The Dead Northern film festival returns for three days of horror and fantasy film! The festival’s fourth year will be held in York, which our friends at Dead Northern tell us is the UK’s spookiest city. The lineup will include new feature and short films as well as classic horrors celebrating milestone anniversaries. Folk horror will take center stage with a 50th anniversary screening of Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man accompanied by a panel of special guests and a carefully selected group of folk horror shorts.
Joshua Lawson Co-founder and director of festival programming says of the line-up: “We’re really excited to welcome Dead Northerners back to our most ambitious festival yet. I can honestly say this is going to be the strongest lineup we have had in our four years growing the festival, with an eclectic mix of extra fringe events and activities”.
Of course, the festival will also host surprises, guest speakers, and live events. We’ll bring you those details as they’re released.
Dead Northern Festival award winners will join past alumni such as Rob Savage (Host) who won film of the year in 2020, and Erik Bloomquist (Ten Minutes to Midnight). With the most anticipated award “Best Death” won by Liam Regan’s Troma hit in 2022 (Eating Miss Campbell) sponsored by Dead Happy.
Brand new to this year is the ‘Bizarre Bazaar’ a unique marketplace dungeon of brilliantly unusual vendors dedicated to fans of the horror and fantasy genre.
VIP Weekend Passes for the festival are now on sale with day passes and individual screening tickets set to be available in August when the full festival schedule is released.
The three-day horror and fantasy film festival will be held in the heart of the UK’s spookiest city, York, from Friday, 29 September to Sunday, 1 October 2023. You can follow Dead Northern Film Festival on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
