Fantastic Films Weekend has welcomed some great guests and amazing fans. Here’s a message from the Fantastic Films Weekend team, plus some memories from the past 11 years.
We’re proud to have had 11 years of fabulous films, guests and fans at the Fantastic Films Weekend. Over the years our festival directors and guest programmers have brought incredible interviews, frightening features, shocking shorts and anarchy from the archive.
The festival has celebrated the work of Terence Fisher, Nigel Kneale, Richard Matheson, George A. Romero and Douglas Adams among many others, and has paid tribute to those essential people behind the scenes of horror and fantasy films, such as Hammer make-up maestros Roy Ashton and Phil Leakey.
Fantastic Films Weekend has also welcomed numerous special guests including Jenny Agutter, Mike Hodges, Jonathan Miller and Harley Cokeliss.
And of course, the festival could not have enjoyed so many great years without our amazing Fantastic Film Weekend fans. A huge thanks to all of you for your support, for travelling long distances, buying passes, and being so happy and enthusiastic to be terrified and amazed year after year!
Although the weekend event is not continuing, we will continue to support our chums at Fanomenon in Leeds and Celluloid Screams in Sheffield.
This week, we’re delving into the festival archives to pull together as many Fantastic Films Weekend photographs, videos and podcasts as we can, which we’ll be sharing on Facebook and Twitter in the coming weeks—we hope you’ll do the same and share your favourite Fantastic Films memories.
Genuinely Gutted. This festival has been the highlight of my cultural year since 2006.
Thank you FFF organisers/NMM staff for many hours of gory pleasure.
Thank you for saying so – I’ll be sure to pass on your lovely comment to the team.
Great, right at the moment that I first hear about it! So who is going to screen the 35mm versions of horror classics now that you’re not going to? I want to see ‘The Thing’ in 35 or 70mm!!
Hi Jamie
You could try our friends at Fanomenon (Leeds), Celluloid Screams (Sheffield) and Grimm Up North (Manchester). We also have a horror strand at Bradford International Film Festival – but I’m afraid there are no 35mm screenings this year. If you’re interested in large formate film making, you may want to visit Widescreen Weekend at BIFF.
Emma