Lockdown puts time on your hands. So why not put it to good use by watching a few of the master classes by the greats of genre cinema from the Festival’s past editions.
Did you picture the Apocalypse any differently than at your place, sprawled on the sofa with your feet on the coffee table? That’s probably what they were doing too.
Need a boost from the Lockdown Intimate Living Syndrome? Take your pick from this mixed species cocktail of horror comedies, bringing together serial-killer sheep, zombie beavers, normal zombies, graceful werewolves, Google-loving vampires and humans.
Given the confinement under which we are living today, our post-apocalyptic retrospective has acquired a new sheen of irony. Click here for Jean Alessandrini’s prophetic text, the list of the retrospective films as well as our “post-apo night of truly bad films”, trailers and all.
While confined to our homes with plenty of time on our hands, make it go by faster with the indie videogame, Gone Home. Developed by the Fullbright studios, Gone Home will take you on a 1990s nostalgia trip.
The Sofilm residencies for genre cinema are calling for short-film projects, which will once again be presented at the 16th edition of our Festival, to be held this coming September.
Peter Strickland’s In Fabric has won the Golden Méliès, which was awarded on Sunday 6 October at the 52nd Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia.
Celebrate Hallowe’en (All Hallows Eve), an ancient Celtic, then Roman, then Catholic tradition today confiscated by everyone who wants to have freaky fun.
The winners of the Méliès d’or 2021 are the feature film Censor by Prano Bailey-Bond and the short film Last Dance by Danny Gibbons and Alex Scott. The Career Méliès of this year goes to French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic.