Film noir adaptation of Soviet author Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantasy short stars Brit Edward Franklin (Dr. Thorne, Brain Hack) and features cameos from an international ensemble cast including Jeff Fahey (Lost, Miami Vice, Lawnmower Man), Branko Tomovic (Fury, 24: Live Another Day), Neil Bell (Dead Man’s Shoes) and Olga Fedori (Holby City, Wolfman). The darkly humorous story follows Sutulin, a law-abiding resident of a cramped communal flat, as he experiments with a room-enlarging miracle substance, Quadraturin – with unexpected results. “We are incredibly proud and excited for Quadraturin to receive its world premiere at this prestigious A-list event. We can’t wait to share it with audiences in Finland and beyond” says London-based Finnish director Laura Hypponen. Producer Patrick Hart of Ain’t Transcending Enterprises says: “After reading Krzhizhanovsky’s...
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- 2/1/2018
- Screen Anarchy
A first Trailer just dropped for Laura Hypponen's "Quadraturin" starring Jeff Fahey (Lost, Miami Vice, Machete), Branko Tomovic (24: Live Another Day, Fury, Red), Olga Fedori (Wolfman, Skins, Holby City), Neil Bell (Dead Man’s Shoes, Peaky Blinders) and Edward Franklin (Doctor Thorne). It's a darkly comical fantasy film inspired by the Soviet author Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's long-banned short story from 1926 and tells the story of Sutulin, a young ordinary man living in a tiny room in a communal Soviet apartment, who is visited by a mysterious stranger offering him an opportunity to try out 'Quadraturin' - a miracle product that promises to enlarge interior spaces. Sutulin takes up the offer - with surprising consequences... Watch the trailer below! Quadraturin has just picked up a distribution...
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- 10/12/2017
- Screen Anarchy
We recently sat down with the exciting and award winning director Laura Hypponen, who is currently shooting "Quadraturin" starring Jeff Fahey (Lost, Miami Vice, Machete), Branko Tomovic (24: Live Another Day, Fury, Red), Olga Fedori (Wolfman, Skins, Holby City), Neil Bell (Dead Man’s Shoes, Peaky Blinders) and Edward Franklin (Doctor Thorne). It's a darkly comical fantasy film inspired by the Soviet author Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's long-banned short story from 1926 and tells the story of Sutulin, a young ordinary man living in a tiny room in a communal Soviet apartment, who is visited by a mysterious stranger offering him an opportunity to try out 'Quadraturin' - a miracle product that promises to enlarge interior spaces. Sutulin takes up the offer - with surprising consequences... Can you tell...
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- 11/8/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Holby City favourite Frieda Petrenko is to bow out from the show, Digital Spy can confirm. Olga Fedori has already filmed her final scenes as Frieda, whose exit episode airs in May. Frieda first appeared on Holby City in February 2010 and quickly became known for her no-nonsense attitude and straight-talking ways. A BBC spokesperson told Digital Spy: "Olga has been a fantastic asset to Holby City and will be sorely missed by the cast and crew. Everyone wishes her all the best for the future." They added: "Ever since Frieda achieved (more)...
- 4/18/2012
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
You know, several times a day we think about how cool it would be to open up shop across the pond so that we could easily be there for all of the great shit they have going on. Film4 Frightfest, great Blu-ray editions we get the shaft on here, the seductive usage of the word "randy" ... so very much to love. Now, to further make us drool, The Horror Channel UK (yes, they have one of those there, too) is churning out another dosage of fright to get fans watching the carnage, Cruel Britannia.
From the Press Release
Cruel Britannia: The Cutting Edge of British Horror
April 8 – April 29, 2011
The Horror Channel celebrates the best of contemporary British horror with a special season of UK TV premieres which showcases some of the finest home-grown directorial talent around.
Kick-starting the season on Friday 8th April is the UK TV premiere of Steven Sheil...
From the Press Release
Cruel Britannia: The Cutting Edge of British Horror
April 8 – April 29, 2011
The Horror Channel celebrates the best of contemporary British horror with a special season of UK TV premieres which showcases some of the finest home-grown directorial talent around.
Kick-starting the season on Friday 8th April is the UK TV premiere of Steven Sheil...
