I am very pleased to announce that 'BORLEY RECTORY' is now streaming on DISNEY PLUS!
Huge thanks again to everyone involved making it - our generous cast and our skeleton crew - and those who supported with funding and faith.
AND the fantastic BluRay is still available from Nucleus Films 💀
After years of faffing about I have finally cobbled together a website. This one even includes a small gallery of my paintings...
www.ashleythorpeanimation.com
Fans of a 'Ghost story for Christmas' should have a look at Kier-La Janisse's atmospheric seasonal chiller 'The Occupant of the room', currently streaming on Shudder.
Apart from the archly retro title sequence Kier-La kindly asked me to create the exteriors of the hotel & its environs a la Borley 💀
A Split double bill poster - top is the theatrical Poster for THEATRE OF HORRORS featuring illustration of a trio of dastardly people suffocating someone in a bed. Underneath that, a shot of actor Don McKellar covering his face from the film THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM.
LOS ANGELES!! Catch my film on the big screen supporting David Gregory's latest doc THEATRE OF HORRORS on Dec 1 with David in person and a @severinfilms.bsky.social pop-up shop ! Presented by @cinematicvoid.bsky.social at American Cinematheque LF3. Tix: www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
‼️BRAND NEW UNCANNY MERCH ALERT‼️
A #Halloween exclusive #Uncanny t-shirt by Ashley Thorpe who did the #Uncanny TV titles sequence, incorporating some classic paranormal elements into an 'Uncanny-scape'!
We only have 100 in the online shop - so get in quick.
It is also available to buy on tour!
BIDDING NOW - THE LAST Quad festival poster created for the HELL TOR FESTIVAL 2024 - Signed by many festival guests: including REECE SHEARSMITH, CAROLINE MUNRO & MADELINE SMITH.
This is the FINAL COPY, once its gone it's gone forever, so be quick!
ebay.co.uk/itm/38911671...
#InsideNo9 #helltor
TONIGHT is the NIGHT!
The Hell Tor Festival begins tonight at the Exeter Phoenix! Join us for a weekend of all things GHOSTLY - classic films, illuminating lectures and very special guests.
FESTIVAL TICKETS: exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/hell-t...
7 days..... 💀
FESTIVAL TICKETS: exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/hell-t...
Thank you to the amazing maestro Mick Garris for inviting me to the second annual UK Masters of horror dinner last night! It was incredible. A wonderful inspirational night with extraordinary people.
Can't wait to see what projects and collaborations are born from it 💀
SPECIAL FESTIVAL GUEST - KIER-LA JANISSE! @kierlajanisse.bsky.social
Come and meet the writer / director / producer behind 'House of Psychotic Women', 'Woodlands dark and days bewitched', 'Haunted Season' and many many more.
FESTIVAL TICKETS: exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/hell-t...
#helltor
Just over 2 weeks until the next HELL TOR FESTIVAL!
Here's the line up and it's quite the packed weekend! Join us Sep 26th - 28th at the Exeter Phoenix for a weekend of all things ghostly 👻
Tickets and day passes available now - exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/hell-t...
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Hell Tor is thrilled to welcome terrific artist GRAHAM HUMPHREYS to our horror weekend!
Join us for a special career spanning conversation with the man who Rob Zombie describes as “the master of bringing a film to life in a two-dimensional space.”
TICKETS: exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/night...
Join us on Sunday September 28th for a career spanning interview with star of stage and screen - the 'Woman in Black' herself - PAULINE MORAN.
NOT TO BE MISSED!
Price* £15 | £13 S74 Members, Students & Under 25s*
Time | 15.30pm
TICKETS: exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/an-au...
Is there anybody there?
Call yourself a ghost fan and you DON'T have HELL TOR Tickets?
TICKETS: exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/hell-t...
#helltor #uncanny
WHAT ARE THE GHOSTS OF YOUR LIFE? Do YOU have a favourite ghostly moment from film or TV? 💀
GHOSTS OF MY LIFE is our special panel finale that ends this years HELL TOR FESTIVAL.
