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Mayhem Film Festival 2019: Days Three & Four

The 2019 Mayhem Film Festival continued to deliver a mind-bending array of films during its final two days at Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema. Day Three The Pool The Pool is a Korean killer crocodile that really delivers. It sees a young couple [...]

October 14, 2019

Mayhem Film Festival 2018: Days Three & Four

After getting off to a stunning start, the 2018 Mayhem Film Festival continued to impress over the course of its final two days. Day Three The third day of Mayhem 2018 began with the wonderfully bonkers One Cut Of The Dead. We were told by Chris [...]

October 15, 2018

Mayhem Film Festival 2018: Days One & Two

Kicking-off in Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema, the first two days of the 14th Mayhem Film Festival brought together a wonderful selection of genre films introduced by Chris Cook and Steven Sheil. Movies In Focus was once again on-hand to bring [...]

October 13, 2018

Mayhem Film Festival 2017: Days Three & Four

Read about Mayhem Film Festival 2017: Days One & Two SATURDAY 14 OCTOBER The third day of Mayhem kicked-off with the festival’s weakest film. Tag had energy and visual style but it just seemed like a collection of concepts thrown together [...]

October 22, 2017

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

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

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

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

DON’T LOOK NOW: St Mary’s, Mayhem And Nicolas Roeg

On Halloween night I had the chance to catch Don’t Look Now as part of the Mayhem horror film festival (in conjunction with Broadway Cinema). As a resident of Nottingham, it’s always good to see events like this take place. However, Don’t Look [...]

November 2, 2013

Review: British Horror MUM AND DAD Riffs On The Legacy Of Fred And Rosemary West

Horror is a very difficult genre to get right. Comedy is also a genre that can go wrong when you least expect it. So therefore a horror-comedy can be disastrous in the wrong hands. In recent years the (British) horror-comedy has had a rebirth with [...]

April 21, 2012