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Updated: Early bird tickets now on sale for Mayhem Film Festival’s 18th edition

Updated: Early bird tickets now on sale for Mayhem Film Festival’s 18th edition

Posted: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 15:25

Early bird tickets are now on sale for Mayhem 2022.

Early bird tickets are now on sale for the 18th edition of Mayhem Film Festival - Nottingham's very own weekend showcase of the best horror, sci-fi and cult film from around the world.

Mayhem Film Festival curator Steven Sheil cannot wait for this year's festival to begin: "Mayhem Film Festival is now 18, which means we can finally watch our programme and have a few drinks in the Café Bar, legally!"

Mayhem Film Festival co-curator, Chris Cooke added: "We're currently putting together the full line-up for the Mayhem weekend and will be announcing our line-up over the coming weeks. All we can say is that it's looking like it'll be another vintage year!"

Caroline Hennigan, Broadway's Programme Director, is looking forward to welcoming Mayhem fans from across the UK back to Broadway Cinema: "Mayhem is one of our biggest weekends of the year, with an amazing atmosphere that always brings in new film fans to Broadway. The Mayhem team - Steven, Chris and Meli - always programme an eclectic and unique festival that gets people talking and we're sure this year's line-up will be no exception."

Early bird tickets are now on sale and Mayhem fans can purchase either a full festival pass for £75 that includes Thursday evening's screenings or keep it to the weekend only (Friday-Sunday) for £70. Tickets can be purchased from the Broadway website.

In previous years, Mayhem has welcomed many filmmakers from around the world such as Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) for Monsters, Mark Gatiss (The League of Gentlemen, Sherlock) for a special masterclass, Ben Wheatley for a preview screening of Sightseers, Nicolas Roeg for a special screening of Don't Look Now at St. Mary's Church in Nottingham, and cult Canadian collective Astron-6 for The Editor and The Void. Mayhem Film Festival has also hosted special events such as screenings with specially-commissioned live scores from 8MM Orchestra, two exclusive live stage reading of unmade Hammer Films screenplays, The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula in 2015 and Zeppelin V. Pterodactyls in 2017, and a live performance of Tales of HP Lovecraft by The Duke St Workshop featuring British actor Laurence R. Harvey.

Further line-up announcements are expected soon.

For all Mayhem press enquiries, please contact

Cherelle Wilks, Marketing Coordinator, Broadway / c.wilks@broadway.org.uk / 0115 952 6611

Notes to editor

Mayhem Film Festival

Mayhem Film Festival is a cutting-edge event bringing you the very best in genre cinema and television. From premieres, new releases and previews to cult classics, breakthrough shorts, midnight movies, masterclasses, live experiments and more - Mayhem offers a unique and exciting viewing experience for audiences across four days.

Past guests and events have included a screening of Don't Look Now in the Gothic surroundings of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham, with director Nicolas Roeg in attendance, a masterclass with director Gareth Edwards (Monsters, Godzilla), special interviews with directors Mike Hodges (Get Carter, Black Rainbow) and Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man), and a special archive presentation and interview with Mark Gatiss (The League of
Gentleman
, Sherlock, Doctor Who). Other unique events include a screening of Tod Browning's silent classic The Unknown with a specially-composed original live score by 8mm Orchestra, and a panel from the cast and creators of hit BBC TV series Being Human.

"We cannot recommend Mayhem Film Festival highly enough." Sci-Fi Now
"One of the best organised horror gatherings around..." Dark Side Magazine
"Mayhem amply captures the zeitgeist in horror, science-fiction and cult cinema...and boasts some of the finest programming around." Starburst

http://www.mayhemfilmfestival.com

About Broadway Cinema:

Screening independent British and World film alongside Hollywood blockbusters and classic cinema retrospectives, Broadway is one of the UK's leading independent cinemas attracting thousands of visitors each year to its four screen cinema, Café Bar and meeting, workshop and office spaces.

Broadway's wider role includes encouraging the development of new talent and supporting learning through programmes such as the BFI Film Academy, and innovation and enterprise for people working in the creative and digital industries with initiatives such Near Now, Broadway's studio for arts, design and innovation, and the Near Now Fellowship, their artistic and professional development programme.

