Preview: Sci-Fi-London, Apollo West End, London

The new Scott Thomas film Flight of the Living Dead, about zombies on a plane, and Daniel O'Connor's film Run Robot Run, concerning an office employee who finds he has a robot love-rival, are UK premieres at Sci-Fi-London, Britain's leading science fiction and fantastic films festival, now in its sixth year.

Highlights include the world premiere of the digitally restored 1936 classic British film Things to Come, directed by William Cameron Menzies, with an extra 22 minutes of unseen footage. The very low budget British sci-fi comedy Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth starring Tamsin Greig of Green Wing fame, also a premiere, is a homage to 1950s comic strips, and has a cardboard set.

The short-film programme includes Danielle Stallings' surreal 14-minute film, Haunted Planet, in which a woman and her friend are convinced that reality is a nightmare. There is a low-budget special-effects workshop with the action/sci-fi director Christian Viel, followed by a screening of his new film Recon 2020: The Mezzo Incident, about space marines who tackle giant man-eating snow-worms.

The American fantasy horror director Stuart Gordon also makes an appearance at the festival. His film Edmond, a dark tale based on a David Mamet play, is to be screened in its UK premiere. It tells the story of a man whose life goes horribly wrong after he stumbles across a fortune teller.

In the Eighties, the director also made the film Re-Animator - a Frankenstein-type story about medical students who find a way to reanimate the dead, and which includes a previously banned scene in which a headless dead corpse has sex with a living woman. Although the director also co-wrote the 1989 comedy Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, most of his work is in the field of horror.

"I like movies that take you places you've never been before. Fantasy can't happen in real life. I make the impossible possible for an audience," says Gordon.

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