Host Stuart Wright speaks to filmmaker and actor Jason Fite about his first feature film Beyond Evil: Dead Of Night and how some films (and even podcasts) are just cursed. Beyond Evil is out now. For details see the official website: http://www.beyondevilfilm.com Production company: http://www.peracals.com/ @peracals Jason also has a comedy podcast: www.the313comedyshow.com Podcast from www.britflicks.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution ...
Jun 29, 2017•41 min
Host Stuart Wright talks with writer/director Paul Sng (Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain, 2015) about his second feature length documentary: Dispossession - The Great Social Housing Scandal. Twitter @velvetjoyltd #Dispossession Website: http://www.dispossessionfilm.com/ Scheduled screenings: PREMIERE - Thursday 8 June at The East End Film Festival Rio Cinema, London 6.30pm Get tickets - https://riocinema.org.uk/RioCinema.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWe...
May 31, 2017•56 min
Host Stuart Wright speak with David Hughes, Creative Director at Synchronicity II... An exciting and innovative movie marketing agency. He talks about trailers, movie posters and how to control the narrative when launching an independent film. David Hughes details: @SynchronicityN4 SynchronicityFilm.co.uk david@synchronicityii.co.uk Podcast from www.britflicks.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ G...
May 11, 2017•1 hr 8 min
Screenwriter Stuart Wright talks to producer & director Jen Handorf about 5 GREAT BRITISH HORROR FILMS: The Innocents (1961) Quatermass and the Pit (aka Five Million Years to Earth) (1967) Blood On Satan's Claw (1971) The Stone Tape (1972) The Day Of The Triffids (1981 Tv Series) @jhandorf #askjen in Twitter for filmmaking advice Please consider leaving a five-star review wherever you get your podcasts if you enjoyed this. It really helps the Britflicks Podcast grow and others to discover it...
May 04, 2017•1 hr 3 min
In his first of two conversations previewing Attack Of The Adult Babies, host Stuart Wright talks to Producer/Actor Joanne Mitchell and more generally about the topic of women in horror. Part 2 of 2 is with director Dominic Brunt. The world premiere is at HORROR CHANNEL FRIGHTFEST 24TH - 28TH AUGUST 2017 LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON, WC2H 7NA. Programme and tickets are available at http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2017films/frightfest-2017-film-schedule.html http://www.frightfest.co.uk/tickets.html Follo...
Apr 26, 2017•1 hr 2 min
Host Stuart Wright talks to film and TV blogger/writer Gareth Dimelow about five of his favourite GREAT BRITISH HORROR FILMS: The Ghoul (1975) Hellraiser (1987) The Descent (2005) Eden Lake (2008) When The Lights Go Out (2012) Twitter: @gdimelow Articles for Sabatage Times: http://sabotagetimes.com/author/gareth-dimelow His blog is at http://p0pvulture.blogspot.co.uk You can support the @Britflicks podcast by pledging money via www.patreon.com/stuartwright, subscribing to it via iTunes or leavin...
Apr 20, 2017•1 hr 5 min
Host Stuart Wright talks to director Eamonn Murphy about his award winning short film LOST MEMORIES Discover.Film Awards 2017: 1) Best Director 2) Audience Award for Best Short Film Synopsis: Seán races against the clock to his mother's deathbed while dealing with inter-family politics over the phone. Cast Emmet Kelly as Seán Aoife King as Brenda John Kavanagh as Dad Nicole Poletti as Jane Producer: Quinten Ahern Director: Eamonn Murphy Podcast from www.britflicks.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (i...
Apr 12, 2017•41 min
Host Stuart Wright talks to writer, director and author Marc Blake about the book he co-wrote with Sara Bailey called "WRITING THE HORROR MOVIE" Writing The Horror Movie is out now from Bloomsbury Academic https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Writing-Horror-Movie-Marc-Blake/1441196188/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491436578&sr=8-1&keywords=Writing+the+horror+movie @MarcBlake1 http://writingsitcom.co.uk Podcast from www.britflicks.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Cr...
Apr 06, 2017•47 min
Manchester's Grimmfest is one of the UK's premier horror film festivals. In recent years it has spawned Grimm Entertainment to distribute the very best in horror, sci-fi, fantasy and cult films. Host Stuart Wright talks to Alex Drummond, the writer/director of LA Contagion. Synopsis: In suburban Los Angeles, a group of friends at a baby shower become trapped when a mysterious outbreak starts turning people into homicidal maniacs. LA CONTAGION is out now through Grimm Entertainment on VOD... iTun...
Mar 30, 2017•1 hr 3 min
Host Stuart Wright talks to Beautiful Devils director James Marquand about his modern retelling of Shakespeare's OTHELLO. BEAUTIFUL DEVILS is out in cinemas now. For full listings see https://www.ourscreen.com/film/Beautiful-Devils VOD and streaming to be announced. Podcast from www.britflicks.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Gaslamp Funworks by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution ...