Broadway hosts award-winning filmmakers such as Jeanie Finlay (Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth) and Wellington Studios (BAFTA Scotland award-winning Calibre, London to Brighton ) who regularly receive international acclaim for their work. Broadway is also the home of the BFI's Film Hub Midlands, a key driving force behind film culture in the Midlands that provides training and funding to ensure people in the region watch, make and show films and has also been awarded a BFI Screen Diversity Mark.

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Mayhem Film Festival returns to Broadway, Nottingham on 13-16 October 2022

Mayhem Film Festival returns to Broadway, Nottingham on 13-16 October 2022

Posted: Mon, 09 May 2022 17:01

Mayhem Film Festival will return this autumn to Broadway Cinema, Nottingham to showcase the best in international horror, sci-fi and cult cinema, with the festival's 18th edition planned to run for four days from Thursday 13 - Sunday 16 October.

Following last year's triumphant return to Broadway's Screen 1 after a scaled-down 'Skeleton Edition' of the festival in 2020, organisers are excited to once again begin planning for the festival's traditional four-day event in October.

Mayhem's organisers promise the biggest edition of the festival yet – festival co-director Chris Cooke says: "We're looking forward to bringing you together for the most anticipated and exciting examples of the genre, special guests and more… across four days of glorious global cinema – in a packed-out Screen 1 at the very best venue out there, Broadway Cinema!"

Broadway's Director of Marketing and Communications, Stewart Terry added: "We can't wait to host another Mayhem this year. The four-day Mayhem weekend is always one of the most exciting times for us here at Broadway, and we know that many film lovers visit us from across the UK to not only see the latest in big-screen horror, sci-fi and cult movies, but also to re-engage with their fellow Mayhem fans."

In addition to announcing their 2022 dates, Mayhem Film Festival is pleased to open the call for short films for this year's edition. Over the years, Mayhem has grown from a single short film programme to a four-day event, but its shorts programme remains at the heart of every edition. Mayhem Film Festival are looking for horror, sci-fi and cult short films, produced after 1 January 2021 and that are under 22 minutes long. More information on how to submit films is available at https://filmfreeway.com/MayhemFilmFestival

In previous years, Mayhem has welcomed many filmmakers from around the world such as Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) for Monsters, Mark Gatiss (The League of Gentlemen, Sherlock) for a special masterclass, Ben Wheatley for a preview screening of Sightseers, Nicolas Roeg for a special screening of Don't Look Now at St Mary's Church in Nottingham, and cult Canadian collective Astron-6 for The Editor and The Void. Mayhem Film Festival has also hosted special events such as screenings with specially commissioned live scores from 8MM Orchestra, two exclusive live stage readings of unmade Hammer Films screenplays, The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula in 2015 and Zeppelin V. Pterodactyls in 2017, and a live performance of Tales of HP Lovecraft by The Duke St Workshop featuring British actor Laurence R. Harvey.

Planning is currently underway for Mayhem Film Festival's 18th edition with more information and announcements coming soon. Mayhem Film Festival will take place at Broadway, Nottingham on 13 – 16 October 2022.

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Mayhem teams up with The Nottingham Horror Collective for Jennifer's Body + horror shorts on Friday 1 April

Mayhem teams up with The Nottingham Horror Collective for Jennifer's Body + horror shorts on Friday 1 April

Posted: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 15:31

Mayhem is teaming up with The Nottingham Horror Collective for a special screening of Jennifer's Body on Friday 1 April at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham to celebrate women in the horror genre.

Join us at Broadway for the cult comedy horror Jennifer's Body (2009), directed by Karyn Kusama and starring a demonically possessed Megan Fox - but first, we'll be kicking things off with a selection of Mayhem-curated horror shorts by women directors:

CRESWICK
Natalie Erika James / 2017 / 9m
While a young woman helps her father pack up his house, they both become increasingly aware of a presence they always knew was there.

