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Aaaaaaaah!
''Aaaaaaaah!'' is a 2015 British horror comedy film conceived, directed, edited and produced by Steve Oram. The film contains no dialogue, with the cast communicating entirely in animalistic grunts. It premiered in August 2015 at London FrightFest Film Festival. In 2016 the film was released on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD on Icon Productions's Frightfest Presents label. The film has received a positive critical reception. Plot Two men, Smith (Steve Oram) and Keith ( Tom Meeten) arrive in a woodland clearing. Smith cries over a photograph of his estranged wife before he and Keith perform a ritual in which they urinate on the photograph. Keith dries Smith's eyes and penis and they head downhill towards a vast suburban sprawl. In the Ryan family household, a young woman, Denise (Lucy Honigman), is preparing dinner with her mother, Barabara (Toyah Willcox). They watch a cookery show in which the topless host Carolla (Shelley Longworth) prepares a meat, potato and salt dinner. Barabara cop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Oram
Stephen John Oram (born 1973) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and filmmaker. He is known for his role in the multi-award winning 2012 film ''Sightseers'', which he also co-wrote. His other credits include '' People Like Us'' (2001), '' It's All Gone Pete Tong'' (2004), '' Tittybangbang'' (2006–2007), '' Suburban Shootout'' (2006), ''The Mighty Boosh'' (2007), ''Connections'' (2008), '' The World's End'' (2013), '' Wipers Times'' (2013), '' The Secrets'' (2014), '' The Canal'' (2014), ''Altar'' (2014), ''Paddington'' (2014), ''Glue'' (2014), '' Aaaaaaaah!'' (2015), '' The Living and the Dead'' (2016), '' A Dark Song'' (2016), '' The End of the F***ing World'' (2017–2019), ''Ghosts'' (2019), ''Doctor Who'' (2021), ''Killing Eve'' (2022), and '' D.I Ray'' (2022–2023). Life and career Oram was born in 1973, in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England. He studied at the University of East Anglia, taking degrees in both English and film. Career He started as a character c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holli Dempsey
Holli Cara-Rhian Dempsey (born 11 May 1990) is an English actress, writer and comedian. On television, she is known for her roles in the ITV drama ''The Ice Cream Girls'' (2013), the Channel 4 series '' Derek'' (2013–2014), the E4 series '' The Aliens'' (2016), and the Hulu series '' Harlots'' (2017–2019). Her films include '' Aaaaaaaah!'' (2015) and ''Dad's Army'' (2016). Early life Dempsey is from East London. Her first experience of acting was in a school play, as Detective Bernstein in ''Little Shop of Horrors''. Dempsey was trained in Joan Littlewood improvisation style as part of the junior group at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Career In 2013, she had a regular role as Maureen Mulliganin the tv series '' Breathless''. In 2014, she appeared as Vicky for ten episodes of the Ricky Gervais comedy series '' Derek''. In 2015, she appeared as Jolene in ''You, Me and the Apocalypse'' for a single episode: "Right in the Nuts". In 2016, she played Holly in the TV series '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyah Willcox
Toyah Ann Willcox (born 18 May 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, actress, and television presenter. In a career spanning more than 40 years, she has had eight top 40 singles, released over 20 albums, written two books, appeared in over 40 stage plays and 10 feature films, and voiced and presented numerous television shows. Between 1977 and 1983, Willcox fronted the eponymous band Toyah (band), Toyah, before embarking on a solo career in the mid-1980s. At the Brit Awards 1982, Willcox was nominated for Brit Award for Best New Artist, British Breakthrough Act, and Brit Award for British Female Solo Artist, Best Female Solo Artist. She was nominated a further two times in this category in 1983, and in 1984. Her hit singles, which she co-wrote, include "It's a Mystery (Toyah song), It's a Mystery", "Thunder in the Mountains" and "I Want to Be Free (Toyah song), I Want to Be Free". Willcox is married to English guitarist Robert Fripp. Early life Willcox was born on 18 May 1958 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London FrightFest Film Festival