Mar 22, 2017•34 min
Screenwriter Stuart Wright discusses 5 Great Horror Movie Scores with expert in this field Charlie Brigden. Edit June 2020: Added some music to the podcast and tried to take the edge of my voice track that was recorded is an open room with a wooden floor. Don't Look Now score by Pino Donaggio Hellraiser by Christopher Young The Omen by Jerry Goldsmith Twins Of Evil by Harry Robinson Peeping Tom by Brian Easdale Charlie is the host of film score podcast Movie Drone available at https://soundcloud...
Mar 16, 2017•1 hr 6 min
Host Stuart Wright speaks to documentary director Paul Crompton about his new film IRON MEN... The unofficial film records the relocation from the Boleyn Ground to the London Stadium through the voices of fans, owners, club captain and local boy Mark Noble, manager Slaven Bilic and Ray Winstone. Digital release date: March 3, 2017 DVD release date: March 6, 2017 Running time: 75 mins VOD available to buy on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/iron-men/id1200552408 DVD from the West Ham Unit...
Mar 02, 2017•1 hr 5 min
Host Stuart Wright talks with author and prolific podcaster Christopher Brown about five of his favourite GREAT BRITISH HORROR FILMS. The Blood On Satan's Claw (1971) The Stone Tape (1972) Theatre Of Blood (1973) Hardware (1990) Triangle (2008) Find all his latest and past works at http://thelasthorrorpodcast.com His book 'The Video Nasty Moment' is https://www.amazon.co.uk/Video-Nasties-Moment-Examining-Behind/dp/1291993053/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1488382505&sr=8-1&...
Mar 01, 2017•1 hr 16 min
Stuart Wright talks to Billy O'Brien, the director of I Am Not A Serial Killer. I Am Not A Serial Killer is out now on DVD, Blu Ray and all good VOD platforms Podcast from www.britflicks.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Gaslamp Funworks by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0. incompetech.com/music/royalty-fre…isrc=USUAN1100826. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/br...
Feb 22, 2017•1 hr 9 min
Host Stuart Wright talks to director Rafael Kapelinski about his debut feature film BUTTTERFLY KISSES and the World Premiere on Saturday 11 February 2017 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Thursday 29 June - EEFF 2017: Butterfly Kisses (UK Premiere) + Q&A (Hackney Picturehouse) Get tickets https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/eeff-2017-butterfly-kisses-uk-premiere-qanda Saturday 1 July - EEFF 2017: Butterfly Kisses (Curzon Aldgate) Get tickets https://www.cu...
Feb 09, 2017•1 hr
Host Stuart Wright talks to Brasilian born actor/producer Marcia Do Vales about her journey to the UK via Spain; starring in Ibiza Undead, producing Heretiks and preparations for New Orleans where she'll play twins sisters in Quail Hollow. CORRRECTION: During my chat with Marcia I intimated that Ibiza Undead was released on VOD via Frightfest Presents. This was wrong. IBIZA UNDEAD is released 20 March 2017 on DVD from Soda Pictures UK. Podcast from www.britflicks.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (in...
Jan 25, 2017•38 min
Host Stuart Wright talks to Babak Anvari about his debut feature - the horror film UNDER THE SHADOW. Set in 1980s Iran where a mother and daughter are increasingly isolated, and haunted, by something from beyond the realms of the reality of the war that's pulling their country apart. Podcast from www.britflicks.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Gaslamp Funworks by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under...
Jan 20, 2017•25 min
We talk to Dr. Keith Bound, Suspense and Fear Designer for Horror and Thriller Films. He is a leading scholar in the science of storytelling, in particular suspense and how it's constructed. He talks to Britflicks about his 'Scientific Approach to Making Scarier Horror Films and Maximising Return-on-Investment'. Addressing the following questions: 1. Why does suspense matter? 2. Do different types of suspense exist? 3. What exactly happens when we experience suspense? 4. How can these findings b...
Dec 22, 2016•1 hr 42 min
American writer/producer Cary Brown talks us through this years American Film Market. His experiences of taking a thriller (The Caddy) and researching the marketplace for a low budget horror (The Unquiet); and his general observations of the state of play of the film making market in 2016. Podcast from www.britflicks.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Gaslamp Funworks by Kevin MacLeod is licensed...
Nov 27, 2016•1 hr 28 min
Writer/director/tattooist Andy Stewart talks through the body horror short films he's produced with Remo Catani: Split, Ink, Remnant, Sanguinis Domini (for the Soska Sisters Women in Horror Blood Drive compilation) and Dysmorphia and She Lay At His Feet (for Crypt TV.) Dare to watch a couple of his short films: Dysmorphia (2012) (80k views on Crypt TV) https://vimeo.com/64143010 Split (2013/2014) https://vimeo.com/86094964 Podcast from www.britflicks.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com...
