Forbidden Worlds Film Festival

01/06/2026

With reviews calling it "one of the best action films of the decades", "an instant masterpiece" and "the new Raid", be sure to mark your calendars (Saturday 27 June) as Watershed is doing a 'one night only' screening of the new epic martial arts thriller THE FURIOUS.

With its bone-crunching action scenes from legendary choreographer Kenji Tanigaki (action director on the Rurouni Kenshin films, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In) and bringing together an incredible cast of martial arts legends - including Xie Miao (The New Legend of Shaolin), Joe Taslim (The Night Comes For Us, Mortal Kombat), Jeeja Yanin (Chocolate), Brian Le (Everything Everywhere All At Once) and Yayan Ruhian (The Raid films) - the scene is set for an incredible night of punches to the face, kicks to the stomaches and hammers to the heads.

Get your tickets now!

https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/14140/the-furious

26/05/2026

If you haven't already booked your three-day pass for our '35mm cousins in Christchurch' Dirt In The Gate Movies's Grindfest 2026 festival, you better get moving!

No doubt this is just the start of an incredible line-up.

A campaign group have announced it will be shown at a horror festival for the first time since 1969 after being found by chance

21/05/2026

Make sure to see friend of the festival James Purefoy bringing the smackdown in Eternia in Masters of the Universe next month!

https://fb.watch/HeUx3ZtBKG/

21/05/2026

Still craving fantasy post-Forbidden Worlds, but perhaps something a little bit more family-friendly?

This Saturday, Bristol Aquarium is hosting a 30th anniversary screening of DRAGONHEART (1996) that sees a disillusioned knight (Dennis Quaid) form an unlikely alliance with a dragon (voiced by the legendary Sean Connery) to challenge injustice, discover courage, and uncover the true meaning of a knight’s honourable code.

Filled with epic battles, adventures, and a legendary dragon bond, Dragonheart is a timeless fantasy classic that has captured hearts for 30 years. Also starring David Thewlis, Jason Isaacs and Pete Postlethwaite.

Get your tickets now: https://www.bristolaquarium.co.uk/blog/screening/dragonheart-1996-30th-anniversary-screening/

20/05/2026

"Look at the movie by Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven. It will be a lot like that, but it will be with extraordinary battles.”

20th Century Studios has attached the filmmaker to write and direct 'King Conan.'

20/05/2026

"The two films offered different approaches to myth, treating monsters, heroism and fantasy as not simple escapism, but as meditations on power, danger and legend."

by Zak Coates Two monsters haunted Forbidden Worlds: a dragon and a beast. I had the opportunity to attend the Forbidden Worlds film festival at the Bristol Megascreen on 24th April, it proved to b…

15/05/2026

True story: we reached out to John Sayles for a video intro for Clan of the Cave Bear (because he wrote it), but he's been so busy working on this film and doing a book tour that he finally got back to us a week after the screening!

John Sayles will return to the director's chair and direct a Western called 'I Passed This Way' starring Amy Madigan and Chris Cooper.

14/05/2026

Ahead of introducing our screening of Excalibur at Forbidden Worlds Film Festival 2026, Charley Boorman sat down with Arrow Video to talk about working with his father, director John Boorman, the film's all-star cast and legendary armourer and Forbidden Worlds Legend Terry English.

Charley Boorman caught up with Arrow Video for a conversation about his father, Sir John Boorman, discussing the journey from John's unproduced Lord of the R...

14/05/2026

"Forbidden Worlds demands that you put your cinematic biases aside and go in with an open mind, because this is a film festival of the weird, the wonderful and the downright wacky, and you need to give yourself over to the experience."

Forbidden Worlds Film Festival is Bristol’s leading genre film festival, launched in 2022 and set in the old IMAX (now Bristol Megascreen), with a penchant for showing cult fantasy, action, sci-fi and horror films.

13/05/2026

Nearly 100 repertory film programmers gathered at Vidiots in Los Angeles for the first Programmers’ Jam, mapping a bright future for moviegoing.