Nick Frost presented Get Away, the horror comedy he wrote and stars in, at its UK premiere in the West End with Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft and Maisie Ayres.
Get Away, a horror comedy written by and starring Nick Frost, held its UK premiere at Picturehouse Central in the West End on Tuesday 7 January 2025. Frost led the cast with its director, Steffen Haars.
Frost was born in Hornchurch in 1972 and left school at 15 when his parents’ business failed. After two years on a kibbutz in Israel, he met Simon Pegg while waiting tables in North London.
Pegg and Jessica Hynes wrote him the part of Mike in Spaced, and the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy followed: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End. Get Away was the first screenplay Frost wrote alone.
The film follows a family on holiday in Sweden who travel to the island of Svalta for a local tradition. It is a play retelling how the British quarantined the island two centuries earlier and left its people to starve. The islanders meet the family with open hostility.
The film had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in September 2024, and Sky Cinema released it in Britain on 10 January.
Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft and Maisie Ayres, who play the family, joined Frost and Haars at the premiere.