When leaving a screening of the stylish Horror film A Banquet (2021-also reviewed) at the HOME cinema in Manchester,I noticed a sign stating that in a few days the venue was presenting a Q&A with film maker Paul Andrew Williams and actor Neil Maskell. Not having attended an in-person Q&A since seeing Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019-also reviewed) at The Electric cinema in Birmingham in January 2020,I decided to book a ticket in order to witness this raging bull.
View on the film:
Detailing in the fun Q & A after the screening that the movie was filmed over three weeks in September 2020 on a £100 thousand budget at 39 different locations, writer/director Paul Andrew Williams impressively battles through the Covid/ Lockdown restrictions to craft an expansive stylish revenge tale, with Williams cleverly using wide tracking shots filmed inside cars (due to social distancing limitations) to draw a vicious,blunt atmosphere of Bull's sprawling drive for revenge.
Whilst not an overt Horror flick, Williams slices from the genre to give the set-pieces a visceral sting, via tasty gory practical special effects of Bull (played with a burning intensity by Neil Maskell) and an eerie, set in a fairground final. Returning to his old stomping ground after a decade away, the screenplay by Williams cross- stitches the full-on revenge attacks by Bull with fragmented flashback which gradually reveal the burning betrayals that created a raging Bull.
View on the film:
Detailing in the fun Q & A after the screening that the movie was filmed over three weeks in September 2020 on a £100 thousand budget at 39 different locations, writer/director Paul Andrew Williams impressively battles through the Covid/ Lockdown restrictions to craft an expansive stylish revenge tale, with Williams cleverly using wide tracking shots filmed inside cars (due to social distancing limitations) to draw a vicious,blunt atmosphere of Bull's sprawling drive for revenge.
Whilst not an overt Horror flick, Williams slices from the genre to give the set-pieces a visceral sting, via tasty gory practical special effects of Bull (played with a burning intensity by Neil Maskell) and an eerie, set in a fairground final. Returning to his old stomping ground after a decade away, the screenplay by Williams cross- stitches the full-on revenge attacks by Bull with fragmented flashback which gradually reveal the burning betrayals that created a raging Bull.