Dundead
Horror film festival in Dundee, Scotland
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Dundead is a horror film festival in Dundee, Scotland.
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| Location | Dundee, Scotland |
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| Founded | 2011 |
| Hosted by | Dundee Contemporary Arts |
Background
Dundead is Dundee Contemporary Arts' (DCA) annual festival and programme strand that celebrates horror, cult and weird cinema.
The festival brings together a mix of previews and premieres of brand new genre titles as well as specially selected horror classics. It has taken place at DCA on an annual basis since April 2011, with monthly screenings throughout the year and a curated programme in October to celebrate Halloween. [1]
The festival was programmed by Chris O'Neill, head of cinema at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork, Ireland, from 2011 to 2019.
Since 2020, it has been programmed by Michael Coull, the DCA's cinema programmer.[2]
Programme
2016
The 2016 festival took place from 28 April–1 May 2016, with the programme including four previews and a Wes Craven retrospective.[3]
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Green Room | Jeremy Saulnier | Preview |
| 1977 | The Hills Have Eyes | Wes Craven | |
| 2015 | Evolution | Lucile Hadžihalilović | Preview |
| 2015 | Southbound | Radio Silence, Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner, Patrick Horvath | |
| 1984 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Wes Craven | |
| 1981 | Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam | |
| 1980 | Hawk the Slayer | Terry Marcel | |
| 2015 | The Hexecutioners | Jesse Thomas Cook | |
| 2015 | Baskin | Can Evrenol | Preview |
| 1996 | Scream | Wes Craven | |
| 1983 | Krull | Peter Yates | |
| 2015 | Queen of Earth | Alex Ross Perry | Preview |
| 1983 | The Final Terror | Andrew Davis | |
| 2005 | Red Eye | Wes Craven |
2017
The 2017 festival took place from 27–30 April 2017, featuring a mix of previews, new titles and a retrospective of Stephen King classics.[4]
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Devil's Candy | Sean Byrne | |
| 2007 | The Mist | Frank Darabont | |
| 2016 | Egomaniac | Kate Shenton | |
| 2016 | The Void | Steven Kostanski, Jeremy Gillespie | |
| 1979 | Salem's Lot | Tobe Hooper | 112-minute theatrical cut[5] |
| 1984 | Firestarter | Mark L. Lester | |
| 2016 | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | André Øvredal | |
| 2016 | The Chamber | Ben Parker | |
| 1982 | Creepshow | George A. Romero | |
| 1986 | Stand by Me | Rob Reiner | |
| 1980 | The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | |
| 2016 | The Eyes of My Mother | Nicolas Pesce | |
| 2016 | Always Shine | Sophia Takal | |
| 1989 | Pet Sematary | Mary Lambert |
2018
The 2018 festival took place from 10–13 May 2018, with a special Tobe Hooper retrospective following his death the previous year.[6]
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | The Endless | Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Preview |
| 1974 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Tobe Hooper | |
| 2017 | The Cured | David Freyne | Preview |
| 2017 | M.F.A. | Natalia Leite | Preview |
| 1976 | Eaten Alive | Tobe Hooper | |
| 1982 | The Dark Crystal | Jim Henson, Frank Oz | |
| 2017 | Vampire Clay | Soîchi Umezawa | Preview |
| 1981 | The Funhouse | Tobe Hooper | |
| 1932 | The Old Dark House | James Whale | |
| 2017 | My Friend Dahmer | Marc Meyers | Preview |
| 1985 | Lifeforce | Tobe Hooper |
2019
The 2019 festival took place from 2–5 May 2019. A number of films from 1999 were screened to mark the 20th anniversary of the DCA's opening that year.[7]
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile | Joe Berlinger | Preview |
| 1999 | Ring | Hideo Nakata | |
| 2018 | The Dead Center | Billy Senese | Preview |
| 2018 | Werewolf | Adrian Panek | Preview |
| 1999 | Existenz | David Cronenberg | |
| 2019 | Far From the Apple Tree | Grant McPhee | Preview |
| 2018 | Knife + Heart | Yann Gonzalez | Preview |
| 1999 | The Blair Witch Project | Eduardo Sánchez, Daniel Myrick | |
| 2018 | Level 16 | Danishka Esterhazy | Preview |
| 2019 | The Hole in the Ground | Lee Cronin | |
| 1971 | A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | |
| 1979 | Phantasm | Don Coscarelli | |
| 2019 | Those Who Deserve To Die | Bret Wood | World première |
2020
Dundead festival did not take place in 2020 a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[8]
2021
A scaled-down programme of events took place in 2021 under the title Dundead Summer Camp, This took place from 9 to 11 July 2021.[9]
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Werewolves Within | Josh Ruben | UK première |
| 1975 | The Amusement Park | George A. Romero | |
| 2019 | Climate of the Hunter | Mickey Reece | UK première |
| 2020 | Riders of Justice | Anders Thomas Jensen | Preview |
| 2020 | The World We Knew | WW Jones, Luke Skinner | Scottish première |
| 2020 | Alien on Stage | Lucy Harvey, Danielle Kummer | Scottish première |
2022
The 2022 festival, the first full festival since 2019 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, took place from 28 April–1 May 2022.[10]
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | We're All Going to the World's Fair | Jane Schoenbrun | Preview |
| 1973 | Ganja & Hess | Bill Gunn | |
| 2021 | Dashcam | Rob Savage | Preview |
| 1994 | Interview with the Vampire | Neil Jordan | |
| 1922 | Nosferatu | F. W. Murnau | |
| 2021 | Straight to VHS | Emilio Silva Torres | Scottish première |
| 2021 | Upurga | Uģis Olt | UK première |
| 1988 | Vampire's Kiss | Robert Bierman | |
| 1970 | The Vampire Doll | Michio Yamamoto | |
| 2021 | Ultrasound | Rob Schroeder | Preview |
| 2021 | Good Madam | Jenna Cato Bass | Preview |
| 1998 | Blade | Stephen Norrington |
2023
The 2023 festival took place from 11–14 May 2023, with the programme including one European première, one UK première and three Scottish premières, as well as a five-film retrospective of David Cronenberg.[11][12]
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | The Origin | Andrew Cumming | Preview |
| 1981 | Scanners | David Cronenberg | |
| 2023 | Abruptio | Evan Marlowe | European première |
| 2022 | Dark Nature | Berkley Brady | Scottish première |
| 1983 | Videodrome | David Cronenberg | |
| 1988 | Dead Ringers | David Cronenberg | |
| 2022 | No More Time | Dalila Droege | UK première |
| 2022 | Polaris | Kirsten Carthew | Scottish première |
| 1979 | The Brood | David Cronenberg | |
| 1973 | Messiah of Evil | Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz | |
| 2022 | Satanic Hispanics | Alejandro Brugués, Mike Mendez, Demián Rugna, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Eduardo Sánchez | Scottish première |
| 1986 | The Fly | David Cronenberg |