3-D Spooktakular marks 9th screening for Horror Film Competition in Margate
(By Ema Rush)
From the shadows around the Theatre Royal Margate, on a particularly dark and forbidding Saturday night (29/10/11), a ghostly hoard of vampires, witches and the assembled undead arrived. They had converged in Margate from every shadowy murky corner of England, to gorge themselves on the dark fruits of the filmmakers’ imaginations, to gasp with horror and shriek with fear. With all the courage the rest of the intrepid audience could muster, they filed into the historic theatre as the Old Town clock struck seven…
Incredibly, the Two Days Later Short Horror Film Competition, sponsored by Future Copyright, marked its 9th anniversary with this year’s shortlisted finalists’ evening film screening. The competition premise is that films must be made in two days. They can be filmed on any medium, including a mobile phone, so they are truly accessible to all. And this year really was a corker. The film industry panel of 6 judges (who include actor Andy Nyman, screen writer James Moran and film critic Kim Newman) unanimously considered this year to be the best and scariest crop ever!
