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Country: UK
Year: 2011
Director: Martin Kemp
Starring: Anna Brecon, Jane March, Billy Murray
Status: Northern premiere (Release date: 17th Oct)
Screening: Friday, 19.55. Martin Kemp, Jane March, Billy Murray and producer Jonathan Sothcott in attendence. Win signed posters and give aways!
The Bastard Love Child Of…Misery and Single White Female!
Music and screen Icon Martin Kemp makes his directorial debut with this gothic psychological shocker – premiering at Grimm Up North.
A successful woman writer (Brecon) goes away to a country estate to work on her ‘difficult’ second novel having suffered a nervous breakdown. When her publishers begin to worry about her productivity and frame of mind, she is joined there by a mysterious young woman (Jane March), who claims to have been sent as a PA. But the woman is not all she seems, and her malign influence extends far beyond the writing of the novel.
Grimm’s Eye View: Sure to be a controversial festival talking point, the film reworks – and totally re-imagines – infamous mid-seventies sex-and-slash shocker, and banned “video nasty”, The House on Straw Hill (aka Expose) into a tense psychological thriller about memory, identity and the creative imagination, and features cult horror icon (and star of the original film) Linda Hayden in a supporting role.
Director Martin Kemp, Producer Jonathan Sothcott and actress Jane March will be joining us for the screening and for a special Q&A afterwards.
