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FrightFest · 2026

FrightFest 2026

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21 films · 8 reviews

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Another

Review preview for Another

It’s an unusual piece of cinema which slips between genres with impressive agility.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Joey is a grief-stricken author haunted by the death of her husband Ben, a brilliant physicist. When he inexplicably appears one morning, alive and well, making breakfast in their kitchen, Joey is thrust into a waking nightmare where grief, memory, and her reality begin to unravel.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Andy Chen; Writer: Andy Chen, Alex Hernandez-Maxwell; Stars: Bob Morley, India de Beaufort, Doug Jones, Heather Langenkamp)

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Bad Karaoke

Members of a cover band take on a wedding gig in California, but on the journey from Oregon they discover an abandoned karaoke machine in the back of a dive bar. What they don't know is that it's cursed.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Robert J Steinmiller Jr, Chris Lightbody; Stars: Lexi Underwood, Case Walker, Kat Cunning, Kate Miner)

The Barn Part III

The third part of the story of of a haunted barn in Weary Falls, home to an assortment of evil entities.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Justin M Seaman; Stars: Courtney Gains, Kelli Maroney, William Ragsdale, Felissa Rose)

Blood Secret

While visiting her best friend, a woman starts to question reality when she's confronted by supernatural events. As her sanity unravels, she comes to the terrifying realisation that she might not survive the night.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Cameron Francis; Stars: Katherine Lozon, Tiana Akers, Garin Jones, Cory Stark)

Bloom

A young woman inherits a plant nursery in the desert, but as her garden flourishes with her prize bloom, the Scarlet Widow, her need to sustain the business becomes something she can no longer control as she’s possessed by the spectre of the past.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Stefan Colson; Stars: Meghan Carrasquillo, Robert Craighead, Jadon Cal Fitzpatrick, Cara Leoni)

Bunny Rabbit

Review preview for Bunny Rabbit

Branson dispenses with those tired old survivor narratives and casts humanity’s future in a different light.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
In a climate-collapsed 2030 Australia, young Bunny roams the ruins of the post-apocalyptic world she never got to grow up in. Raised by her deceased father on old books and B-movies, she now lives alone in the shack they once shared. Supplies are scarce. There is nothing left to hunt… except other people.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2026; Director: James Branson; Writer: James Branson; Stars: Kate Wilson, Andy Golledge, Saxon Cook, Ontrei)

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Dead Eyes

Accompanied by his fiancée, a man enters a remote forest in search of his missing father, and encounters the cannibalistic creatures his father has made while endeavouring to resurrect his little sister.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2025; Director: Richard E Williams; Writer: Richard E Williams; Stars: Ana Thu-Nguyen, Mischa Heywood, Rijen Laine, Charles Cottier, Alea O'Shea, Stephen Phillips, Freya Callaghan)

Do You Want To Play

A high school student plays with a Ouija board and becomes the unwilling host for a sadistic killer’s soul. Its cause is an Ouija app programmed by a rich kid obsessed with the supernatural.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Nick Lyon; Stars: Quinn Aune, Maxwell Mushallo, G. Anthony Joseph, Alexander Rain)

Hoarder

Review preview for Hoarder

A great deal of care and attention has gone into the design of the house.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A medical student and her reluctant colleague are making routine house calls to administer flu vaccines. When they step into one decaying, junk-crammed home, something immediately feels wrong. Then they find the tunnels.

(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: James Owen; Writer: James Owen; Stars: Daisy Jelley, Paul Casar, David Sterne, Annabella Lanyon, Terry Bamberger)

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Home Bodies

Review preview for Home Bodies

The darkness in the film is balanced by humorous observations about the way that kids in general tend to take their support frameworks for granted.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Two children, raised in total isolation by an automated house, begin to confront the mysteries of their existence after an enigmatic stranger arrives from outside.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Casey Walker; Writer: Adrian Murray, Marcus Sullivan; Stars: Ess Hödlmoser, Ian Ho, Emma Ho)

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Invoking Scream

After uncovering a buried box containing a VHS tape and a mysterious book of witchcraft at the gravesite of Invoking Yell lead singer Andrea Fernandez, a trio of metalheads unwittingly unleash a dark force.

(Country: Chile; Year: 2026; Director: Patricio Valledares; Stars: María Jesús Marcone, Luna Martínez, Teresita Rios, Matías López)

Lesions

As a conflicted wife struggles to care for the husband she was on the verge of divorcing when he learned he had multiple sclerosis, one of her social media accounts catches the eye of some particularly unsavoury characters.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Codey S Wilson; Stars: Elsa Ames, Alexander McPherson, Audrey Deitz, Jeremy Fogt)

Meat Kills

The night takes a dark turn when a group of activists break into a pig farm to free mistreated animals and find themselves face-to-face with an extremely angry farmer.

