Horrhiffic The Romford Horror Film Fest 2024
00:42:33
About
Welcome To Horror Episode 192 is a round up of our visit to this year’s Romford Horror Film Festival. We had an excellent time on our first visit to the festival. We got to see two amazing features - “The Pocket Film of Superstitions” and “How To Kill Monsters”, (which went on to win several awards at the festival, including best director and best actress). We give spoiler-free reviews of these features, as well as the shorts “Collection Only” and “Kin”, and talk about the festival as a whole, and some of the lovely people we met there; such as author, actor and podcaster Lauren Jane Barnett, director Tony Mardon and actor Ross Sambridge. This episode is (hopefully) spoiler free, but with (likely) swearing. Join us!
Transcript
Show full transcript
LeeGood evening and welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.
ChrisI'm Chris.
AdamI'm Adam.
LeeAnd we are here this evening to cover the Romford Film Festival Horrific, which we made our first outing to this year.
LeeWe were actually organized enough to put it in the fucking diary last year when we missed it, so we finally got there. There will be spoilers but there will be swearing, just to warn you. So, you know.
ChrisWas anyone else slightly like, why did we not come here before?
LeeI wanted to.
ChrisWhat was wrong with us?
LeeI wanted to every year, but it's one of those things because I've not been before, I haven't got it in my mind over that happens that end of the year coming up, we need to plan. Yeah.
LeeYeah, so every year it comes up on Instagram, like people who are follow independent filmmakers and people post that they were there, and every year I go, oh, bollocks, we've missed it again. So, yeah, this year, last year, when I missed it, I put it straight in the diary for this year, which is how we managed to be organized enough to get tickets.
ChrisWell, I could say, well done.
AdamIn fact, you were so organized, Lee, you messaged me a month early.
ChrisYes, that would have been good.
ChrisIt wouldn't have been quite so enjoyable going to.
Leeso for anyone who's unaware, Romford in London, I think they're now saying Romford is part of London, it's still a London borough of Horing.
LeeYes.
Leethere is an independent cinema there, it used to be an Odeon back in the day.
LeeLike, I saw some classic, like, I saw Terminator 2 there for the first time.
LeeI went on one of my first dates there, like, it was a big part of my childhood.
ChrisOh, that's that's got some big memories.
LeeOh, it has.
Leeyeah, and basically it stood empty for a lot at least a decade, and then an independent bought it and made it a kind of, they were selling it cheap, it was like a five or a ticket, any screen, any time.
ChrisYeah, that's right. Yeah.
Leeyeah, and now because they've got this space and they've got so many screens, they've put all the money they've made back into, so like them seats yesterday were so comfortable, it's crazy.
LeeYeah.
LeeAnd they've really made a thing of it, and they do like this like cult screenings and loads of stuff. So, it it's it's a fantastic resource right on our doorstep.
ChrisSo, is it? I've got to say, like, I didn't really rush it to it when it's been mentioned before because it's Romford, so I absolutely did not have the correct expectation for just how fantastic it was.
LeeI was blown away, it was great.
LeeAnd again, it's got that lovely big foyer area, that's always, like, it's always just been a waste of space effectively.
LeeThey've got, obviously they've got the concession stand there, but it's like it's a big foyer that had nothing in it.
Leebut for this, what I mean when it was an Odeon, I don't mean since it was premiere.
LeeBecause now they've got a bar area, yeah, and then like stuff like this, they had all their concession stand set all their you know, people selling stuff and celebrity signing shit.
Leeoh, and it was just it was so well laid out and so well planned, everything was I was blown away.
LeeI can't wait for next year.
AdamTalking of celebrity signing shit.
LeeYes.
LeeI managed I accidentally caught the eye of a guy behind a stall who I didn't recognize, to be fair.
Leeyeah, and he just kind of.
ChrisHe looks he looks a bit different. A lot more friendly, I would say.
LeeYes, seven foot one, he was, but once he stands up, yeah.
Leebut yeah, so Ross Sambridge was there, who was, the guy who played the character of, Supreme Leader Snoke.
LeeYes.
Leeand he was also one of the Wookies in Solo.
Leeyeah, and I just kind of caught his eye and he was like, hey, are you a Star Wars fan?
LeeI was like, who isn't a Star Wars fan?
LeeAnd then it just got chatting to him for 15.
LeeWhat an amazing guy.
LeeHe was so amiable and so lovely.
LeeAnd yeah, and I got a lovely signed photograph and yeah, got a photograph taken.
LeeYeah, it was just, oh, it was a lovely day, wasn't it?
ChrisIt really was, yeah.
AdamI also I also spoke to, Lauren Barnett was down there.
LeeYes.
