FrightFest 2024

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Strange Darling Strange Darling
Strange Darling and Dead Mail
An Taibhse (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: John Farrelly; Stars: Tom Kerrisk, Livvy Hill, Tony Murray)
1852: A father and daughter embark on a tranquil caretaker role at an isolated mansion during the unforgiving winter months. But their peaceful assignment unleashes a nightmare of supernatural proportions as a malevolent force awakens within the mansion's walls, stirring dark secrets from the past.
Azrael (Country: Estonia, US; Year: 2024; Director: EL Katz; Writer: Simon Barrett; Stars: Samara Weaving, Vic Carmen Sonne, Katariina Unt, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett)
Many years following the apocalypse, a devout cult of mute zealots hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment.
Bookworm (Country: New Zealand/Aotearoa; Year: 2024; Director: Ant Timpson; Writer: Toby Harvard, Ant Timpson; Stars: Elijah Wood, Michael Smiley, Nell Fisher, Morgana O'Reilly, Vanessa Stacey)
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.
Broken Bird (Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Joanne Mitchell; Writer: Dominic Brunt, Joanne Mitchell, Tracey Sheals; Stars: Rebecca Calder, James Fleet, Jay Taylor, Sacharissa Claxton)
A lonely mortician who has spent her whole life looking for love finds her reason slipping away from her, her dark desires becoming more insatiable and progressively more out of control.
Cold Wallet (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Cutter Hodierne; Writer: John Hibey, Cutter Hodierne; Stars: Raúl Castillo, Josh Brener, Melonie Diaz, Tony Cavalero, Nigel Gore)
A team of Redditors lose everything after a cryptocurrency scam leads them to plot to kidnap the 'financial influencer' who screwed them over.
The Dead Thing The Dead Thing
The Dead Thing and The Invisible Raptor
Dead Mail (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Kyle McConaghy, Joe DeBoer; Writer: Kyle McConaghy, Joe DeBoer; Stars: Sterling Macer, Jr, John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Nick Heyman, Tomas Boykin)
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.
The Dead Thing (Year: 2024; Director: Elric Kane; Writer: Elric Kane, Webb Wilcoxen; Stars: Ben Smith-Petersen, Blu Hunt, Katherine Hughes, John Karna, Brennan Mejia, Emily Joy Lemus)
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.
A Desert (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Joshua Erkman; Writer: Joshua Erkman, Bossi Baker; Stars: David Yow, Kai Lennox, Sarah Lind, Zachary Ray Sherman, Ashley B Smith, Rob Zabrecky)
A photographer on a road trip meets a carefree young couple and finds himself in danger.
Ghost Game (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jill Gervargizian; Stars: Emily Bennett, Kia Dorsey, Zaen Haidar, Vienna Maas)
Discovering that his girlfriend has been secretly taking part in an internet challenge involving breaking into homes and living undetected alongside the residents, Vin wants in on the next adventure. The target? Halton House, an infamously haunted manor that’s just been bought by a new family. Once the thrill-seeking couple enters the house, chilling unexplained incidents begin to happen. It seems Laura and VIn aren’t the only thing haunting it.
Hauntology (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Parker Brennon; Stars: Nancy Loomis, Samantha Robinson, Naomi Grossman, Zoey Luna)
Jazmin takes her fearless runaway younger sibling Venus on a road trip and shares the most chilling tales surrounding their Ohio hometown. And each place they visit has its own ghost story and queer perspective: trans woman Julian casts a spell to become her ideal self but the dark spirit unleashed tries to invade her life; a troubled married couple find a love beyond the grave; an up-and-coming art gallery is forging paintings of a deceased artist with very bloody consequences; and a journalist secures an interview with the eccentric owner of a haunted Victorian mansion.
Broken Bird Broken Bird
Broken Bird and Traumatika
The Hitcher (Country: US; Year: 1986; Director: Robert Harmon; Writer: Eric Red; Stars: Rutger Hauer, C Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn, John Jackson, Billy Green Bush)
A thriller about a hitch-hiker with murderous intent.
Invader (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Mickey Keating; Stars: Vero Maynez, Colin Huerta,  Ruby Vallejo)
A young woman arrives in the Chicago suburbs and begins to suspect that something terrible has happened to her missing cousin. But she soon realises that her greatest fears don’t even begin to scratch the surface.
The Invisible Raptor (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Mike Hermosa; Writer: Mike Capes, Johnny Wickham; Stars: Mike Capes, Derek Alvarado, Sean Astin, Chad Bullard, Vanessa Chester, Grace Demarco, Bobby Gilchrist, Larry Hankin, Bill Kottkamp, Bunny Levine, Sandy Martin, Caitlin McHugh, Linda Eve Miller, Kelly Murtagh, JJ Nolan)
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.
