Oi Oi…..Misty Moon are proud to announce a new documentary about the life of comedy genius Malcolm Hardee.

MALCOLM ! charts Malcolm Hardee’s life through his early years blowing things up, to spells in prison in the 70s, to The Tunnel Club and stealing Freddie Mercury’s birthday cake, to Up The Creek and his untimely demise. Told by the people who knew him best, his family, colleagues and the comedians that he promoted and helped along the way. This is an affectionate, emotional and sometimes raucous account of the life of Malcolm Hardee.

Stuart Morriss who was Malcolm’s cousin is directing the documentary and says “This has taken a couple of years in the planning and what we have shot so far with the Hardee family is wonderful. The one thing that you will get from this documentary is how much Malcolm was loved as well as being a comedy genius. We will be shooting more material, this time with the comedians in the Spring.”

COMING SOON…..

Filming has finished on Misty Moon’s new dark comedy Reunion.
Synopsis: God and The Devil meet up in a care home, what could possibly go wrong?

Reunion stars, Bill Fellows (Coronation Street, Ted Lasso) as God, Nicola Bryant (Doctor Who, Blackadder’s Christmas Carol) as The Devil and Nadia Chambers (Grange Hill, Pride and Prejudice) as Rosemary.

The film is written and directed by Jason Read and produced and cast by Stuart Morriss of Misty Moon. The film is now in post production and will have it’s cast and crew premiere at The Phoenix Arts Club in London’s West End in November 2025.

Misty Moon is proud to announce their latest short film The Commission starring Friday the 13th Final Girl Adrienne King and British comedy actor David Barry, written and directed by Jason Read. This will be Misty Moon’s final short film as they will be shooting their star studded feature film Elvis Vs Zombies in 2025.

A teaser trailer for The Commission will be launched on social media on Friday the 13th December 2025.

Misty Moon has joined forces with award winning director Emma Pitt with a new short horror film A Hymn For Her. Starring Linda Marlowe as ageing starlet Rosemary De Souza, who laments about once being famous, beautiful and always recognised but now in her twilight years is almost invisible to society, as the story unfolds a dark and sinister twist is revealed. Also starring Tyger Drew-Honey, Deborah Voorhees, Hayley Greenbauer and introducing Imogen Eden-Brown. Written and directed by Emma Pitt and produced by Stuart Morriss, A Hymn For Her is released on the film festival circuit early 2022.

I received the notification on the 9th November 2020 and I am so, so proud to announce that Robo Films and Misty Moon’s Ready For My Close Up has WON BEST COMEDY HORROR FILM at The FANtastic Horror Film Festival in San Diego but not only that, Lynn Lowry has also WON BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS for Ready For My Close Up….. I am so proud about both awards but especially for the best film award as this film was a team effort and I am so proud of all my cast and crew and to all our backers who supported us and helped us make our film… Lynn, Jason, Michael and I have recorded our acceptance speeches a couple of weeks ago and you will be able to see the awards ceremony when it will be streamed online very soon….Champagne at the ready ❤️🎥🎥🍾🍾🍾

What a gig on Saturday the 7th November…. Misty Moon’s The Bill Reunions are always fabulous, whether they are at our beloved Cinema Museum or in more recent times online, but this one was exceptional…. 4.5 hours of pure entertainment for the fans during a dark autumn night of Lockdown. A huge, huge thank you to my guests, Carolyn Pickles, Suzanne Maddock, Gary Grant, Oliver Crocker and Graham Cole Obe…. Thank you as always to our tech wizard Martin Rudman for the great clips and to the wonderful audience which also had a few famous faces in it, including our Darling Patron Linzi Drew and Hammer actress Valerie Leon… The next Socially Distanced Bill Reunion will be on Saturday the 30th January 2021. Confirmed guests Natalie Rowles aka DS Debbie McAllister, Suzanne Maddock aka WPC Cass Rickman, Jon Iles aka DC Mike Dashwood and Andrew Mackintosh aka DS Alistair Greig .

So we did it, against all the odds, Misty Moon put on the biggest gig since the original lockdown and just hours before Lockdown 2 was about to start…. El Presidente Robin Askwith entertained a full but socially distanced Phoenix Arts Club with irreverent stories and a cameo from none other than George Layton.. I would like to thank all the team at The Phoenix especially Peter Dunbar, we had so many frantic calls over the last few days to make sure the gig went ahead… My wingman for the night Matthew Stanford and of course to the wonderful Misty Mooners who attended along with the other members of the audience…. Misty Moon & Robin will be back at The Phoenix and Cinema Museum as soon as we can… until then, Misty Moon Online Events are still going strong….. Photos from last night by Matthew Stanford, Gillian Bryant and Ellen Holbrook.

