Forbidden Worlds Film Festival
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Genre film festival dedicated to screening repertory action, sci-fi and horror films from around the world on the biggest screen in the South West. Forbidden Worlds returns: 22-24 October 2026 linktr.ee/FWFilmFestival
Can't make it to Sitges? See the new 4K restoration in Bristol on the Megascreen on 24 October. www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
Anton Bitel@antbit.projectedfigures.com · 3d ago"imagines a violent viral uprising of the very young against their adult ‘betters’": the new 4K restoration of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s confronting ‘creepy kid’ horror WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (1976) screens 11am today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Superb! projectedfigures.com/2018/01/15/c...
50 Years of Who Can Kill a Child? poster for an expo celebrating cinema's most evil kiddies including Children of the Corn, The Bad Seed and Village of the Damned. (I shall be visiting this expo when I get a mo.)
We'll be screening Fenech's breakout hit - The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh - on 24 October at Bristol Megascreen as part of The Big Scream: European Slaycation. womeninhorror.com/reviews-%26-...
The Timeless Appeal of Edwige Fenech: Giallo's Glamorous Queen
by Staci Layne Wilson
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Not that you should need any excuse to see Dario Argento's giallo masterpiece, Deep Red, on an IMAX screen... BUT if you still needed convincing, here's friend of the festival @realgdt.bsky.social talking about the film's impact and legacy. www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
10 days to go! www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
Forbidden Worlds Film Festival@fwfilmfestival.bsky.social · 3w agoLet’s turn those blue passports red again! Grab your passport, pack your bags and get ready for three nights of cult horrors from the continent! Forbidden Worlds Film Festival: The Big Scream - European Slaycation! 22-24 October, Bristol Megascreen www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
And you can watch it on an IMAX screen in Bristol on 24 October! www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
Foreign Horror Movies@foreignhorror.bsky.social · 21h agoStage Fright is the entry point to Italian horror for people who think they don't like Italian horror. Michele Soavi strips away the surrealism and gives you something lean and brutal, a slasher with real craft behind it. The owl mask alone is one of the most iconic images the genre ever produced
Missed out on seeing Deep Red on the big screen? We've got you covered... on a bigger screen! www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
Profondo Rosso Deep Red
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AlTheColorsOfTheDark💀🦇🪦⚰️🎃🕸🖤@afizgig.bsky.social · yesterdayHad fun yesterday! By fun I mean, getting a sore ass sat watching a Dario Argento movie marathon in London 📽👀👌🏻 No alt text but the pics below are the titles on a movie screen... Suspiria Deep Red Tenebrae Four Flies on Grey Velvet The Bird With the Crystal Plummage Opera What a day! 🤩🙌🏻🖤
Coming to The Big Scream: European Slaycation? We've got a list on our Letterboxd page of all the films we'll be screening, including the shorts. letterboxd.com/fwfilmfestiv...
2026: Forbidden Worlds: The Big Scream
Three nights of cult horrors from the continent! Europe didn’t just create cinema. It also gave birth to the horror film. From Georges Méliès’ The Haunted Castle (1896) to the iconic imagery of F.W. M...
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A programmer loves all their picks equally... but you know when one is destined to be the crowd-pleaser. Michele Soavi's STAGEFRIGHT - 24 October, Bristol Megascreen www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
Forbidden Worlds Film Festival@fwfilmfestival.bsky.social · 3w agoLet’s turn those blue passports red again! Grab your passport, pack your bags and get ready for three nights of cult horrors from the continent! Forbidden Worlds Film Festival: The Big Scream - European Slaycation! 22-24 October, Bristol Megascreen www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
This will be the UK premiere of the new 4K restoration of Who Can Kill A Child? days after its world premiere at Sitges!
Forbidden Worlds Film Festival@fwfilmfestival.bsky.social · last wk.“Comes from a different era in filmmaking, when horror movies could spit in the eye of the status quo…” - Slant Magazine. 24 October at Bristol Megascreen: UK premiere of the new 4K restoration of Who Can Kill A Child? via @filmsradiance.bsky.social www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
Don't take our word for it that you should see Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace. Listen to the director of many of your favourite films Joe Dante (Gremlins)! On 22 October, we will be screening the recent Arrow restoration on Bristol's biggest screen. www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
"A pregnant woman goes on a killing spree around Northern France to feed the blood lust of the creature growing inside her!" A rare opportunity to see French body horror BABY BLOOD on 23 October as part of The Big Scream: European Slaycation! www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
From provocative precursors like Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much to sanguinary standards such as Dario Argento’s Deep Red, Patrick Sproull recommends twenty stylishly violent giallo films. Read the full story on Journal. https://boxd.it/3pm
Well, look at us being timely...
Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · last wk.From provocative precursors like Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much to sanguinary standards such as Dario Argento’s Deep Red, Patrick Sproull recommends twenty stylishly violent giallo films. Read the full story on Journal. https://boxd.it/3pm
Come join us for some classic Fenech on an IMAX screen! The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh - 24 October, Bristol Megascreen. www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
AlTheColorsOfTheDark💀🦇🪦⚰️🎃🕸🖤@afizgig.bsky.social · 3d agoHappy #FenechFriday everyone 🙌🏻🖤😚
A programmer loves all their picks equally... but you know when one is destined to be the crowd-pleaser. Michele Soavi's STAGEFRIGHT - 24 October, Bristol Megascreen www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
Forbidden Worlds Film Festival@fwfilmfestival.bsky.social · 3w agoLet’s turn those blue passports red again! Grab your passport, pack your bags and get ready for three nights of cult horrors from the continent! Forbidden Worlds Film Festival: The Big Scream - European Slaycation! 22-24 October, Bristol Megascreen www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
From Dario Argento, maestro of the macabre, comes the ultimate giallo movie! We couldn’t do a line-up of European horrors without including a film from the master of giallo, so on 23 October join us for a screening of Deep Red on the biggest screen in Bristol! www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
On the one hand, Blood and Black Lace (Bava) for the richness of the palette and Argento Suspiria/Deep Red. Also, Don’t Look Now, with its nods to Giallo and The Masque of the Red Death (Roeg as cinematographer) On the other, in stark contrast, The Innocents
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧@selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 5d agoWhat's the most beautiful horror movie you've ever seen? I would say Kwaidan, though I realize that's a pretty basic answer. But given Kwaidan as a benchmark, can you recommend a horror (or horror-adjacent) movie in that league, or even more gorgeous?
TWO WEEKS TO GO! Have you got your tickets? www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
Forbidden Worlds Film Festival@fwfilmfestival.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Big Scream: European Slaycation 22-24 October, Bristol Megascreen Watch the likes of Deep Red, Blood and Black Lace and Baby Blood on the biggest screen in Bristol! Individual screening tickets now on sale! Let's turn those blue passports red... www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
Thai film poster for the THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS WARDH (1971 - Dir. Sergio Martino) Cast: Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Ivan Rassimov
“Comes from a different era in filmmaking, when horror movies could spit in the eye of the status quo…” - Slant Magazine. 24 October at Bristol Megascreen: UK premiere of the new 4K restoration of Who Can Kill A Child? via @filmsradiance.bsky.social www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
Get ready for your new favourite slasher! If you’ve never experienced Michele Soavi’s Stagefright, then get ready to have your world rocked with one of the most fun and bloody Italian slashers ever made. 24 October at Bristol Megascreen as part of The Big Scream: European Slaycation!
Fed up of flat Netflix lighting in your movies? Then get ready to have your eyeballs melted in your skull with the visual opulence of Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace. Horror has never looked so beautiful. Bristol Megascreen on 22 October: www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
Failed actor David Ellison has completed his takeover of Paramount and Warne Bros after realising he couldn't buy himself a movie star career. It should be noted Flyboys isn't a terrible film... but Ellison is atrocious.
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Who Can Kill A Child? 4K Restoration Gets UK Premiere at Bristol’s The Big Scream
The controversial 1979 Spanish horror, which celebrates its 50th anniversary, sees a British couple beseiged by maniacal children Who Can Kill a Child? is considered a cult classic and appeared at ...
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“You don’t simply watch a giallo—you feel it. It’s impossible to apply logic to this bizarro Italian horror subgenre; you need to ride its strange grooves and rhythms.” letterboxd.com/journal/gial...
Black Gloves and Red Lights: a starter pack of twenty thrilling giallo films • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
From provocative precursors like Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much to sanguinary standards such as Dario Argento’s Deep Red, Patrick Sproull recommends twenty stylishly violent giallo films.
letterboxd.com
This will be the UK premiere of the new 4K restoration of Who Can Kill A Child? days after its world premiere at Sitges!
Forbidden Worlds Film Festival@fwfilmfestival.bsky.social · last wk.“Comes from a different era in filmmaking, when horror movies could spit in the eye of the status quo…” - Slant Magazine. 24 October at Bristol Megascreen: UK premiere of the new 4K restoration of Who Can Kill A Child? via @filmsradiance.bsky.social www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
