FrightFest, the UK genre festival, has unveiled the lineup for its latest edition (August 24-28).
The event opens with the European premiere ofSuitable Flesh, the latest pic from FrightFest regular Joe Lynch.
The pic follows a psychiatrist who becomes obsessed with one of her young clients with multiple personalities.
Eddie Izzard in ‘Doctor Jekyll.‘FrightFest
The film is co-produced and co-stars Barbara Crampton.
The Sacrifice Game, from director Jenn Wexler, receiving its European premiere, is the closing night film.
FrightFest line-up:
SUITABLE FLESH (European Premiere)
Director: Joe Lynch.
With: Heather Graham, Barbara Crampton, Bruce Davison, Johnathan Schaech.
THE DIVE (UK Premiere)
Director: Maximilian Erlenwein.
With: Sophie Lowe, Louisa Krause.
Its the suspense action adventure of the year based on the 2020 Swedish thriller BREAKING SURFACE.
CHEAT (World Premiere)
Directors: Nick Psinakis, Kevin Ignatius.
With: Corin Clay, Mick Thayer, Danielle Grotsky, April Clark.
For in Silvercreek your sins are not forgotten.
IT LIVES INSIDE (European Premiere)
Director: Bishal Dutta.
With: Megan Suri, Neeru Bajwa, Mohana Krishnan, Betty Gabriel.
An impressive directorial debut from Bishal Dutta reveals chilling allegories for identity crises told through a unique diversity lens.
Indian-American Samidha is at that point where her culture and hanging out like a normal teenager collide.
She has supportive parents, a teacher ally and shes interested in a boy named Russ.
But none of this matters when her estranged friend Tamira breaks a jar she claims houses an ancient demon.
CREEPING DEATH (World Premiere)
Director: Matt Sampere.
With: Monique Parent, Scott Lea, Matt Sampere, Delian Lincourt.
After reluctantly letting them inside the house he becomes intertwined with the circumstances of their Halloween pranking.
WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS (European Premiere)
Directors: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser.
With: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser.
FrightFest welcomes back The Adams Family who brought their acclaimed chiller THE DEEPER YOU DIG to us in 2019.
NEW LIFE (European Premiere)
Director: John Rosman.
With: Sonya Walger, Hayley Erin, Tony Amendola, Ayanna Berkshire.
From writer/director John Rosman, a deadly cat and mouse game based in the Pacific Northwest.
Elsa is a brilliant fixer assigned to capture a mysterious woman on the run.
And that can only come through the power of acceptance and hope.
FACELESS AFTER DARK (World Premiere)
Director: Raymond Wood.
With: Jenna Kanell, Danny Kang, Danielle Lynn, Michael Aaron Milligan.
THATS A WRAP (International Premiere)
Director: Marcel Walz.
With: Cerina Vincent, Monique Parent, Sarah French, Gigi Gustin.
Mason Maestro has just directed what he considers to be his masterpiece, Thats a Wrap.
All the cast arrives at the studio excited to celebrate what they just created.
But they arent the only ones there.
One by one, the cast disappears until the true nature of the evening is revealed.
MONOLITH (UK Premiere)
A FrightFest Presentation by the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival
Director: Mark Vesely.
With: Lily Sullivan, Ling Cooper Tang, Ansuya Nathan, Erik Thomson.
Then a package arrives on her remote doorstep and her research becomes terrifyingly personal.
COBWEB (International Premiere)
Director: Samuel Bodin.
With: Lizzy Caplan, Anthony Starr, Cleopatra Coleman, Woody Norman.
His concerned schoolteacher starts making enquiries after Peter shows clear evidence of trouble at home.
And for a child, what could be more frightening than that?
PANDEMONIUM (UK Premiere)
Director: Quarxx.
With: Hugo Dillon, Ophelia Kolb, Arben Bajraktaraj, Manon Maindivide.
From the creative mind of artist Quarxx comes an aesthetically stunning and relentlessly macabre tale.
Nathan and Daniel wake at the scene of a car crash, confused and seemingly unscathed.
The two men begin to understand that they did not make it after all.
Nathans previous acts will now determine his fate, however reprehensible they might have been.
HERD (World Premiere)
Director: Steven Pierce.
With: Ellen Adair, Mitzi Akaha, Jeremy Holm, Corbin Bernsen.
After Alex breaks her leg, the women find themselves trapped in Jamies small hometown overrun by virus-infected Heps.
Worse, Alex gets scratched by one of the afflicted.
20:45 FARANG (UK Premiere)
Director: Xavier Gens.
With: Nassim Lyes, Olivier Gourmet, Loryn Nounay, Vithaya Pansringarm.
