Llandudno Fringe Festival and Oriel Mostyn Gallery in association with Theatre Gwynedd and Real Institute present

CuriousWeirdHydro Hotel, Llandudno

18 October 1999

Following the  tremendous success of ‘GANGSTERS!’, Halloween Short Film Club host a night of short film and light entertainment  tying in with Oriel Mostyn’s ‘Casual Influences’ exhibition.

A film programme of drama, comedy and animation of freaks and geeks and all things weird - highlighting new work from young UK film-makers who delve into the murky depths of werewolves, compulsive nailbiters, obsessive lovers and men with a donkey heads

FILM SHORTS

PRESERVE

An eerie story of a lonely man and an obsessive love for his hairdresser

THE WOLFMAN

The moon effects an astronomer in a strange and violent way

LA COMTESSE DE CASTIGLIONE

A Victoriana side show tale of a man and a strange girl that he keeps in a box

THE TALE OF THE RAT THAT WROTE

A ratcatcher doesn't consider the intelligence of his captives

NAILBITER

A little boy and his obsessive nailbiting gets on his family's nerves

STANLEY

An elderly man thinks more of his prize cabbage than his grotesque wife

THE MAN IN THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER OF THE PHOTOGRAPH (

A lonely man spies on the woman next door, only to witness her suicide.

THE MINDSET OF TEN

Strange folk talk about their innermost feelings

THE SPECTACULAR MURDER OF MERVYN

Part of a full length feature film based on the 18th century novel

'Maldoror' by Lautrement, our hero is chased by rhino's through Trafalgar

Square before being flung across London from the top of Nelson's Column!

DONKEYHEAD

How donkeys relate to folklore, narrated by a man with a donkeys head!

UNCLE CALAMITY AND HIS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

An elderly man damaged by war, gets a job in a mortuary

MUSIC

Weird music from live electronic band Snow Pony

 

PROJECTIONS & COMEDY

Holding the evening together with his comic cabaret wit is Timothy of London plus 

DJ James Anderson and multimedia projections by Your Mum

Curious Weird! a refreshing alternative to your normal night out.