Celluloid Screams (2024): (FF) 7 Keys
Director: Joy Wilkinson Jeva Films, UK 2024: 93mins “A fresh take on two people exploring their damaged pasts and each other across a bright, modern London”. A hot entry in the thriller/horror-adjacent by Joy Wilkinson, “7 Keys” is a delightful high-concept idea whose central premise carries it far; as the director describes it at the […]
Celluloid Screams 2024: (FF) Frankie Freako
“Fasten your freakbelts” Directed by Steven Kostanski (The Void, Psycho Goreman), we start the festival with a film whose tone and mayhem is deeply rooted in the puppet creature features of the 80’s and 90’s. Frankie Freako is a Canadian horror comedy with a considerable about of heart within it’s riotous and chaotic set pieces. […]
Sheffield Live Update Megapost #1 2024
The New Year is here, and so is this very delayed type up of a couple of shows we saw in 2023. It is delayed but important to talk about them before going forward. Let us get into this spicy combination of live music and theatre without further delay. Ben McElroy plus Antique Doll – […]
Gravest Fears – Theatre Review- University of Sheffield (29 Oct 23)
We are off to see Nunkie Productions (https://www.nunkie.co.uk/) touring show of “Gravest Fears” as part of their M R James Project, spreading ghost stories through the land; those wonderous things that thankfully don’t ever die. The show is in association with the Enable Us Project at the University of Sheffield (https://performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/enable-us/) which has been showing […]
Celluloid Screams: Film Shorts (20 Oct)
For a change of pace from folk music reviews we decided to attend the Celluloid Screams horror festival in Sheffield. We needed to get some horror on while the spirit of Halloween was just around the corner, albeit sadly just for a day. There were many films, it was delightful blur of memorable pictures. We […]
Haunted – “Influential horror stories dug up and made fresh” – The University of Sheffield Drama Studio (1st April 2023)
A review of “Haunted”, a theatre show brought by LittleMighty and Enable Us on 01/04/23 at the University of Sheffield’s Drama Studio. The show gives us a BSL friendly performance of the stories, “The Upper Berth” (F. Marion Crawford), and “The Monkey’s Paw” (W.W. Jacobs)