Sam is an exemplary prison inmate.
Five years later, he has rebuilt his life in Thailand with the family hes always dreamed of.
But local godfather Narong forces him to plunge into crime again.
TRANSMISSION (World Premiere)
Director: Michael J. Hurst.
With: Vernon Wells, Felissa Rose, Dave Sheridan, Sadie Katz.
TRANSMISSION is the worlds first channel-surfing horror film.
The cult movie of 2023 is here.
PIPER (UK Premiere)
Director: Anthony Waller.
With: Elizabeth Hurley, Mia Jenkins, Jack Stuart, Robert Daws.
FrightFest welcomes back MUTE WITNESS director Anthony Waller to the genre.
THE SEEDING (European Premiere)
Director: Barnaby Clay.
With: Scott Haze, Kate Lyn Sheil, Alex Montaldo, Charlie Avink.
Take a nightmare journey into the darkest sides of nature and the primordial fears buried within us all.
COLD MEAT (World Premiere)
Director: Sebastien Drouin.
With: Allen Leech, Nina Bergman, Yan Tual, Sydney Hendricks.
David Petersen (Downtown Abbey star Allen Leech) is passing through the Colorado Rockies.
But the cold is the least of his worries.
For a shadowy beast starts prowling around outside his car.
How will he survive?
The feature debut of French director Sebastien Drouin, VFX supervisor on 2046, BABYLON A.D. and ALEXANDER.
RAGING GRACE (English Premiere)
Director: Paris Zarcilla.
With: Jaeden Paige Boadilla, Max Eigenmann, David Heyman, Leanne Best.
A bold coming-of-rage story.
Something is festering beneath the surface, threatening all they have worked for.
MY MOTHERS EYES (International Premiere)
Director: Takeshi Kushida.
With: Akane Ono, Mone Shitara, Takuma Izumi, Shusaku Uchida.
FOUNDERS DAY (International Premiere)
Director: Erik Bloomquist.
With: Devin Druid, Emilia McCarthy, Amy Hargreaves, Catherine Curtin.
With: Nilam Farooq, David Kross, Justus von Dohnanyi, Olga Von Luckwald.
Heavily pregnant Maria starts readying her fiance Viktors rural family estate for bed and breakfast guests.
Strange noises start occurring, the electricity keeps failing and she thinks she sees a prowler on the premises.
Soon she realises the haunted house has trapped her irrevocably in the claws of an evil family curse.
A real-time, one-shot shocker unlike any other, featuring a tour-de-force performance from actor Nilam Farooq.
CLOSING FILM THE SACRIFICE GAME (European Premiere)
Director: Jenn Wexler.
With: Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch, Chloe Levine, Gus Kenworthy.
Its bad enough that elite boarding school students Samantha and Clara cant go home for Christmas.
What must the girls do to survive the night?
EIGHT EYES (International Premiere)Director: Austin Jennings.
With: Emily Sweet, Bradford Thomas, Bruno Veljanovski.
THE WEIRD KIDZ (European Premiere)Director: Zach Passero.
With: Sean Bridgers, Ellar Coltrane, Angela Bettis, Brian Ceely.
80 mins.Dug, Mel, and Fatt are 12-year-old boys navigating life in their desert suburb.
She doesnt go unnoticed by Mel and Fatt, who have just descended into puberty.
Late bloomer Dug just dreams of smores and ghost stories.
THE KNOCKING (UK Premiere)Directors: Joonas Pajunen, Max Seeck.
With: Inka Kallen, Saana Koivisto, Olga Temonen, Mikko Leppilampi.
87 mins.Mikko, Maria and Matilda are siblings who havent been close or seen each other for years.
However they must now decide what to do with their childhood home where their parents were allegedly murdered.
The plan is to get the house and surrounding forest estate ready to be sold.
THE GHOST STATION (UK Premiere)Director: Yong-ki Jeong.
With: Bo-ra Kim, Jae Hyun Kim, Shin So-yul.
80 mins.Horangs notorious webtoon, which inspired the Oksu Station ghost syndrome, is now a major horror chiller.
With: Graham Hughes, Stephen Beavis, Annabel Logan, Andy Stewart.
MINORE (European Premiere)Director: Konstantinos Koutsoliotas.
With: Davide Tucci, Efi Papatheodorou, Daphne Alexander, Apollon Bollas.
Can they save their city from intergalactic attack?
The Greeks have words for it in this quirky action comedy fantasy.
20:10 1982: THE GREATEST GEEK YEAR EVER!
With: Julian Sands, Brian Yuzna, Screaming Mad George, Richard Stanley.
