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Bristol’s Forbidden Worlds film festival gets its own film
The first event of its kind ever to be held in Bristol, the Forbidden Worlds festival of cult, mostly 1980s films was created to celebrate the 40th anniversary of that great local institution the 20th Century Flicks video store.
Mmmm . . . Forbidden Worlds film festival beer
But how many people would actually turn up to party like it’s 1982 at the old Bristol IMAX cinema in the aquarium, which has been closed for 15 years? Rather a lot, as it turned out.
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“It went incredibly well,” co-organiser Ti Singh tells us. “We had conservative expectations and they were all surpassed, with even the least well attended event being two-thirds full. Over the course of the weekend, we had over 1,100 attendees with four screenings selling out.”
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Local filmmaker Arthur Cauty, whose oeuvre includes short films on subjects as diverse as the Colston Four and 20th Century Flicks, was on hand to capture the atmosphere of the three-day festival.
The Forbidden Worlds festival’s organising team
Emboldened by their success, the organising team are now planning to make Forbidden Worlds an annual event. It’s also possible that they may be back at the venue for a special one-off Halloween event. Watch this space for details as we get them.
Main pic: The Forbidden Worlds festival audience enjoy a screening of Tobe Hooper’s original 1982 ‘Poltergeist’ on the giant Bristol IMAX screen. Photographs by Arthur Cauty.
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