THE MACHINE, BIG BAD WOLVES And PAINLESS Load Up Mayhem Film Festival Lineup

Mayhem will open its 2013 edition with internationally-acclaimed British Director Nicolas Roeg who will be presenting his most recent film Puffball as well as taking part in a very special screening of his masterpiece Don't Look Now in the wonderful settings of St Mary's Church in the Lace Market.

Other special guests for the festival include American Director Brian Netto who will be presenting Delivery, The Borderlands Director Elliot Goldner and Producer Jennifer Handorf, and Director Caradog James and Producer John Giwa-Amu for hi-tech British dark sci-fi The Machine. Mayhem are also pleased to host a special BAFTA screening of Jeremy Lovering's In Fear which follows a young couple being tormented while driving in the countryside.

 

With a total of 17 screenings, Mayhem will present their first silent film screening, Tod Browning's classic The Unknown with a specially commissioned original score by 8MM Orchestra. The rest of the programme includes screenings of cult classics Lifeforce (1985) and Wake in Fright (1971), the ever popular selection of Scary Shorts, and preview screenings of Haunter from Cube Director Vincenzo Natali, 70s disco slasher Discopath, Belgo-French production The Strange Colour of your Body's Tears, pre-CGI DIY homage The Demon's Rook, vampire tale Kiss of the Damned, Spanish dark fairy tale Painless, and Israeli horror Big Bad Wolves from the makers of Rabies. The festival will also see the return of the Quiz of Fear, presented by "Strange Things Are Happening" David Flint.

THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER

5.45PM PUFFBALL with Q&A with Director Nicolas Roeg

Dir. Nicolas Roeg, 2007 (UK) with Kelly Reilly and Miranda Richardson

8.30PM DON'T LOOK NOW at St Mary's Church with Director's Q&A

Dir. Nicolas Roeg, 1973 (UK/ITA) with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland

11.30PM HAUNTER

Dir. Vincenzo Natali, 2013 (CAN) with Abigail Breslin and Stephen McHattie

FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER

6.15PM THE STRANGE COLOUR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS

Dir. Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani, 2013 (BEL/FRA)

8.15PM DELIVERY with Director's Q&A

Dir. Brian Netto, 2013 (USA) with Danny Barclay and Laurel Vail

10.30PM DISCOPATH

Dir. Renaud Gauthier, 2013 (CAN) with Katherine Cleland and Ivan Freud

SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER

12PM THE DEMON'S ROOK

Dir. James Sizemore, 2013 (USA) with James Sizemore and Ashleigh Jo Sizemore

2PM KISS OF THE DAMNED

Dir. Xan Cassavetes, 2013 (USA) with Roxane Mesquida and Joséphine de la Baume

4PM THE BORDERLANDS with Q&A with Director Elliot Goldner and Producer 

Jennifer Handorf

Dir. Elliot Goldner, 2013 (UK) with Gordon Kennedy and Robin Hill

6.30PM SCARY SHORTS

Dir. Various, 2013 (International)

8.30PM THE MACHINE with Q&A with Director Caradog James and Producer John 

Giwa-Amu

Dir. Caradog James, 2013 (UK) with Toby Stephens and Caity Lotz

11.30PM LIFEFORCE

Dir. Tobe Hooper, 1985 (UK/USA) with Steve Railsback and Mathilda May

SUNDAY 3 NOVEMBER

12PM WAKE IN FRIGHT

Dir. Ted!Kotcheff, 1971 (AUS) with Gary Bond

2.15PM PAINLESS

Dir. Juan Carlos Medina, 2012 (SPA) with Alex Brendemuhl and Tomas Lemarquis

4.30PM BAFTA presents IN FEAR with special guests

Dir. Jeremy Lovering, 2013 (UK) with Iain De Caestecker and Alice Englert

7.30PM THE UNKNOWN with live accompaniment by 8MM Orchestra

Dir. Tod Browning, 1927 (USA) with Lon Chaney and Joan Crawford

9PM QUIZ OF FEAR - THE FLINTERROGATION

Presented by David Flint

10PM BIG BAD WOLVES

Dir. Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado, 2013 (ISR) with Lior Ashkenazi and Dvir 

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