This October BanterFlix will undertake their most ambitious screening programme to date with their Dark Hedges Movie Club’s Month of Screams: a series of screenings of cult horror and Sci-Fi movies at various venues throughout Belfast.
Along with regular screenings every Friday evening at their spiritual home, the Beanbag Cinema in the Belfast Cathedral Quarter, their line-up throughout October includes their first ever short film festival (26th October), a 35mm screening of Halloween H20 at the Strand Arts Centre in East Belfast (16th October), a screening of The Faculty in Methodist College’s Whitla Hall (21st October) and will conclude on Halloween night (31st October) at the Black Box Belfast when they team up with Belfast Tease-o-Rama for a special screening of From Dusk Till Dawn.
BanterFlix’s Editor-in-Chief Jim McClean said: “We’re really excited about our line-up for October, over the past few years, thanks to the help of Film Hub NI and The Belfast Film Festival we’ve really grown in confidence with our programming in the past twelve months and we wanted these events to showcase that.”
“We’ve been planning many of these events for months now and we’re just as excited as we hope our audiences will be to see these cult classics on the big screen again!”
On Tuesday 16th October, just days before the release of the new Halloween movie, BanterFlix will host a night that not only celebrates the 40th anniversary of John Carpenter’s iconic slasher, but the 20th anniversary of Steve Miner’s Halloween H20. They’ll be screening both films back to back that evening and thanks to support from Film Hub NI our screening of H20 will be on 35mm, a first for BanterFlix. (Halloween begins at 6:40pm; Halloween H20 starts at 8:30pm)
As an added bonus for Halloween fans this screening will be accompanied by Rene Rivas’ The Spirit of Haddonfield, a not for profit/no budget short film which takes place 20 years after the events of H20 and will receive its UK & Irish premiere at this event.
On Sunday 21st October (7pm) The Breakfast Club meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers as BanterFlix team up with the Belfast Film Festival to screen Robert Rodriquez’s The Faculty in Methodist College’s Whitla Hall to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary. Written by Kevin Williamson, who also wrote Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, this is a high school drama with a sci-fi twist, that riffs on all the tropes and clichés we’ve come to expect from both genres.
On Friday 26th October (8pm) BanterFlix will host their first Short Film Festival at the Beanbag Cinema, a showcase of horror and sci-fi shorts made by Irish filmmakers. This is a short film festival aimed at establishing a platform for Irish filmmakers to screen their horror and Sci-Fi shorts on a big screen and give Belfast horror fans an opportunity to support local talent.
Then finally on Wednesday 31st October at the Black Box Belfast BanterFlix will team up with Belfast Tease-o-Rama for a night of vampires, tequila and burlesque for a special screening of From Dusk till Dawn.
Following a screening of the film the bloodthirsty burlesque bombshells of Belfast Tease-o-Rama will perform routines loosely inspired by the film.
To book tickets for any of these screenings check BanterFlix’s website (www.banterflix.com) for more information.
