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Opening with Abner Pastoll's Nervous and closing with Marion Le Corroller’s dizzying début Species, this year's Frightfest has a line-up full of fabulous treats for genre fans. We're just adding details now so don't forget to check back for more.
The festival runs from 27 to 31 August.
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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.
Now a CIA field agent, Becky goes undercover in Poland to infiltrate a family running an inn at The Wolf's Lair, one of Hitler's WWII bunkers. When she learns the father, Wilhelm Reuss, plans to spark the Fourth Reich, Becky must stop him.
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.
The inside story of a monster-maker par excellence who has worked with some of the most exciting directors in the genre world.
A biotechnology professor is among those trapped at a biotech conference after a rapidly mutating virus is released.
Margot dreams of becoming a life-saving doctor. But as an intern at the most competitive ER in the country, she has trouble keeping up. Soon, young burnt out patients come to her with unusual symptoms, just as she starts developing a strange metamorphosis…
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.
A mother battling trauma faces a surreal nightmare when toilets mysteriously transform into killer beings, forcing her to confront both her personal demons and these bizarre supernatural threats.
During a weekend reunion, a rising science fiction author welcomes three college friends to his home, but strange events begin to blur the lines between reality and imagination.
A man sleeping rough at Seoul Station is the catalyst for a zombie apocalypse.
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