Tag: Mayhem Film Festival
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What happens when a BAFTA-winning editor swaps shorts for a no-distributor rave nightmare? I saw the answer when watching Game at Mayhem Film Festival a few weeks ago, and now I had the chance to find out from the director himself, John Minton. My teenager, Fern, had loved the film too, and couldn’t help gatecrashing right at…
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Despite having talked to the Mayhem team a year ago about how they put on such an event, it’s still a surprising feat, just like every other time I have attended. And also just like every other time, I have come away with a few stand-out memories and some new favourite films. Here are this…
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When I watched the UK premiere of Yuriyan Retriever’s Mag Mag on Saturday, the director’s name was relatively new to me, although well known in Japan and more recently in the USA. I had read it was going to be a “weird and wild satire of J-Horror”, which I’ve been fond of since discovering Urotsukidōji, Ring and…
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It was difficult to know what to expect from Game: the opening film of the festival (I’ve seen a couple of very strong openers, and a couple less so); and audiences had been told there are “local connections” to Nottingham, which might have meant the city’s genre film festival was promoting well known talent, rather…
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I’ve become very fond of Mayhem Film Festival, and it’s lovely to meet a filmmaker who feels the same. Recently, I had the pleasure of spending half an hour in the company of Marc Price, writer and director of The Arbiter, soon due to screen at this year’s Mayhem. “We’ve had two films there,” Marc…
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Friday 18 October, day two of the marvelous Mayhem Film Festival, had a “crimey” thread running through it; well at least until we get to the final film, which was distinctly horror. Mayhem’s remit is described as “the best in contemporary horror, science-fiction and cult cinema and television from around the world”, and it did…
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All three had mentioned both Broadway and the city of Nottingham, but I wanted to understand better the relationship between the event and the venue: is Mayhem a Broadway event, or is it simply the venue for your event, I asked them. “It’s kind of both,” Meli answered, and I’m glad she was the one…
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It was lovely to catch up with three people who I normally only see when there is no time to talk: the team behind the planning and hosting of Mayhem Film Festival in Nottingham, UK. They are Chris Cooke (top left), Melissa Gueneau (known as Meli, bottom left), and Steven Sheil (bottom right). It was…