Its one of the most controversial, influential and groundbreaking horror satires of the 1980s.
This is the full appalling story of how Daniels autobiography became a classic chiller for the ages.
BLACK MOLD (International Premiere)
Director: John Pata.
With: Agnes Albright, Andrew Bailes, Jeremy Holm, Caito Aase.
In his feature debut, writer/director John Pata introduces the pitfalls of urban exploration with hallucinogenic psychological horror.
WHAT YOU WISH FOR (European Premiere)
Director: Nicholas Tomnay.
With: Nick Stahl, Tamsin Topolski, Randy Vasquez, Penelope Mitchell.
20:50 POUNDCAKE (International Premiere)
Director: Onur Tukel.
With: Ron Brice, Eva Dorrepaal, Pia Paez, Onur Tukel.
90 mins
A savage serial killer is murdering straight white men in New York City.
WEREWOLF SANTA (World Premiere)
Director: Airell Anthony Hayles.
With: Emily Booth, Joe Bob Briggs, Mark Arnold, Katherine Rodden.
The Beast must die to save Christmas.
RIVER (UK Premiere)
Director: Junta Yamaguchi.
With: Saori, Riko Fujitani, Kazunari Tosa, Shiori Kubo.
But while time rewinds, and everyone returns to where they were, their memories continue.
Some want to leave the loop and get on with their lives.
Others like the calming status quo and want to stay forever.
Yet all have unresolved issues as they join forces to investigate the cause of the phenomenon.
SPOOKT (World Premiere)
Director: Tony Reames.
With: Christen Sharice, Hayley Leary, Erin Brown, Eric Roberts.
Director Tony Reames was a huge hit at FrightFest Glasgow 2019 with his acclaimed short film PLAYTIMES OVER.
TO FIRE YOU COME AT LAST (European Premiere)
Director: Sean Hogan.
With: Mark Carlisle, James Swanton, Harry Roebuck, Richard Rowden.
THORNS (World Premiere)
Director: Douglas Schulze.
With: Doug Bradley, Cassandra Schomer, Jon Bennett, Bob Shumaker.
Upon arrival, he discovers the signal has opened a portal unleashing a thorned monster.
TOPAAK/TRIGGER (UK Premiere)
Director: Richard Somes.
With: Arjo Atayde, Julia Montes, Sid Lucero, Kokoy De Santos.
(World Premiere)
Director: Nick Vince.
With: Nick Vince.
THE BLACK MASS (International Premiere)
Director: Devanny Pinn.
With: Jeremy London, Kathleen Kinmont, Lisa Wilcox, Jennifer Wenger.
ALLIGATOR (Retrospective)
Director: Lewis Teague.
With: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Henry Silva, Dean Jagger.
The cult monster movie is back!.
A beloved classic of shock, terror and queasy humour leading to a finale of riotous suspense.
T BLOCKERS (European Premiere)
Director: Alice Maio Mackay.
With: Lauren Last, Lewi Dawson, Etcetera Etcetera, Lisa Fanto.
Shot with a predominantly queer, non-binary, and trans cast and crew.
KIMS VIDEO (International Premiere)
Directors: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin.
With: Yongman Kim, Isabel Gillies, Robert Greene, Eric Hynes.
For two decades, Manhattan cinephiles could access a treasure trove of movies through Kims Video store.
Run by Yongman Kim, he amassed 55,000 rental titles.
To revitalize tourism, the Italian village of Salemi, Sicily, became home to the archive.
GOOD BOY (UK Premiere)
Director: Viljar Be.
With: Gard Lkke, Katrine Lovise pstad Fredriksen, Nicolai Narvesen Lied, Viljar Be.
Millionaire heir Christian meets student Sigrid on a dating app.
Meeting up at his mansion, shes shocked after their liaison to encounter his dog, Frank.
Concerned at first, Sigrid gradually comes round to the pet puppy antics and starts dating Christian properly.
DEPARTING SENIORS (World Premiere)
Director: Clare Cooney.
With: Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, Yani Gellman, Ireon Roach, Maisie Merlock.
5 PUNCH (World Premiere)
Director: Andy Edwards.
With: Alina Allison, Kierston Wareing, Jamie Lomas, Faye Campbell.
Before returning to university, Frankie wants one last night out in her coastal hometown.
LORE (World Premiere)
Directors: James Bushe, Patrick Ryder, Greig Johnson.
With: Ben Crompton, Bill Fellowes, Richard Brake, Andrew Lee Potts.
On a weekend trip to Scotland, four scare loving friends book a ghostly horror-themed camping excursion.
Tales of sinister spirits, demons lurking in the shadows and the truest forms of malevolence emerge.
