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Bram Stoker International Film Festival Preview

The Bram Stoker International Film Festival celebrates the life of Bram Stoker horror legacy through four days and nights of Gothic decadence including the highly anticipated and world famous Bram Stoker European Vampires Ball now in its fourth year. The annual event is held in Whitby, North Yorkshire in the last weekend of October. In 2012 the festival host their first ever Alternative fashion show, we are to be partnered with Spirit Model Management, the UK's largest Alternative modelling agency who will be supplying the show with their top Gothic models.

Bram Stoker film festival

Whitby is famous for holding the annual Gothic weekends and attracts thousands of visitors per year, also infamous as the town where Bram Stoker started writing his novel 'Dracula' it was whilst staying in the small North East coast fishing town that Bram Stoker found the inspiration to begin creating the most famous figure in horror film and literature, DRACULA. The legacy left by Bram Stoker certainly started the Victorian Gothic culture, continuing to this present day in Whitby.

The show will feature some of the UK's best Gothic, neo Victorian and steam punk designers including Falcieri designs, Madame Le Goth and Wyte Phantom. The show which is being held in support of the St. Catherine`s Hospice, starts at 12pm till 4pm on Thursday the 25th of October, at the Spa Pavilion, a family event, entrance is free and open to 700 seated guests.

Hostessing the show will be Eileen Daly, star of many British and International horror films, she is also the lead singer of the gypsy-glam band The Courtesans. Spirit Models guest model's include Evie Wolfe, Terri Bedford and Valen Vein.

Bram Stoker film festival

Bram Stoker International and Spirit Models would also like to announce their thrilling modelling competition which will take place during the event. Prizes up for grabs include, a screen test for an upcoming horror film, a contract with Spirit Models and a double page feature in Devolution magazine.

The event will be held annually during the festival and the aim is for the Alternative fashion show to become the most prestigious and professional event in Europe.

To enter the Vampyre Queen modelling competition visit: www.bramstokerfilmfestival.com/vampyrequeen.php

For more information on the festivals events please take a look at the website: www.bramstokerfilmfestival.com