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Frightfest is back yet again with a collection of thrills and chills to delight horror fans. It opens with Joanne Mitchell's mortuary tale Broken bird and closes with Coralie Fargeat's stylish body horror The Substance. We're just beginning to add the details here, so check back for more.
The main festival runs from 22 to 26 August and the Halloween edition runs on 1 and 2 November.
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Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in Muswell Hill. Stumbling across a time machine, they embark on trips to the past to stock their shop, with no idea of the irreparable damage they're causing to the fabric of the universe.
Reeling from the news of an unexpected pregnancy, Jimmy and Everly unknowingly release an alien invasion in their small town and learn to work together in order to save each other, their town and evidently, the entire galaxy.
When Ben and Anette's daughter is cast in a film alongside glamorous movie star Alicia, Ben is quickly drawn into Alicia's world. Anette is left at home with the baby, pushed to her emotional limits and psychologically on the brink.
A former pentathlete stuck in a small forest village while her car is being fixed finds her self drawn into a mystery surrounding the inhabitants of the local castle, a strange competition, and an ancient manuscript which people are willing to kill for.
Surrounded by men, 22-year-old Nejma trains hard to fulfill her dream of winning the upcoming annual bull race, but news of a rogue and violent bull on the loose terrifies the community. Young men are being murdered everywhere, and the beast is nowhere to be seen.
A young woman acquires a cursed advent calendar and plays a game against the devil in the run up to Christmas.
Many years following the apocalypse, a devout cult of mute zealots hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment.
In order to escape police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a metaphysical farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.
A thriller about a hitch-hiker with murderous intent.
A father and son plumbing duo face a gruesome challenge: rid a building of a toilet-dwelling creature before it unleashes itself to the rest of the world.
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