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Home > Festival > Pig hybrid soldiers and supernatural driving instructors at Mayhem Film Festival

Pig hybrid soldiers and supernatural driving instructors at Mayhem Film Festival

By Caroline King - October 7, 2019Posted in : Cinema, FEATURED-CONTENT, Festival

Mayhem Film Festival 2019 will take place at the Broadway Cinema in Nottingham this week. The annual festival showcases some of the best features and short films in horror, sci-fi and cult cinema, through premieres, previews, and special events.

Mayhem Film Festival 2019
Sci-fi, horror and cult cinema a this year’s Mayhem Film Festival

Mayhem will open this year’s festival with horror comedy Extra Ordinary on Thursday 10th October. A small-town driving instructor with supernatural abilities tries to get through life without communicating with the dead: but the spirits have other ideas. Also screening on Thursday is the brain-twisting Daniel Isn’t Real, in which a deeply troubled student summons his childhood ‘imaginary’ friend, but his grip on reality slips as the malignant alter ego unleashes a vicious, evil side.

The 15th edition of Mayhem will also play host to three UK Premieres, with exclusive first screenings of high-octane serial killer thriller The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil; Polish historical drama Sword of God (The Mute); and outrageous survival horror The Pool.

But it’s not just new films being showcased at this year’s Mayhem. The festival will also be taking a look back into the archives, to present a rare screening of 1967 Russian folk horror Viy, and 1987’s cult sci-fi favourite The Hidden, featuring a standout performance from Twin Peaks’ Kyle MacLachlan as an alien-hunting FBI agent.

Mayhem 2019’s final day will begin with the unclassifiable Bullets of Justice. Having created human-pig hybrid super soldiers, mankind now finds itself dominated by these ‘Muzzles’ who farm and eat human beings: a truly “what did I just watch?” experience to start off your Sunday morning.

The festival will also include screenings of female-led horror She Never Died and genre-bending monster movie, Something Else; alongside preview screenings of the gleefully explosive revenge rampage Why Don’t You Just Die!, high-suspense thriller Door Lock, and sci-fi nightmare Vivarium (starring Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots).

Vengeful spirits are stirred into gory action in haunted house horror Girl on the Third Floor, and twisted thrill-ride Come to Daddy, starring Elijah Wood, will close the festival on Sunday.

Mayhem’s ever-popular Short Film Showcase, and fiendish film quiz The Flinterrogation (hosted by author David Flint), both return to round off this year’s events.

When: 10th – 13th October 2019
Where: Broadway, 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham NG1 3AL
£: Frankenstein ticket package costs £30 for 5 films, individual tickets are also available

More info: www.mayhemfilmfestival.com

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