Plans are afoot for a Frighten Brighton 2013….

What would you like to see at a Frighten Brighton horror event?

• Classic horror films?
• New horror films?
• Documentaries?
• Celebrity guests and signings?
• The return of The Macabre Market?
• Short films?
• Horror Quiz?
• Free horror giveaways?
• Celebrity Q & A’s?
• Frighten Brighton memorabilia?

Please post your comments and suggestions below. Film and venue suggestions, likes and dislikes…all feedback is gratefully received! Also feel free to message us and comment on our Frighten Brighton Facebook Page. Get in touch – we’d love to hear from you!

While secretly observing services for a deceased family friend, recently orphaned 13 year-old Mike witnesses an impossible feat performed by the funeral director known only as The Tall Man.  Later, while following his older brother to a tryst in a cemetery he tries to warn his brother of a dwarf-like creature he sees scurrying in the shadows.  The Tall Man begins appearing in Mike’s nightmares, and he journeys alone to the isolated funeral home to gather evidence to support his belief that the mortician is responsible for the strange happenings in his New England town…

Phantasm (1979) is a cult horror which sticks two fingers up at the classic period-set horrors of the past few decades and rushes headlong towards the gory special-effects filled eighties with a youthful exuberance. Another firm favourite with the horror crowd Phantasm rounds off the Frighten Brighton Classic Horror Film Festival all-day movie marathon in style!

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So join our sponsors  Hemlock Books and Shock Horror Magazine and scream queen Emily Booth tomorrow, Saturday 11th August for FRIGHTEN BRIGHTON 2012!!!  Don’t delay, book today….all-day passes are now almost SOLD OUT!!!  You will also get the chance to buy personally signed 8×10 glossy photographs of the lovely Emily, so be there…and be scared!

 

Young workers are dying because of a mysterious epidemic in a little village in Cornwall. Doctor Thompson is helpless and asks professor James Forbes for help and they soon become trapped in a living nightmare as the dead rise from their graves and terrorise the village!

Plague of the Zombies (1966) is a highly influential classic horror movie from Britain’s legendary Hammer Films. A firm favorite with fright film fans of all ages the imagery and special make-up effects used paved the way for George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) and all subsequent zombie films. You have a chance to watch Plague of the Zombies on the big screen this Saturday as part of the Frighten Brighton Classic Horror Film Festival!

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In the New Mexico desert, Police Sgt. Ben Peterson and his partner find a child wandering in the desert who is absolutely petrified by some mysterious unseen horror… it soon comes to light that gigantic radioactive ants are on the loose and attacking mankind!

Them! (1954) is one of the earliest “atomic monster” movies and can truly be classed as one of the most loved and respected films in both the science-fiction and classic horror genres. A real fan favourite Them! was nominated for an Oscar for its ground-breaking special effects and is being shown as part of the Frighten Brighton Classic Horror Film Festival this Saturday!

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Irena Dubrovna, a beautiful and mysterious Serbian-born fashion artist living in New York City, falls in love with and marries average-Joe American Oliver Reed. Their marriage suffers though, as Irena believes that she suffers from an ancient curse – whenever emotionally aroused, she will turn into a panther and kill!

Cat People (1942) is an incredibly atmospheric film produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur which has become one of the most iconic classic horror movies of all time. A firm favourite with celebrity Horror Host Emily Booth who is presenting Cat People as part of Frighten Brighton this Saturday, when I spoke to Emily recently she explained “ I have a big place in my heart for Cat People…I love a return to animalistic states – a profound theme in horror films and the fact that this film was way ahead of its time, subtly telling a story of burgeoning female sexuality during a very repressed time – there are just so many levels to that film and it’s so haunting and moody! “

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An insane surgeon’s obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist’s hands with the hands of a knife murderer which still have the urge to throw knives…..Mad Love – a terrifying classic horror film starring Peter Lorre kicks off the Frighten Brighton Classic Horror Film Festival this Saturday!

