The Gown Student Newspaper at Queen's University Belfast

ARTS: The Life And Times of the Living Dead

The QFT will be holding a zombie themed weekend on the 30^h April through to Sunday 2nd May.  The weekend includes the premiere screening of locally produced horror film ‘Deadville’ on Saturday the 1^st May at 6.45pm.  Shot in HD and made with the very modest budget of £1000, ‘Deadville’  is a psychological horror that explores just how far someone will go for love.

BY EMMA GALLEN

www.queensfilmtheatre.com

The weekend opens with a showing of the 1932 classic ‘The White Zombie’ on Friday the 30^th.  Often regarded as the first full length film of the zombie sub-genre, the film tells the story of a man trying to turn a woman into a zombie to win her affection.  A strange way of saying romance is dead.  The tickets for this event are £10 and include a White Zombie cocktail.

The weekend also includes Spanish cult horror film ‘REC’ (Friday 30^th April), Ontario set ‘Pontypool’ (Saturday May 1^st) and the late David Carradine’s ‘Autumn’ (Saturday 1^st May).  On the final day of the mini festival, the QFT will show Charlie Brooker’s ‘Deadset’ in full for the first time on the big screen.

French director, Robin Campillo’s arthouse chiller ‘They Came Back’ is also shown on May 2^nd.  The final in the fearsome film festival is George A Romaro’s ‘Diary of the Dead’ which blends the director’s long running series of zombie films with a re-animating dose of Blair Witch sensibilities.

Tags: Emma Gallen, Gown, newspaper, QFT, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, students, The Gown

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 at 2:02 am and is filed under Arts + Ents. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.