FrightFest, also known as Arrow Video FrightFest is an annual film festival held in London and Glasgow. The festival holds three major events each year: a festival running five days over the UK late August Bank Holiday weekend, a Halloween event held in London in late October, and a festival in Glasgow held around February as part of the Glasgow Film Festival. The first event was held in London in 2000 and the first Glasgow festival was held in 2006. As its name indicates FrightFest primary focus is on the horror film genre, however, the event regularly features documentaries, science fiction and thriller films. History FrightFest was founded by film producer Paul McEvoy, film distributor Ian Rattray, and journalist and film critic Alan Jones, and television PR specialist Greg Day. Paul McEvoy has stated that his initial idea for FrightFest "came from my love and admiration for the seminal 'Shock Around The Clock' events of the 1980s organised by Stefan Jaworszyn and Alan Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Meeten
Tom Meeten (born 30 April 1974) is an English comedian, actor and writer. Life and career Meeten was born in Northampton. He graduated in 1996 from Sheffield Hallam University after studying Fine Arts. His performing career began in a comedy double act alongside Steve Oram, with whom he created three shows at the Edinburgh Festival, performed a monthly London live show ''Oram and Meeten's Club Fantastico'' with Waen Shepherd, Tony Way and Alice Lowe, and wrote and starred in ''Matthew and Tone: Tales of Friendship and Innocence'' for Channel 4. He has appeared in many television comedies including '' The Mighty Boosh'',Holland, Luke. , " Sabotage Times", 17 February 2012. Retrieved on 17 February 2012. '' Star Stories'', '' Blunder'' (2006), ''Motherland'', ''The IT Crowd'', '' Detectorists'', '' Miranda'' and '' Skins''. He played numerous characters on the sketch show '' Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy'' and toured with Fielding from 2014 to 2015. He has appeared in feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Way
Tony Paul Way (born 7 October 1978) is an English actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for playing characters in a number of British comedy TV series including '' Extras'', '' After Life'', ''Black Books'' and ''Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer'', as well as comedy movies including ''Sightseers'' and ''Ali G Indahouse''. He has since moved into drama, appearing as Plague in ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'', Dontos Hollard in HBO's ''Game of Thrones'', and Thomas Nashe in ''Anonymous''. Early life Way was born in Rochford, Essex and grew up in Wickford, Essex. Career Way started his career in comedy and acting at the age of 17 when he, Rhys Thomas, Stephen Burge, and Glynne Wiley started making comedy videos as sketch group Stay Alive Pepi while at college. The videos were noticed by Bob Mortimer and Charlie Higson, who gave Way his first television appearances in a sketch on ''The Fast Show'' and in several sketches in ''Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waen Shepherd
Waen Origen Shepherd (born 23 October 1971) is an English composer, actor and comedian. He is best known for his role in ''The Inbetweeners'' as Mr Kennedy. He is originally from Yorkshire, he now lives in London. Career Following his days as a stand-up poet and fringe actor, Shepherd started out performing bizarre experimental monologues at the early ''Cluub Zarathustra'', touring with spoof techno band and Edinburgh sell-out The Pod with fellow comedian/musicians Tim Hope and Julian Barratt. He hosted the underground cabaret ''Gritty Fingers'' and smashed up Cornish pasties in the guise of ranting Northern madman William Whicker. He graduated from Oxford University in 1993, with a degree in Philosophy and Psychology. He went on to co-write and narrate award-winning animation ''The Wolfman'' (screened on Channel 4 and subsequently worked into an advertisement for the Sony PlayStation), before writing, directing and starring in his own animation ''Origen's Wake'' for Channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Lowe
Alice Eva Lowe (born 3 April 1977)England & Wales births 1837 – 2006 is an English actress, writer, director, and comedian. She has appeared as Dr. Haynes in '' Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'' and Madeleine Wool/Liz Asher in ''Garth Marenghi's Darkplace''. She wrote, directed, and starred in the 2016 film '' Prevenge'' and starred in and co-wrote the 2012 film ''Sightseers''. She also starred in the educational children's television series ''Horrible Histories''. Early life Lowe was born in Coventry, West Midlands, England. She attended Kenilworth School and graduated from King's College, Cambridge, where she studied classics. At university she became involved in theatre and comedy. Career Lowe began her career