Genre festival Celluloid Screams turns fifteen this year. The annual festival, which takes place within Sheffield’s Showroom cinema, celebrates the best in independent genre films. Celluloid Screams also champions short films, pairing them with the features that are screening to give the audience a smorgasbord of genre content. The festival also takes time to honour some of the genre’s most beloved cult movies with special retrospective screenings. Last week, festival directors Robert Nevitt and Polly Allen held a launch event in the Showroom during which they shared this year’s tantalising line-up.
Festivities will begin on Thursday evening with the international premiere of We Are Zombies and close on Sunday night with a screening of The Chapel. In between these two new exciting projects Celluloid Screams will host special showings of three cult genre titans – Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Freaked, and Hellraiser: Hellbound. The festival provides the perfect opportunity to see these titles on the big screen amongst like-minded people.
British writer, comedian, and podcast host, Adam Buxton, brings BUG, the long running sell-out BFI music video show to Celluloid Screams 2023, for a special Video Nasties show filled with disturbing delights from the music video world. Expect a selection of brilliantly horrific, unsettling, and just plain weird music videos from across the years, variously unhinged comments from the online community, and other nonsense from Adam’s laptop.
The full feature film list is as follows:
#Manhole
All You Need is Blood
Falling Stars
Loop Track
Origin, The
Pandemonium
T Blockers
What You Wish For
Where the Devil Roams
And if all those films aren’t enough to excite you, Celluloid Screams will also play three secret screenings. The first is a 35mm projection of a classic mystery grindhouse movie. The other two are surprise screenings of new and upcoming films.
Once more the team have curated a beautiful programme of exciting films both new and old. If you can’t make Celluloid Screams this year then you can live vicariously through THN as we’ll be on the ground sharing reviews of all of the films.
Celluloid Screams runs from 19th October – 22nd October at The Showroom Cinema Sheffield. Limited weekend passes are available now, with day passes and individual tickets on sale from 26th September. Information on tickets can be found here.
