Reality Check: Home Invasions

Reality Check: Home Invasions

Alex Fitch interviews the directors of two new British horror films that deal with supernatural home invasions and their consequences. Oliver S. Milburn discusses his debut film The Harsh Light of Day which looks at a home owner’s Faustian deal with a vampire to get revenge on the thieves who murdered his wife, and Pat Holden talks about his new movie When the lights went out, starring Kate Ashfield (Shaun of the Dead), produced by Bil Bungar (Moon), and dramatises the story of the 1966 haunting of a semi-detached house in Pontefract.

Posters for When the lights went out and The harsh light of day

Posters for When the lights went out and The harsh light of day

(Expanded podcast of an episode of I’m ready for my close-up, broadcast 19/09/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

When the lights went out was released in cinemas on 14th September and The Harsh Light of Day is released on DVD on 1st October.

For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com

Links: Offical sites – whenthelightswentout.com / harshlightofday.com

Recommended events:

Northants International Comics Expo

Set in the historic Wicksteed Leisure Park, panels include:
Storytelling – A meeting of mind with Alan Davis, Stormdogs With David Hine & Doug Braithwaite, Panel to Screen with Greg Staples, Adi Granov & Charlie Adlard, Jack Kirby Influences in modern comics with John Watson, Doug Braithwaite, Shaky Kane and Russell Payne from the Jack Kirby Museum, Erotic Art and Censorship in Comics with Melinda Gebbie, Tony Bennett and Paul Gravett, Alan Moore on How to Write Comics (plus hour long Q&A), Owning the Page with Doug Braithwaite, David Hine, Ian Churchill and Shaky Kane and Frank Bellamy a Retropect, followed by a short film with Paul Holder.

Saturday 22nd September 9.30am – 5pm / Sunday 23rd September 11am – 5pm

http://www.northantsinternationalcomicsexpo.com