- 3/10/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The Horror Channel is to celebrate the best of contemporary British horror with Cruel Britannia – a special season of UK TV premieres which showcases some of the finest home-grown directorial talent around.
Kick-starting the season on Friday 8th April is the UK TV premiere of Steven Sheil’s debut feature Mum & Dad – a film described as “one of the defining British horrors of its generation”. Imbued with a terrifying ferocity, it centres around a young Polish immigrant (Holby City’s Olga Fedori) who finds herself imprisoned in a suburban House of Horrors. It also stars Perry Benson (This Is England, Somers Town).
This is followed by the UK TV premiere of Gerard Johnson’s debut, the dark, brutal and bleakly amusing Tony: London Serial Killer, transmitting on Friday 15th April. It has drawn favourable comparisons to John McNaughton’s seminal Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and features a star-making...
Kick-starting the season on Friday 8th April is the UK TV premiere of Steven Sheil’s debut feature Mum & Dad – a film described as “one of the defining British horrors of its generation”. Imbued with a terrifying ferocity, it centres around a young Polish immigrant (Holby City’s Olga Fedori) who finds herself imprisoned in a suburban House of Horrors. It also stars Perry Benson (This Is England, Somers Town).
This is followed by the UK TV premiere of Gerard Johnson’s debut, the dark, brutal and bleakly amusing Tony: London Serial Killer, transmitting on Friday 15th April. It has drawn favourable comparisons to John McNaughton’s seminal Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and features a star-making...
- 3/9/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Holby City star Olga Fedori has confirmed that her alter ego Frieda Petrenko will face big changes in her professional life this year. Frieda was introduced to Holby General as a nurse last year, but it was later revealed that she was a trained doctor back home in the Ukraine. Since then, the straight-talking character has decided to apply for an F1 position at the hospital. Speaking to Digital Spy about Frieda's forthcoming storylines, Fedori explained: "I think it's going to be quite different this year. She's going to be stepping into a different role, as she's decided to be a doctor, so we'll see her tackling a very different position. "She won't be able to hide behind being a nurse and someone else having the rest of the responsibility, because it's at the doctor where the buck stops. So now she's going to have most (more)...
- 1/26/2011
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
For our final National Television Awards feature, I recently chatted to Holby City actress Olga Fedori about her 'Best Newcomer' nomination. Click here to read the main interview with the star, or read on for a bonus Q&A focusing on all things Holby. What can we expect to happen between Frieda and Oliver this year?
"I can't say too much on that one! There's been talk about things heading in all sorts of directions, and I can't give this one away!" Who do you most enjoy working with on set?
"There's some people who you work with a lot and others who you just cross paths with. I've been digging working with Jimmy Akingbola a lot - there's quite a bit that's coming out with Malick and Frieda. I love working with Hari Dhillon, who plays Michael, and Emma who plays Penny. And also James who plays Oliver (more...
"I can't say too much on that one! There's been talk about things heading in all sorts of directions, and I can't give this one away!" Who do you most enjoy working with on set?
"There's some people who you work with a lot and others who you just cross paths with. I've been digging working with Jimmy Akingbola a lot - there's quite a bit that's coming out with Malick and Frieda. I love working with Hari Dhillon, who plays Michael, and Emma who plays Penny. And also James who plays Oliver (more...
- 1/25/2011
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to look for films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… the UK! I get flack sometimes for including British movies under a foreign film heading due to the fact that they're still in English. This would make sense if the column specified foreign language, but since it doesn't I'm going to continue including English language films produced in a country more than 3000 miles away. Besides, if I stopped covering British films you may have gone your entire life without seeing the image above. We'll get to what exactly it is in a minute... Lena (Olga Fedori) is a Polish immigrant who makes a meager living cleaning toilet stalls in London's Heathrow Airport. She hopes to eventually afford to move other members of her family in with her, but...
- 4/30/2009
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Mum & Dad and their “adopted children” are your typical horror-film family. They torture, they kill and they see nothing wrong with watching Dad use severed body parts to pleasure himself—but they still celebrate Christmas.
