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New horror night launches with a top-notch double bill
If you’ve been yearning for an analysis of the LGBT+ subtext in modern horror films, help is at hand thanks to new local organisation Reel Life Monsters, which also aims to “provide a safe place for LGBT+ horror fans”.
Their first screening is a double bill with a short talk by Lucian Stephenson that will focus on both features, and their “cultural relevance to the LGBT+ community.”
The selected films are Ben Wheatley’s classy 2013 psychedelic horror A Field in England and a 25th anniversary screening of Antonia Bird’s Ravenous – a provocative blend of pitch black comedy and censor-baiting gore, with Robert Carlyle sinking his teeth into his role as a grizzled and grisly flesh-eater.
The event takes place in the Electric Bar at Komedia in Bath on Wednesday 31 July, kicking off at 5pm. Go here for tickets.
Main image from Ravenous: 20th Century Fox