Festival Panels

Festival Panels

A collection of our online Panels recorded for the festival

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Festival Panels
  • Scoring Horror: Christopher Young

    Film Critic Tim Burden chats with legendary film composer Christopher Young about his impressive back-catalogue of work on so many iconic film scores.

  • The NIIHR Psychoanalytic Film Club Panel

    Jim is joined by Mary Cairns, Doctor Eve Watson and Doctor Jennifer Murphy as the chat about Duncan Jones' Moon, a film picked for analysis by the Northern Ireland Institute of Human Relations' Psychoanalytic Film Club.

  • The Vectorman Podcast: Digital Tales From the CampFire

    Lee Brady hosts a special Halloween themed episode of the Vectormen podcast as he gathers a group of special guests round the digital campfire to exchange stories about the Video games that have terrified them.

  • Scream Retrospective

    Jim McClean is joined by Gav Logan (The Fright Club NI), podcaster Zara Jackson (8BitPopcorn ) and John Kavanagh a PhD Researcher in Slasher Films as they look back at Wes Craven's Scream.

  • Women Make Horror Panel

    BanterFlix’s Victoria Brown hosts a special panel for the Dark Hedges International Film Festival about women and the horror genre.

    This panel includes filmmakers Aislinn Clarke, Vanessa Ionta Wright and Luana Di Pasquale

  • Crime Scene to Screen: Its a Scream Baby

    Wanna know about the stories of the real-life serial killers that inspired Wes Craven's Scream?

    Then stick around for our last panel of the night as Joe and Thérèse host a special episode of Crime Scene to Screen.

  • Censorship & The Video Nasty Era!

    BanterFlix's Victoria Brown & Maria McQuillan are joined by Dr. Sian Barber and Dr. Johhny Walker as they chat about the enduring legacy of the video nasty era.

  • Jennifer's Body & Queer Representation in Horror

    Victoria Brown, Hamish Calvert & Nicole Hamilton discuss Jennifer's Body and Queer representation within the horror genre!

  • Crime Scene to Screen: Halloween Special

    Therese Rea & Joe McElroy are joined by Jim McMorrow as they chat about John Carpenter's Halloween.

  • Terrifying Reads: The Books That Scared Us!

    BanterFlix's Victoria Brown hosts a special panel for the Dark Hedges International Film Festival that showcases some of the books that simply terrified us.

    Victoria is joined by BanterFlix's very own Joe Mc Elroy and Claire McCullough from Ormeau Community Cinema.

  • Black Representation in Horror

    On this panel, BanterFlix's Jim McClean is joined by Vanessa Ionta Wright (https://renegadefilmfest.com/) and Zena Sadé Dixon (https://www.realqueenofhorror.com/) as they chat about the importance of black representation within the horror genre.

    We also ended up chatting alot about Nia DaCosta's...

  • Talking Cosplay (Halloween Special)

    Gabrielle Riddiough is joined by an array of talented cosplayers from across the UK & Ireland for a special Halloween themed episode of the BanterFlix podcast Talking Cosplay.

  • The Emerald Ghostbusters: Who You Gonna Call?

    Members of the Emerald Ghostbusters gather together for an online panel for the Dark Hedges International Film Festival to share their love for New York's finest Paranormal Investigators.

  • Cinepunked: The Horror of Isolation

    Film Historian Robert J E Simpson chairs a Cinepunked panel on the horror of isolation with guests Keri O'Shea and David L Rattigan.

  • Into Film NI: Introducing Younger Viewers to Horror

    Into Film NI host a panel for the Dark Hedges International Film Festival as they discuss ways to introduce Horror to younger viewers.

    This panel is hosted by Sean Kelly (Into Film NI) and features Nichola Clarke (Into Film NI), Sara Gunn-Smith (Film Hub NI) and local blogger Neil Sedgewick.

  • Caroline Comms: The State of Trek

    USS Caroline hosts a special episode of their podcast Caroline Comms as Ian, Neil and Andy chat generally about the state of the Star Trek franchise!

  • NI Paranormal Investigator Panel

    BanterFlix's Darren Vincent chats with Mark Young (Parascience) and Warren Coates (The Northern Ireland Paranormal Research Association) and Erin Harbinson (Independent Investigator) about paranormal investigations in Northern Ireland.

  • Women in Horror

    BanterFlix's Colette Fahy chats with Giuliana Monteverde and Doctor Victoria McCollum about the changing nature of female portrayal within the horror genre.

    Citing examples from Jennifer's Body, Hereditary and Midsommar amongst many others

  • Hostage to The Devil

    Filmmaker Marty Stalker hosts a special edition of the Hostage to the Devil podcast for the Dark Hedges International Film Festival as he catches up with Jimmy Petonito and Laurene Gomez who both featured in the Netflix documentary.

  • Trumpism and Horror

    BanterFlix's Colette Fahy chats with Giuliana Monteverde and Doctor Victoria McCollum, who both co-edited the book Resist!: Protest Media and Popular Culture in the Brexit-Trump Era, as they chatted about how the Horror genre reacted to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United Stat...

  • Aislinn Clarke Interview

    BanterFlix's Joe Mc Elroy chats with Irish filmmaker Aislinn Clarke about her career so far

  • Irish Lores and Legends: Thordang (Work in Progress Showcase)

    BanterFlix's Jim McClean chats with director Aaron McKee and some of the crew from the locally made documentary Irish Lores and Legends: Thordang.

  • The Revenants Panel

    BanterFlix's Darren Vincent chats with Aaron Flanagan about The Revenants: Zombies on Train, which has recently been released by the Comic Book Guys and is available in comic Book shops just in time for Halloween.

  • Comic Book 101 (Blade Special)

    Darren Vincent chats with Aaron Flanagan about the comic book origins of the character of Blade.