Steven Sheil, writer/director of the new DVD release, explains in the disc’s extras that he wanted to create a British version of this genre staple, a task at which he certainly succeeds. Olga Fedori (of the upcoming The Wolfman remake) is Lena, a young woman from Poland who gets a job on the cleaning staff of London’s Heathrow Airport. An adorable-but-strange co-worker named Birdie (Ainsley Howard) seems to take a liking to Lena and introduces her to her mute “brother” Elbie (Toby Alexander). When Lena misses the bus one night, Birdie invites her over.
As one might expect, accepting that invitation was not a good idea. Lena is very quickly and intimately...
Steven Sheil, writer/director of the new DVD release, explains in the disc’s extras that he wanted to create a British version of this genre staple, a task at which he certainly succeeds. Olga Fedori (of the upcoming The Wolfman remake) is Lena, a young woman from Poland who gets a job on the cleaning staff of London’s Heathrow Airport. An adorable-but-strange co-worker named Birdie (Ainsley Howard) seems to take a liking to Lena and introduces her to her mute “brother” Elbie (Toby Alexander). When Lena misses the bus one night, Birdie invites her over.
As one might expect, accepting that invitation was not a good idea. Lena is very quickly and intimately...
- 4/29/2009
- Fangoria
Partly inspired by the grisly, real-life exploits of serial killers Fred and Rosemary West, and starring Shane Meadows regular Perry Benson (Somers Town; This Is England), the film puts a unique spin on the British horror genre, setting its tale very close to home (quite literally) and resulting in a brutally realistic horror story.
Directed by Steven Sheil and co-starring Dido Miles, Olga Fedori, Toby Alexander and newcomer Ainsley Howard, this boundary-pushing journey into suburban terror is not without its moments of dark humour, but, viewers be warned, Mum & Dad is definitely not a film for the squeamish or the easily offended.
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Directed by Steven Sheil and co-starring Dido Miles, Olga Fedori, Toby Alexander and newcomer Ainsley Howard, this boundary-pushing journey into suburban terror is not without its moments of dark humour, but, viewers be warned, Mum & Dad is definitely not a film for the squeamish or the easily offended.
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- 12/23/2008
- by Leigh
- Latemag.com/film
In an industry first Revolver Entertainment’s shocker Mum and Dad will be the first ever UK film release to appear in cinemas at the same time as being available on retail DVD. Hailed as one of the most disturbing Brit-horror emerge in recent years, writer-director Steven Sheil’s Mum and Dad was partly inspired by the grisly, real-life exploits of serial killers Fred and Rosemary West. Starring Shane Meadows regular Perry Benson (Somers Town; This Is England), the film puts a new spin on the British horror genre, setting its tale very close to home (quite literally) and resulting in a brutally realistic horror story. Co-starring Dido Miles, Olga Fedori, Toby Alexander and newcomer Ainsley Howard, this boundary-pushing journey into suburban terror is not without its moments of dark humour, but, viewers be warned, M and D is definitely not a film for the squeamish.
- 11/14/2008
- 24framespersecond.net
In an industry first Revolver Entertainment’s shocker Mum and Dad will be the first ever UK film release to appear in cinemas at the same time as being available on retail DVD. Hailed as one of the most disturbing Brit-horror emerge in recent years, writer-director Steven Sheil’s Mum and Dad was partly inspired by the grisly, real-life exploits of serial killers Fred and Rosemary West. Starring Shane Meadows regular Perry Benson (Somers Town; This Is England), the film puts a new spin on the British horror genre, setting its tale very close to home (quite literally) and resulting in a brutally realistic horror story. Co-starring Dido Miles, Olga Fedori, Toby Alexander and newcomer Ainsley Howard, this boundary-pushing journey into suburban terror is not without its moments of dark humour, but, viewers be warned, M and D is definitely not a film for the squeamish.
- 11/14/2008
- 24framespersecond.net
**Please Note: This will be at the top for a while; be sure to scroll down for updated news stories!** Horror may currently be in a slump, but the 2008 American Film Market has shown a huge light at the end of the tunnel. This year showcased a record number of horror titles and Dread Central was on hand to catch a great deal of them. Some were good, some were bad but all showed that this genre still has plenty of lifeblood left. Many exhibitors were also kind enough to show us movie promos, while others coldly showed us the door (Lesbian Vampire Killers, I’m looking at you). The most promising show previews were easily Night of the Demons and Clive Barker’s Dread, with plenty of new projects being announced. Check out our full Afm '08 coverage here.
