STRANGER DANGER!
Never answer your phone! Never stop your car! Never open your door!
- Forbidden Worlds Film Festival: The Big Scream returns to the Bristol Megascreen at Bristol Aquarium over two days on 11th and 12th October 2024
- This year, the festival will be terrifying audiences with six classic horror films focusing on ‘Stranger Danger’ including the UK premiere of a new 4K restoration of Dario Argento’s Opera, a 4K restoration of cult thriller The Hitcher and classic 90s slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer
- The festival will also be screening horror shorts before the features including five from Bristol filmmakers
Bristol’s biggest repertory genre film festival is back to issue a very serious public warning: do not speak to strangers or involve yourself with them in any way. It will not be good for your health… or your life!
On the 11th and 12th of October 2024, the Big Scream returns for a two-nighter at Bristol’s former IMAX screen – now dubbed the Bristol Megascreen.
As the nights draw in and spooky season gets closer, Forbidden Worlds looks at the perils of stranger danger with six selections from around the globe: the cult British folk horror of The Shout; a brand-new 4K restoration of VHS favourite The Hitcher, starring the much-missed Rutger Hauer; Dario Argento’s audacious Opera, also presented in a brand-new 4K restoration; the creepy and influential Cure from Japan; teen horror fave I Know What You Did Last Summer; and the quintessential ‘stranger danger’ horror, When a Stranger Calls.
This year, as a special treat, each film will also be preceded by a horror short. Five of those shorts are the work of Bristol-based and/or Bristol-born filmmakers, plus a recent audience favourite from the horror festival circuit – all of which will look and sound positively amazing on the biggest screen in the South West!
Launched in 2022, Forbidden Worlds Film Festival is Bristol’s leading genre film festival dedicated to screening repertory fantasy, action, science-fiction and horror films from around the world, and celebrating the people that made them.
The festival has drawn a lot of attention for utilising Bristol’s former IMAX screen to put on showings of classic genre movies complete with special video intros from Hollywood icons such as James Cameron, Jamie Lee Curtis, Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson and more.
As always, New Bristol Brewery will be bringing a unique selection of beers including The Forbidden Sesh – their Forbidden Worlds Festival-branded IPA – for punters to enjoy, while Espensen Spirits will be providing a range of exciting programme-themed cocktails as well as hot dogs. Indian Summer will also be on site selling a range of mouth-watering Asian snacks, while Mobile Coffee Box will provide a range of hot drinks.
The festival poster has once again been designed by local artist Jim’ll Paint It, who will be at the festival selling posters and t-shirts.
Other vendors include Second City Comics who will be selling horror-themed toys and DVDs.
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For the full line-up, visit www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
