About Nina Romain

Nina Romain is living proof that small children shouldn't be taken trick-or-treating in Alabama in the 1980s as sugared-up tiny ghouls – they tend to end up obsessed with the creepier side of Halloween! Her horror shorts tend to be shot half in the seedier side of Los Angeles and half in the darker side of the UK, including the UK's "most haunted" village in Fright Corner.
Last year she AD’d on a Covid-safe rom-com and created three microshort horrors. These range from an LA found footage short about a Valentine’s Day spent in a deserted zoo that goes horrifically wrong, to a pandemic nightmare in lockdown London (www.raindance.org/shooting-in-a-ghost-town) and finally a party no one leaves early…or alive. For more information, please visit: www.girlfright.com
by Nina Romain | 11 January, 2021 | Acting, Directing, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career
If you’ve missed appearing in front of the camera, hopefully this year will provide more opportunities to get on set. After all, if there’s one thing you learn working as a supporting artist (SA) or extra, it’s to be prepared for some strange and varied working...
by Nina Romain | 19 December, 2020 | Directing, Film History, Filmmaking, Screenwriting
So Christmas is drawing near…what’s the strangest festive movie filled with fright you could watch this year with kids? Putting aside the traditional argument over whether or not Die Hard is an Christmas movie or even The Thing, starring Kurt Russell surrounded by a...
by Nina Romain | 1 December, 2020 | Directing, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Interviews
When it comes to horror films, everyone can think of one famous and evil object that’s either a grim warning or bringer of doom. A few of the more famous could be the Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s saw or Jack Torrance’s axe in The Shining, as well as The Hellraiser’s...
by Nina Romain | 18 September, 2020 | Uncategorized
What’s it like being a horror reviewer? Watching your favourite genre for 10 hours a day, up to five days each festival and then writing about it – sounds like a dream job, surely? Festivals have obviously been put on hold due to recent events, but virtual ones...
by Nina Romain | 21 July, 2020 | Directing, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Technical Craft
Remember Will Smith and Tom Cruise’s characters, alone in two fictitious versions of a deserted New York (in I Am Legend and Vanilla Sky respectively)? Probably the most famous British version is Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, where Cillian Murphy’s character Jim wakes...