Southend residents should be afraid, very afraid!
‘It’s a 12-hour frenzied feast of slicing, dicing, drilling, killing and general murderous mayhem each day of the Horror-on-Sea Film Festival,’ delights its director and creator Paul Cotgrove, who has once again hand-picked a programme of the very best – and indeed some of the worst – new films spanning the horror genre for the eighth edition of the festival, which takes place in Southend this month.
Opening on Friday, January 10, 2020, and running through Saturday, January 11 and Sunday, January 12, and then again from Friday, January 17 to Sunday, January 19, Horroron-Sea will showcase 40 feature films, 50 shorts and six world premieres.
‘This is the biggest festival for independently-made horror films in the UK,’ explains Paul.
‘Most other horror festivals mainly show the big-budget films. When we started the Horror-onSea Film Festival in 2012, we basically screened every film that was submitted to the festival, but now we receive hundreds of submissions and it is a lot harder for film-makers to get their films screened here.’
This story is from the January 2020 edition of Essex Life.
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