Film 4 Frightfest. London, 26-30 August 2010
The Film 4 Frightfest continues to attract a growing audience every year and it has now become the premiere international film festival for genre fans. First held on the August bank holiday weekend of 2000, the festival took place at the Prince Charles theatre—a small, hidden cinema in Leicester Squ...
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doaj-83c47f98b06945739c3db6dab0c889772021-08-23T14:48:28ZengUniversity College CorkAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media2009-40782011-08-011136138https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.1.14Film 4 Frightfest. London, 26-30 August 2010Deborah Mellamphy0University College CorkThe Film 4 Frightfest continues to attract a growing audience every year and it has now become the premiere international film festival for genre fans. First held on the August bank holiday weekend of 2000, the festival took place at the Prince Charles theatre—a small, hidden cinema in Leicester Square. The niche film festival had become so popular by 2009 that it was moved to the nearby 1300 seat Empire Cinema and took over two screens in the cinema; the “main” screen for big, crowd-pleasing films and the “discovery” screen for smaller, more obscure, independent films. The festival is notable for its support of independent and foreign horrors, fantasy and grindhouse that would otherwise have never been distributed or screened in the United Kingdom, if at all. http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue 1/FReportMellamphy.htmlfestival reportfilm 4 frightfest |
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The Film 4 Frightfest continues to attract a growing audience every year and it has now become the premiere international film festival for genre fans. First held on the August bank holiday weekend of 2000, the festival took place at the Prince Charles theatre—a small, hidden cinema in Leicester Square. The niche film festival had become so popular by 2009 that it was moved to the nearby 1300 seat Empire Cinema and took over two screens in the cinema; the “main” screen for big, crowd-pleasing films and the “discovery” screen for smaller, more obscure, independent films. The festival is notable for its support of independent and foreign horrors, fantasy and grindhouse that would otherwise have never been distributed or screened in the United Kingdom, if at all. |
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