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Festival coverage

Dead By Dawn

25 May – 28 May 2013

Dead By Dawn is back for another year with a selection of horror treats designed to send shivers down your spine. New discoveries are accompanied by old favourites and a scary shorts strand, plus there'll be special guests, competitions and the famous shit film amnesty.

The festival will take place from 25 to 28 May.

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Other years (2)

Latest reviews

  • The Brood
    Review preview for The Brood

    Though not entirely successful as a piece of entertainment, it represents an important stage in the development of body horror cinema.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    The use of experimental psychology to treat a troubled divorcee coincides with a series of mysterious attacks by mutant children.
  • Hellraiser
    Review preview for Hellraiser

    Though it's no longer likely to shock horror audiences, Hellraiser remains highly watchable, and there is no doubting its importance in the history of cinema.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An unfaithful wife faces demonic horrors after her dead lover escapes from Hell.
  • Dead Shadows
    Review preview for Dead Shadows

    Dead Shadows is very much a case of style over substance.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    A young man whose parents were killed as a comet passed finds people acting strangely as another comet appoaches.
  • My Amityville Horror
    Review preview for My Amityville Horror

    This documentary offers a uniquely personal account of events in the house from an eyewitness who has never really been heard before.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    A documentary about the famous Amityville 'haunting' case focusing on Daniel, who was ten at the time and remembers something very different.
  • An American Werewolf In London
    Review preview for An American Werewolf In London

    Landis keeps the humour dry, the speech naturalistic, yet his keen sense of the absurd provides for some laugh-out-loud moments.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Fully restored version of the werewolf classic.
  • The Tingler
    Review preview for The Tingler

    The Tingler is a film that doesn't have much story and that takes so many narrative short cuts it is impossible to treat it with any seriousness, but it retains the potential to be serious fun.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A pathologist discovers a dangerous parasite that feeds on fear and can only be killed by screaming, but when a mute woman becomes infected, all Hell breaks loose. Famous for the pranks played on audiences at its original screenings.
  • Brain Damage
    Review preview for Brain Damage

    Creative tension, daring storyline and genuinely unsettling dreadfulness.

    Chris · 3.5 out of 5
    A man becomes attached to a parasite that gives him an unnatural high.
  • Basket Case
    Review preview for Basket Case

    The sort of film that any aspiring director of schlocky shock should be proud of having as their debut.

    Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5
    Cult horror à la basket.
  • Evil Dead 2 - Dead By Dawn
    Review preview for Evil Dead 2 - Dead By Dawn

    Very little of this makes sense and none of it is scary.

    Gator MacReady · 2 out of 5
    Sam Raimi returns to the shed in the forest where evil spirits cause unspeakable mayhem.

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