NASTY
Prano Bailey-Bond / 2016 / 15m
It's 1982, and twelve-year old Doug is drawn into the lurid world of VHS horror as he explores the mysterious disappearance of his father.

CATCALLS
Kate Dolan / 2018 / 9m
Paul cruises around late at night looking for a cheap thrill. Unfortunately for him, the girls he pulls up to are also out hunting.

About The Nottingham Horror Collective:
Led by graphic designer & illustrator Ruth Skrytek and writer & editor Emily Malone, TNHC is a local zine dedicated to the horror genre.

Their 5th zine issue, THE HIGH PRIESTESS, is a celebration of women in horror. Featuring interviews with Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (1000 Women in Horror), Nona Limmen (Age of the Succubus), and 64 pages of original artwork, short fiction, reviews, and articles by 27 horror-loving creatives from Nottingham and beyond.

You'll be able to purchase THE HIGH PRIESTESS (releasing on International Women's Day, Tuesday 8 March) at a 10% discount with every ticket on the night, or via: thenottinghamhorrorcollective.co.uk

Tickets are available from Broadway Cinema's website now.

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Guests confirmed for opening night of Mayhem 2021

Guests confirmed for opening night of Mayhem 2021

Posted: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:00

Mayhem is pleased to announce confirmed guests for this year's edition of the festival, which takes place from Thursday 14 - Sunday 17 October 2021.

We are delighted to be joined on the opening night of Mayhem 2021 by the co-director of behind-the-scenes documentary Alien on Stage, Danielle Kummer, as well as star of the play, Lydia Hayward, who plays Ripley, and the play's director, Dave Mitchell.

Alien on Stage sees a group of Dorset bus drivers remake sci-fi classic Alien for the stage - all on a shoestring budget - and triumphantly take it to the West End stage. It screens at Mayhem on Thursday 14 October at 7PM.

A very limited number of tickets are still available to book online via our Tickets page.

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Online booking now available for Mayhem 2021 (Monday 4 October)

Online booking now available for Mayhem 2021 (Monday 4 October)

Posted: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:36

Tickets for Mayhem 2021 are now available to book online, following technical issues last week. Please visit our Ticketing page to book.

Seating for this year's festival is allocated, so you'll need to pick your seats when booking for each film.

A very limited number of full weekend passes are available via Broadway's Box Office only - please call 0115 952 6600 or drop in in person to book.

Thank you for your patience, and happy booking!

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Online bookings down due to technical issue (Friday 1 October)

Online bookings down due to technical issue (Friday 1 October)

Posted: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:45

Our host venue Broadway is currently experiencing technical issues with online bookings for Mayhem.

Please call the Box Office on 0115 952 6600 or visit in person (open from 12PM daily) to book your tickets and passes.

We apologise for any inconvenience, and we hope to have online sales available soon.

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Individual tickets available from Friday 1 October for Mayhem 2021

Individual tickets available from Friday 1 October for Mayhem 2021

Posted: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:00

With just over two weeks to go until Mayhem 2021 gets underway, we're pleased to finally announce that individual tickets will go on sale at midday on Friday 1 October.

Due to the uncertainty that the pandemic has brought, we've had to wait to confirm if individual tickets would be possible for this year's festival, so we're very happy to now be able to release a limited number of tickets for each film. Browse this year's full line-up here.

As with passes this year, seating is allocated to allow for social distancing and so you'll need to pick a specific seat for each screening when you book your tickets.

From Friday, full weekend passes will be available via Broadway's Box Office only. Visit the Box Office in person or contact Broadway over the phone on 0115 952 6600 to book.

See you all at Broadway, Nottingham - Thursday 14-Sunday 17 October 2021.

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Mayhem Film Festival reveals Short Film Showcase line-up for 2021

Mayhem Film Festival reveals Short Film Showcase line-up for 2021

Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:17

With just under one month to go until the doors open on another weekend of horror, sci-fi and cult cinema, Mayhem Film Festival has revealed the titles that will make up their popular Short Film Showcase screening on Saturday 16 October.