Ladybug (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Tim Cruz; Stars: Anthony Del Negro, Zachary Roozen, Scout Taylor-Compton, Charlene Tilton)
A young artist decides to stay at a remote cabin to work on his latest project. Needing major repair work done, he hires handyman Sawyer to fix the place up. But handsome Sawyer is hiding a terrible secret, for he was murdered by a homophobic serial killer and his spirit is haunting the cabin searching for long overdue justice. And now Grayson is being stalked by the same maniac responsible for the supernatural fate of his new lover.
The Last Ashes (Läif A Séil) (Country: Luxembourg; Year: 2023; Director: Loïc Tanson; Writer: Loïc Tanson, Frederic Zeimet; Stars: Sophie Mousel, Timo Wagner, Jules Werner, Luc Schiltz, Marie Jung, Philippe Thelen)
Driven from her village by a tyrant, a young woman returns years later to seek her revenge.
The Substance The Substance
The Substance and Azrael
The Last Voyage Of The Demeter (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: André Øvredal; Writer: Bragi F Schut and Zak Olkewicz, based on the work of Bram Stoker; Stars: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian)
On board the Russian schooner Demeter, 24 unmarked wooden crates are being transported from Carpathia to London. But as cargo animals and the crew start turning up dead, a mysterious stowaway sets out to convince the doomed sailors they’re dealing with more than just a rabies outbreak, something more in the supernatural realm.
The Life And Deaths Of Christopher Lee (Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Jon Spira; Stars: Peter Serafinowicz, Harriet Walter, Peter Jackson, Joe Dante)
Genre icon Christopher Lee is brought back to life in a documentary using fresh interviews, archive material and multiple forms of traditional and cutting-edge animation.
Members Club (Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Marc Coleman; Writer: Marc Coleman; Stars: Dean Kilbey, Perry Benson, Steve Oram, Peter Andre)
Wet Dreams, a middle-aged male stripper group, has hit rock bottom when they get an offer of a mysterious gig that might change everything. What they don't know is that they have become caught up in a plot to raise a murderous witch from the dead.
Saint Clare (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Mitzi Peirone; Writer: Mitzi Peirone, based on the novel by Don Roff; Stars: Bella Thorne, Rebecca De Mornay, Ryan Phillippe, Frank Whaley)
The story of a Catholic student, animal lover and devout vegan who is also a sociopath with dissociative identity disorder, and a serial killer.
Shelby Oaks (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Chris Stuckmann; Writer: Sam Liz, Chris Stuckmann; Stars: Camille Sullivan, Sarah Durn, Michael Beach, Keith David, Brendan Sexton III)
A woman's desperate search for her long-lost sister falls into obsession upon realising that the imaginary demon from their childhood may have been real.
Shelby Oaks Shelby Oaks
Shelby Oaks and Cold Wallet
Strange Darling (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: JT Mollner; Writer: JT Mollner; Stars: Kyle Gallner, Willa Fitzgerald, Barbara Hershey)
A relentless predator tracks an injured woman through the Oregon wilderness. The woman does her best to outsmart her attacker, but with each tense moment she grows weaker and less able. He’s a man on a mission, and it’s only a matter of time before he captures his prey.
The Substance (Country: UK, US; Year: 2024; Director: Coralie Fargeat; Writer: Coralie Fargeat; Stars: Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Demi Moore, Hugo Diego Garcia, Joseph Balderrama, Oscar Lesage, Gore Abrams, Olivier Raynal, Vincent Colombe, Tiffany Hofstetter, Matthew Géczy, Tom Morton, Philip Schurer, Matthew Luret, Alexandra Papoulias Barton)
A fading television star tries to restore her fame with the help of a suspicious drug.
Survive (Survivre) (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Frederic Jardin; Writer: Alexandre Coquelle, Mathieu Oullion; Stars: Emilie Dequenne, Andreas Pietschmann, Lisa Delmar, Lucas Ebel)
A yacht trip goes awry after the Earth's polarity reverses and a mum fights to save her children in a world where crazed humanity and hungry creatures from the abyss now hunt for human flesh.
Test Screening (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Clark Baker; Stars: Amy Hargreaves, Rain Spencer, Drew Scheid, Jeanine Jackson)
Summer, 1982, and in a small, declining Oregon town, excitement has been building for days. A Hollywood studio is holding a test screening of a new blockbuster movie in the local cinema. Four lifelong friends can’t wait to take their seats for the preview. But the film they watch is actually a mind-control experiment that has devastating effects on the community.
Traumatika (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Pierre Tsigaridis; Writer: Rebekah Kennedy, Ramen Navet, Emily Goss. Susan Gayle Watts; Stars: Rebekah Kennedy, Ramen Navet, Emily Goss. Susan Gayle Watts)
Mikey’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.
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