Steve Oram's cult comedy horror with Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Toyah Willcox and more

The BFI is to hold a 10th anniversary screening of cult British comedy horror film Aaaaaaaah!

Featuring the Boosh duo of Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding as well as the likes of Toyah Willcox, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Alice Lowe and Tony Way, the film contains no dialogue, with the cast communicating entirely in animalistic grunts.

It was the directorial debut of former comic Steve Oram, who went on to co-write and star in Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers alongside Lowe.

In Aaaaaaaah! Oram and his former double-act partner Tom Meeten play two men, Smith and Keith, investigating  a suburban sprawl, after performing a Ritual in which they urinate on a photograph of Smith’s estranged wife.

Aaaaaaaah! premiered in August 2015 at the London FrightFest Film Festival, gaining a positive critical reception. Variety called it ‘the kind of mesmerising cult oddity whose fan base will be limited but passionate’, while The Guardian said: ‘It won't be for everyone, but its oddly complete universe extends to imagining what primate sitcoms and radio might be like, while a rich strain of bathos yields, among other treats, the cinema's most poignant use of Battenberg cake.’

The anniversary screening at the BFI Southbank on August 20 will feature a Q&A with Oram and, ‘work permitting’,  Barratt, Fielding, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Toyah Willcox. Ticket for the screening are available here.

Other stars include Lucy Honigman, Sean Reynard, Holli Dempsey, Shelley Longworth  and Waen Shepherd.

 Oram can next be seen starring in Simon Rumley’s feature Crushed –  an ‘unflinching meditation on faith, grief, and vengeance’ – which will have its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival next month.

Published: 15 Jul 2025