Adamwho I know from, I listen to a thing called the London Horror Movie Club.
Adamwhich is a podcast and it's her, sometimes it's just her and other times it's her and her brother.
Adamyeah.
AdamThey, basically they're American, but they talk about.
AdamSpecifically horror film set in London.
AdamAnd you don't quite realize, even though that seems like there's going to be a lot, you don't realize there is a lot.
ChrisYeah.
AdamOf London, literal London based horror films, not British horror films or you know, like specifically London.
AdamAnd it's yeah, it's really good because you get the sort of perspective of people who didn't grow up in England.
AdamSo, you know.
AdamIt's they have a very different, take on it.
AdamAnd, no, it's a good podcast, but yeah, she was really really nice because I I said to her like, I listened to the podcast.
AdamAnd yeah, she was she was really cool.
AdamBut she was there with a guy called Tony Morden, who she's also an actress.
AdamAnd she's in something called The Witches of the Sands and the director of that was down there sort of and he's like doing.
ChrisThat does look great.
AdamPre-publicity and post-production on that as well.
AdamAnd yeah, he was really cool.
AdamBut they had like a glossy book of, set photographs and sort of like the making of the film and everything else like that.
AdamIt looks mental.
ChrisYeah.
AdamAnd yeah, I can never think more that's a very high credit that I tend to give things.
AdamSo I really forward to that actually coming out so we get to see it maybe next year, I don't know.
LeeOh, fingers crossed, that'd be awesome.
LeeYeah, I I
LeeIt isn't a podcast I'd come across before, but Adam came here before we left to go to the film festival and was telling me about it.
LeeAnd I was like, I'm surprised I've not heard of this podcast, because it sounds great.
Leeyeah, and then meeting Lauren, she was lovely.
LeeSo, yeah.
LeeI that is definitely, I had to scroll through today and had look at all the, all the episodes.
LeeYeah, and you're right, there's so much stuff I was like, oh shit, yeah, there's loads of amazing films that I'm a massive fan of, so I cannot wait to binge through that podcast now, that's my task for the week.
ChrisI'm assuming we haven't covered them all.
AdamWe've covered a number of them.
LeeHave we?
AdamYeah, there are, there's, I like, I believe, what's there? Death line's in there.
ChrisI was going to say that that was the one I was absolutely thinking of.
LeeAmerican Werewolf.
ChrisWell, yeah, yeah.
Adamoh, and also the thing that, because Lee mentioned last episode about Horrors of the Black Museum.
AdamHim and Jennifer have been watching that's another one that's a London set horror film that they talk about.
LeeYeah, I'll definitely be getting stuck into that tomorrow, first thing tomorrow morning, in the office I will be getting into that.
LeeAnd hopefully binging through a load of those episodes and getting caught up.
Leeyou mentioned, Adam, there's a book that you were hoping to get but you'd sold out.
LeeWhich is excellent that she'd sold out.
AdamYes.
Leeof Walks of London.
LeeWhich I think.
AdamYes, it's called Death Lines.
AdamAnd it was a book that I I'd sort of, so I listened to the podcast and I, was aware of the book.
AdamAnd then I said to Lee, oh, she's down there promoting and the book will be for sale, so I was going to get it then.
Adamand, so I've ordered it now anyway because it had been on my to-buy list for some time anyway.
AdamAnd,
LeeBut didn't need much pushing, to be fair. When she said I haven't got a copy, I then went straight to the bar and by the time I came back from the bar, he's like, yeah, I've ordered it. He just pulled it up on his phone there and then and was like, yeah, I'm not waiting any longer. I told myself I was going to have this now and I wanted.
ChrisThat's the way to do it.
AdamAnd, but yeah, I think it it's, like I say, it's, yeah, it's called Death Lines, Walking London's Horror History, and, you know, it's basically like taking you through the roots of stuff that's.
AdamBecause that's the interesting thing is there's a lot of not it's not just London films, but there's the combination of you get locations that become iconic because of the film.
AdamAnd then there's use of iconic locations in a film.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd yeah, it's a a weird sort of thing that you've got like, you know, because obviously it's not.
AdamIt's not Hobs End in there isn't a Hobs End in, Quatermass in real life.
AdamBut, you know, there there is a Russell Chewb, so you get all these.
AdamYeah, weird sort of stuff that's legendary but not actually it's an iconic film landmark but not an iconic landmark.
LeeYeah.
LeeYeah, so that's so anyone like us who's kept saying.
LeeI need to pull my finger out, get it in your diary this year and go.
LeeBecause it's excellent.
Leeyeah, we had a really good day.
LeeI I still say because I'm a fidgety fucker, I I still think two films is pretty much my limit in a day.
LeeJust because I just start getting too.