Featuring titles from across the world, this year's line-up includes the following films (in alphabetical order):

A TALE BEST FORGOTTEN//Dir.Tomas Stark, Sweden, 5m8

BLACK MOON//Dir.Ryan Graff, US, 8m01

DEMON//Dir.Colin Friend & Mitch Findlay, Canada, 13m

EYE EXAM//Dir.Aislinn Clarke, UK, 2m52

HOUSEHOLD DEMONS//Dir.John Gray, US, 9m01

NIGHTINGALE//Dir.Jasper de Bruin, Netherlands, 14m55

THE THING THAT ATE BIRDS//Dir.Sophie Mair & Dan Gitsham, UK, 11m52

THEY'RE HERE//Dir.Sid Zanforlin, Canada, 12m

WAFFLE//Dir.Carlyn Hudson, US, 10m57

Due to social distancing measures, there are only a limited number of festival passes still available for this year's festival. Visit Broadway Cinema's website to book.

As the festival evolved from the original Short Film Showcase, short films have always been at the heart of Mayhem Film Festival and continue to be an opportunity to see up-and-coming directors and celebrate genre cinema.

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Mayhem Film Festival announces full line-up and extra weekend pass availability  for 2021 edition

Mayhem Film Festival announces full line-up and extra weekend pass availability for 2021 edition

Posted: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:05

Mayhem Film Festival returns this October with a feast of horror, sci-fi and cult titles from around the world and - after a quick sell-out of weekend passes in August - a limited number of additional passes for the weekend are now on sale.

We're kicking off on Thursday 14 October with our previously announced opening film, behind-the-scenes documentary Alien On Stage, in which an unlikely group of Dorset bus drivers put on a DIY production of Alien and take it to the West End stage.

Next up this year is underwater ghost story The Deep House - also already announced - which plunges us into the depths of a submerged haunted house for a literally immersive horror experience.

Up from the vaults, Mayhem opens its archive for the second day of the festival on Friday 15 October to resurrect a lesser-seen British horror film of yesteryear - a dark gem of Gothic cinema, 1949's Queen of Spades, in which a gambler becomes obsessed with an old lady, said to have sold her soul to the devil in order to win at cards.

Friday's line-up continues with The Show, a noir-fantasy set in Northampton, written by comics legend Alan Moore. Trippy, multi-layered and shot through with droll humour, The Show is an idiosyncratic delight.

We carry on into the evening with a smart and genuinely surprising sci-fi black comedy, Night Drive, which sees a ride-share driver's life begin to fall apart when he picks up his last passenger and accidentally hits a pedestrian.

Closing the Friday night of the festivalisSouth Korean cat-and-mouse thriller, Oh-Seung Kwon's Midnight. A serial-killing psychopath is interrupted in his latest crime by a young deaf woman - and so begins a non-stop, all-night, life-or-death chase packed with tension and twists.

We're starting Saturday 16 October off with an all-animated dark fantasy horror The Spine of Night, featuring the voices of Richard E. Grant and Lucy Lawless. A psychedelic, hallucinogenic epic of outrageous violence, ancient gods and courageous heroes set in a land of magic and mysticism, The Spine of Night is unlike anything we've ever screened.

Second on Saturday is a stylish, haunting and intense psychological portrait Knocking. A woman leaves a psychiatric ward and finds herself placed alone in a new apartment where she begins to hear mysterious knocking sounds.

Feed on the blood of fresh filmmaking talent with the return of the always-popular Mayhem Short Film Showcase on Saturday afternoon, presenting a selection of scary, weird and wonderful shorts from around the world and closer to home.

From the producers of The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil comes a new experience in action – the genre-bending, high-octane sci-fi thriller Spiritwalker. A man wakes up in a different body every twelve hours, each time forced to discover who he is - all the while being pursued by a secret organisation. He must find his way back into his real body before it's too late!

This year's Mayhem Midnight Movie on Saturday night is Brian De Palma's 1974 cult classic Phantom of the Paradise. Mixing the plots of The Phantom of the Opera and Faust, and adding a great score and cool songs, this is De Palma (Carrie, Blow Out) at his most stylish and stylised – a genuine midnight movie masterpiece.

