What on Earth is The Pocket Film of Superstitions? Well, dear reader – let me explain:
On the one hand it is a parade of weird and wonderful faces amidst a hall of smoke and mirrors. The less cryptic me would also say it is a quaint and creepy merging of folkloric horror, the supernatural and dadaist humour that looks at various superstitions through the ages.
The film features a wonderful roster of beautiful performers including a stunning array of first ladies of the silver-scream in
Caroline Munro (Maniac, Slaughter High, Dracula AD 1972), Lynn Lowry (Shivers, The Crazies, Cat People), Pauline Peart (The Satanic Rites of Dracula) Dani Thompson (Video Shop Tales of Terror, My Bloody Banjo) and Annabella Rich (Eating Miss Campbell) – as well as a who’s who of the current British indie horror boom.
Taking you on this journey with his toffee warbles is none other than living cult legend The Shend; he of Dadaist punk/post-punk bands The Cravats, The Very Things and star of cult cinematic oddities as Pervirella, Schemers and every British sitcom you ever did see. He is a most fine narrator indeed!
And as for ‘Pocket Film’ – well you know those pocket books we all read as nippers? This is like one of those, but a film. Make sense? Well it isn’t entirely supposed to…
PACKAGE INCLUDES:
16 PAGE BOOKLET with written essay by film historian and author DARRELL BUXTON
DOUBLE SIDED inlay with two artwork choices
BONUS MATERIALS:
SHORT FILM: BELLA IN THE WYCH ELM [2017]
SHORT FILM: DOCTOR BALDEN CROSS: BEYOND THE VOID [2018]
POST-SCREENING Q&A AT HORRHIFFIC 2024 with CAROLINE MUNRO, PAULINE PEART, THE SHEND, composer CRAIGUS BARRY and TOM LEE RUTTER
DIRECTOR INTERVIEW AT THE FESTIVAL OF FANTASTIC FILMS, MANCHESTER 2023.
BBC RADIO Hereford & Worcester PREMIERE REPORT
AUDIO COMMENTARY with TOM LEE RUTTER and composer CRAIGUS BARRY
TRAILER
BEHIND THE SCENES IMAGE GALLERY