LeeI mean, poor Chris and Adam had to put up with me fidgeting the whole way through the film.
LeeI cannot sit still for more than three minutes at a time.
Leeand then I get conscious that I'm fidgeting and I must be annoying other people.
ChrisWhich probably makes you fidget a bit more.
LeeExactly, makes you even more uncomfortable.
Leebut to be but those seats, as I say, in that cinema were they were all lovely and they reclined back, but then they don't from so you don't then le person behind you.
ChrisAnd and they got an extra little tilt mechanism in the seat part, so yeah, it's good.
AdamCan I just say, the first time that I lent back and that happened?
AdamI thought I'd broken the seat, didn't want to make a fuss and then tried to sit suspended.
ChrisLike, so, I don't look like I've just busted the seat.
LeeYeah.
LeeIt was excellent.
LeeAnd they had.
ChrisThat was probably good for your posture.
LeeAnd they had a really good, really good and reasonably priced bar.
LeeThey had local beers.
ChrisYeah, it was.
ChrisYeah.
LeeSpecial cocktails for the day.
Leeyeah.
LeeIt was great, it had everything.
LeeSo, yeah.
LeeDefinitely go.
Leeshall we crack into the stuff that we watched yesterday then?
AdamYes.
LeeExcellent. Right, if we go through in the order in which we saw them.
Leeso the first thing we saw was we saw a short called Collection Only.
Leewhich is written by Alan Reese Morgan.
Lee
Adamwho directed it as well, yeah.
LeeYeah, I I pissed myself the whole way through.
ChrisIt was it was that was great, it hit the mark, really.
AdamJust just an unusual encounter when someone goes to pick up a chair on Gumtree.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd, yeah.
AdamA very dark little hilarious tale was told.
LeeIt was great, it just it did it was what, 10 minutes long, maybe.
LeeAnd it just had everything, it had over the top gore, it had some really chilling moments, it was absolutely hilarious.
ChrisA sweet little evil elderly lady who who made who made some lovely looking tea.
LeeYeah.
LeeOh.
LeeOh, yeah.
LeeAnd again, that just set me up as well because that was the thing, as soon as we saw that, I was like, right, I know what we're in for, we're in for some quality stuff today.
Leeyeah.
LeeAnd I just had a great time in there.
LeeAnd again, I'd forgotten that there were shorts, so when it started playing, I thought it was the film and then I very quickly realized that it wasn't and it was the the short.
AdamYeah, I wasn't sure at first for a second.
LeeBut yeah, what a lovely little surprise that was, yeah, that really really raised my spirits.
ChrisI I do always think, you know, we'll talk about the other short as well, but it's like it's an interesting skill being able to create something that does draw you in and does, you know, give you enough substance.
ChrisThat it's like, it's it's got to be an interesting, you know, thing to try and make a short and get enough in there, and yeah, that certainly managed that.
LeeYeah, it was.
LeeIt was just very self-contained, like it didn't leave any loose ends.
LeeYeah, and it just it it made me smile and made me cringe, and I think at one point I did literally go, oh, fuck.
LeeBecause it was just disgusting.
ChrisYeah.
LeeI loved it, it was great.
Leeso that was the short before, The Pocket Film of Superstitions.
AdamYes.
LeeYes.
Leeso who would like to kick off on this one?
AdamWhat.
AdamIf if I may.
AdamBasically, so to to describe it, it's a, basically like a a almost like an old-fashioned documentary real about various superstitions.
LeeIt felt and looked like Haxan.
AdamExactly, it's like but it's yeah, it looks like thirties silent cinema like German Expressionism of yeah, you know, et cetera.
AdamIt.
AdamAnd, yeah, with a lovely narration.
ChrisYeah.
Adamjust humorously listing, superstitions, where they come from.
AdamAnd.
Adamyou know, the weird sort of ways you can dispel them or things that mean curses and, you know.
AdamAnd, yeah, I thought it was really good.
AdamWhat it reminded me of, and this is a very obscure reference, so I apologize, but you, this might find one person, I don't know.
AdamBut it had that thing of there's a comic in in the 2000 AD, there's a comic strip called Phenomenax.
AdamAnd it's basically like they tell you things like it'll be, you know, the life of Alistair Crowley in five issues, like in five parts or whatever like that.
AdamBut they're drawn like really great little humorous cartoon sort of figures.
AdamAnd, you know, sort of filled with jokes and things like that.
AdamBut it is like, it's genuinely what they're telling you.
AdamWhat they're telling you the story, but in a humorous way and, you know, really just.
AdamHaving fun with it.
ChrisYeah.
AdamAnd that's kind of what that was, I think.
AdamIt's, yeah.