Little do they know the stories they relate will have major consequences for them all.
For some of the most unbelievable stories might be based on fact and should never be told.
A MILLION DAYS (World premiere)
Director: Mitch Jenkins.
With: Simon Merells, Kemi-Bo Jacobs, Hermione Corfield, Darrell DSilva.
2041: Earth is in ecological collapse.
The continued existence of humanity rests on becoming an interplanetary civilisation.
TRIM SEASON (International Premiere)
Director: Ariel Vida.
With: Alex Esoe, Bethlehem Million, Ally Ioannides, Marc Senter.
HOW TO KILL MONSTERS (World Premiere)
Director: Stewart Sparke.
With: Lyndsey Crain, Arron Dennis, Fenfen Huang, Daniel Thrace.
Jamie Lancaster is the sole survivor of a bloody massacre at a remote cabin in the woods.
DOCTOR JEKYLL (World Premiere)
Director: Joe Stephenson.
With: Eddie Izzard, Scott Chambers, Lindsay Duncan, Simon Callow.
HERE FOR BLOOD (English Premiere)
Director: Daniel Turres.
With: Shawn Roberts, Maya Misaljevic, Joelle Farrow, Dee Snider.
Its the tongue-in-cheek, extreme splatter, campy comedy horror shocker that was a huge hit at FrightFest Glasgow!
Tom arrives at an isolated family home where he meets the precocious 10-year-old Grace.
THE MOOR (World Premiere) *PART OF THE FIRST BLOOD STRAND
Director: Chris Cronin.
With: Sophia La Porta, David Edward Robertson, Bernard Hill, Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips.
Claire was just a child when her best friend was abducted and murdered.
ISAAC (World Premiere) *PART OF THE FIRST BLOOD STRAND
Director: Tariq Sayed.
With: Johnny Vivash, Catriona MacColl, Bosco Hogan, Kathryn Louise.
The plan is to overcome the cruelty of nature.
THE GLENARMA TAPES (International Premiere) *PART OF THE FIRST BLOOD STRAND
Director: Tony Devlin.
With: Warren McCook, Emily Lamey, Ryan Early, Sophie Hill.
In spring 2020, five art students and two lecturers went missing in a remote forest in Ireland.
What happened to them has remained unknown until now.
Let the deadly race to escape begin…
THE GLENARMA TAPES is the latest film to be produced through Northern Ireland Screens New Talent Focus initiative.
HAUNTED ULSTER LIVE (World Premiere) *PART OF THE FIRST BLOOD STRAND
Director: Dominic ONeill.
With: Aimee Richardson, Mark Claney, Antoinette Morelli.
ENTER THE CLONES OF BRUCE LEE (European Premiere)
Director: David Gregory.
With: Bruce Li, Bruce Le, Bruce Lo, Bruce Liang.
Get ready to play a game of death … and another … and another!
When martial arts superstar Bruce Lee died in 1973, the world went into shock.
Despite Lees short filmography he broke down international barriers and became an icon.
THE J-HORROR VIRUS (World Premiere)
Directors: Sarah Appleton, Jasper Sharp.
With: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Shimizu, Rie Inoo, Shinya Tsukamoto.
How did a single Big in Japan videotape change the course of global horror history?
TERROR WITHOUT PAUSE (UK Premiere)
Director: Diego Lopez.
With: Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza, Javier Botet, Manuela Velasco.
THE BLUE ROSE (World Premiere)
Director: George Baron.
With: George Baron, Olivia Scott Welch, Ray Wise, Logan Miller.
MANCUNIAN MAN: THE LEGENDARY LIFE OF CLIFF TWEMLOW (World Premiere)
Director: Jake West.
With: Barry Twemlow, Oliver Tobias, Ginette Gray, John Saint Ryan.
Go back to the 1980s and discover the extraordinary true story of Cliff Twemlow!
Witness how this 20th century Renaissance man created his own innovative micro-film industry in Manchester.
Shooting his feature films on clunky early pioneering video technology, G.B.H.
(1983) was even branded a Video Nasty!
A warmly hilarious portrait that will take you back to an era where literally anything could happen.
(World Premiere)
Director: Alex Kahuam.
With: Ted Raimi, Merrick McCartha , Noel Douglas Orput, Melissa Diaz.
Remember director AlexKahaum at the FrightFest 2021 launch of his FORGIVENESS?
He said hed be back with his new film and here it is!
Shot in one single take with no cuts, no tricks and no excuses, FAILURE!
is a smart genre-bending thriller from an exciting new voice on the Mexican scene.
With: Paul Kaye, Adeel Akhtar, Myanna Buring, Dexter Fletcher.
