Electric Christmas
Fright night: Gremlins
Join us for a Christmas spooktacular of Joe Dante's festive fantasy nightmare! Remastered in 4k and hosted by former Horror Channel presenter, Emily Booth and film & TV critic Kim Taylor-Foster.
Director: joe dante
Cast includes: Zach Galligan, phoebe cates, howie mandel
fright night - hosted by former Horror Channel presenter and filmmaker Emily booth AND FILM & tV CRITIC, BROADCASTER AND AUTHOR KIM TAYLOR-FOSTER
106 mins / 1984 / usa
With its Christmas lights and dusting of snow, Kingston Falls is an idyllic small town - until the gremlins take over. A father returns from Chinatown with an unusual pet, a Mogwai - a gift for his son. The rules are simple: Keep your Mogwai away from water, bright lights and, most importantly, never..ever..feed him after midnight. But the rules are inadvertently broken, and the consequences multiply at an alarming rate.
Gremlins is a wildly original roller-coaster ride of hilarious mischief - an instant classic for our Christmas Fright Night Special!
Fright Night is co-curated and co-hosted by Emily Booth and Kim Foster-Taylor, and includes a short introduction before each screening with triva and insights into the history of the horror film.
About your Fright Night hosts, Emily Booth and Kim Taylor-Foster
Emily Booth is “one of the iconic women of horror”- an actress, presenter and all-round cult-movie buff who has presented shows on Channel 4, Channel 5, Bravo, and Dave, including her own cult film show Shock Movie Massacre.
Emily was the face and voice of the Horror Channel for 15 years, and has presented at many horror festivals. She has also interviewed Dario Argento, Tinto Brass and Lloyd Kauffman as part of her presenting roles.
As an actress Emily has starred in several horror films including Cradle of Fear (2001), Evil Aliens (2005), Doghouse (2009 with Danny Dyer and Stephen Graham), Shed of The Dead (2019) and They’re Outside (2020). She also wrote, produced and starred in her own short film SELKIE which premiered at Frightfest in 2014.
Kim Taylor-Foster is a film and TV critic, journalist, broadcaster, and author. Her books include 'Why We Love The Matrix' and 'Why We Love Die Hard'. Kim and Emily also host Kim and Em Vs Evil, a movie podcast by two film afficionados who love nothing better than getting under the skin of famous movie villains. (comic image) exploring in detail some of the films we present here as part of Fright Night.
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