AdamI was I think it was one of those things where you're like, I don't know if this is going to sustain.
ChrisWell, that's it.
ChrisYou realize what's happening.
ChrisYeah.
AdamBut then.
ChrisThey clearly thought of that and it progressed, it did build up and and it did get extra depth.
ChrisAnd and and what, there was certainly a few slightly shocking moments, which like, okay, you've changed the the feel of this enough.
ChrisThat you you've suddenly taken me out of of what I was getting used to.
ChrisIn a way that balanced well, I would say, it wasn't you know, it wasn't.
AdamThe playfulness drops at certain points.
ChrisAnd then it.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisYeah, oh, okay.
ChrisBut then drawn back in again to that wonderful narration of, yeah, such a great blend of humor.
ChrisAnd and eloquence and yeah, like.
ChrisJust great.
ChrisI almost there were points where I was thinking, oh, I could almost show this to my children.
ChrisAnd then there was points I was like, no, no, definitely not, no.
ChrisI'll skip that bit.
ChrisBut, you know.
ChrisIt it it was, it was such a charming, you know, walk through all of the the sort of most well-known superstitions and a few less known ones.
LeeIt was.
LeeIt was great and the cast as well.
LeeLike, it's all people who we have seen in other indie stuff, so, you know, Danny Thompson was in it.
LeeSai Hentee was in it,
Leeoh, Pablo was in it from The Snarling.
AdamYeah, the director, oh God, what is it?
LeeYeah.
LeeRob.
LeeRybold.
AdamAndrew Elias was actually there, who was in, Casting Kill, you know, the.
LeeYeah.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYeah, he he was he was actually there.
AdamI saw on Instagram earlier.
Adamwhich is really annoying because we'd I'd have said hello.
LeeI was going to say, yeah, if we'd known.
Lee
Adambut yeah, no, so friend of the show, Andrew Elias.
AdamI don't think I'll speaking out of turn there.
LeeAnd there you go.
LeeRaise a drink to you.
AdamYeah.
AdamAnd, yeah, but also you've got, you had like Caroline, Caroline Monroe.
AdamLynn Lowry, Paula Pit, it's like, you know, you've got these, like more well-known names in there as well.
AdamLike from sort of the horror history and stuff like that.
AdamAnd the narration, the guy who did the narration, is a guy called The Shend, who I think was there.
AdamAnd he's like, he's like this weirdly, I don't know much about him, it's just a name I've heard a lot, and yeah, he's just in he's just in the credits of lots of TV shows.
AdamI think because he is a he's a big physically imposing tall man and so like he's in Knowing Me, Knowing You and Red Dwarf and sort of Twitchwood and stuff like that.
AdamSo it's a name that I'd seen.
Adam
AdamBut yeah, so he sort of tends to play these sort of like background like heavy, you know, sort of like sort of,
AdamBarbarians and sort of things like that, but then you actually he you know, he's got a beautiful voice.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know.
AdamAnd I don't know if that's why he's a legend, I don't know, but he's yeah, his narration of this was absolutely fantastic.
ChrisYeah, really was.
LeeYeah, I again.
LeeI had the same feeling as you guys, like we wanted so the the the later film was the one that we'd gone to see primarily.
LeeBut we said, oh, this looks like it could be interesting, but equally, I had a hit and miss feeling about it because I didn't know if the concept could sustain for a whole.
ChrisYeah.
LeeYeah.
LeeBut yeah, as you say, it just had enough going on and enough like changes of tempo.
Leeyeah, and I just I just I love the look and feel of it.
LeeI just.
ChrisYeah, yeah.
ChrisSo well polished.
LeeSo good.
AdamBecause it was weirdly enough, I think there was in in my head when I just sort of like read about it and didn't I think I kind of thought it was.
AdamIt was kind of an anthology film, but in the more specific sense of like separate stories that are kind of.
AdamThe linking thing.
AdamBut yeah, actually just as a sort of a a series of sort of takes on these little sort of, ideas and stuff, made it kind of more like a documentary.
AdamLike you were watching an old educational newsreel or something like that.
LeeYeah.
AdamBut also done in that sort of brilliant,
AdamOh, and yes, this is the weird bit.
Adamthe director of that is a guy called Thomas Lee Rutter.
AdamWho I looked up.
Adamhe's in, The Haunting of the Lady Jane, he's one of the blokes on the, you know, there's the the boat that follows them with.
LeeOh yeah, with the weird.
ChrisWith the weird.
LeeBoat.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYeah, he's one of them.
LeeOh.
AdamBut only in the context of that film.
AdamI haste to add.
LeeYes, no, I said.
LeeYeah.
LeeOh, that's excellent.
LeeSee.
