This year's FrightFest, Britain's largest horror festival, saw the premiere of Brit horrorcomedy "Are We Dead Yet?". This features a gang of lovably inept London criminals on "one last" raid, hiding in a haunted castle to evade the police.
They find themselves in the middle of a curse which needs to be lifted, but finally they find themselves in a New York bar, celebrating their ill-gotten gains. One of the criminals glances up to the ceiling to see the remains of an antique china doll staring at them and realises the curse has followed them - leading possibly to the sequel.
Director Fredi Nwaka said: "It was great to have our film premiere at FrightFest, and get our actors and crew in front of a crowd of horrorhounds. All those freezing night shoots in castles last year was worth it to hear the applause and questions we got at the end of the screening!
"It's not a traditional horror comedy in that it features serious actors as well as musicians, social media influencers and comedians. The black culture generally have very little to do with the horror genre and 'duppies' (ghosts) as we call it so I wanted to play on this.
"People wanted to know will there be an "Are We Dead Yet?" sequel and what we are going to shoot next -- it was great to get so much positive feedback. It inspired me to start writing my next horror!"
They find themselves in the middle of a curse which needs to be lifted, but finally they find themselves in a New York bar, celebrating their ill-gotten gains. One of the criminals glances up to the ceiling to see the remains of an antique china doll staring at them and realises the curse has followed them - leading possibly to the sequel.
Director Fredi Nwaka said: "It was great to have our film premiere at FrightFest, and get our actors and crew in front of a crowd of horrorhounds. All those freezing night shoots in castles last year was worth it to hear the applause and questions we got at the end of the screening!
"It's not a traditional horror comedy in that it features serious actors as well as musicians, social media influencers and comedians. The black culture generally have very little to do with the horror genre and 'duppies' (ghosts) as we call it so I wanted to play on this.
"People wanted to know will there be an "Are We Dead Yet?" sequel and what we are going to shoot next -- it was great to get so much positive feedback. It inspired me to start writing my next horror!"