I am still buzzing from Saturday night’s Misty Moon International Film Festival.
How brilliant was that?

As our beloved Cinema Museum is temporarily closed due to “that virus” instead of postponing the festival we decided to stream it online.

With a full online house packed with guests and filmmakers from around the world, enjoying the best in independent film. No technical glitches and all the films streamed perfectly, thanks to the technical brilliance of Martin Rudman. I had one of the filmmakers from New York messaging me during the festival to say how thrilled he was that their film streamed seamlessly… the miracles of modern technology…

I am so proud of Misty Moon’s special guest MC Suzanne Maddock… Suzanne did a wonderful job holding everything together…The judging panel were fabulous in their deliberations as I mediated them. Also in true Misty Moon tradition we stayed on chatting and drinking in our virtual pub The Slaughtered Lamb until the very wee small hours…

This was also a fundraiser for our beloved Cinema Museum and we raised £362.50 on Saturday night and a couple of days before, The Misty Mooners had already been donating so we have raised over £500, so well done everyone.

We even had Lindsay Honey aka adult Legend Ben Dover doing a drum roll from Spain before each winner‘s announcement…..

So here are the Winners of The Misty Moon International Film Festival 2020 are:

The Geoffrey Morriss Award – The Boy Who Thought He Could Fly – Director Emma Pitt

The Fenella Fielding Award OBE – Close – Directors – Emily Bollwell and Thomas Attwood

The Dudley Sutton Award – Les Monstres – Director – Leslie Carles

The Misty Mooners Award – Fools Gold – Director Jim Allison

The Judge’s Award – The Boy Who Thought He Could Fly – Director Emma Pitt

The Misty Moon International Film Festival will be back Halloween 2021 with new films, new judges and some big surprises… Submissions open February 2021. Online photos courtesy of Matthew Bartram and Matthew Stanford

We had a lovely time for our Misty Moon online event with actress Judy Matheson on Saturday 3rd October 🌙⭐️✨🎭

Fans tuned in from all over, including America and New Zealand to hear tales of Judy’s Hammer Glamour days on Hammer House of Horror, with popular films Lust for a Vampire and the opening scenes of Twins of Evil being a firm favourite.
Questions came flying in from fans in the audience, which Judy answered directly and we are were treated to rarely seen clips put together by our tech man Martin Rudman, from tv shows such as Z Cars and Citizen Smith. Judy chatted about her days working on Crossroads, Blake 7, The Sweeney, The Professionals and an appearance in Coronation Street. Judy was also in The Flesh and Blood Show, Confessions of a Window Cleaner and The Exquisite Cadaver, the Spanish psychological art house thriller, with the actress Capucine. There was a treat for the audience in the form of a rare clip of The Emergence of Anthony Purdy, Esq. Farmer’s Labourer, from 1970, directed by Patrick Dromgoole and starring Freddie Jones, which Judy thoroughly enjoyed working on.
Judy also thrilled the audience with tales of working on her first film, The Chairman, with Gregory Peck, a revealing story of Stanley Kubrick and touring in the theatre with actors such as Yootha Joyce, Richard O’Sullivan and Sally Thomsett.
Feedback for the evening was fantastic and it was lovely Judy got to speak personally to fans and Twitter followers in the audience who she hadn’t met up with before 🌙⭐️✨🎥🎬

Judy will be joining us for our Misty Moon International Film Festival, as one of our judges on Saturday 24th October at 7pm 🎬🎭🎥🌙✨

This is a free event but you must register to participate and watch the films 🎥🎬🎭

We had yet another fantastic evening with actor Ian Ogilvy, on Saturday 25th September, for Misty Moon Online events.
We were honoured that Ian wanted to do another one after his previous online evening at the beginning of August, to tell us his stories of his career in tv and film. From The Return of the Saint, The Witchfinder General, The Socerers, No Sex Please, We’re British, working with Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and much much more. The questions came firing fast from fans in the audience and a queue built up quickly, which Ian loved answering directly.
We Co-hosted again with his friend and huge The Return of the Saint fan Mike Smith, who first met Ian when he was seven years old and has kept in touch ever since and possesses one of the original Saint cars.
As well as clips of Ian’s work put together by tech man Martin Rudman, Mike had his own contribution of clips, including a hilarious video that he filmed himself of Ian re-enacting the scene from the Alan Partridge tv series, when he visits the character Lynn mothers grave and plays the theme tune of The Return of the Saint!
Ian was immensely touched that his friend, the actress Jenny Hanley, joined us for the event to chat about her experiences of working with him and thrilled the audience too.
An event is always fun with Ian and we all had a great time! Even the infamous Hurdy Gurdy that Ian handmade himself crept in to make another appearance 😀