{"id":105186,"date":"2018-10-02T16:17:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=105186"},"modified":"2018-10-02T16:17:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:17:25","slug":"nottinghams-mayhem-film-festival-looks-like-a-scarily-good-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/nottinghams-mayhem-film-festival-looks-like-a-scarily-good-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham&#8217;s Mayhem Film Festival looks like a scarily good time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Mayhem Film Festival<\/strong> is returning to Nottingham\u2019s Broadway Cinema on 11 October and genre fans will not want to miss the fantastic selection in store this year.<\/p>\n<p>It all kicks off with John McPhail\u2019s superb [deep breath] Scottish zombie horror high school musical comedy drama\u00a0<strong><em>Anna And The Apocalypse<\/em><\/strong> (the songs will be stuck in your head for weeks, in a good way), followed by Mick Garris\u2019 latest anthology <strong><em>Nightmare Cinema<\/em><\/strong>, which features shorts from the likes of Joe Dante, David Slade and Ryuhei Kitamura.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Cage ventures into the darkness in Panos Cosmatos\u2019 dazzling festival favourite <strong><em>Mandy<\/em><\/strong>, Mia Wasikowska and Christopher Abbott engage in some dangerous games in Nicolas Pesce\u2019s deliciously twisted\u00a0<strong><em>Piercing<\/em><\/strong> (from the writer of <strong><em>Audition<\/em><\/strong>!), a morgue attendant talks to the dead in Dennison Ramalho\u2019s <strong><em>Nightshifter<\/em><\/strong>, and folk horror fans cannot afford to miss the brilliant anthology <strong><em>The Field Guide To Evil<\/em><\/strong> (seriously, Peter Strickland\u2019s short is <strong>unmissable<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for genuine chills, Andy Mitton\u2019s <strong><em>The Witch In The Window<\/em><\/strong> is sure to send a shiver down your spine, and if you\u2019re on the hunt for some outrageous gore, we have absolutely no doubt that you\u2019ll get what you need from the madness of<strong><em> Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich<\/em><\/strong>. Japanese zombie horror <strong><em>One Cut Of The Dead<\/em><\/strong> has emerged as a favourite wherever it\u2019s played, festival closer <strong><em>What Keeps You Alive<\/em><\/strong> is sure to leave you heading home feeling deeply unsure about the people around you, and there are a host of UK premieres including Chris Caldwell &amp; Zeek Earl\u2019s much-buzzed sci-fi <strong><em>Prospect<\/em><\/strong>, Nosipho Dumisa\u2019s South African thriller<strong><em> Number 37,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Shinsuke Sato\u2019s spin on the superhero movie <strong><em>Inuyashiki,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and Astron-6 return with <strong><em>Chowboys<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Aislinn Clarke will be on hand to talk about her 60s set religious horror <strong><em>The Devil\u2019s Doorway<\/em><\/strong>, Marc Price will give a Q&amp;A following his action movie <strong><em>Nightshooters<\/em><\/strong>, there\u2019s a screening of Lamberto Bava\u2019s classic <strong><em>Demons<\/em><\/strong> and we are very, very excited about the screening of 1952 Finnish were-reindeer movie <strong><em>The White Reindeer<\/em><\/strong>. There\u2019s also another instalment of the festival\u2019s excellent shorts programme which is always a highlight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets are available now on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayhemfilmfestival.com\/tickets\">the festival website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mayhem Film Festival runs from 11 to 14 October. Visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.mayhemfilmfestival.com\/ to find out more.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandy, Anna And The Apocalypse, One Cut Of The Dead and Nightmare Cinema head up Nottingham&#8217;s Mayhem Film Festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":105187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[5378],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mandy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}