Sunday, 24 December 2023

Horror-on-Sea Film Festival, Southend-on-Sea

(12 to 14, 19 to 21 January 2024) 
The 11th annual festival Horror-on-Sea Film Festival offers two weekends of screenings at the Park Inn by Radisson Palace Hotel. 

Cannibal Mukbang The 11th season of the festival will have 36 feature films and 50 short films from across the world. Horror-on-Sea also keeps the prices slashed at £7 per film, day passes at £32, weekend passes at £80 and a festival mega pass at £130. 

Festival premieres include some not be playing in main screen cinemas, and each main feature is accompanied by short horror films. 

The festival starts with the anthology feature The Monster Mash (2022), a triple-bill celebrating the Americana creature features with a reliance on old-school special effects. 

Among other showings : 
  • the Argentinian film Memories of Evil (2022) has a nurse discovering her patient may not be suffering from amnesia and is drawn into a terrifying nightmare 
  • Blood and Snow (2022) from Canada has a meteorite impact infecting a scientist with horrifying consequences 
  • Axel Falcon (2024) a world premiere as a cop battles warriors, robots and ruthless henchmen, and 
  • Britain´s Hell Nurse (2022), an exploitation slasher of satanic pacts and revenge as surgical instruments send the criminals running and the blood flying. 
Southend comes to the screen with Punch (2023), an end-of-the-pier gothic slasher that sees Mr Punch stalking the seafront and the festival ends with a horde of hillbillies from hell in Hillbilly Holocaust (2023). 

The Horror-on-Sea Film Festival is presented by The White Bus Ltd, based at The Old Waterworks, a Victorian municipal waterworks, in Southend-on-Sea. www.thewhitebus.org.uk 
Southend-on-Sea is a resort town on the Thames Estuary in Essex with a traditional seaside pier. www.visitsouthend.co.uk 
* Tracy Jones at tracy@brera-london.com

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