LeeThat's what I love about this, and I do wonder if it's because of this, this, a horror festival scene that we kind of have around here with this and with Southend.
LeeYeah, where you do get people in each other's films.
LeeSo somebody will be an actor in something and then direct and write something and people.
LeeOne of the guys who we always see at, Southend, I do follow him on Instagram, I can't remember his name at the moment.
LeeYeah, he was actually in the film that we watched yesterday, he was in the pocket film.
AdamJohnny Vivash.
LeePossibly.
Leeyeah, I say, I've seen him walking around and I've always said hello to him and he's got a really interesting Instagram.
LeeBut yeah, then he was one of the people in the Saance scene, sitting around the table.
AdamOh, right, okay.
AdamI don't know.
LeeYeah, no, I can't quite remember his name at the moment.
Leebut yeah, I say, I've just always seen him as one of the people at the festival who's always there and always says hello, but I don't really.
Lee
LeeYeah, and then.
ChrisYeah, it's great how they all come together in different ways.
LeeIt was probably just on the piss with them all at some point.
LeeAnd said, oh, I'd love to be one of these films, and I went, oh yeah, we'll put you as an extra in a thing.
LeeYeah, and it's.
LeeIt's lovely, it's really good.
LeeI could be wrong, he could be an actor, I'm not saying he couldn't act, I'm just saying, I've only ever seen him hanging around.
LeeSo, sorry if that, if, you know.
LeeOh, I've caused trouble now, haven't I, unintentionally.
AdamDive, dive, dive.
LeeBut that's the thing, like there's so many of these independent films, that it's easy to not recognize people because.
LeeThere's so many of them out there, as much as I'd love to, you just can't get your they're hard because of the distribution to get hold of a lot of this stuff.
LeeI mean.
LeeI mean, look at last year, so Horror-on-Sea obviously, they'd done The Snarling and then last year they did The Last Twitch, which I didn't make it to.
Leeand that hasn't been released.
LeeThere's been no date on it and nowhere I can find, I've been trying to get hold of that film now for over a year.
LeeAnd it's just still not out there, so there's so many of these films that are out there, that even if you're searching for them, you just can't find them.
LeeIt said, yeah.
LeeBut yeah.
LeeJust a thought.
AdamNo, it is, it's in a way, it's really annoying that you're actually haven't you feel like you've gone back to the olden days, the very olden days, you know, where it's like, well, if it was on the telly once, you might have seen it.
LeeYeah.
LeeAnd once it's gone, it's gone.
LeeThe amount of stuff that we've that, you know, when we've gone to Horror-on-Sea that's been on days that we've not gone to, and I've said, I definitely need to check that out.
LeeYeah.
LeeAnd I've just never managed to track it down or it comes out on limited release of like 200 DVDs, and if you've missed that window, like it's gone and you just don't get to pick this stuff up.
LeeBut again, it is nice to have that to have that rarity and that collector's thing, like I've got a few DVDs in my collection, that I've bought literally just because they've been on a release of 150 copies or whatever.
LeeAnd then it's it's once it's gone, it's gone and they don't do them again, and it's lovely in a, you know, in in the YouTube era to have something that still feels rare and hard to get hold of.
LeeBut.
ChrisSure.
LeeBut that's because I'm.
AdamBut it's worrying when that rare that rare and difficult to get hold of thing is 28 Days Later.
LeeHeh.
LeeHeh heh heh.
AdamJust.
AdamFucking mental.
AdamAt that point, you're like, yeah, probably no one's seen these things if that can apparently slip through the fucking net.
LeeHeh heh heh.
Leeyes, sorry, I took us off on a tangent there.
Adam
Leeas you can tell, I am still drinking from yesterday.
LeeSo,
Lee
Leeso, yes, so the next film that we caught up with again had a short before it.
Leeso we saw the short Kin.
AdamJames Waterhouse was the director for that, yeah.
AdamYeah, which was a snippet of a it was it was a snippet.
ChrisPretty badass woman.
AdamOf a of a, it was it was a snippet of a badass woman in a on a bad day.
AdamIn a bad time.
ChrisIt was.
ChrisYes.
AdamSort of, I don't know, you know, it was.
ChrisArguably, arguably could could quite possibly happen, you know, the way we're heading.
AdamOh, mate.
AdamIt yeah, it sort of it unknown civilians now just feels like, oh, probably that.
LeeHeh heh heh heh.
LeeYeah.
Leeyeah, it did, it felt more of a show reel to me.
LeePossibly than a short because there was, as you say, like there was no real context for a lot of it, and it just felt but but as you say, it was that just dropped in for a snippet, it was unexplained post-apocalyptic.
