Breaking Baz: UK Film Executive Zygi Kamasa Is On A Scary Mission To Bring Back Britain’s Horror Film Heritage
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Zygi Kamasa, the veteran film executive who launched True Brit Entertainment 15 months ago, is on a scary mission to bring back Britain’s horror film heritage.
Today, he reveals that his company will release period shocker The Dreadful starring Game of Thrones duo Sophie Turner and Kit Harington and Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock, Mystic River, The Morning Show) in the UK. “I feel very much that I want to go further in trying to encourage the UK industry to make more horror movies because horror still works consistently well in cinemas,” Kamasa insists, citing the success of last year’s occult horror Longlegs.
But Longlegs, and many other recent horror movies, were American made. “If we’re going to do horror in this country, go back.
I mean we were dominating horror in the Sixties and Seventies, the Hammer horror and all that. And then I think we lost that business to the Americans.
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