Shameless: Manchester Halloween Festival
 

Hi everyone,

If you're based around Manchester, you're going to love this great film festival tomorrow night (Halloween).


Shameless is joining Ruggero Deodato and Giovanni Lombardo who will be in Manchester this Halloween weekend!

Shameless Screen Entertainment is providing the screening of the epoch-making CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST and Ruggero Deodato's own man-eating appliance, THE WASHING MACHINE will also take its first UK spin on the big screen at the Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester.

'Monsieur Cannibal' himself and many other cinema icons will be in attendance, check the Festival website for details.

Visit the Festival of Fantastic Films for more info on this unmissable event!

The Deodato films released by Shameless Screen Entertainment will also be available for purchase.

I'll be there with a couple of Shameless releases for Ruggero Deodato and Giovanni Lombardo Radice to sign.

Take some pics if you can Nos! We'd love to see them :)

I hope to take as many as my memory card will allow!

Sounds like it'll be a good night!

Will CH be uncut as it's a special screening?

I'm not sure. Jungle Holocaust was shown uncut at the Spaghetti Cinema conference but, given Ruggero Deodato's stance on animal violence, I guess it will be the version on the Shameless BD.

Yeah,that's what I thought.Don't want the Daily Mail turning up.

Heading up to Manchester in a couple of hours. See you all there.

Have a great time! Let us know how it goes tonight - perfect Halloween viewing!

Get some photos up Stephen and Nos!

A few photos of people and various bits and bobs.

The brochure:

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A table decoration in The Conservatory Bar:

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Some purchases from the 88 Films table:

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Robin Stewart (Bless This House, Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires)

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Ruggero Deodato

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Caroline Munro

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Lawrence R. Harvey (The Human Centipede 2)

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Giovanni Lamberto Radice

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Giovanni Lamberto Radice, Ruggero Deodato and Me Me Lai

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Giovanni Lamberto Radice, Ruggero Deodato, Me Me Lai and Calum Waddell

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Judy Matheson

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Janina Faye

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Yvonne Monlaur

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A few things signed by Ruggero Deodato (House on the Edge of the Park is also signed by Johnny Radice):

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A couple of things signed by Caroline Munro:

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:thumb: Looks like you had a great time Nos.

I did. Everyone was lovely, very willing to chat, pose for photographs, sign things (for money, of course!) and generally just make the weekend as memorable as possible. I didn't have a photo taken with Me Me because we met at Luton, but it was great to see her and Ruggero again, with both asking how I was, if I was having a good time and generally making conversation.

If you don't mind me asking. How much does the average former horror star ask for an autograph nowadays?

The last time i saw Sybil Danning at an event she was asking £30 :eek: :rolleyes:

Most were £15, but Caroline Munro was doing two for £20. Even so, it's an expensive weekend!

When you say two, do you mean two signed photos or two items that you took to be signed?

I'm not quite sure, but I think the autographs came with a photo/poster.

It was £20 for this extremely good quality A3 poster which was then signed by Laurence R. Harvey, with the photographs costing £15.

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Sorry for all the boring questions.

Thanks for the info Nos. :)

Looks like a good weekend.

Stephen must have been bladdered-no pics yet!:lol:

It's not a problem – the more you know, the fewer nasty surprises you'll have!

He was around as he was also at the 88 Films table, buying some wonderfully titled DVDs and later talking with Calum at the bar, but I saw him late on Saturday and he said he had spent much of the day in bed!

You a haggler Dem? ;)

I'm not opposed to a spot of haggling Reaps.

Perhaps not in this case as i'd be holding other people up who want 35 dvd's signed. :lol:

Don't like big black marker scrawls on my discs I'm afraid.

Me neither. It's either a simple photo from a person's stall or nothing.

Charging for signatures on fan's own items is a funny one for me and seems to be increasingly the norm at these sort of events, probably taking the lead from the bigger events such as Collectormania etc.

As an example, I have the signatures of John Morghen and Deodato from previous years at the Festival of Fantastic Films (I think 2007 and 2005 respectively) and wasn't charged for either, whereas I would imagine both were charging this year, although I didn't test this as I already have their autographs. I also have the signatures of the likes of Jean Rollin, John Hough and Lamberto Bava, again at no charge.

It's a shame this more cynical approach has infiltrated the smaller festivals but I suppose it's just par for the course these days. The most I have paid is £20 for George Romero, although I took this on the chin given the status of the man within the genre. I'll never forget a bloke a few ahead of me in the queue getting 10 items signed and handing over 200 notes :loco:!!! I do like to get a signature since it's a nice memento of the day and meeting the person but, these days, I will only bother if it's someone who I really hold in high regard (eg. Lenzi at last year's festival), although it's obviously a matter of personal choice and what you can afford. For me, the best approach was Robin Askwith, who charged £3, all of which went to charity :first:.

Shameless: Manchester Halloween Festival
 

I don't really take photos, or even get them taken with anyone. But yeah, I did hit the town with Richard and James from 88 Films on friday night. A couple of really nice guys who are really passionate about what they do.

Yes, both Ruggero and Johnny Radice were charging for autographs (£15 a pop) but that didn't seem to dissuade anyone – one guy handed over six things for Radice to sign! At the Spaghetti Cinema event, none of the guests (Ruggero, Me Me and Luigi Cozzi) charged for signatures and apparently Ruggero happily signed 18 things for one person!

I understand they aren't necessarily paid for attending – if they are I don't know how much – and just do it to meet fans and people with whom they have worked in the past, or to help sell a book and guess the money will help to cover hotel rooms, airfare, taxis and food and drink for the weekend.

I personally like to have things autographed by the director/writer/actors (perhaps as many as possible) for my collection of film memorabilia, not to sell on for a profit or anything as tacky as that.

I was the person Ruggero signed 18 items for at the Spaghetti Cinema event and although he happily took the time and signed my items he did make a comment that at a convention it would have cost me over £200 to have my items signed.
This time i got Shameless's Washing Machine and Grindhouses Cannibal Holocaust signed and paid £30 for the privilege and got a photo with him as well so i don't feel so bad paying because of the Spaghetti cinema event.

I have managed to obtain 100's of autographs over the last 5 years but this is the second time i have had to pay for an autograph as the only time before is when i went to the London comic con and met Zach Galligan from Gremlins.

If the guests were to lower the price to £5 per autograph on your own items then more people would get items signed and the guest would make more money in the long term in my opinion.

I bet the people in the queue behind you just loved you. :mob:

Amazingly there was no queue for autographs and i just sat down at a table with Ruggero and starting talking and then brought out my Deodato collection to sign.

The Spaghetti Cinema event was completely different to the Festival of Fantastic Films or any screenings I've been to in that respect, with the four guests (I somehow forgot to mention Catriona MacColl was there) easily outnumbered by the academics who were presenting papers and taking part in panels, so it wasn't really an event centred around special guests.

Nos, when you went to the festival did you ever imagine you would meet your future self!:)

I hope I'm half as cool as he is when I'm his age!

Take some pics if you can Nos! We'd love to see them