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It's The British Horror Film Festival's fourteenth year and we have an amazing and horrific line up! There are a number of awards up for grabs at the Festival, including the prestigious British Horror Award for Achievement in Film on a Low Budget and the Rising Star Award for upcoming talent in the industry.
SHORT FILM SCREENING 1
An elderly blind woman is unaware of the stranger secretly living in her home.
LEECH
10m | George Coley
11-year-old Neil ventures into local woods to find his missing brother Vincent, only to discover a truth that challenges the community's accusations against their father.
TREELINE
12m | Freddie Bonfanti
Tony and Archie, best friends and sci-fi fanatics rent out a funky apartment for a weekend on the town, but their host has other plans.
A REAL PAIR
6m | Ed Willey
Claire is approached by the father of her murdered childhood friend to help investigate the haunted moor he believes to be his son's final resting place. They find more than just the ghosts of dead children - something dark and evil stirs beneath their feet.
DIRECTOR
Chris Cronin
WRITER
Paul Thomas
PRODUCERS
Pawel Pracz, Chris Cronin & Paul Thomas
CAST
Sophia La Porta, David Edward-Robertson, Bernard Hill & Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips
The Moor
1h 59m
FEATURE FILM SCREENING
Doting parents teach their young daughter the family Halloween tradition.
TRADITION
4m | Sabrina Ariss
After growing up adopted, a man makes a gargantuan discovery when meeting his biological father.
THE HERITAGE
12m | Andrew Rutter
In a meat factory, the new employed daughter can't stand her controlling mother and impulsively kills her in the oven. But the mother's mental oppression penetrates into the daughter's subconscious hallucinations, and becomes a resurrected ghost that she can never get rid of.
A WHIM TO KILL
5m | Tiange Xiang
The name of the song says it all: The hunter on the prowl. A deer in a scope. A finger on the trigger. But then – a crack. A smack from a faceless hooded figure.
AFFENTANZ - HUNTER
9m | Cyprian Hercka
Days turn into a desperate struggle for survival for a scientist trapped inside a laboratory during a zombie outbreak. With limited resources and no escape in sight, he faces his biggest challenge yet when he discovers a rogue lab rat raiding his dwindling food supplies.
TRAPPED
16m | Semyon Voinov
CROOKS - HEART OF VENGEANCE
6m | Snorre Fuglsang Ruhe
The story of a scientist inventing the key to eternal life. A couple of thugs steal his invention and leave him and his daughter for dead.
In order to come back to life he sells his soul to the devil.
THE PERFECT PLACE TO CRY
7m | Shane Bannon
Late at night, deep in the woods, a woman cries in her car. A light flickers through the trees. At the edge of her headlights' reach, she can just make out the shape of a man. He's coming closer.
SHORT FILM SCREENING 2
IN YOUR HANDS
12m | Luigi Sibona
A chance encounter in a barbershop sparks an attraction between a barber and his customer but when the act of shaving becomes an obsession for the customer, things take a dark turn with deadly consequences.
The British Horror Film Festival Blood List is for screenplays of outstanding quality. These projects are up for the title of Best Unproduced Screenplay.
BEST SHORT FILM
A Whim to Kill
CROOKS - Heart of Vengeance
Treeline
Freddie Bonfanti | Treeline
CROOKS - Heart of Vengeance
BEST SOUND DESIGN
BEST MUSIC
THE DOUGLAS MILSOME AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Treeline
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bruno Cyran | Treeline - "Vincent"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emily Swain | The Heritage - "Elsie"
THE BRITISH HORROR AWARD
BEST STUDENT FILM
A Whim to Kill
RISING STAR AWARD
***Semyon Voinov | Director - Trapped***
BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY WINNER
***The Horrors of Hell House | Tim Connery***
BEST UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY COMMENDATIONS
Nightmarefest | Martin Richmond
Stan The (Wolf)Man | Justin Scott
The Cuckoo | Donovan Swart
The Suicide Pond | Daniel Noy
THE AUDIENCE AWARD FOR SCARIEST SHORT FILM
AWARD WINNERS DENOTED WITH ASTERIX
***Award Winner***
THE AWARDS
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