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Don’T Turn Out The Lights: "Reuniting for an unforgettable weekend, a group of high school friends takes a break from their separate lives at college to travel by Rv to a musical festival. Their exciting weekend plans quickly unravel as they find themselves fighting to survive each other and the unknown."

Writer & Director: Andy Fickman Cast: Bella DeLong, Amber Janea, Ana Luz Zambrana, John Bucy, Crystal Lake Evans, Jarrett Austin Brown, Daryl Tofa Producers: Andy Fickman, Todd Slater, Grant Slater, Betsy Sullenger, Scott Prisand, Katie Leary, Michael Speyer Runtime Time: 109 minutes

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Video Shop Tales Of Terror: "The film is a loving tribute to the VHS age of the 1980s, produced by fans of that era, and has six short stories based around a sinister and creepy video shop. All the segments were directed by popular directors from the London/South East indie horror industry such as Mj Dixon,...

Stars: Amber Doig-Thorne, Ayvianna Snow, Alice Stevenson, Dani Thompson, Michael Fausti, Roe Haven, Laurence R. Harvey | Written and Directed by Michael Fausti

Burnt Flowers, the new film from writer/director Michael Fausti, begins with a series of scenes swiftly moving back and forth between London’s Rose Bar in 1968, Islington in 1983 and the Islington Police Station in 1992.

The last location is where Detective Franc Alban has a visitor, Alice Kyteller. She’s there to report a missing person, her husband Austin whom she last saw eight years ago in a brothel. Why has she waited so long to report him missing? “I thought he might come back”. She can’t offer any information and hasn’t so much as asked his friends about him, but she is sure that she and Detective Alban have met before.

If all of this sounds strange, you haven’t seen anything yet. The director...

Congratulations on your role in Michael Fausti’s “Burnt Flowers.” Could you please delve into the details of your character and share what attracted you to this project?

Alice is such an interesting character as she seems to exist almost outside of space and time; we see her first in the 1960s, then she reappears in the ’90s, and she hasn’t aged! You are never quite sure what her allegiance is. Michael didn’t want to give too much away during filming, he wanted me to find my own interpretation of the character. I came up with various theories while we were filming; that Alice was a ghost; that she was a projection of Franc’s id.

At one point, I became convinced that Alice was a figment of Franc’s imagination as we only ever see Alice when Franc is also in the room; but then we shot...

UK indie horror icon Ayvianna Snow returns to the screen with three new films for the first quarter 2024.

Cult director Michael Fausti’s much anticipated second feature film, Burnt Flowers (premieres January 2024), sees Ayvianna Snow join fellow horror luminaries Dani Thompson and Laurence R. Harvey in this haunting and surreal Horror-Noir from one of the UK’s most original horror directors.

Burnt Flowers focuses upon a mysterious femme fatale, Alice Kyteller (Ayvianna Snow), who approaches Detective Francis Alban (Amber Doig-Thorne) to search for her missing husband. The detective’s search leads her to a 1960s serial killer, who was never caught, a violent gangster and ultimately… herself.

The film stars Ayvianna Snow in a commanding central performance in a role that recalls the shape-shifting femme fatales of classic film noir. Snow’s portrayal of Alice Kyteller leads the audience into the dark past of the 1960s criminal underworld and an obsessive,...

Stars: Shend, Gary Baxter, Caroline Munro, Annabella Rich, Dani Thompson, Lynn Lowry, Martin W. Payne, Michael Fausti, Lou Nosbod, Bazz Hancher | Written and Directed by Thomas Lee Rutter

The Pocket Film of Superstitions opens with a title card that reads “The Following Moving Picture Presentation May Contain Scenes of Irreverence”, and irreverent is a very apt way to describe the latest film from writer/director Thomas Lee Rutter.

It’s shot with the visual stylings of an old silent movie complete with the blue tint they used to indicate a night scene and the occasional title card. But it isn’t a silent film, there are sound effects and occasional short exchanges of dialogue. But most of the information is relayed to the viewer via narration by Shend, which is probably the best choice for a film like this.

That’s because The Pocket Film of Superstitions is, for all intents and purposes,...

In his latest interview from this year’s Romford Horror Film Festival, Kevin sits down with eleven(!) members of the cast and crew of the new British horror anthology Video Shop Tales of Terror.