LeeYou didn't quite know what was going there was a woman on her own with a child, there was some kind of a compound which she'd snuck into to try and steal some canned food.
Leeand then she just proceeded to beat the shit out of a load of people who were trying to stop her from stealing that food.
Lee
LeeIt was beautifully shot.
LeeIt looked.
ChrisYeah.
LeeYeah.
LeeIt was just.
LeeIt looked fantastic but it just on its own, I felt a bit, what, I'm sure I should have checked before before we came on, but
AdamI should have I should have checked before before we came on, but
AdamI did see I'm sure I saw in the credits that I think it was like the fight choreographers were the actors in it.
AdamSo I.
LeeYeah.
AdamI wonder if it was like it was almost like a show reel of their.
ChrisTo be fair, if if I wanted some action like that, I'd probably be contacting them.
LeeIt looked incredible, didn't it?
LeeLike.
LeeIt was just.
LeeLike, and it was people being smashed through walls, and it just looked like it looked like a like a, you know, like, an Avengers style budget.
LeeYeah.
LeeDidn't it?
LeeLike.
LeeNothing about it looked cheap or shotty, it looked fantastic, the choreography was amazing.
AdamThe choreography was like the rave, you know, it was just really.
LeeYeah.
AdamIt was just really intense, you know.
LeeYeah.
LeeIt did.
LeeIt looked fantastic.
LeeI say, it just as a standalone short, it just it didn't it didn't kind of have enough of a carry through of the story, it was just a very small short, but what we saw was absolutely phenomenal.
LeeIt was intense and powerful and yeah, it looked brutal.
LeeDidn't like the fights like it looked so what I loved was the sound, it didn't have when there was punches and kicks, it didn't have that overblown sound, very unrealistic.
LeeIt sounded like.
ChrisThat is it, right?
ChrisI mean, I haven't.
ChrisBeen to a huge amount of independent film festivals, but the production does seem to be, you know, impressive in the ones I've seen.
ChrisSo either.
ChrisEither you've both picked, you know, especially well or yeah, it's it's really fantastic how well they can produce these.
LeeI think that's the thing.
LeeI think in the now people can buy stuff.
LeeSo if you've got a talent.
LeeAnd I think that's the thing, with company, you know, with, stuff like this, so like Romford and to go back to to the Southend one as well, Horror-on-Sea.
LeeI'm guessing they get an awful lot of people put stuff in and they get to choose the stuff.
ChrisOkay, well, yeah.
LeeAnd and and that's the way it should be, you know, like you pick the stuff that's got real talent and really shines through and and and looks looks like what you want, really.
LeeYou know, you want to people are paying ticket prices, they want to be impressed.
LeeSo you kind of pick the cream and leave everything behind.
Leebut yeah, I I think it's a it's a great time at the moment that people can, you know, you can buy a camera for a few hundred quid.
LeeAnd if you got the talent and the know-how, you can make something look exception.
AdamAnd do it yourself.
LeeOr you could do on your own.
LeeThat is why.
AdamThat is why I will not make my masterpiece.
LeeBecause your iPhone has only got so many gigs.
LeeAnd you've got to save some for your WhatsApp and your.
AdamYeah, kind of.
LeeNo.
AdamNumber of gifts I've got saved in there, not in the cloud, mate, in there.
LeeHeh.
AdamBurning.
AdamBurning circuits.
Lee
LeeYes, so our final feature length.
LeeSo, our second feature length of yesterday, we saw How to Kill Monsters.
AdamYeah.
Leeyes.
LeeI so I.
LeeSort of had a flick through of films and I recognized Lindsey Crain.
LeeWho we'd seen previously in Eating Miss Campbell.
ChrisYeah.
LeeSo I thought, oh, we've seen her in something, she was pretty good.
LeeAnd I watched the trailer for this and immediately I was like, right, we're going on Saturday.
LeeBecause I need to go and see that on a big screen with a crowd, it looks like it's going to be it looks like it's going to be funny and an all-out gorefest.
Lee
ChrisSo I didn't watch the trailer, I didn't know what to expect, I didn't really know anything about it, at this point, I was like, well, so far, you guys have have done a fantastic job.
ChrisSo I did have I did have reasonably high expectations and glad to say it it achieved all of them and possibly went over and above.
AdamYes.
Adamso the director's Stewart Spark.
AdamNow.
AdamHave you seen that he's also done he's done a film before this with.
Adama number of the same cast called Book of Book of Monsters.
Chris
AdamI don't know if that had come across.
LeeOh.
AdamIf you'd you'd come across that, Lee.
AdamBecause I, you know, just because he's as far as I'm aware, that's like that's out and.
AdamViewable, you know, somewhere.