in surreal experimental theatre shows including ''City Haunts'', ''Snowbound'' and ''Progress in Flying Machines'' co-devising and performed along with colleagues such as Robert Webb and David Mitchell. Lowe worked under the directorship of Paul King, who has since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Julian Alistair Rhind-Tutt (born 20 July 1967) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Dr "Mac" Macartney in the comedy television series '' Green Wing''. Early life Rhind-Tutt was born on 20 July 1967 in West Drayton, London, the youngest of five; there was a 10-year gap between him and his two brothers and two sisters. He attended the John Lyon School in Harrow, Middlesex, where he acted in school productions, eventually taking the lead in a school production of ''Hamlet'' that played at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the mid-1980s. After reading English and Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick, he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London where he won the 1992 Carleton Hobbs Award from BBC Radio Drama. Career Rhind-Tutt's first significant acting role was as the Duke of York in ''The Madness of King George'' (1994). This was followed by a succession of lesser television and film roles. He then landed a major role in William Boyd's First W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding (; born 21 May 1973) is an English comedian, artist, and actor. He was part of The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe alongside Julian Barratt in the 2000s, and has been a co-presenter of ''The Great British Bake Off'' since 2017. He is known for his black comedy, dark and surreal humour, surreal comedic style. Fielding began performing stand-up comedy when he graduated from art school in 1995, and in 1997 he first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Barratt when they both appeared on the same comedy bill at a pub in north London. Around 1998, they performed their first comedy show together in London, which was a mix of stand-up and sketch comedy, then later in 1998 they took the show, ''The Mighty Boosh (1998 stage show), The Mighty Boosh'', to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They returned to the festival in 1999 with ''Arctic Boosh'', and in 2000 with ''Autoboosh''. In 2001 The Mighty Boosh became a six-part radio show on BBC Radio London, BBC London Live, called ''The Boosh'' l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt Pettifer (born 4 May 1968) is an English comedian, actor and musician. As a comedian and comic actor, he is known for his use of surreal humour and black comedy. During the 2000s he was part of The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe alongside comedy partner Noel Fielding. Born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, Barratt attended the University of Reading and first performed stand up comedy whilst at the University of Reading. In 1997 he first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Noel Fielding when they both appeared on the same comedy bill at a pub in north London. Sometime in around 1998 they then performed their first comedy show together in London which was a mix of both stand up and sketch comedy and then in 1998 they took the show, ''The Mighty Boosh'', to the Edinburgh fringe festival and returned again in 1999 with '' Arctic Boosh'' and in 2000 with '' Autoboosh''. In 2001 The Mighty Boosh became a six-part radio show on BBC London Live, called '' The Boosh'' later transferring t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ProjeKcts
The ProjeKcts are a succession of experimental spin-off groups associated with the band King Crimson. The ProjeKcts were most active from 1997 to 1999, but have performed intermittently since. These earlier ProjeKcts, up to ProjeKct Six in 2006, were devoted to instrumental and heavily improvised music. All of them included King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp, who described their purpose as being "research and development" for King Crimson. Two later spin-off projects were of a different nature, but both involving former King Crimson members. History FraKctalisation (1997–1999) ProjeKct One (1997) * Robert Fripp – electric guitar * Trey Gunn – Warr guitar * Tony Levin – bass guitar, electric upright bass, Chapman Stick, bass synthesizer * Bill Bruford – drum kit, acoustic drums, percussion ProjeKct One began as a suggestion by Bruford to Robert Fripp that they do some improvisational shows together. Fripp suggested adding Gunn, while Bruford suggested adding Tony L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
