IT could seem like Winnie the Pooh, however the story isn’t fairly the comfortable model with Piglet and Tigger.
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is a horror movie to be screened at FrightFest 2023 as a part of this 12 months’s Glasgow Movie Pageant.
From March ninth to eleventh, the UK’s favourite horror fantasy occasion returns to the favored pageant for its 18th 12 months.
This 12 months’s daring line-up consists of the newest style discoveries from all over the world, spanning 9 nations with an eclectic mixture of world, worldwide and UK premieres.
Tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, January 18 at midday.
Pageant co-director Alan Jones stated: “FrightFest is without doubt one of the strongest forces within the horror, sci-fi and excessive thriller panorama, with a popularity that has firmly positioned it on our Prime 10 Important Fantasy Festivals Listing.
“We intention to remain forward of the chilling curve by returning to the unparalleled Glasgow Movie Pageant with a shake-and-shake present of epic proportions.”
Dubbed the “Woodstock of Worry” by director Guillermo Del Toro, FrightFest was based in 2000 and has grown in measurement and stature since its cult roots on the Prince Charles Cinema.
At present it’s internationally acknowledged for locating thrilling and authentic horror fiction and supporting the expertise behind them, serving to to launch the careers of administrators reminiscent of Simon Rumley, Neil Marshall, Christopher Smith, Eli Roth, Gareth Edwards and Simon Hunter.
Over time, pageant administrators Greg Day, Alan Jones, Paul McEvoy and Ian Rattray have made FrightFest a model chief for horror, increasing its footprint throughout the UK by internet hosting particular occasions all year long and becoming a member of forces with Glasgow Movie. The pageant can be a three-day occasion arrange right here.
FrightFest opens in grand Gallic fashion with two particular screenings on Thursday 9 March, with the UK premiere of Smoking Makes You Cough, the quirky, absurd comedy sci-fi from visionary director Quentin Dupieux that sparked GFF FrightFest in 2010 begins. sensation. That is adopted by the UK premiere of SISU, Dusty, nerve-wracking and spectacularly bloody World Struggle II epic from Finnish director Jalmari Helander of Uncommon Exports fame.
Enter the haunted “Satan’s Mansion” as FrightFest’s conventional two-day occasion kicks off Friday, March 10 with the worldwide premiere of #chadgetstheaxe, Travis Bible’s found-footage comedy horror movie. Then we journey to an historic mythological world for the UK premiere of Irati, a darkish Spanish epic journey from Errementari director Paul Urquijo Alijo, primarily based on the graphic novel by JL Landa and J Munoz.
Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s makes his directorial debut with the parody Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey: A Slasher. Pooh and Piglet aren’t glad and prepare for a visit to the Hundred Acre Wooden such as you’ve by no means seen earlier than on this UK premiere. “Pressive” reaches its peak with its UK Premiere on Thursday, Director Jonas Trukanas’ inventively compelling horror journey from hell to promenade evening.
The total Glasgow Movie Pageant launch will happen on Wednesday, January 25.
It’s firmly established as a serious occasion within the UK’s cultural calendar. Launched in 2005, the GFF has grown in significance and is now a serious launch pad for movies and one of many UK’s high movie festivals.
GFF was named Massive Display screen Occasion of the 12 months at Display screen Worldwide’s Massive Display screen Awards in November 2022, attaining a file 73% attendance at its first post-Covid in-person version.
Earlier GFF friends embody Richard Gere, Alan Rickman, John C Reilly, Saoirse Ronan, George Mackay, Richard Dreyfus, Karen Gillan, Jesse Buckley and Sir Michael Palin.
