Alien Romulus, The Substance, Oddity: Edinburgh Film Festival 2024 Preview
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This summer, EOH is heading to the Edinburgh Film Festival! In this bonus episode, Mike chats to festival director Paul Ridd and producer Emma Boa about the line-up of horror movie premieres, including ALIEN ROMULUS, Damien Mc Carthy's ODDITY, Alice Lowe's TIMESTALKER and more...
MIDNIGHT CATEGORY LINE-UP:
Thursday 15 Aug - ALIEN: ROMULUS (Fede Alvarez, US 126’) UK Premiere *Opening Night
Friday 16 Aug - ODDITY (Damian McCarthy, Ireland 98’) UK Premiere + ONE MORE ROUND (Zach Magid, Andrew Tyrell, US 12’) UK Premiere
Sat 17 Aug - SUNRAY (James Clarke, Daniel Shephard, UK 115’) World Premiere + MEAT PUPPET (Eros V, UK 12’) UK Premiere
Sun 18 Aug - BIRDEATER (Jack Clark, Jim Weir, Australia 113’) UK Premiere + MAKE ME A PIZZA (Talia Shea Levin, US 12’) UK Premiere
Mon 19 Aug - KING BABY (Kit Redstone, Arran Shearing, UK 88’) UK Premiere + DUCK (Rachel Maclean, Scotland 17’)
Tues 20 Aug - THE SUBSTANCE (Coralie Fargeat, US 140’) UK Premiere *Closing Night
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to a cheeky little bonus episode of the Evolution of Horror. |
| 0:04.8 | We are into summer sort of movie festival season and I'm very excited in August to head up to Edinburgh for the Edinburgh Film Festival and I am |
| 0:15.0 | going to be there for every movie in their midnight category so they are going to be |
| 0:20.3 | premiering a whole bunch of horror and genre films at midnight |
| 0:23.7 | every night across the festival. I'm going to be there for each and every one of them and |
| 0:28.6 | I'm very honored to be hosting a screening of one of my favorite horror films of the year, certainly the creepiest horror |
| 0:36.1 | movie I've seen this year, Damien McCarthy's Oddity. That's going to be on Friday Friday the 16th of August. |
| 0:43.3 | If you are around, if you are within reach of Edinburgh, |
| 0:46.6 | trust me, you do not want to miss this, |
| 0:48.4 | especially watching it with a midnight audience. |
| 0:51.0 | It's going to be something truly special I think. But anyway there are a |
| 0:54.6 | whole bunch of movies that are going to be playing at the festival including another |
| 0:59.0 | one of my absolute favorite films I've seen this year Correli Farsjert, The Substance, starring Demi Moore, and also |
| 1:07.0 | Alien Romulus is getting its premiere at the festival as well on opening night. So I'm going to be there for all of these events |
| 1:15.1 | and I would love for you guys to join us. So I'm going to list the details in the show notes |
| 1:20.4 | about the festival and how you can get tickets. But now have a little |
| 1:23.8 | listen to my conversation with the director of the festival, Paul Ridd, and the |
| 1:28.5 | producer of the festival Emma Boa, they talk me through the lineup of this year's horror films playing at the festival and what audience members can expect. Enjoy. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm very excited to be joined by Edinburgh Film Festival CEO and director Paul Ridd and festival producer Emma Boa. Hello guys |
| 1:47.4 | Hi, hi. This is very exciting. How's Paul how's life in Edinburgh right now? Is it any |
| 1:53.0 | sunier than it is down here? It's very grim down here. It's not sunier. |
| 1:56.7 | I've been a little op here since the beginning of the year and I think Emma has |
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