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Emily Booth


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Robin Hardy

Director of The Wicker Man


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Rob Sprackling


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Rob Sprackling is an experienced screenwriter. Along with his writing partner John R Smith he originated and wrote the forthcoming Disney/Miramax animation 'Gnomeo & Juliet' starring James McAvoy, Michale Caine, Emily Blunt, Patrick Stewart, Maggie Smith and Jason Statham - with music by Elton John. It will be out in cinemas worldwide from February 2011.

He originated and wrote the Brit-com 'Mike Bassett: England Manager' starring Ricky Tomlinson and Amanda Redman - which was one of the top five UK movies at the British box office in 2001. He also wrote and produced the TV series spin off.

Other forthcoming work includes: 'Tortoise vs Hare' for Aardman Animation, 'Why I did not Eat my Father' - for Pathe France which is currently in production and an adaption of the G.P Taylor book 'Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box' - which is in pre-production, directed by Simon West (Con Air, Lara Croft:Tomb Raider).

Rob has directed one other short film 'Green Monkey' which won the 'New York Short Film Festival' amongst others.

By all accounts he is a very nice man.




Ingrid Pitt


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Caroline Munro

(The Spy Who Loved Me, Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter, Dracula A.D 1972, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Dr. Phibes Rises Again)


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Martine Beswick

(Dr. No, Thunderball, One Million Years B.C., Dr Jekyl & Sister Hyde)


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Vera Day

(Quatermass 2, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)


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Marcus Hearn

Hammer Historian


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Gavin Baddeley

Author, Journalist and Broadcaster


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Gavin Baddeley is an acclaimed author, journalist and broadcaster, specialising in the exotic, macabre and occult. In addition to several books in the area, he’s penned numerous magazine and newspaper articles, for publications ranging from Kerrang! to The Observer, as well as serving as a consultant and interviewee for the likes of Channel Four, MTV and the BBC. Gavin’s also delivered talks and led debates at diverse institutions, including Cambridge University and a broad selection of occult societies, philosophical discussion groups and film festivals. The Journal of Popular Culture dubbed Gavin ‘the patron saint of gothic journalism’, while Anton LaVey, the 20th century’s ‘black pope’, made him an honorary reverend in his infamous Church of Satan for his services to international devilment, describing Baddeley as ‘a sharp cookie’. After a long period of research and study, Gavin now has a number of new titles due for release in the autumn of 2009. In The Devil’s Historybooks, Gavin collaborates with his long-time associate Paul Woods to apply their unique combination of talents to some of history’s most controversial and darkly fascinating episodes in a new series of books for Ian Allan Publishing, with the first two titles focusing on the Assassins and Jack the Ripper. Plexus will be releasing Gavin’s two new books on vampires and Gothic style – Vampire Lovers and Vamps and Dandies – while FAB Press have recently published his long-awaited collaboration with the band Cradle of Filth, the truly epic unholy tome The Gospel of Filth.

More To Be Confirmed...

An incredible panel of guest speakers will be appearing at the 2010 Bram Stoker International Film Festival.
Further details coming soon!