Granite Noir 2025: Horror Film screening of Censor and author talk with Anna Bogutskaya
- Cowdray Hall
Overview
Granite Noir 2025: Horror Film screening of Censor and author talk with Anna Bogutskaya
Chaired by Kirsty Logan
Horror is being embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics creeping into TV, music videos and even TikTok trends. In Feeding the Monster, critic, author, programmer and producer Anna Bogutskaya sets out to dispel the notion that there is something not quite right with the people who make and enjoy horror.
The author conversation is followed by a screening of British psychological horror film Censor. In partnership with Belmont Community Cinema.
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This event is part of the multibuy discount
Price
£12
Censor
Film Screening of Censor
After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister’s disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.
Prano Bailey-Bond
Prano Bailey-Bond & Anthony Fletcher
Stars: Niamh Algar, Michael Smiley & Nicholas Burns
About the Speakers
Anna Bogutskaya
Anna Bogutskaya is a freelance critic, author, film programmer and creative producer. She writes for BBC Culture, the Guardian, MUBI, The Face and TimeOut, amongst others, and has programmed films for BFI, Edinburgh Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. She produces and hosts The Final Girls podcast, created and produced the horror anthology podcast Eerie and has produced podcasts for Paramount, StudioCanal, BFI and Vertigo Releasing, as well as contributing to many others. Her first book, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate, was published in the UK and US in May 2023.
Kirsty Logan
Kirsty Logan is the author of three novels, three story collections, a memoir, two chapbooks, a 10-hour audio play for Audible, and several collaborative projects with musicians and visual artists. Her books have won the Lambda, Polari, Saboteur, Scott and Gavin Wallace awards. Her work has been optioned for TV, adapted for stage, recorded for radio and podcasts, exhibited in galleries and distributed from a vintage Wurlitzer cigarette machine. She lives in Glasgow with her wife, baby and rescue dog.
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