(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2025; Director: Martijn Smits; Writer: Paul de Vrijer; Stars: Caro Derkx, Sem Ben Yakar, Bart Oomen, Chardonnay Rillen)

Mother And Me

Living under the shadow of her late father's renowned literary legacy, an aspiring artist struggles to pen an original horror novel while sharing a home with her increasingly erratic mother.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Carson McKinnon; Stars: Caylee Cowan, Tara Janae Smith, Brady Noon, Isaac Akers)

Our Effed Up World

Review preview for Our Effed Up World

It...contains one of the most ruthless break-ups in recent cinematic history.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Sheri thought her biggest problem in life was dealing with the recent loss of her beloved grandma. But when a mysterious entity crash lands in the woods, only she and her group of friends are what stands in the way of an insatiable, intergalactic hunger.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2026; Director: Alice Maio Mackay; Writer: Alice Maio Mackay, Benjamin Pahl Robinson; Stars: Kerry Armstrong, Jordan Dulieu, Brandon Flynn, Tim Franklin, Chris Gun, Scott Major, Jess McLeod, Karis Oka)

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The Peril At Pincer Point

Review preview for The Peril At Pincer Point

Joseph Field Eccles and Nick Smyth’s sound design...is magnificent from start to finish, and full of playful touches.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A lazy sound designer is sent to the remote island where a film was shot to capture a sound powerful enough to elevate its finale. Once there, eerie local fables surface: for years, ambitious and headstrong youth have lost their souls to a ghostly sea captain for his spectral crew.

(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Jake Kuhn, Noah Stratton-Twine; Writer: Jake Kuhn, Noah Stratton-Twine; Stars: Jack Redmayne, Alyth Ross, Os Leanse, Mike Mackenzie, Dashiell Upton, Jason Hogan, Mat Wright, Noah Stratton-Twine, Isobel Laidler, Oliver Woolf)

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Recluse

Follows Joan, an audio engineer who lives a solitary life, struggling to determine whether the horrors she encounters are real and caused by past actions of her father, or if they are manifestations of her own troubled mind.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Henry Chaisson; Writer: Henry Chaisson; Stars: Sasha Frolova, Kimball Farley, Toby Poser, Mia Vallet, Xander Berkeley, Thomas Cancellara, Gillian Cooper, Christine Nyland)

Slay

When a teenage influencer's friend is murdered, her carefully constructed world begins to unravel. Hoping to escape the fallout, she and her friends retreat to a secluded, disco-themed cabin in the mountains. As paranoia sets in and tensions rise, it becomes clear that they are not alone.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Kyra Elise Gardner; Stars: Zoey Luna, Aya Cash, Malina Pauli Weissman, Shawnee Smith)

Trauma Or, Monsters All

Review preview for Trauma Or, Monsters All

Characters who belong to a fairy tale or folkloric world struggle to contain themselves in flesh, edged out by the existence of mere mortals who, despite their vulnerability, forever push them to the edges of the narrative.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
An aspiring author gets more than she bargained for when she writes an article for the local paper about her small town’s dark history, prompting unwanted speculation on what monsters may lie within.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Larry Fessenden; Writer: Larry Fessenden; Stars: Laëtitia Hollard, Aitana Doyle, Addison Timlin, Alex Hurt, Alex Breaux, Larry Fessenden, John Speredakos, Cody Kostro, Marc Senter, Rigo Garay, Barbara Crampton, James Le Gros, Joshua Leonard)

Full review See: Interview with Larry Fessenden and Aitana Doyle about Trauma Or, Monsters All

Turn It Up

When a struggling rock band plays the final gig on a failed tour, its songwriter discovers a cursed frequency that opens a cosmic rift. Now the group’s meteoric rise pulls them into a world of otherworldly horrors, evil band managers and intergalactic goo.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Sam Scott; Stars: Justine Nelson, Gwen Cumyn, Xavier Lopez, Jonathan Craig)

Welcome To G-Town

Review preview for Welcome To G-Town

Underscoring everything here is the can-do spirit to be found in the film’s heroes and in its creators.

Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
Shape-shifting aliens land in Glasgow.

(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Ben McQuaid, Nathan McQuaid; Writer: Ben McQuaid, Nathan McQuaid; Stars: Danny McAllen, Stan Ross, Ruben Ross, Matthew Crawford Russell)

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