Nov 16, 2016•1 hr 3 min
We speak to Marcus Dunstan, the writer/director of hit horror films The Collector and The Collection. His new film is called The Neighbour. This action-packed horror thriller that premiered at London's Frightfest in August and is OUT NOW on DVD and VOD Synopsis: In the small town of Cutter, Mississippi, army veteran John and his wife Rosie live on a run-down ranch, dreaming of one day escaping to Mexico. To raise the cash John runs illicit errands for his uncle. On the day they plan to finally l...
Nov 09, 2016•55 min
Connie is a short film that featured in August's Frightfest short film programme and we spoke to the writer, director Cat Davies about it and so much more... Connie is up for two awards at Sick Chick Flicks 2016. Synopsis of Connie Would-be stand-up Dolly Diggs suffers from stage fright. To overcome her fear, she plans to become a ventriloquist and thinks she found just the puppet to help. Enter bold, brassy, sassy and sickening, the sequinned killer under two feet tall, Connie. But Connie is no...
Nov 03, 2016•1 hr 8 min
Colin Geddes - programmer for past 20 years of the Toronto Midnight Madness and horror fanzine editor - and Sam Zimmerman - former Fangoria website editor - are the co-founders of SHUDDER. They talk to Britflicks about this new horror film only streaming service. To sign up or learn more about Shudder, visit www.shudder.com. Shudder is a premium streaming video service, serving both the casual and hardcore fans of horror and suspenseful entertainment. Offering new premieres and exclusives every ...
Oct 19, 2016•39 min
Cinematographer LARRY SMITH talks through a four decades long career in film that really took off when he joined the crew of Stanley Kubrick's crew on the set of BARRY LYNDON. And now he is in process of getting his directorial debut, TRAFFICKER, to the big screen http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2531120/combined Podcast from www.britflicks.com "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Gaslamp Funworks by Kevin ...
Oct 12, 2016•1 hr 20 min
This week we talk to writer/director Oliver Nias about his debut feature, the noir thriller The Return ahead of it's Autumn festival run and USA Premiere at the Buffalo Film Festival. Back in 2015 The Return's World Premiere at Raindance got it a Best UK Feature nomination, British Independent Film Awards nomination and WINNER Best Noir Thriller Shanghai Genre Film Festival (2016). To come: US PREMIERE Buffalo International Film Festival (October 2016) IN COMPETITION Nottingham International Fil...
Sep 28, 2016•57 min
As a treat to Britflicks.com listeners James Moran took time out his pre-publicity schedule of Mina Murray's Journal to talk us through the writing of his first feature film SEVERANCE. Mina Murray’s Journal is a modernised VLOG update of the classic Bram Stoker novel, Dracula. Starts Thursday 29 September on Youtube Trailer and Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/c/MinasJournalSeries Main website: www.minasjournal.com @MinasJournal @jamesmoran www.facebook.com/MinaMurraysJournal Podcast from www.br...
Sep 22, 2016•1 hr 12 min
Screenwriter Alex Marx talks to Britflicks about his experiences and lessons learnt writing a script for a biopic about the life of Fashion Icon Isabella Blow. MIRACULOUS ISABELLA is the title of the biopic. The production dates are still be confirmed. Britflicks is hoping to hear further news about in 2017 For more about Alex Marx see: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3554781/ https://vimeo.com/alexmarx https://www.facebook.com/alex.d.marx https://www.instagram.com/alexmarxactor/ https://mobile.twitt...
Sep 14, 2016•1 hr 5 min
Sam Ashurst's World Premiere of his short film Hell's Garden was Frightfest 2016. He talks to us about that experience, making Hell's Garden, how he wrote his latest feature script and indulged your host in a bit of Rob Zombie love in post the European Premiere (also Frightfest) of 31. Follow at @FrightFest @britflicks and me @leytonrocks This is a britflicks.com podcast Intro and Outro music is a combination of samples from three creative commons files : "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.co...
Sep 07, 2016•1 hr 30 min
The first ever UK screening of the critically acclaimed documentary “Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale” (Produced by two-time Emmy Award winner, Marilyn Ness) which examines in depth the circumstances surrounding the infection of thousands of Haemophiliacs with HIV / Hepatitis C. We talk to Marilyn Ness about how she made the 2010 film. Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale screens Thursday 29 September 13:00 - 15:30 ICA The Mall London, SW1Y 5AH Tickets are free but you must apply for them here https://www.e...
Sep 06, 2016•50 min
Ken Russell's CRIMES OF PASSION gets it first Blu Ray release thanks to Arrow Video. We talk to screenwriter Barry Sandler about working with this icon of British cinema. This double disc package is OUT NOW and includes: 2K Restoration HD Blu Ray and SD DVD presentations of the director's cut and unrated versions Audio commentary with Ken Russell and Barry Sandler Brand new interview with Barry Sandler Home movie footage of Ken Russell from a 2009 CoP screening in Florida Reversible sleeve Illus...
Aug 31, 2016•49 min
