Celluloid Screams at Showroom Cinema
Tom Grieve, Cinema Editor
Celluloid Screams is ready to rise once again with a horrifying host of scary movies and events at Showroom Cinema this October. Sheffield’s Horror Film Festival combines brand new short and feature films, with secret screenings and proper cult movies for a long weekend that draws film fans from far and wide.
Highlights for 2024 include an Opening Gala visit from director Steven Kostanski and stars Conor Sweeney, Matthew Kennedy and Adam Brooks, for the UK premiere of yuppie-goblin-freakout flick Frankie Freako (Thu 24 Oct). While the Closing Night film sees Nick Frost back in familiar territory as the bumbling matriarch in Krazy House (Sun 27 Oct), which combines vintage sitcom aesthetics with bone-crunching violence.
the Closing Night film sees Nick Frost back in familiar territory as the bumbling matriarch in Krazy House
Other brand new films on offer include The Last Video Store (Fri 25 Oct), where a cursed videotape unleashes a raft of cinematic villains from the collection of a video store owner. From Argentina, the World Cup final provides cover for kidnapping and torture gone wrong in Luciano and Nicolás Onetti’s period horror 1978 (Sun 27 Oct). While Wake Up (Sun 27 Oct) sees a protest turn into a massacre as a group of young environmental activists meet a hunting-obsessed security guard.
the Horror Market is back with traders including, Arrow Video, Last Shirt on the Left and Killer Kult Pins, before the true terrors of the Closing Night Karaoke Party
There are a number of anniversaries to celebrate this year too. Haunted doll sequel Bride of Chucky gets a late night 25th anniversary outing on Thursday 24 October. A masked killer terrorises an Italian fashion house as Mario Bava’s impossibly stylish giallo Blood and Black Lace (Sat 26 Oct) is restored in 4K for its 60th. Then there’s a 50th birthday screening of British horror anthology From Beyond the Grave on Sunday 27 October.
Special events for 2024 include the annual Celluloid Screams Secret Film (Sat 26 Oct), which this year is joined by a late night passholders exclusive 35mm Mystery Grindhouse Screening (Fri 25 Oct). The Frankie Freako crew will provide a live commentary for a 10th anniversary showing of The Editor (Fri 25 Oct) which premiered originally at Celluloid Screams 2014. Plus, the Horror Market is back with traders including, Arrow Video, Last Shirt on the Left and Killer Kult Pins, before the true terrors of the Closing Night Karaoke Party (Sun 27 Oct).
