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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' stylish body horror The Substance. We're just beginning to add the details here, so check back for more.
The festival runs from 22 to 26 August.
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Frightfest Latest Reviews
![A Samurai In Time](/images/stills/s/samurai_in_time_2023.jpg)
A samurai who gets hit by lightning wakes up to find himself on a film set in the present day and starts to work as an extra on samurai films.
![The Dead Thing](/images/stills/d/dead_thing_2024.jpg)
A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession.
![The Substance](/images/stills/s/substance_2024.jpg)
A fading television star tries to restore her fame with the help of a suspicious drug.
![Bookworm](/images/stills/b/bookworm_2024.jpg)
11 year old Mildred's world is turned upside-down when her estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise comes to look after her and agrees to take her camping to find a mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.
![Carnage For Christmas](/images/stills/c/carnage_for_christmas_2024.jpg)
When true-crime podcaster and sleuth Lola visits her hometown for the first time since running away and transitioning, the local urban legend, The Toymaker, is the least of her worries. But then the vengeful ghost of the historical murderer seemingly rises again.
![Dead Mail](/images/stills/d/dead_mail_2024.jpg)
An ominous, bloody help note finds its way to the desk of a seasoned 'dead letter' investigator at a 1980's Midwestern post office, leading him down a violent, unforeseen path to a kidnapped keyboard engineer and his demented business associate.
![Cold Wallet](/images/stills/c/cold_wallet_2024.jpg)
A team of Redditors lose everything after a cryptocurrency scam leads them to plot to kidnap the 'financial influencer' who screwed them over.
![The Invisible Raptor](/images/stills/i/invisible_raptor_2023.jpg)
A raptor created as part of a top secret military experiment escapes from the lab and threatens the residents of a small town. Oh, and it's also invisible.
![The Last Ashes](/images/stills/l/last_ashes_2023.jpg)
Driven from her village by a tyrant, a young woman returns years later to seek her revenge.
![A Nightmare On Elm Street](/images/stills/n/nightmare_on_elm_street_1984.jpg)
A child molester killed by vigilantes seeks revenge on their children through their dreams.
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