FrightFest 2017

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Voice From The Stone Voice From The Stone
Voice From The Stone and Where The Skin Lies
Boots On The Ground (Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Louis Melville; Stars: Tom Ainsley, Ian Virgo, Ryan McParland, Valmike Rampersand, Sally Day)
Five British soldiers, trying to stay alive on the last night of the Afghan War, face not only the Taliban, but also supernatural powers more terrifying than anything they've encountered before.
Canaries (Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Peter Stray; Writer: Peter Stray; Stars: Robert Pugh, Hannah Daniel, Richard Mylan, Kai Owen, Craig Russell, Robert Boulter, Sheena Bhattessa, Aled Pugh, Steve Meo, Marc Rhys, Dominique Dauwe, Richard Corgan, Tsilala Brock, Sophie Melville, Kevin McCurdy)
A group of friends at a New Year's Eve bash in thw Welsh Valleys are confronted by an alien invasion.
Devil's Gate (Country: Canada, US; Year: 2017; Director: Clay Staub; Writer: Peter Aperlo, Clay Staub; Stars: Milo Ventimiglia, Bridget Regan, Amanda Schull, Javier Botet, Shawn Ashmore, Jonathan Frakes, Spencer Drever, Adam Hurtig, Sarah Constible, Beverly Ndukwu, Scott Johnson, Will Woytowich, Jean-François Ferland, Jan Skene)
Struggling to overcome a recent professional tragedy, an FBI agent relocates to a small town to investigate the disappearance of a woman and her young son.
Dhogs (Country: Spain; Year: 2017; Director: Andrés Goteira; Stars: Carlos Blanco, Alejandro Carro, María Costas, Melania Cruz, Antonio Duran Morris)
The intimacy of a hotel room. The immensity of a desert. A desolate gas station. In these picturesque settings, hideous crimes occur under the cold stare of unexpected protagonists that show the dark, twisted and perverse sides of human existence.
Eat Locals (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Jason Flemyng; Writer: Danny King; Stars: Freema Agyeman, Charlie Cox, Mackenzie Crook, Eve Myles, Vincent Regan)
Britain's vampires gather together for their once-every-50-years meeting. Others will be joining them too: an unwitting Essex boy who thinks he's on a promise with an older woman, and a detachment of Special Forces vampire killers...
Eat Locals Eat Locals
Eat Locals and Fanged Up
Fanged Up (Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Christian James; Writer: Nick Nevern, Daniel O'Reilly, Dan Palmer; Stars: Daniel O’Reilly, Lauren Socha, Steven Berkoff, Lucy Pinder, Vas Blackwood)
After a man is wrongfully arrested and sent to a high security prison he discovers the guards are vampires and the inmates their victims.
Incontrol (Country: Canada; Year: 2017; Director: Kurtis David Harder; Stars: Levi Meaden, Rory J Saper, Anja Savcic, Brittany Allan, Christopher Rosamond)
A group of university students discover a weird device that allows them to take control of others and experience the world through someone else’s body.
Inside (Country: Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Miguel Ángel Vivas; Stars: achel Nichols, Laura Harring, Stany Coppet, Ben Temple, Andrea Tivadar)
A recently widowed mother-to-be living in an isolated new home receives a most unwelcome visitor: a predatory woman who will stop at nothing to snatch her unborn child.
King Cohen (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Steve Mitchell; Stars: Martin Scorsese, JJ Abrams, John Landis, Joe Dante, Rick Baker)
The true story of writer, producer, director, creator and all-around maverick, Larry Cohen.
Mountain Fever (Fever) (Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Hendrik Faller; Writer: Hendrik Faller; Stars: Tom Miller, Anya Korzun, Julien Caplan, Julien Michel)
When a fatal flu virus devastates Europe, city boy Jack takes refuge in the Alps but he’s ill-equipped to survive the harsh winter. Things only get worse when renegade Kara breaks into his house and commandeers his dwindling food supplies.
To Hell And Back: The Kane Hodder Story To Hell And Back: The Kane Hodder Story
To Hell And Back: The Kane Hodder Story and Mountain Fever
Return Of The Living Dead III (Country: US; Year: 1994; Director: Brian Yuzna; Stars: Kent McCord, James T. Callahan, Sarah Douglas, Melinda Clarke, Abigail Lenz)
Following a motorcycle accident, Curt tries to bring his girlfriend back to life in his dad's top secret military lab.
To Hell And Back: The Kane Hodder Story (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Derek Dennis Herbert; Stars: Bruce Campbell, Robert Englund, Cassandra Petersen, Adam Green, Sean S Cunningham)
Meet the man behind the Jason Voorhees and Victor Crowley masks.
Voice From The Stone (Country: US, Italy; Year: 2017; Director: Eric D Howell; Writer: Andrew Shaw, Silvio Raffo; Stars: Emilia Clarke, Marton Csokas, Caterina Murino, Remo Girone, Lisa Gastoni)
Verena is a young nurse hired to help a mute young heir in an isolated castle in 1950s Tuscany. She must persuade him that “the dead do not speak”.
Where The Skin Lies (Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Michaël Boucherie; Writer: Michael Boucherie, David Boucherie, Nigel Gearing, Keith Temple; Stars: Tristan Beint, Amelia Bennett, Simon Rivers, Louise Williams, Georgia Winters, Nathan Wright)
Six people bound together by a traumatic experience travel to the Scottish Lowlands for a relaxing reunion weekend. Soon a number of mysterious and horrifying events start to expose the cracks in their relationships.
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