‘Tis the season to be gory! As we fill our cinematic horror advent calendar of movie watching to match the 31 days of Horror/Halloween watching, the spooky horror film festivals are here to help.

This year, the excellent annual event Celluloid Screams returns once again like a well timed jump scare.

Running from Thursday 24th through to Sunday 27th October here’s the lowdown of the titles in selection playing at the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield, England.

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THURSDAY 24th OCTOBER

OPENING GALA: TONE-DEAF

Director: Richard Bates Jr. | USA | 2019 | 83 mins
After losing her job and ending her latest dysfunctional
relationship, a young woman rents a country house for a weekend
getaway but soon falls foul of the house’s owner, an embittered
widower (Robert Patrick) whose psychotic tendencies are veering
dangerously out of control.

GIRL ON THE THIRD FLOOR

Director: Travis Stevens | USA | 2019 | 93 mins
Don (played by former professional wrestler Phil “CM Punk”
Brooks) attempts to renovate a rundown mansion with a sordid
history for his growing family, only to learn that the house has
other plans in this highly unconventional take on the haunted
house film.

FRIDAY 25th OCTOBER

THE GOLDEN GLOVE has (UK PREMIERE)

THE GOLDEN GLOVE tells the story of Fritz Honka, a notorious serial killer living in Hamburg in the early 1970s. This gruesome tale and the novel which it is based on is named after that Honka frequents, finding his victims among the clientele.

ANTRUM: THE DEADLIEST FILM EVER MADE (UK PREMIERE)

Director: David Amito, Michael Laicini | Canada | 2018 | 95
mins

ANTRUM is a feature-length film shot in the late 1970s. A string of
bizarre incidents surrounding the film, including a blaze at a
cinema screening in Budapest in 1988 resulting in the deaths of 56
people in attendance, have contributed to the belief that the film
itself is cursed. After a riot at a screening in San Francisco, the film
vanished without a trace. Else Films has successfully located the
only known copy of the film in existence. This is that film.

EXTRA ORDINARY

Director: Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman | Ireland/Belgium | 2019
| 94 mins

Rose, a sweet and lonely small town driving instructor who must
use her supernatural ‘talent’ to save the daughter of a local man
from a washed up rock-star looking to use her in a satanic ritual
that will reignite his fame.

CELLULOID SCREAMS SECRET FILM 1

Director: TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC mins

The festival’s annual tradition of secret screenings continues in
2019. This year we present two mystery movies that are revealed
to the audience mere moments before they begin.

CORPORATE ANIMALS

Director: Patrick Brice | USA | 2019 | 86 mins
A teambuilding exercise in a cave system in New Mexico goes
horribly wrong for a group of employees in this hilarious horror
comedy from the director of Creep.

SATURDAY 26th OCTOBER

OUTBACK (International Premiere)
Director: Mike Green | Australia | 2019 | 86 mins
A young couple on holiday in Australia make the mistake of
deviating from their itinerary and an unplanned excursion to Ayers
Rock leaves them stranded at the mercy of the Australian outback.

MAKING MONSTERS (UK Premiere)

Director: Justin Harding, Rob Brunner | Canada | 2019 | 90
mins

When a celebrity couple famed for their YouTube scare-prank
channel are invited to a friend’s converted church in the
countryside for a weekend getaway, a series of startling events
unfold that spiral them into an inexplicable nightmare.

THE NIGHTINGALE

Director: Jennifer Kent | Australia, USA, Canada | 2018 | 136
mins

Set in 1825 in the British penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land (now
the Australian state of Tasmania), ‘The Nightingale’ follows a
young convict woman seeking revenge for a terrible act of violence
committed against her family.

COME TO DADDY

Director: Ant Timpson | Canada/New Zealand/Ireland/USA |
2019 | 93 mins

Thirty-something hipster Norval Greenwood (Elijah Wood) travels
to the coastal home of his estranged father to reconcile their past,
but soon discovers the real reason for his father’s impromptu
invitation.

BLISS

Director: Joe Begos | USA | 2019 | 80 mins

A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to
anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a
hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex, and murder in the sleazy
underbelly of Los Angeles.

SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER

WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE!
Director: Kirill Sokolov | Russia | 2018 | 95 mins

Andrei, a detective and the world’s most horrible father, brings
together a terrible group of people in his apartment: his resentful
actress daughter, an angry thug, and a cheated cop. Each one of
them has a reason to want revenge in this frenetic, hyper-violent
horror thriller.

DANIEL ISN’T REAL

Director: Adam Egypt Mortimer | USA | 2019 | 96 mins
A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma
and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him
cope.

AFTER MIDNIGHT

Director: Jeremy Gardner, Christian Stella | USA | 2019 | 83
mins

For small-town bar owner Hank (Jeremy Gardner), his 10-year
relationship with Abby (Brea Grant) has been storybook-quality.
Abby, however, wants more: marriage, to be exact, which Hank
doesn’t seem ready to initiate anytime soon. As a result, she
leaves him without so much as a note or any subsequent
communication. Hank is crushed. Even worse, Abby’s departure
seemingly triggers the arrival of an unseen monster that claws at
Hank’s front door at night. As the nocturnal threat intensifies, Hank
must figure out how to not only save his relationship, but also
himself.

CELLULOID SCREAMS SECRET FILM 2

Director: TBC | TBC | TBC | TBC mins

The second of two mystery films for Celluloid Screams 2019.
Previous years have seen sneak peeks and premieres of
Paranormal Activity, The Autopsy of Jane Doe and Almost Human
– the only way to find out what’s in store is to buy a ticket.

CLOSING GALA: LITTLE MONSTERS

Director: Abe Forsythe | Australia/United Kingdom/USA | 2019
| 94 mins

A washed-up musician teams up with a kindergarten teacher and a
kids TV personality to protect a group of young children from a
sudden outbreak of zombies.

Weekend passes covering entry to all films and events at the festival are on sale on now via http://www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/ Individual tickets for all films go on sale on Saturday 28 th September at 12 noon. For full details of the film programme (including our 2019 short film selections) and schedule please visit: www.celluloidscreams.co.uk