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What to say on the Scooby–Doo-episode-gone-wrong that is The Texas Chain Saw Massacre? In review terms at least, everything that could be said about this landmark, pivotal, groundbreaking (no superlative is too great!) grimefest in less than a 1,000 words pretty much already has been. And so as an...

The darkest of Mayhem’s opening night offerings (though considering the rest of the content was supplied by the irreverent and hilarious Astron-6 collective, that’s not all too surprising), Let Us Prey presented to audiences a taut, beautifully shot horror-thriller with a relentlessly increasing sense of “as if this is happening now…” After...

Expanding their niche of irreverent and madcap throwbacks to the low-budget classics of their childhood, Canadian production company Astron-6 descended on Nottingham with their gore-soaked giallo homage, The Editor. In a loving pastiche of a genre most fondly remembered for its sheer crapness, Astron-6 have gone to great lengths to replicate the shoddiness that makes the...

There is much to fear in The Canal. The chilling sense of dread permeating the whole film, the question of whether David’s house is haunted or just his unwinding mind. The biggest fear, though, is that The Canal has, in my eyes, suffered the same fate that befell 20,000 Days on...

At the end of this October Nottingham’s own world famous Mayhem Film Festival returns for its tenth anniversary, taking over Broadway Cinema for four days of preview screenings, Q&As and live rock band accompaniments. Impact are here to give you a taste of what to look forward to over those...

The first ever Nottingham International Film Festival set to take place from the 7th to the 9th of October at the Savoy Cinema. We sat down with the organizers, Neil and Al, to talk about the festival, independent films, and more. This is the first year that the festival is...

Tom Watchorn continues to review the Mayhem Film Festival for Impact Film & Television. Day Three After the surprise disappointment of Day Two’s final film Stung, it was something of a reassurance that Day Three – the first of the two true marathon sessions and in hindsight prime for...

Impact Film and Television review Mayhem Film Festival, held in Nottingham, 15-18 October. Day One One thing to say for the tidal-waves-of-cinema-to-the-face approach which film festivals provide, beyond the smug satisfaction of endurance challenges, is the fact that by the very nature of the exhibition format the highlights of...

British fantasy horror film Howl was shown in Nottingham as part of the Mayhem Film Festival. Director Paul Hyett also came along to answer some questions about the making of the film in a ‘Making Monsters Masterclass’. Werewolves on a train. It sounds like a supernatural Snakes on a...

The concluding film at Mayhem Film Festival definitely put meaning to the word ‘mayhem’. Directed by Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body), this story steers away from conventional horror, and seems to lie more in the psychological thriller genre. The story tells us of a man named Will (Logan Marshall-Green) and...