EVENTS

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/fantastic

update 12 June 2008: Two classic Hammer's are screening at the festival - Scars of Dracula plays on Saturday morning, and the new digital BFI print of Dracula on Sunday.

The Insight collection of Roy Ashton and Phil Leakey's Hammer make-up will also be on show over the weekend and is free to visit.

Jimmy Sangster and Robert Feust were forced to withdraw because of ill-health. Confirmed special guests include Peter Duffell, Harry Kümel, Piers Haggard and Robert Wynne-Simmons. Jenny Agutter is hoping to make the festival, subject to filming commitments.

A full schedule and ticket information is at http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/fantastic/2008/

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Full details including ticket prices for this year are still to be announced, but the 7th annual Fantastic Films Weekend in Bradford takes place at the National Media Museum from Friday 13th to Sunday 16th June 2008.

Special guests for this years festival include Jenny Agutter, Peter Duffell, Jimmy Sangster, Piers Haggard, Harry Kumel, and Robert Fuest, who makes a return visit after a hugely enjoyable appearance in 2006.

 Each guest is connected with a particular screening, so delegates can look forward to An American Werewolf in London, The House That Dripped Blood, Hammer’s Dracula (screened in digital), Blood on Satan’s Claw, Daughters of Darkness and a double-bill of The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again! All guests appear subject to work (and other) commitments.

Thanks to the ever-growing 70mm archive at the National Media Museum, the FFW has access to an incredible range of widescreen movies. FFW is planning to screen John Carpenter’s The Thing, Peter Hyams’ Outland and Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist. If the strand is well-received it may become a regular fixture of the weekend.

We hope to present a range of established classics alongside newer product from emerging filmmakers, so look out for Georges Franju’s Les Yeux sans visage, Terence Fisher’s Dracula (in digital), a package of classic short films and I Am Legend on the giant IMAX screen. There are also plans to present the Grindhouse double-bill as it was originally intended.


HAMMER MAKE-UP EFFECTS ON SHOW

The National Media Museum holds the archives of Hammer make-up supremos Phil Leakey and Roy Ashton. We hope to present a modest display of some of this unique material during the FFW.