So without further ado, we present you with our yearly...
So without further ado, we present you with our yearly...
- 11/12/2008
- by Andrew Kasch
- DreadCentral.com
The UK Frightfest is at it again, this time they've scored your first look at stills from Mum & Dad, a film we first told you about here. Inside you'll find a much longer synopsis, along with the stills from the Steven Sheil directed UK horror pic starring Dido Miles, Perry Benson, Olga Fedori, Ainsley Howard and Toby Alexander. You dont have to go to Texas for a deranged cannibal family. Try Heathrow Airport closer to home. Thats where Terminal cleaner Lena is stranded after night shift and accepts help from perky colleague Birdie who lives nearby with her parents. But her home turns out to be the worst House of Horrors.
- 7/8/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
Edinburgh Film Festival
EDINBURGH — The family that slays together stays together in “Mum & Dad, ” a nightmarish little Brit-horror that makes a virtue of micro-budget limitations. The screenplay takes the harrowing, still fresh-in-the-memory case of suburban serial-killers Fred and Rosemary West as loose basis for a nailbiting shocker — a controversy-courting move that may translate into limited UK theatrical play and healthy DVD action elsewhere. The many festivals hungry for unpleasant, well-made midnight-movie fare should investigate.
First product of London’s Microwave initiative — funding 10 movies costing under £100,000 (about $200,000) apiece — it’s a confident, full-blooded debut from horror-aficionado writer/director Steven Sheil. Focus is on pretty Lena (Olga Fedori), a Polish immigrant working as a cleaner at Heathrow airport. After missing her bus home one night, she accompanies chirpy colleague Birdy (Ainsley Howard) to the latter’s nearby house where she’s promptly knocked unconscious. Lena wakes in a squalid bedroom, helpless prisoner of Birdy’s sadistic “parents, ” known only as Mum (Dido Miles) and Dad (Perry Benson).
Ensuing episodes follow the established pattern seen in many similar claustrophobic-ordeal tales. Various attempts at escape lead to escalating punishments, then a final-reel bloodbath and desperate dash for freedom. In contrast to his resourceful heroine, self-confessed horror-nut Sheil makes little attempt to get away from his chosen genre’s established conventions. That said, the acidic caricature of “family” life within his house of horrors carries satirical bite, while the juxtaposition of kitchen-sink banalities alongside unspeakable nastiness is disturbingly convincing — and sometimes jaggedly, unexpectedly comic.
EDINBURGH — The family that slays together stays together in “Mum & Dad, ” a nightmarish little Brit-horror that makes a virtue of micro-budget limitations. The screenplay takes the harrowing, still fresh-in-the-memory case of suburban serial-killers Fred and Rosemary West as loose basis for a nailbiting shocker — a controversy-courting move that may translate into limited UK theatrical play and healthy DVD action elsewhere. The many festivals hungry for unpleasant, well-made midnight-movie fare should investigate.
First product of London’s Microwave initiative — funding 10 movies costing under £100,000 (about $200,000) apiece — it’s a confident, full-blooded debut from horror-aficionado writer/director Steven Sheil. Focus is on pretty Lena (Olga Fedori), a Polish immigrant working as a cleaner at Heathrow airport. After missing her bus home one night, she accompanies chirpy colleague Birdy (Ainsley Howard) to the latter’s nearby house where she’s promptly knocked unconscious. Lena wakes in a squalid bedroom, helpless prisoner of Birdy’s sadistic “parents, ” known only as Mum (Dido Miles) and Dad (Perry Benson).
Ensuing episodes follow the established pattern seen in many similar claustrophobic-ordeal tales. Various attempts at escape lead to escalating punishments, then a final-reel bloodbath and desperate dash for freedom. In contrast to his resourceful heroine, self-confessed horror-nut Sheil makes little attempt to get away from his chosen genre’s established conventions. That said, the acidic caricature of “family” life within his house of horrors carries satirical bite, while the juxtaposition of kitchen-sink banalities alongside unspeakable nastiness is disturbingly convincing — and sometimes jaggedly, unexpectedly comic.
- 6/24/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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