The Films
Please note- These films are subject to change. Every effort is being made to ensure the current running order and choice of film stays the same.
On a personal note- It’s looking good for the present line up but with film rights being bought and sold like stocks and shares and the relative obscurity of some of the features, it has become something of a paper chase. The fall back films are also first choices that we wouldn’t have had time to show, unless we had a (now here’s an idea) 24 hour zombie Film Festival. Fingers crossed though and as I said, it’s looking good!
The decision to show these films on the latest digital projection format was also made early on to ensure the quality on the screen was not diminished. We want the picture clear and sharp and the sound, loud!
All profits are going to WSPA,” The World Society for the Protection of Animals.”
This is a charity close to our hearts and well deserving of our efforts.
I myself travelled to Romania to see the charity save numerous bears that were kept in tiny cages going insane through restriction and boredom, being fed the scraps from the restaurants that kept them for up to 10 years as living dustbins. Bears that were also blinded with acid to keep them under control while they danced for wincing tourists.
WSPA saved ALL these bears across the country by working with the government, sending in squads of specialists to take them back and retire them into luxury and pampering for the rest of their lives. I won’t go on but if you want to get involved or help in any way, just google WSPA and read about all their good work.
We are doing this for fun and the love of all things zombie,(please see Mark’s rant).
If it works out then we’ll do it all again next year and maybe expand a little. I don’t know, what do you think? Monster Film Festival, Hammer Horror Festival, Kung Foo, Godzilla-Gamera, Three Stooges!!!? Personally, I would love to be here in 5 years time writing the introduction to The 5th Leeds Zombie Film Festival. If it all goes wrong and we make a loss?No bother, we had fun and a poster on the wall.
When I was at school, a friend’s dad owned Accrington Video! This was before certification and the now infamous phrase, “Video Nasty”. We would spend hours at a time watching smuggled copy’s of Ex-tro, Driller Killer, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Evil Dead, Exorcist, Suspiria, Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, Tenebre, Shogun Assassin etc. We never did see the “bad ones” such as Faces of Death or Last House on the Left etc and I still don’t enjoy the modern day versions such as Hostel and Saw. I just think they’re a little spiteful and not much fun. I enjoy a little intelligence and good will. Just me? We never questioned the horror before us as being damaging to us in any way. We happily chuckled away at the daftness of it all then bombed off on our bmx’s for the day. Weren’t the summers longer back th(STOP IT). The first time I saw Dawn of the Dead was the first time I fell in love with a film. and we watched Evil Dead until we could quote the whole thing, (and still can). Is Evil Dead a zombie film? Discuss...
Then one day the shelves were empty of our hobby. It’s only really now that people regard these films as culturally important, filling pages in the grander newspapers and film review books. Po faced film buffs on late night tv telling us these films are something more than they are. Maybe they are!. But to me they will always be something to enjoy and laugh at. I will always marvel at a good special effect and mock myself for jumping out of my skin.
Enjoy!
