14th January  Kicking off this exciting year for horror is Scream. If there was any film that ignited a wave of excitement amongst movie-goers last year then it was the news of Ready or Not (2019) directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gilett bringing back Ghostface ...