Tickets
Full Festival Passes for the 2024 edition of Mayhem Film Festival are now available at £95 + booking fee.
You'll need to select a seat for each passholder at the time of purchase - this will be your allocated seat for the duration of the festival.
Visit our host venue Broadway's website to book a pass.
Individual tickets for this year's films can be booked below, including Frankenstein ticket packages (any 4 films for the price of 3)*
*Just add any 4 films to your basket and the 4-for-3 discount will be applied at checkout.
THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER
7PM: HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON
Dir: Ariane Louis-Seize
Cast: Sara Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard
Canada, 2023, 90m [Subtitled]
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill! When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy… until she meets a young man with suicidal tendencies.
"A gorgeous gothic treat" - Morbidly Beautiful
9PM: MADS
Dir: David Moreau
Cast: Lewkowski Yovel, Lucille Guillaume
France, 2024, 86m [Subtitled]
After taking an experimental drug, a teenager heads out for the night and encounters an injured woman. The mayhem escalates in this gory, fast-paced single-shot horror film.
"Shocking, surreal" - Screen Daily
FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER
12PM: CONFESSION
Dir: Jong-seok Yoon
Cast: So Ji-seob, Yunjin Kim
South Korea, 2022, 105 mins
In this locked-room murder mystery thriller, a lawyer hired to defend the prime suspect in a murder travels to his remote snow-covered cabin to try and discover the truth.
"A coolly crafted thriller" - Eye For Film
2PM: HOLLYWOOD 90028
Dir: Christina Hornisher
Cast: Christopher Augustine, Jeanette Dilger
USA, 1973, 76m
Hoping to make it as a camera operator in Hollywood, a young photographer soon finds himself making "porn loops"… and murdering women. Director Hornisher bridges the divide between arthouse and grindhouse in this inspired, rediscovered portrait of a serial killer.
"A raw energy that is jaw-dropping" - Fangoria
4PM: DEAD MAIL
Dirs: Joe DeBoer, Kyle McConaghy
Cast: Sterling Macer Jr., John Fleck
USA, 2024, 106m
A note from a kidnapped synthesiser technician finds its way to a post office investigator, setting off a deadly chain of events in this stylish 1980s-set thriller.
"In its understanding of the horror that can lurk in the mundane, it packs a punch" - Eye For Film
6.45PM: NIGHT CALL
Dir: Michiel Blanchart
Cast: Jonathan Feltre, Romain Duris
Belgium/France, 2024, 97m [Subtitled]
A relentless, all-action thriller showcasing a chase across the city that never lets up. In Blanchart's De Palma-styled cinematic debut, Mady, a student, works as a locksmith who one night helps Claire get into her flat - only to discover she has something that belongs to a very dangerous man.
"Keeps you on the edge of your seat from the first to the last second" - Rolling Stone
9PM: DADDY'S HEAD + DIRECTOR Q&A
Dir: Benjamin Barfoot
Cast: Julia Brown, Rupert Turnball
UK, 2024, 92m
A grieving boy and his stepmother start to fear for their safety when an eerie creature begins to visit them. Terrifying, disturbing horror cinema from the director of previous Mayhem hit Double Date.
Director Benjamin Barfoot will be joining us for an in-person post-screening Q&A after the film.
SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER
12PM: THE LAST VIDEO STORE
Dirs: Cody Kennedy, Tim Rutherford
Cast: Yaayaa Adams, Kevin Martin
Canada, 2023, 90m
A young woman's attempt to return some tapes to a video store takes a turn for the worse when one of them appears to be a cursed tape: The Videonomicon! The VHS-era homage you have been searching for. A must-see for Astron6 fans!
"A lot of fun" - Starburst
2PM: STEPPENWOLF
Dir: Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Cast: Berik Aytzhanov, Anna Starchenko
Kazakhstan, 2024, 102m [Subtitled]
Like an even more desolate and nihilistic Mad Max, this brutal depiction of war as nightmare drags its antagonists across a landscape forged in hell, all the while searching for a missing child.
"A bleak visceral transgressive vision to behold" - Cinapse
4.15PM: SHORT FILM SHOWCASE 1
Dirs: Various
International, 100m [Partially subtitled]
A collection of the best short, sharp shockers, featuring the weird and wonderful from across the earth - and beneath it.
7.15PM: INTERSTATE
Dir: Jean Luc Herbulot
Cast: Joey Starr, Asia Argento
Italy/France/Belgium, 2024, 90m [Subtitled]
The director of Saloum takes us on a deadly road tip. A genre mash-up fusing crime thriller with supernatural elements, Interstate never slows down. A hit-man attempts to get out of town to escape with the woman he loves - but picks up a mysterious stranger on the way.
"A brutal and unflinching descent into madness" - BIFFF
9.15PM: THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS
Dir: Wes Craven
Cast: Brandon Adams, Everett McGill
USA, 1991, 102m
Our late-night screening is a Wes Craven cult movie special – back on the big screen! Slum landlords, gentrification and class war become pure, twisted, perverse material for Craven in this inventive and anarchic minor-masterpiece.
"Brilliantly bizarre" - Horror Press
SUNDAY 20 OCTOBER
12PM: THE PARAGON UK PREMIERE
Dir: Michael Duignan
Cast: Benedict Wall, Florence Noble
New Zealand, 2024, 85m
Following a hit-and-run, a failed tennis coach learns how to develop his psychic powers in his quest for vengeance. Low budget but hilariously deadpan comedy, featuring a great cameo from What We Do In The Shadows' Jonny Brugh.
"Joyous… channels '80s fantasy and DIY gumption in a cosmic quest" - The Film Verdict
2PM: DARK MATCH
Dir: Lowell Dean
Cast: Chris Jericho, Steven Ogg
Canada, 2024, 95m
From the director of Wolfcop comes the action-packed story of a small-time wrestling company hired for a gig in a small town only to find themselves at the mercy of a mysterious cult leader.
"A cross between The Wrestler, Vacancy and Ghoulies" - Kim Newman
4PM: SHORT FILM SHOWCASE 2
Dirs: Various
International, 95m [Partially subtitled]
A special, extra programme of shorts from new blood and established fear-makers - a chance to unearth new talent.
6.30PM: LAST STOP ROCAFORT ST. [UK PREMIERE]
Dir: Luis Prieto
Cast: Natalia Azahara, Javier Gutiérrez
Spain, 90m, 2024 [Subtitled]
Laura has a new job, working in the Barcelona metro. Assigned to the old, quiet and rusty Rocafort station, it's not long before she discovers that this station hides a disturbing legend - one that will soon come to haunt her relentlessly.
8.30PM: SLINGSHOT
Dir: Mikael Håfström
Cast: Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne
USA, 109m, 2024
Waking from a deep hibernation, John finds himself lost in space and losing a grip on reality. In a desperate attempt to make sense of this before returning to hibernation, John needs to make contact with Earth to discover the truth. Nothing is what it seems in this mind-bending sci-fi thriller.
Please note, Slingshot has replaced Wake Up as Mayhem 2024's closing film.
