Prepare for the chilling return of the Romford Horror Festival, an extended four-day plunge into the heart of cinematic horror, starting on Thursday, 29th February 2024. Now in its fourth year, this festival, a twisted offshoot of the Romford Film Festival, is gearing up to unleash an unparalleled experience, unveiling its most diabolical lineup to date.
Plunge headfirst into a blood-curdling cinematic odyssey, featuring 168 feature films and shorts, including eight timeless classic horror masterpieces. The festival, spreading its dark influence across two screens and introducing a third exclusively for spine-tingling talks, continues its legacy of premiering global cinematic nightmares, boasting an astounding 33 world premieres that are sure to send shivers down your spine. The resurrection of fan-favorite segments like “Short, Sharp Shocks” and “Cheap Thrills” is now joined by two electrifying additions: “Student Bodies,” showcasing student films, including seven from New City College, and the unpredictable “Horror Roulette,” a pulsating party...
Plunge headfirst into a blood-curdling cinematic odyssey, featuring 168 feature films and shorts, including eight timeless classic horror masterpieces. The festival, spreading its dark influence across two screens and introducing a third exclusively for spine-tingling talks, continues its legacy of premiering global cinematic nightmares, boasting an astounding 33 world premieres that are sure to send shivers down your spine. The resurrection of fan-favorite segments like “Short, Sharp Shocks” and “Cheap Thrills” is now joined by two electrifying additions: “Student Bodies,” showcasing student films, including seven from New City College, and the unpredictable “Horror Roulette,” a pulsating party...
- 2/5/2024
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
The Romford Horror Festival, an extended four-day plunge into the heart of cinematic horror, returns for its Fourth(!) year on Thursday, 29th February, with a lineup that promises a star-studded affair, featuring Tony Todd, Prunella Scales, Sean Young, Jamie Lomas, Kane Hodder, Kierston Wareing, Lynn Lowry, Caroline Munro, Graham Cole, Diane Franklin, Caroline Pickles, Pauline Peart, Guy Henry, Dani Thompson, Ayvianna Snow, and a myriad of other captivating talents, all ready to plunge audiences into a world of terror.
Plunge headfirst into a blood-curdling cinematic odyssey, featuring 168 feature films and shorts, including eight timeless classic horror masterpieces. The festival, spreading its dark influence across two screens and introducing a third exclusively for spine-tingling talks, continues its legacy of premiering global cinematic nightmares, boasting an astounding 33 world premieres that are sure to send shivers down your spine. The resurrection of fan-favorite segments like “Short, Sharp Shocks” and “Cheap Thrills” is now...
Plunge headfirst into a blood-curdling cinematic odyssey, featuring 168 feature films and shorts, including eight timeless classic horror masterpieces. The festival, spreading its dark influence across two screens and introducing a third exclusively for spine-tingling talks, continues its legacy of premiering global cinematic nightmares, boasting an astounding 33 world premieres that are sure to send shivers down your spine. The resurrection of fan-favorite segments like “Short, Sharp Shocks” and “Cheap Thrills” is now...
- 1/29/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
I wanted to pull the curtain back just a little bit for a second and bring you something a little different. As you may know Nerdly, the website, and our fledgling – but growing – YouTube channel are proudly latched on to the Romford Film Festival, this was a relationship that came about organically through knowing filmmakers that had shown movies at the fest and being introduced to Spencer Hawken (the creator and chief) and really just digging the vibe. I would like to say I was invited to the jury and selection panel but honestly I just kinda said “Give me all the links… I’m in”. You could say I invited myself!
I have loved working on the panels and having discussions about what we should and shouldn’t show, what should be nominated and what should win. However, I and my esteemed judges don’t always agree and sometimes...
I have loved working on the panels and having discussions about what we should and shouldn’t show, what should be nominated and what should win. However, I and my esteemed judges don’t always agree and sometimes...
- 2/26/2022
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
The towns might be quiet, but a tremor is occurring in time for 25th February as Romford second Horror festival begins. The festival that began last year after the long lockdown was popular from the offset, but now moving forward its reputation has already grown.
So far around 400 people will be in attendance for the festival which is showing 68 feature films and short horror movies over three packed days. The films are all independent horror films made with budgets that start at zero and go up to around £400,000, featuring in the mix are films from across the globe and as local as Romford, Canvey Island and Southend. The festival runs out of Premiere cinema at the Mercury Shopping Centre from the 25th to the 27th of February.