Six terrifying tales emanate from a sinister video shop in this British retro anthology movie and loving tribute to the 1980s VHS era. Every tale is handled by a respected indie horror director: Mj Dixon (Pandamonium), Sam Mason-Bell (Acting), Ciao Handy (Tales from the Great War), Alexander Churchyard (I Scream on the Beach!), Tom Lee Rutter (Day of the Stranger) and Michael Fausti (Exit). With faux trailers from Geoff Harmer (Dead Air) & Tony Mardon (The Witches of the Sands). Immerse yourself in two hours of retro horror nostalgia, from a bunch of people who love the era as much as you do! This is an anthology horror in the classic style of horror studios from the past but with a twist.

Stars: Dani Thompson, Laurence Harvey, Annabella Rich, Martin W Payne, Tony Mardon, Singh Lall, Rami Hilmi, Cy Henty, Andrea Sandell, Eve Oliver, Peter Tilley, Faith Elizabeth, Charlie Bond, Mike Butler, Allan Bryce | Directed by Alexander Churchyard, Mj Dixon, Sam Mason Bell, Tony Mardon, Max Davenport, Tom Lee Rutter, Michael Fausti, Andrew Elias, Geoff Harmer

An anthology of tales paying the ultimate homage to the 70/80s Video Nasty Tromaesque-era, from a team of some of the best writers/directors in the lower budget UK horror scene. A carefully curated selection of shorts all with varying degrees of depravity broken up by a wrap around story of the Video Dungeon, all delightfully introduced by Brit Scream Queen royalty Dani Thompson (putting in a number of roles throughout). Anthology movies do seem to be making somewhat of a comeback as of late and have a bit of a tendency of “trying too hard...

Stars: Billy James Machin, Leonarda Sahani, Tony Denham, Christophe Delesques, Charlotte Gould | Written by Mathew Bayliss | Directed by Michael Fausti

We’ve previously reviewed Michael Fausti’s short Dead Celebrities and interviewed the filmmaker at Horror-on-Sea on a couple of occasions. Between that and a few other things I’d seen him say about Exit in interviews, I knew this wasn’t going to be a standard horror movie. Beyond that, I wasn’t sure what I was going to get. After watching it I’m still not 100% certain of what I got, but I think that’s intentional.

Exit begins with a brief prologue that imparts some information that would usually be held back in a film like this. Whether you find this gives the events a different perspective or is a spoiler will be an individual thing. I was initially not happy with the revelation, but the script...

Night Terrors Film Festival's fourth season is upon us, and we proudly present the official selection of short films for 2019: Alisa (Johannes Lilja) Beta (Kai Erfurt) Chimes (Jannine Benkhardt) Dead Celebrities (Michael Fausti) The Ballad of a Haunted Man (Emma Pitt) The Whistler (Jennifer Nicole Stang) Post Mortem Mary (Joshua Long) Terrordactyl (E.K. Scarfone) Delicacy (Michael Middleton-Downer) A Doll Distorted (Niall Shukla) The Blizzard (Alvaro Rodriguez Areny) Little Shoes (Ray Kermani) Off Duty (Becki Pantling) Those who can die (Charlotte Cayeux) Full-Time Lady (Petri Bergman) Night Terrors Film Festival will be held as always at Slagtehal 3 in Aarhus, Denmark on Thursday, February 7. Then, on the following day, Friday February 8, the same films can be enjoyed at Husets Biograf in Copenhagen, Denmark....

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With the short Dead Celebrities now playing at the film festivals and his debut feature film Exit now in post-production, I got a chance to chat with director Michael Fausti about what we can expect from the two films, blurring the line between fiction and reality and some of the future projects we can expect from Fausti Films.

Photo courtesy of J.Douglas Imagery

What inspired you to get into film making originally?

I have always been a fan, particularly of British cinema and it was almost that kind of thing where the more I watched, the more I started to see and recognised the effective use of camera and things like that. I have always been a story teller, but I have never been able to draw, and I am not musical, so filmmaking was the next logical step to tell stories to people. I was inspired by what...

Stars: Michael Fausti, Louise Nosbod, Mathew Bayliss | Written and Directed by Michael Fausti

Mick (Michael Fausti) works as a hotel maintenance man. He is interested in dead celebrities, wants to be famous and has found a secret which connects the two. Whilst attending a leaky tap with his colleague Joe (Mathew Bayliss) they strike up a conversation and the question is raised “What do Lenny Bruce, Judy Garland, Jim Morrison and Elvis Presley all have in common?” The answer may be surprising, but the secrets behind it are even more so, because if you want to be famous you have to make sacrifices.

Dead Celebrities is an impressive new short film from writer-director Michael Fausti, who once again delivers something unexpected, which makes it difficult to review because you don’t want to give too much away.

The story is based around Mick, who is obsessed with a number of...