How To Kill Monsters Premiere
It’s a bit late but this blog post will be about the premiere I went to in August. A week after I wrapped my latest short film, I was back in London to attend FrightFest in Leicester Square where the amazing film How To Kill Monsters would be premiering. I had the pleasure of working on this film just after graduating from university. It was such a great opportunity to have straight out of uni and my first feature film credit. This was shot at the Northern Film School so we had access to some amazing facilities and sets.
Before the actual film shoot started both me and https://www.charlotterimmington.com/ prepped to help make the trailer, which would be going on the Kickstarter to help raise funding for the film. We helped paint and decorate the sets and also worked with the practical effect guys helping control some of the creepy tentacle monsters with fishing wire. I then helped out for a week in the art department on the shoot for the feature. We spent the week dressing sets and also helped out with the costume department. This film contained a lot of blood and guts so we got stuck in covering the sets with fake blood, of all consistencies. We sprayed and chucked blood all around leaving handprints and trails of blood. This bit was particularly fun but messy. During the points when art wasn’t needed, I had some great conversations with the actors and other members of the crew which are remembered to this day. It was lovely to meet some talented and interesting people so close to home that I probably wouldn’t have met if it wasn’t for this film.
A year later I had the pleasure of watching the final film on IMAX. It was amazing to see something I had been a part of on the big screen surrounded by the cast and crew but also horror fans who had liked the first film Book of Monsters also made by https://darkrifthorror.com/. Everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy the film and since Frightfest it has got into a load more festivals nationally and internationally if you're interested go check out their Instagram https://www.instagram.com/howtokillmonsters/ which is constantly being updated with new festival selections. I had a great time catching up with all of the cast and crew who I hadn’t seen in a year and it was cool to see the film in such a well-known venue but also to find out what everyone had been working on since. Even though I felt like my role was really small everyone seemed to remember me, which was surprising and everyone was so appreciative of all of us in Art for the work we put in which was amazing and I am so thankful for that. Hopefully, this won’t be the last film I work on that is shown at Leicester Square, and I would love to work on another Dark Rift Horror film when they make it. Below are some images from the premiere and BTS.
The future of the film industry has been all over the place at the moment due to the actor and writers strikes, so it's been a difficult one to find work as of recent but that won’t stop me from trying,