We're starting off the final day of the festival on Sunday 17 October with the hilariously hyperactive satire Get the Hell Out, where Taiwan's parliament becomes a deadly battleground when a virus transforms politicians into bloodthirsty mutant zombies.

Fresh from winning rave reviews at its international premiere at Fantasia, there's hell to pay when a lonely teenager discovers her family's connections to witchcraft in occult coming-of-age story Hellbender, from the incredibly creative Adams family.

Later on Sunday is horroranthology The Night Shift. Looking for inspiration, an artist visits a run-down housing estate and interviews the building's caretaker, who has many strange and uncanny tales to tell…

In the penultimate slot for this year's festival is the unique Nordic folktale Lamb, a strange and daring debut from special effects master-turned-director Valdimar Jóhannsson. A childless couple discover a mysterious newborn on their remote farm in Iceland. Soon they're experiencing the joy of family – but before long, family will tear them apart.

We're closing Mayhem 2021 in style withthe must-see, one-take sci-fi comedy Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes. Tokyo café owner Kato returns home from work to find a message from his future self on his computer screen… and soon this strange phenomenon gets chaotically out of hand. Praised for its inventiveness by the creator of One Cut of the Dead - which went down a storm at Mayhem 2018 – it's sure to be a festival favourite this year.

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Mayhem Film Festival set  to return to Broadway, Nottingham on 14-17 October 2021

Mayhem Film Festival set to return to Broadway, Nottingham on 14-17 October 2021

Posted: Fri, 14 May 2021 18:43

Mayhem Film Festival will return this autumn to showcase the best in international horror, sci-fi and cult cinema, with the festival's 17th edition planned to run for four days from 14-17 October.

After last year hosting a slimmed-down 'Skeleton Edition' of the festival due to restrictions caused by the pandemic, organisers are hoping to move back towards the full flesh of the festival's traditional form for this year's edition, though the precise structure of the festival will remain responsive to events and any restrictions which may be in place in the autumn.

"We are very much hoping to return to a full festival at our home venue of Broadway in Nottingham, because nothing beats the full experience, but we are aware things are still evolving. Our main priority is for everyone, audiences and staff, to enjoy films in a safe environment so we're encouraging you to save the dates, but don't make plans to travel just yet. We'll continue to work with our friends at Broadway and follow government guidance in the next few months and hope to announce our exact plans in the early summer", says the team.

On the festival's return, Broadway's Marketing Director Stewart Terry says: "We're so excited to host Mayhem once again and we hope to do so in all its gory glory. The festival always brings people together at Broadway and we can't wait for them to not only enjoy some of the most exciting films from across the world, but also experience our refurbed venue."

In addition to announcing their 2021 dates, Mayhem Film Festival is also excited to open their call for short films for this year's edition. Over the years, Mayhem grew from a single short film programme to a four-day event, but its shorts programme remains at the heart of every edition. Mayhem Film Festival are looking for horror, sci-fi and cult short films, produced after 1 January 2020 and that are under 22-minute long. More information on how to submit films is available at https://filmfreeway.com/MayhemFilmFestival

In previous years, Mayhem has welcomed many filmmakers from around the world such as Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One: A Star WarsStory) for Monsters,Mark Gatiss (The League of Gentlemen, Sherlock) for a special masterclass, Ben Wheatley for a preview screening of Sightseers, Nicolas Roeg for a special screening of Don't Look Now at St Mary's Church in Nottingham, and cult Canadian collective, Astron-6 for The Editor and The Void. Mayhem Film Festival has also hosted special events such as screenings with specially-commissioned live scores from 8MM Orchestra, two exclusive live stage reading of unmade Hammer Films screenplays, The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula in 2015 and Zeppelin V. Pterodactyls in 2017, and a live performance of Tales of HP Lovecraft by The Duke St Workshop featuring British actor Laurence R. Harvey.

Planning is currently underway for Mayhem Film Festival's 17th edition with more information and announcements coming soon.

Mayhem Film Festival will take place at Broadway, Nottingham on 14 – 17 October 2021. For more information, please visit https://www.mayhemfilmfestival.com/

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