Not well received critically on its initial release Mad Love (1935) has since been reappraised and is now considered to be one of the all-time classic horror greats! Star Peter Lorre went on to star in fright flick favourites The Beast With Five Fingers (1946), Tales of Terror (1962) and The Raven (1963).

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Only one week to go until the Frighten Brighton classic horror film festival hits town and tickets are selling like hot cakes!

You don’t want to miss out on the thrills of Mad Love, the horror of the Cat People, the giant monsters of Them!, the Plague of the Zombies and the absolute terror of Phantasm – all on one exciting program for only £15!

The Komedia Brighton is hosting a whole day of horror with Cyberschizoid and Scare Sarah of the Classic Horror Campaign and special guest star Emily Booth – star of numerous fright flicks as well as the premiere Horror Host on TV’s Horror Channel!

Horror movie merchandise specialists Hemlock Books and top UK publication Shock Horror Magazine are also along for the ride so don’t be disappointed! Creep along to the Komedia Crypt (or online box office as it’s otherwise known!) and grab your all-day passes now!

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Frighten Brighton are excited to announce that we have now joined forces with Shock Horror Magazine alongside Hemlock Books to scare the hell out of Brighton on Saturday 11^th August 2012!

Shock Horror Magazine has been bringing fright film news, interviews and features to horror fans since 2010 and is supplying us with some ghoulish goodies to give out to Frighten Brighton attendees throughout the day.

Hemlock Books are publishers who specialise in horror, sci-fi and fantasy film books as well as being the UK’s leading retailer in horror movie magazines and fanzines. Look out for their macabre merchandise stall at the Frighten Brighton festival featuring some exclusive one-day-only special offers!

FRIGHTEN BRIGHTON CLASSIC HORROR FILM FESTIVAL

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Celebrating classic horror films through the decades from the 1930′s to the late 1970′s the Frighten Brighton Classic Horror Film Festival hits the ground (or should that be beach?) running in the south coast city of Brighton on Saturday 11th August! From 12 noon until almost midnight join your Horror Hosts Cyberschizoid and Scare Sarah along with their very special guest UK Scream Queen Emily Booth at The Komedia, Brighton’s leading live entertainment venue.

An all day pass will only cost you £15 and gets you entry to all five films and access to the fangtastic  Hemlock Books merchandise stall selling the beast in horror film books, magazines and dvds!

And that’s not all – there will also be free horror giveaways courtesy of Diabolique magazine throughout the day!

So if you couldn’t get tickets for the Olympics or want to escape the overcrowded capital city for a few days, come and spend the weekend in sunny Brighton and wallow in nostalgia as we present the films you wish the BBC would show on our television screens on Saturday nights!

But hurry! The tickets are selling out fast so grab yours now before it’s too late! You can buy them online from the Komedia website or from the Komedia box-office in Brighton’s world famous cultural district, the North Laines.

* MAD LOVE (1935)

* CAT PEOPLE (1942)

 * THEM! (1954)

* PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES (1966)

* PHANTASM (1979)

Cyberschizoid & Scare Sarah are the guest hosts of The Basement Cinema cult movie night at The Globe public house in Brighton! We asked you to vote on which cult movie you would like the Frighten Brighton Cinematheque to screen…and now the votes are in! The winner was Jake West’s British vampire epic RAZOR BLADE SMILE (1998) starring the stunning and sexy cult movie star Eileen Daly!  So come and join us in the basement of The Globe for a fun free night of fear and fangs!

* Tuesday 19th June @8:00pm
* The Globe pub, 78 Middle Street, The Lanes, Brighton
* FREE ENTRY!* FREE POPCORN!
* RAZOR BLADE SMILE (1998) feature film screening!
* SEE! Trailers for the FRIGHTEN BRIGHTON FILM FESTIVAL!
* FREE screening of award-winning sci-fi short THE TIMESLIP(2011)

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* THE GLOBE

* BASEMENT CINEMA

* FRIGHTEN BRIGHTON FILM FESTIVAL

* THE TIMESLIP 

* EILEEN DALY

* FRIGHTEN BRIGHTON – FACEBOOK

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