Festival director Spencer Hawken said:
It’s amazing to see the volume of interest straight after the lifting of restrictions, we have filmmakers...
So far around 400 people will be in attendance for the festival which is showing 68 feature films and short horror movies over three packed days. The films are all independent horror films made with budgets that start at zero and go up to around £400,000, featuring in the mix are films from across the globe and as local as Romford, Canvey Island and Southend. The festival runs out of Premiere cinema at the Mercury Shopping Centre from the 25th to the 27th of February.
Festival director Spencer Hawken said:
It’s amazing to see the volume of interest straight after the lifting of restrictions, we have filmmakers...
- 2/24/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
In the first of our videos covering this years Romford Film Festival, Kev sits down to talk to Scott Hansen, director of Bad Candy – alongside festival organisers Spencer Hawken and Peter Blunden.
Bad Candy follows local Halloween stories of both myth and lessons learned in the community of New Salem. With its annual Psychotronic FM Halloween show, re-enactment radio DJs Chilly Billy and Paul weave the tales of the supernatural of years gone by. In this small town it’s a grimy ending for most, but will a few good souls survive?
Bad Candy screened as part of the Romford Horror Film Festival, which takes place June 5th – 7th 2021. For more information check out https://www.romfordfilmfestival.com/...
Bad Candy follows local Halloween stories of both myth and lessons learned in the community of New Salem. With its annual Psychotronic FM Halloween show, re-enactment radio DJs Chilly Billy and Paul weave the tales of the supernatural of years gone by. In this small town it’s a grimy ending for most, but will a few good souls survive?
Bad Candy screened as part of the Romford Horror Film Festival, which takes place June 5th – 7th 2021. For more information check out https://www.romfordfilmfestival.com/...
- 6/7/2021
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Premiere Cinemas Romford, creators of the annual Romford Film Festival take on a scarier feat this weekend (5th – 6th June) as they bring together over 60 scary independent movies to the heart of Romford from across the globe – to ensure cinema goers are buried by a cacophony of shocking thrillers and spine- chilling horror in the first Romford Horror Film Festival… Horrhiffic!
Films over the weekend include the recently released Guns Akimbo, starring Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe in a way you would never expect, as he plays a video game developer who inadvertently becomes the next participant in a real-life death match that streams online; The Whooper Returns, in which an estranged family must defend their infamous “haunted” childhood home from a band of malevolent cos-players; VHS Forever: Once Upon a Time in Camden, a feature length documentary about the infamous Psychotronic Video shop in Camden Town and its customers...
Films over the weekend include the recently released Guns Akimbo, starring Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe in a way you would never expect, as he plays a video game developer who inadvertently becomes the next participant in a real-life death match that streams online; The Whooper Returns, in which an estranged family must defend their infamous “haunted” childhood home from a band of malevolent cos-players; VHS Forever: Once Upon a Time in Camden, a feature length documentary about the infamous Psychotronic Video shop in Camden Town and its customers...
- 6/4/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Here’s another interview in Nerdly’s socially distanced series of chats with filmmakers and performers as part of the Nerdly Out Loud podcast for Nerdly.co.uk. This time Kevin sits down with Spencer Hawken, Daniel Smales and Jon Guerriero talking about the film No Reasons, which is available now on Amazon Prime.
In a quiet London suburb a couple anxiously await the return of their long missing daughter. But nothing is ever truly as it seems, from the vice dens to the morgues secrets must be revealed. This gritty disturbing thriller exposes the dangers that might be occurring in your street, a swathe of British acting legends past and present gather together to deliver this deliciously disturbing tale.
You can also Watch this podcast right here.
In a quiet London suburb a couple anxiously await the return of their long missing daughter. But nothing is ever truly as it seems, from the vice dens to the morgues secrets must be revealed. This gritty disturbing thriller exposes the dangers that might be occurring in your street, a swathe of British acting legends past and present gather together to deliver this deliciously disturbing tale.
You can also Watch this podcast right here.
- 1/29/2021
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Here’s another interview in Nerdly’s socially distanced series of chats with filmmakers and performers as part of the Nerdly Out Loud podcast for Nerdly.co.uk. This time Kevin sits down with Spencer Hawken, Daniel Smales and Jon Guerriero talking about the film No Reasons, which is available now on Amazon Prime.