LeeOh yeah, the cover definitely looks, yeah, I've seen the cover somewhere, but I haven't seen the film.
LeeBut.
LeeYeah, having seen this now, I will 100% be trying to track a copy of that down, I think.
AdamYeah, as as I say, it's got pretty much the same.
AdamNot the same, sorry, it's got a lot of the same cast members in it.
Lee
LeeExcellent.
ChrisNow the the comedy style of this did remind me of The Snarling, it was it was just done just right, mixing the the drama.
ChrisThe slightly weirdness, a little bit awkward sometimes.
ChrisAnd yeah, just a great, great, great range of cast playing off each other.
AdamIt's that it's that lovely thing of the weird button against the mundane.
LeeYeah.
AdamBut like the very mundane, you know, so much.
LeeOh.
LeeYeah.
Lee
Leebut just very quickly though.
LeeMentioning the trailer.
LeeYou saying you didn't watch the trailer.
LeeWhat I particularly liked, if I'm remembering correctly, the trailer sets the film up to just be that opening part in the cabin.
LeeSo everything comes afterwards.
ChrisThat's interesting.
LeeYou might see in flashes, but it sets it up as if it's a whole story in that cabin.
LeeAnd without giving spoilers, which I've just accidentally done.
ChrisIt.
ChrisTurns out.
LeeThat is only the opening of how it all kicks off, and then it goes fucking mental from there.
Leeyeah.
LeeSo, so I really liked that, like the fact that the trailer kind of tricks you into thinking it's something it isn't.
ChrisDisguise it.
LeeBut.
LeeYeah.
ChrisDefinitely have a nice twist.
LeeYeah.
AdamYeah, it was.
AdamAnd, like you said, like with it has that same sort of thing.
AdamSo, it's, a girl is led from a cabin.
AdamCovered in blood by the police, there's four bodies there, she's clearly the suspect and is taken to the police station to ask about it.
AdamAnd then.
AdamShe tells the story of how into the, you know, monsters from another dimension were involved.
ChrisAnd they absolutely have self-awareness about what they're doing with this.
ChrisYes.
ChrisYeah, it's clearly an an in joke if you've.
ChrisAppreciate any other horror even close to this.
AdamIt has, yeah, it it's definitely.
AdamIt knows that it's it knows it's daft and it's but it's quite happy to deal with that and but also.
ChrisDo it effectively with a chain saw.
AdamBut I don't find anything within the scenes moving away from that, you know, it's like the sort of,
ChrisYou still get to enjoy all of that, the original horror aspect with the extra layer added.
AdamYeah.
AdamAnd I was I was quite excited, Lee got a Lee got a poke in the ribs and me excitedly going.
AdamIt's, it's Nicholas Vince, it's Nicholas Vince, Nicholas Vince.
LeeYeah.
AdamNicholas Vince, Chara.
AdamHilla.
AdamHellraiser.
ChrisI got I got to say his role in this was was top top quality.
LeeAgain, just subverting expectation and going the way you wouldn't expect for that character to in such a brilliant and hilarious way.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisAbsolutely.
LeeYeah, which everybody in this did, like I I really liked everything, I liked.
ChrisSome several times.
LeeYeah.
LeeYeah, I just thought all the characters were great.
LeeThey all worked perfectly well together, all the actors were on the same page.
LeeIt looked great, it sounded really good.
Leeyeah, it was it was ridiculous in the right places, but it still had a really suspenseful feeling to it.
Leeyeah, I I had an absolute blast watching this.
LeeAnd I was gutted when it ended.
LeeHeh.
ChrisYeah.
LeeHeh heh heh.
Lee
AdamAnd it has I mean it and it does sort of.
AdamIt does have its share of surprises and sort of it's not just straight ahead.
LeeAnd.
Adam
AdamYeah, and I mean it looks.
AdamIt looked.
AdamAmazing, it had Tony from Dinner Ladies in it, that's that's always a good sign.
LeeHeh heh heh heh.
AdamSo.
LeeYeah.
LeeIt's great.
LeeI was saying, I think Lindsey Crain is going to be one to watch, this is the second film I've seen with her in.
Leeand yeah, both of them are fantastic and exactly my cup of tea, especially the type of film like this to watch at a film festival.
LeeWith a load of people and you've all been drinking all day.
LeeAnd everyone's in that party mood.
ChrisDefinitely.
LeeYeah, I mean, I'd gladly watch this again at home, I definitely will be watching this again at home when I get hold of it.
Leebut yeah, it's a great film to watch with a crowd.
LeeAnd everyone was laughing and everyone was just having.
LeeA a while of a time, it was such a a fun movie, it it's perfect for a festival like this, I think.
ChrisYeah, really is.
LeeWe've all gone.
