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New Mayhem Film Festival Titles: ZEPPELIN VS PTERODACTYLS, HABIT And MAYHEM

The Mayhem Film Festival continues to announce titles – this week comes news that Joe Lynch’s Mayhem (fitting) and Simeon Halligan’s Habit will screen at the event (with a post-screening Q&A) alongside a live reading of the [...]

August 26, 2017

MAYHEM FILM FESTIVAL Announces Its First Three Titles

The Mayhem Film Festival is gearing-up for its 13th year (unlucky for some, very lucky for others) and it has announced the first three films which will be screening at the event. As per usual for Mayhem, the titles are an eclectic mix for the [...]

August 12, 2017

The Mayhem Film Festival Announces 2017 Dates

Nottingham’s Mayhem Film Festival will be back in 2017 – the 13th year for the ever-growing genre festival. So, get out your brand-spanking new 2017 diary (the one you got for Christmas) and mark out the 12 – 15 October. Mayhem [...]

January 10, 2017

Interview: DON’T KILL IT Director Mike Mendez

Mike Mendez is a director who understands the horror genre. He knows how to embrace its tropes and create films which incorporate plenty of humour alongside the darker aspects, understanding the ridiculous without ever losing sight of what [...]

November 28, 2016

The Movies In Focus Recap Of MAYHEM 2016

Mayhem 2016 was yet another impressive year for the annual genre film festival which took at Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema. Movies In Focus was once again on hand to sample the festival’s delights – and here’s the rundown of what [...]

October 17, 2016

Unleash The Terror: The Line-Up For The 2016 MAYHEM FILM FESTIVAL

Movies In Focus is a huge admirer of the Mayhem Film Festival. The festival, which is the brain-child of Chris Cooke and Steven Sheil is a great horror-tinged festival held every October at Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema. Each year it manages to [...]

September 10, 2016

Believe The Hype: New Trailer For THE WITCH

The truth is: The Witch is not that scary. However, that doesn’t stop it from being a terrific horror film. The atmospheric tale might even be better than recent top-grade chillers like It Follows and The Babadook. I caught Robert [...]

February 2, 2016

Poster For Fascinating Horror THE WITCH

Movies In Focus caught The Witch at the Mayhem film festival in Nottingham and it stood out as a smart and entertaining horror that had a lot of great elements (it’s actually much more than simply a ‘horror’). Here’s a poster for the film [...]

November 14, 2015

The Movies In Focus Recap Of MAYHEM 2015

Mayhem 2015 delivered beyond expectations. The horror/sci-fi festival at Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema offered-up a wide selection of genre movies as well as a live reading of the lost Hammer film, The Unquenchable Thirst Of Dracula. Movies in [...]

October 25, 2015

Let The Mayhem Begin: Movies In Focus To Attend The MAYHEM FILM FESTIVAL

Over the last few years Movies In Focus has covered Nottingham’s Mayhem Film Festival at Broadway Cinema – but this year I’m going in all-guns-blazing. I’m going to try and cover as much of the horror film festival as humanly possible [...]

October 3, 2015

The Opening Night Of The Mayhem Film Festival 2014 With Astron-6, THE EDITOR And LET US PREY

I slid into Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema around 6.45pm and collected by press pass from a particularly ghoulish chap in the foyer (he was wearing a Halloween mask). I hit the cafe-bar for a coffee and made my way to Screen One and took my seat, [...]

October 31, 2014

Interview: Chris Cooke And Steven Sheil Founders Of Nottingham’s MAYHEM FILM FESTIVAL

Broadway Cinema is Nottingham’s shining cinematic beacon, a wonderful establishment which plays host every year to the Mayhem Film Festival. Mayhem shows an eclectic selection of horror and sci-fi movies over the Halloween period, while also [...]

October 27, 2014

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