Joe Lynch

Everything you ever wanted to know about FrightFest... but were afraid to ask! From its humble beginnings at the Prince Charles cinema to the world-class London West End event it is today, go behind the scenes of the UK’s biggest and best genre festival for a complete understanding of what it takes to prepare such a monumental communal experience. Alongside amusing, moving and amazing revelations by the core organisers, celebrity guests and FrightFesters themselves, an insightful array of photos, film clips and archive footage highlight the trials and tribulations of forging horror history that’s been nineteen years in the making.

Based on the hilarious and controversial Joe Orton play, Loot is part moral satire, part black comedy and part police drama spoof. Two bank robbers, Dennis (Hywel Bennett) and Hal (Roy Holder), are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they can stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father (Milo O'Shea) and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott (Richard Attenborough).

A group of friends break into an abandoned factory to throw an impromptu party, unaware that it is not as empty as they originally believed.