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# PREVIEW: Brighton HorrorFest returns for third ‘spine chilling’ year
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/preview-brighton-horrorfest-returns-for-third-spine-chilling-year/
- Published: 2018-09-18T08:10:25.000Z
- Updated: 2018-09-18T08:10:25.000Z
- Description: Following two successful years, Brighton HorrorFest returns to Sweet Venues with its biggest events programme yet. 2018’s Festival sees the return of Edinburgh Fringe sell-out hits, Father of Lies and Talking to the Dead; a tantalising tale of an unsolved murder in West Germany, and a modern-day séa
- Author: Besi

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Following two successful years, Brighton HorrorFest returns to Sweet Venues with its biggest events programme yet.

**2018’s FESTIVAL** sees the return of Edinburgh Fringe sell-out hits, *Father of Lies* and *Talking to the Dead*; a tantalising tale of an unsolved murder in West Germany, and a modern-day séance show boasting all the old Victorian parlour tricks.

Other offerings from the recent Edinburgh Fringe include *Phantasmagorical*– a spooky storytelling show with a magical edge, and *Fear Itself*– a TED talk gone wrong with a terrifying finale.

This year’s HorrorFest sees a large number of shows travelling down to Brighton from all across the UK, with Liverpool-based **Thaddeus Bent’s** *Fear-tre of Fear* telling character-comedy filled ghost stories, and Victorian beat poet **Paul Voodini** from Sheffield presenting *The Raven* and *Other Nasty Poems*.

Essex-based **Tracy Wise** also pays a visit with a mysterious exploration into the dark origins of fairy tales with *Nursery Crimes*.

Local companies are also stretching their macabre muscles, with cabaret and burlesque from the *Foo Foo Fighters: Gothic Horror*, spooky storytelling from *Cast Iron Bitter Sweets*, and Sary; an adaptation from Different Theatre (Metamorphosis; So You Say; Underworlds) of the 19th century Sussex folk tale of *Ol’ Sary Weaver*.

Extraordinary storyteller **Jason Buck** also makes a welcome return to Sweet Venues with his new selection of stories in *Love, Death*, and the *Devil’s Son*.

If you prefer your scares based in a more cerebral setting, **Adrian Jameson** from The Other Realm Theatre (Pickman’s Model) will be presenting two short lectures about *The Devil and The Witch Hunts*, and Two Bit Productions provide a live scored audio drama about a documentary team visiting Chernobyl, with *The Worm King*.

![Quintessence](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/web-600-4-2.jpg)

Quintessence

Multi-award-winning writer/performer **Emily Carding** from Hastings will also perform *Quintessence*, a modern Frankenstein tale with an Artificial Intelligence twist, which was developed earlier this year in association with the London Science Museum.

London-based Hermetic Arts are also returning after success with their production *BADD* in 2017, with their new production *Unburied*, in which **Carrie Marx** investigates the story behind the missing tapes from a 1978 children’s Folk Horror TV series.

Following along with the TV theme, **Will Swygart** returns with a special horror-comedy edition of his *Niteskreenfranchise* which delighted squealing audiences at Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe earlier this year, this time called *Friteskreem*.

There’s also something for the movie fans this year, with the introduction of the **Boo-tique Cinema**, screening short films from local upcoming film-makers and linking them up with some classic (and some more obscure!) features.

If you like your horror with a comic twist, there’s also *Extreme Improv Halloween Mayhem*, and award-winning sketch troupe **Dirty White Boys** present *Mistress to the Midnight*; a live stage show spoof of the classic British horror film.

**Artistic Director, JD Henshaw, said:** *“Everyone here at Brighton Horrorfest and Sweet Venues are so excited to be entering year three of the festival – new venues, new shows, new terror! What’s not to love about spending the run-up to Halloween huddled in the dark, wondering what might be lurking behind the stage curtain? We can’t wait to see everyone and bring together this celebration of all things unnerving…”*

Brighton HorrorFest runs from October 16th– 28th at Sweet Werks, 15-17 Middle Street, and Sweet@The Welly, The Duke of Wellington, 70 Upper Gloucester Road, Brighton.

**For more info and tickets, click [here:](http://www.sweetvenues.com/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**