Join us for moments that continue to haunt us from the screen.
TICKETS: exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/hell-t...
Writer, comedian and impressionist STEVE NALLON (Spitting Image) has joined this year's HELL TOR FESTIVAL for a special reading of his 'ghost stories'!
Tickets - exeterphoenix.org.uk/.../steve-na...
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CLASSIC GHOST FILMS at this years HELL TOR FESTIVAL 💀
The weekend runs Fri 26th September to Sun 28th at the Exeter Phoenix. Don't miss it! #helltor
TICKETS: exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/hell-t...
The Hell Tor Festival returns to the Exeter Phoenix Sep 26th -28th, for a weekender of classic ghost films, talks and special guests, including an audience with The Woman in Black herself!
Tickets: exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/hell-t...
#helltor #uncanny #ghosts
SUNDAY 28th SEPTEMBER - Graham Humphreys at the HELL TOR FESTIVAL
Very much looking forward to welcoming Graham to the festival and - although we invariably meet at Frightfest every year - a first for me to sit and interview him about his work!
Tickets: exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/night...
Just before Xmas last year I was thrilled to be asked by Reece to paint the 'Grand Guignol' inspired artwork for INSIDE NO 9's 'STAGEFRIGHT'. After being sent signed goodies by the Gentlemen I have decided to put the ORIGINAL PAINTING up for auction ...🐇 💀
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/38870453...
HELL TOR FESTIVAL guest announcement - Join us for an audience with the Woman in Black herself - PAULINE MORAN!
Festival tickets on sale now - exeterphoenix.org.uk/genre/hell-t...
#helltor
#Uncanny Summer Special - brand new podcast episodes out THIS Friday on @bbcsounds.bsky.social, BBC Radio 4
and all podcast platforms.
Who’s in?
#UncannyCommunity
Amazing artwork by @ashley999thorpe.bsky.social
Calling all horror fans - check out Hell Tor festival from Borley Rectory director Ashley Thorpe and which this year features Inside No 9 poster artist Graham Humphreys as well as lots of other amazing guests!
HELL TOR 2025 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT - GRAHAM HUMPHREYS
From iconic Evil Dead poster to Nightmare on Elm Street, episode posters for Inside No 9, Hammer Films and art for The Cramps & The Damned, his work is familiar to every cult horror fan.
Tickets on sale from the Exeter Phoenix in June. #helltor
Those who attend the HELL TOR FESTIVAL this year will be privy to exclusive special guest films sharing the their favourite ghost moments on film / TV.
Tickets go on sale June 2025
#uncanny #helltor #exeterphoenix
I’m delighted to be taking my Scooby-Doo folklore live show Zoinks! to London on Tuesday with a performance for @miskatonicihs.bsky.social
The event is sold out but you can join the waiting list at
billetto.co.uk/e/zoinks-the...
If you are booked to come let me know, and expect surprises!
Wonderful!
HELL TOR 2025 Special guest announcement - STEPHEN VOLK
"Stephen Volk has made a name for himself as one of the UK's leading purveyors of soul-chilling horror" - SciFi Now
More guest announcements soon.
Tickets will go on sale in June
#exeterphoenix #helltor
Been meaning to give @hauntedmagazine.bsky.social a plug for ages. The latest issue is loads of fun for fans of Uncanny and anyone who loves a good ghost story, with haunted English pyramids, the Edinburgh Vaults, Borley Rectory, and the woman who married a ghost! Love it.
Head & shoulders marketing image of Peter Laws, for the Hell Tor Film Festival, in a washed-out, mid-blue palette. The left side of his face is a skull and the words Why We Love Ghost Stories are bottom left of the image.
HELL TOR 2025 special guest announcement - PETER LAWS
Peter Laws: author, journalist, film critic, public speaker. He writes the Matt Hunter crime fiction series and hosts Into the Fog with Peter Laws, a spooky YouTube storytelling channel.
www.devon-cornwall-film.co.uk/2025/02/14/g...
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