Mayhem Film Festival 2016 Line-Up

Mayhem Film Festival continues to go from strength to strength and has cemented itself in the calendars of many of us at LeftLion. 2016’s edition looks as packed full of exciting films and events as usual.

The Duke St Workshop who will open the festival with a live performance of Tales of HP Lovecraft featuring cult horror actor Laurence R. Harvey (Human Centipede II and III) and Steve Barker, who will be presenting his new film The ReZort on the Friday evening. Other guests throughout the weekend will include British director Gareth Tunley for a screening of The Ghoul; Billy O’Brien for I Am Not A Serial Killer; and festival favourites Astron-6; Directors Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski, as well as producer Casey Walker will close the festival with a screening of their latest film The Void.

The programme also includes Italy’s They Call Me Jeeg Robot and the UK Premiere of Headshot from Indonesia’s Mo Brothers, as well as preview screenings of Julia Ducournau’s remarkable debut and Cannes-hit, Raw; Emiliano Rocha Minter’s “fairy tale for adults” We Are The Flesh; hilarious horror-comedy Don’t Kill It from the director of Big Assed Spider (starring Dolph Lundgren);and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest film, Creepy, about a criminal psychologist and his suspicious neighbours. From the archives, Mayhem will screen Mario Bava’s Planet of the Vampires, which has been restored and remastered under the supervision of Nicolas Winding Refn, as well as H.G. Lewis’s Blood Feast.

With a total of 17 screenings and events, the festival will also see the return of Mayhem’s Short Film Programme and the fiendish Mayhem quiz, The Flinterrogation hosted by author David Flint.

Here’s the full line-up:

THURSDAY 13 OCTOBER

7.00pm: THE DUKE ST WORKSHOP Live feat. Laurence R. Harvey
Presented in association with Kino Klubb

8.30pm: RAW
Dir. Julia Ducournau, 2016 (FRA) with Rabah Nait Oufella and Garance Marillier

10.30pm: HEADSHOT
Dirs. Kimo Stamboel & Timo Tjahjanto, 2016 (Indonesia) with Iko Uwais and Julie Estelle

FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER

4.00pm: WE ARE THE FLESH
Dir. Emiliano Rocha Minter, 2016 (MEX) with Maria Evoli and Diego Gamaliel

6.00pm: THE REZORT + Special Guest Steve Barker
Dir. Steve Barker, 2015 (UK/SPA/BEL) with Dougray Scott and Jessica De Gouw

9.00pm: THE GREASY STRANGLER
Dir. Jim Hosking, 2016 (UK/USA) with Sky Elobar and Michael St. Michaels

11.00pm: PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES
Dir. Mario Bava, 1965 (ITA) with Barry Sullivan and Norma Bengell

SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER

12.00pm: THEY CALL ME JEEG ROBOT
Dir. Gabriele Mainetti, 2016 (ITA) with Claudio Santamaria and Luca Marnielli

2.30pm: PET
Dir. Carles Torrens, 2016 (USA) with Dominic Monaghan and Ksenia Solo

4.15pm: THE GHOUL + Special Guest Gareth Tunley
Dir. Gareth Tunley, 2016 (UK) with Alice Lowe and Tom Meeten

7.00pm: SHORT FILM SHOWCASE
Dirs. Various, 2016 (International)

9.30pm: THE DEVIL’S CANDY
Dir. Sean Byrne, 2015 (USA) with Ethan Embry and Shiri Appleby

11.30pm: BLOOD FEAST, preceded by GWILLIAM
Dir. H.G. Lewis, 1963 (USA) with Connie Mason and William Kerwin
GWILLIAM is the new outrageous short film from Brian “Crow Hand!!!” Lonano

SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER

12.00pm: DON’T KILL IT
Dir. Mike Mendez, 2016 (USA) with Dolph Lundgren and Kristina Klebe

2.00pm: CREEPY
Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2015 (JAP) with Hidetoshi Nishijima and Yuko Takeuchi

5.00pm: I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER + Special Guest Billy O’ Brien
Dir. Billy O’ Brien, 2015 (USA) with Christopher Lloyd and Max Records

7.30pm: The Flinterrogation

8.30pm: THE VOID + Special guests Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski and Casey Walker
Dirs. Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski, 2016 (CAN) with Art Hindle and Aaron Poole

Mayhem Film Festival takes place on 13-16 October at Broadway Cinema. Individual tickets, day passes and full festival passes at the regular price of £70 are on sale here.