What is Forbidden Worlds Film Festival?

Launched in May 2022 at the The Bristol Aquarium Cinema, Forbidden Worlds Film Festival is Bristol’s leading genre film festival dedicated to screening repertory fantasy, action, science-fiction and horror films from around the world, and celebrating the people that made them.

The festival has drawn a lot of attention for utilising Bristol’s former IMAX screen to put on showings of classic genre movies complete with special intro videos from Hollywood icons such as James Cameron, Jamie Lee Curtis, Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson and more.

Forbidden Worlds was created by a group of Bristol-based cinephiles who wished to celebrate their mutual love of classic and obscure genre films by showing them on the big screen where they belong.