In a quiet London suburb a couple anxiously await the return of their long missing daughter. But nothing is ever truly as it seems, from the vice dens to the morgues secrets must be revealed. This gritty disturbing thriller exposes the dangers that might be occurring in your street, a swathe of British acting legends past and present gather together to deliver this deliciously disturbing tale.
In a quiet London suburb a couple anxiously await the return of their long missing daughter. But nothing is ever truly as it seems, from the vice dens to the morgues secrets must be revealed. This gritty disturbing thriller exposes the dangers that might be occurring in your street, a swathe of British acting legends past and present gather together to deliver this deliciously disturbing tale.
- 1/26/2021
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Anthony Lapaglia in 'A Month of Sundays'.
Anthony Lapaglia (Lantana) and Melanie Lynskey (Heavenly Creatures) are set to star in Sbs crime thriller Sunshine.
They.ll be joined by local actors Kim Gyngell, Tiarnie Coupland, Vince Colosimo, Leah Vandenberg, Paul Ireland and Trudy Hellier.
The four-part drama is set in the outer-west suburb of Sunshine and its surrounds, and is a co-production between Essential Media and Carver Films..
The show follows Jacob, a young South Sudanese-Australian basketball player who is on the cusp of being picked up by U.S. scouts for the U.S. College league. .
Lapaglia plays Eddie, an ex-player now operating a small sports store in Sunshine who agrees to coach Jacob.s underperforming team, The Sunshine Kings..
In the midst of doing everything he can to make the draft, Jacob finds himself answering to Sunshine-raised lawyer Zara Skelton (Lynskey) when he is caught up in a...
Anthony Lapaglia (Lantana) and Melanie Lynskey (Heavenly Creatures) are set to star in Sbs crime thriller Sunshine.
They.ll be joined by local actors Kim Gyngell, Tiarnie Coupland, Vince Colosimo, Leah Vandenberg, Paul Ireland and Trudy Hellier.
The four-part drama is set in the outer-west suburb of Sunshine and its surrounds, and is a co-production between Essential Media and Carver Films..
The show follows Jacob, a young South Sudanese-Australian basketball player who is on the cusp of being picked up by U.S. scouts for the U.S. College league. .
Lapaglia plays Eddie, an ex-player now operating a small sports store in Sunshine who agrees to coach Jacob.s underperforming team, The Sunshine Kings..
In the midst of doing everything he can to make the draft, Jacob finds himself answering to Sunshine-raised lawyer Zara Skelton (Lynskey) when he is caught up in a...
- 3/26/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
George Cole in The Vampire Lovers
With his flashy cars, his fat cigars and his large VATs, Minder con man Arthur Daley became one of the most popular characters on British TV. Now, 21 years after the series came to an end. the man who played him, George Cole, has died.
Though best known for his television work, which also included roles in A Man Of Our Times, Blott On The Landscape and The Bounder, Cole also enjoyed a lengthy film career, appearing in the likes of Cleopatra, May Reilly and The Vampire Lovers. he was well known for his work in the popular St Trinians films of the Fifties and Sixties. Last year he joined the cast of Spencer Hawken's mystery thriller Road Rage and told friends how much he was looking forward to it.
Given up for adoption as a baby, Cole subsequently lost his adoptive father but had the good fortune,...
With his flashy cars, his fat cigars and his large VATs, Minder con man Arthur Daley became one of the most popular characters on British TV. Now, 21 years after the series came to an end. the man who played him, George Cole, has died.
Though best known for his television work, which also included roles in A Man Of Our Times, Blott On The Landscape and The Bounder, Cole also enjoyed a lengthy film career, appearing in the likes of Cleopatra, May Reilly and The Vampire Lovers. he was well known for his work in the popular St Trinians films of the Fifties and Sixties. Last year he joined the cast of Spencer Hawken's mystery thriller Road Rage and told friends how much he was looking forward to it.
Given up for adoption as a baby, Cole subsequently lost his adoptive father but had the good fortune,...
- 8/6/2015
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In June 2013 Brentwood based Spencer Hawken announced his intention to create a zero budget horror movie, the movie would not have a cheap look and feel, and would break all the rules when it came to zombie movies. When work began Spencer had no names to attach to his picture, by completion he had several.
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- 11/21/2013
- by Horrornews.net
- Horror News
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