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Simeon Halligan. Director: Habit. Festival director of 'Grimmfest', recently voted one of the best genre film festivals in the world by Movie Maker Magazine. Company director of 'Grimmfest Films', the production arm of the festival.
- January 1, 1
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- Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, UK
Oct 27, 2022 · DISRUPTING INFLUENCE has announced it is preparing to launch worldwide sales on new Emile Hirsch psychological thriller PAST LIFE with British genre director Simeon Halligan at the helm. Production on the movie is scheduled to commence in March 2023 in the UK.
- Prior to Being A Movie Director and Running Grimmfest, What Was Your background?
- How Do You Juggle The Demands of Running Grimmfest with Your Filmmaking?
- It Must Give You A Good Overview of What’s Going on in The Genre, too.
- And Why Not? It’D Get You A Free Bottle of Bubbly at least.
- Which Version of Re-Animator Is It You’Re Screening?
- And She’S Also in Puppetmaster: The Littlest Reich…?
- You Wrote The Screenplay – Was It A Challenge Turning The Book Into A Film?
I started out as an art director and designer in film and TV. I studied at the Royal College of Art and then moved on to work in television. I did about 10 years working at Granada TV, working for the BBC and loads of other companies doing the sets for all sorts of TV shows. I still love art and design – it’s an area I’m still involved in and excit...
It’s hard sometimes. Grimmfest is a massive undertaking for all of and none of us really get paid. It’s a labour of love and it takes so much time to prep the festival, so much effort, and it’s difficult because, as filmmakers, we’re torn between wanting to get on and make movies and wanting to do the best for Grimmfest. It’s a delicate balance rea...
Absolutely. That’s the other thing that’s so great about running the festival. It gives you a good indication of what people are making, what’s in vogue, what’s fashionable. It also gives you a vibe of what audiences are in the mood for. It’s a broad church, horror, and a lot of the stuff we programme is at the fringes of the genre. A lot of my fav...
Absolutely. And with Robin you wouldn’t mind anyway – it was just a bit of mischief. Such a lovely guy. A great memory. Another night that sticks in my mind is when we showed Stitches and Ross Noble, who’s in the film as the titular clown, came as our guest. It was our closing night film and Ross basically got on stage for the Q&A and, as you might...
Like I said, it’s the remastered version, yes. Second Sight released it a year or so ago, so we’ve been working with them to screen that. There are three different versions of the film and we’re going for the uncut version, because we think it’s the best. There is an actually longer version but we think the version we’re showing is the better versi...
Yes. That’s a reboot. It’s interesting because it’s written by S. Craig Zahler, who wrote and directed Bone Tomahawk and also Brawl in Cell Block 99 and he’s got a Mel Gibson movie too [Dragged Across Concrete] that’s doing festivals at moment, so he’s a rising star. With Puppetmaster, he took the idea from the original franchise and has updated an...
I’d never adapted a book into a film before and it was interesting going through that process and finding out how you do it. In a film, obviously, you’ve only got picture and sound to convey what you’re trying to say. In a novel, you can go into what someone’s feeling or thinking but you can’t do that in film, unless you’re going to have some horri...
Apr 16, 2019 · HABIT, the new film from writer/director Simeon Halligan (THE BLOOD LANDS, SPLINTERED) made its debut at last year’s Grimmfest, screening blocks away from where it was filmed. It’s a fitting location, not just because it’s on the film’s home turf, but because this is anything but a feel-good film.
Simeon Halligan. Simeon studied film at the Royal College of Art. He has directed a number of feature films including HABIT, WHITE SETTLERS (The Bloodlands) and SPLINTERED. He is also a trained art director and production designer and has worked on numerous films and TV shows.
Oct 25, 2022 · Grimmfest head honchos Simeon Halligan and Rachel Richardson-Jones are back with brand new genre film PAST LIFE – starring Emile Hirsch! Simeon is back in the director’s chair and he brings his design credentials and deep knowledge of genre cinema to the table.
Sep 10, 2015 · A couple receives a violent housewarming gift in the form of a home invasion in The Blood Lands, now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD from Magnolia Pictures. For our latest Q&A feature, we recently caught up with The Blood Lands director Simeon Halligan. Thanks for taking the time to converse with us today, Simeon.
