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"Bloodthirsty hitchhikers! Amnesiac killers! Mind-controlling psychopaths! Cinephiles beware, you’re in for a scare as Forbidden Worlds returns to the Bristol Megascreen for two nights of ‘stranger danger’. Featuring a fresh 4K restoration of Rutger Hauer’s menacing The Hitcher, surreal Devon folk-horror classic The Shout and the only place to see the new 4K restoration of Dario Argento's Opera."
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A event on Saturday 12th October. The event starts at 16:30.
FORBIDDEN WORLDS FILM FESTIVAL: THE BIG SCREAM
Bristol Megascreen
11-12 October 2024
STRANGER DANGER!
Never answer your phone! Never stop your car! Never open your door!
Bristol’s biggest repertory genre film festival is back to issue a very serious public warning: do not speak to strangers or involve yourself with them in any way. It will not be good for your health… or your life!
On the 11th and 12th of October 2024, the Big Scream returns for a two-nighter at Bristol’s former IMAX screen – now dubbed the Bristol Megascreen. As the nights draw in and spooky season gets closer, Forbidden Worlds looks at the perils of stranger danger with six selections from around the globe: the cult British folk horror of The Shout; a brand-new 4K restoration of VHS favourite The Hitcher, starring the much-missed Rutger Hauer; Dario Argento’s audacious Opera, also presented in a brand-new 4K restoration; the creepy and influential Cure from Japan; teen horror fave I Know What You Did Last Summer; and the quintessential ‘stranger danger’ horror, When a Stranger Calls.
This year, as a special treat, each film will also be preceded by a horror short. Five of those shorts are the work of Bristol-based and/or Bristol-born filmmakers, plus a recent audience favourite from the horror festival circuit – all of which will look and sound positively amazing on the biggest screen in the South West!
At-a-glance schedule
Friday 11 October 2024
4.30PM: THE SHOUT (1977)
7PM: THE HITCHER (1986)
9.15PM: OPERA (1987)
Saturday 12 October 2024
4PM: CURE (1997)
7PM: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997)
9.30PM: WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (1979)
https://www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk/
Entry requirements: 18+
Bristol Megascreen
11-12 October 2024
STRANGER DANGER!
Never answer your phone! Never stop your car! Never open your door!
Bristol’s biggest repertory genre film festival is back to issue a very serious public warning: do not speak to strangers or involve yourself with them in any way. It will not be good for your health… or your life!
On the 11th and 12th of October 2024, the Big Scream returns for a two-nighter at Bristol’s former IMAX screen – now dubbed the Bristol Megascreen. As the nights draw in and spooky season gets closer, Forbidden Worlds looks at the perils of stranger danger with six selections from around the globe: the cult British folk horror of The Shout; a brand-new 4K restoration of VHS favourite The Hitcher, starring the much-missed Rutger Hauer; Dario Argento’s audacious Opera, also presented in a brand-new 4K restoration; the creepy and influential Cure from Japan; teen horror fave I Know What You Did Last Summer; and the quintessential ‘stranger danger’ horror, When a Stranger Calls.
This year, as a special treat, each film will also be preceded by a horror short. Five of those shorts are the work of Bristol-based and/or Bristol-born filmmakers, plus a recent audience favourite from the horror festival circuit – all of which will look and sound positively amazing on the biggest screen in the South West!
At-a-glance schedule
Friday 11 October 2024
4.30PM: THE SHOUT (1977)
7PM: THE HITCHER (1986)
9.15PM: OPERA (1987)
Saturday 12 October 2024
4PM: CURE (1997)
7PM: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1997)
9.30PM: WHEN A STRANGER CALLS (1979)
https://www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk/
Entry requirements: 18+
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