LeeVery quiet.
LeeFor a while.
AdamI was actually.
AdamBecause I could still see you moving.
AdamSo I was like, as as my microphone gone.
LeeI thought I just stopped talking because I've been waffling for quite a while.
AdamWe were.
AdamNo, I think we've, no, I'm going to put that, that's not dead here.
AdamThat is the stun silence of how much fun we had.
LeeYes.
LeeI'm.
LeeI'm leaving this in.
LeeI can even hear Claire laughing.
LeeI can even hear Claire laughing in the background.
LeeHeh heh.
LeeYeah.
LeeFuck it.
LeeI'm leaving that.
AdamThis this poor woman, poor woman, she had she had to she had to put up with me, around the countryside.
LeeHeh heh heh heh heh. Romford is the countryside now, is that where we going?
LeeWe've said it's.
LeeLondon, we can't.
UnknownThat's syllables, right?
LeeHeh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
AdamOn that beautiful note.
LeeHeh heh heh.
Leebut yeah.
LeeSo, go and check out, How to Kill Monsters.
LeeGo and check out, The Pocket Book of a Pocket Book of Superstition.
AdamPocket film of Superstitions.
LeePocket film.
LeeI keep calling it book, I'm terrible.
AdamIt's because it is, it should be in. I love even that concept that it's like, well you just take the little real and put it in your pocket, put it in your pocket. It's just that that's that that just appealed to me.
AdamIt was just so.
AdamYeah, just brilliant.
LeeYeah.
LeeIt was, it was lovely.
LeeSo, it was a lovely day and it was really good and we had a really good laugh.
LeeSo, yeah, go and check it out next year, people, check out the films we saw.
Leethere's so much stuff on there as well that now I I've seen the stuff that we saw.
LeeNow I'm gutted for the stuff we missed, so I'm going to be again.
AdamYes.
LeeLike I say, some of it's going to be hard to find because it seems independent.
LeeIt takes a little while to come out sometimes, but
AdamAlso.
AdamAlso, I forgot to mention.
AdamI in the, like in the program, like, they do classic films as well during the day.
LeeYeah, I saw that.
LeeI didn't realize that until now, but yeah.
LeeThey got great.
LeeOh God, they showed Turbo Kid and we missed it.
AdamThey showed the fucking Medusa Touch.
LeeOh.
LeeI need to see that.
AdamI need to see that on the big screen.
LeeHeh.
LeeSee.
LeeThis is what I love about independent cinemas like that, like I'd love to.
Leeso I don't know, I thought when they when it first reopened, that was one of my first thoughts is, if we could get an equivalent of the Prince Charles in Romford, that'd be awesome.
LeeWhere they do like all nighters and they do regular classic showings.
LeeSo, yeah, like, you know, like the Breakfast clubs they do and stuff where they show it regularly and do like an early Sunday film and the hangover club and all that stuff.
LeeSo, yeah, fingers crossed, but yeah.
ChrisYeah.
LeeYeah.
LeeGo and check out, premiere cinema at Romford, it's a great place to go and watch all your films anyway.
LeeIf you're in the area over any of the other cinemas, I'm going to go on record and say that, because it's whenever I get a chance, if I'm going to the cinema.
LeeWhich I don't do very often.
LeeThat is the place I'll go.
Lee
LeeYeah, and they'll get not to the point that we can't get tickets.
ChrisNot to the point that we can't get tickets.
LeeOh yeah, no.
LeeDon't fucking fill the place out, so we don't get in.
LeePricks.
LeeBut, but if you're not a prick, and you're not too many people, then come.
LeeIt'd be lovely.
Lee
LeeHeh heh.
UnknownYou're not too many people.
LeeHeh heh heh.
LeeYou know.
LeeI mean.
LeeSorry.
LeeThat's all right.
Lee
LeeBut yeah.
LeeSo, yeah, I I'd love to get to a point where it's like that like the Prince Charles where they do kind of, you know, like, you know, like the breakfast clubs they do and stuff where they show it.
LeeRegularly and do like an early Sunday film and the hangover club and all that stuff.
LeeSo, yeah.
LeeFingers crossed, but yeah.
LeeGo and check out, Premier Cinema Romford, it's a great place to go and watch all your films anyway.
LeeIf you're in the area over any of the other cinemas, I'm going to go on record and say that, because it's whenever I get a chance, if I'm going to the cinema.
LeeWhich I don't do very often.
LeeThat is the place I'll go.
Lee
LeeYeah, and they'll be there for next year for the horror show.
ChrisYeah.
ChrisYeah.
LeeRight, thanks ever.
LeeSo much for listening everybody.
LeeGood night.
ChrisGood night.
AdamGood night.
