No-one expects the Roman centurions
Everybody loves a good B-movie. Kelly Greene loves them so much that he wrote his Master's thesis on post-war Universal science fiction films, demonstrating a particular fondness for the work of Roger Corman. In 1999 he made Attack Of The Bat Monsters, an affection comedic tribute to the classic supporting features of the Fifties. It's getting a special screening as part of the Frightfest programme at the Glasgow Film Festival, so Kelly agreed to answer some questions and let fans know a little more about it.
Jennie Kermode: What inspired you to go from studying films to making one?
Kelly Greene: Actually, I went straight from getting my Ma and graduation into corporate video production in Austin, Texas, working for a company called Horizon Film and Video. So I spent over a decade as a 'company man,' in the trenches making promotional videos for corporations,...
Everybody loves a good B-movie. Kelly Greene loves them so much that he wrote his Master's thesis on post-war Universal science fiction films, demonstrating a particular fondness for the work of Roger Corman. In 1999 he made Attack Of The Bat Monsters, an affection comedic tribute to the classic supporting features of the Fifties. It's getting a special screening as part of the Frightfest programme at the Glasgow Film Festival, so Kelly agreed to answer some questions and let fans know a little more about it.
Jennie Kermode: What inspired you to go from studying films to making one?
Kelly Greene: Actually, I went straight from getting my Ma and graduation into corporate video production in Austin, Texas, working for a company called Horizon Film and Video. So I spent over a decade as a 'company man,' in the trenches making promotional videos for corporations,...
- 2/19/2018
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
13 features set for horror festival offshoot.
UK genre festival Horror Channel FrightFest has unveiled the crop of 13 feature films that will play during its Glasgow Film Festival offshoot this year (March 1-3).
Source: FrightFest
Ghost Stories
Appropriately returning for its 13th edition, the event will kick-off with Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s Ghost Stories, which stars Nyman alongside Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse and Alex Lawther in the tale of a sceptical professor who stumbles across three cases of inexplicable hauntings.
Further features playing include the UK premiere of Dragos Buliga’s The Wanderers: Quest Of The Demon Hunter, which premiered at the Transilvania International Film Festival last year, the UK premiere of Robin Aubert’s The Ravenous, which premiered at Toronto and also played at Fantastic Fest and Sitges, and the European premiere of Adam MacDonald’s Pyewacket, which also premeired at Toronto.
Full line-up: Ghost Stories, dir. Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman The Lodgers, dir. Brian...
UK genre festival Horror Channel FrightFest has unveiled the crop of 13 feature films that will play during its Glasgow Film Festival offshoot this year (March 1-3).
Source: FrightFest
Ghost Stories
Appropriately returning for its 13th edition, the event will kick-off with Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s Ghost Stories, which stars Nyman alongside Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse and Alex Lawther in the tale of a sceptical professor who stumbles across three cases of inexplicable hauntings.
Further features playing include the UK premiere of Dragos Buliga’s The Wanderers: Quest Of The Demon Hunter, which premiered at the Transilvania International Film Festival last year, the UK premiere of Robin Aubert’s The Ravenous, which premiered at Toronto and also played at Fantastic Fest and Sitges, and the European premiere of Adam MacDonald’s Pyewacket, which also premeired at Toronto.
Full line-up: Ghost Stories, dir. Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman The Lodgers, dir. Brian...
- 1/11/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Xavier Gens’ Cold Skin
Horror Channel FrightFest have announced the line-up for this years Glasgow event – which includes a wide variety of films from across the globe, with films from ten countries, spanning four continents, reflecting the world-wide popularity of the genre.
Opening on Thursday night with Ghost Stories - which remains one of the scariest stage shows ever seen – FrightFest kicks off with a special screening of Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s smash hit phenomenon. Starring Martin Freedman, Paul Whitehouse, as well as Nyman, this unforgettable screen adaptation terrifies in a whole new thrilling and chilling dimension. Jeremy and Andy will be attending. This is followed by the Scottish premiere of Brian O’Malley’s supernatural romance The Lodgers, a masterful Irish set Gothic ghost story, starring Charlotte Vega and David Bradley.
Friday’s line-up lunges into vampiric action with the UK premiere of Dragos Buliga’s The...
Horror Channel FrightFest have announced the line-up for this years Glasgow event – which includes a wide variety of films from across the globe, with films from ten countries, spanning four continents, reflecting the world-wide popularity of the genre.
Opening on Thursday night with Ghost Stories - which remains one of the scariest stage shows ever seen – FrightFest kicks off with a special screening of Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s smash hit phenomenon. Starring Martin Freedman, Paul Whitehouse, as well as Nyman, this unforgettable screen adaptation terrifies in a whole new thrilling and chilling dimension. Jeremy and Andy will be attending. This is followed by the Scottish premiere of Brian O’Malley’s supernatural romance The Lodgers, a masterful Irish set Gothic ghost story, starring Charlotte Vega and David Bradley.
Friday’s line-up lunges into vampiric action with the UK premiere of Dragos Buliga’s The...
- 1/11/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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