FrightFest 2024

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Advent (Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Airell Anthony Hayles; Writer: Airell Anthony Hayles; Stars: Rasina Pavlova, Cian Lorcan. Nicholas Vince, Mark Arnold, Corey Peterson)
A young woman acquires a cursed advent calendar and plays a game against the devil in the run up to Christmas.
Alien Country (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Boston McConnaughey; Writer: Renny Grames, Boston McConnaughey; Stars: Alireza Mirmontazeri, Rachele Brooke Smith, Corbin Allred, Austin Archer, KC Clyde, Dalton Baker, Jasen Wade)
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.
Animale (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Emma Benestan; Writer: Emma Benestan; Stars: Oulaya Amamra)
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.
The Bitter Taste (Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Guido Tölke; Writer: Julia Dordel, Guido Tölke; Stars: Julia Dordel, Nicolo Pasetti, Anne Alexander-Sieder, Imme Beccard)
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.
Catch A Killer (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Teddy Grennan; Writer: Teddy Grennan; Stars: Tommi Rose, Michael Weaver, Libby Blake, Tu Morrow, Sam Brooks)
When a horror movie buff gets kicked off the police force, he and his girlfriend hunt a serial killer copy-catting the murders from famous horror films.
The Bitter Taste The Bitter Taste
The Bitter Taste and Parvulos
The Draft! (Setan Alas!) (Country: Indonesia; Year: 2023; Director: Yusron Fuadi; Writer: Yusron Fuadi, Richard James Halstead, BW Purba Negara; Stars: Adhin Abdul Hakim, Anastasia Herzigova, Putri Anggie, Haydar Salishz)
Five typical college students spend their weekend in a typical old villa only to find that they have to survive in a battle of wits against an absolute all-mighty all-powerful terror that is seemingly undefeated.
Magpie (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sam Yates; Writer: Tom Bateman; Stars: Daisy Ridley, Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz, Hiba Ahmed, Cherrelle Skeete, Pippa Bennet-Warner, Alistair Petrie)
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.
Parvulos (Country: Mexico; Year: 2024; Director: Isaac Ezban; Writer: Ricardo Aguado-Fentanes, Isaac Ezban; Stars: Noé Hernández, Carla Adell, Juan Carlos Remolina, Mateo Ortega Casillas, Horacio F Lazo)
Three young brothers living in a cabin in the middle of the woods hide a dark, disturbing secret in their basement.
Time Travel Is Dangerous (Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Chris Reading; Writer: Chris Reading, Anna-Elizabeth Shakespeare, Hillary Shakespeare; Stars: Johnny Vegas, Sophie Thompson, Jane Horrocks, Mark Heap, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Laura Aikman, Guy Henry, Brian Bovell, Ruth Syratt, Tom Lenk, Simon Killick)
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.
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