FrightFest 2014

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Digging Up The Marrow Digging Up The Marrow
Digging Up The Marrow and The Passage
Altergeist (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Tedi Sarafian; Stars: Kristina Anapau, Mark Hapka, David Weidoff, Linsey Godfrey, Brendan Fletcher)
Paranormal investigator explore a haunted winery.
The Canal (Country: Ireland; Year: 2014; Director: Ivan Kavanagh; Writer: Ivan Kavanagh; Stars: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Rupert Evans, Steve Oram, Hannah Hoekstra, Calum Heath, Anneke Blok, Serena Brabazon, Maura Foley, Anthony Murphy, Kelly Byrne, Sinead Watters, Carl Shaaban, Alicja Ayres)
Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy—or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself.
Creep (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Patrick Brice; Stars: Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass)
A filmmaker is persuaded to film an ordinary day in the life of a man with cancer who wants his unborn son to see it - but this is a man with some very sinister secrets.
Dead Within (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Ben Wagner; Stars: Amy Cale Petersen, Dean Chekvala)
A couple staying in a remote cabin survive a pandemic but have to deal with the monsters it has made out of other people.
Digging Up The Marrow (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Adam Green; Stars: Ray Wise, Adam Green, Tom Holland, Kane Hodder, Mick Garris)
Documentarians exploring monster art meet a man who claims the monsters are real - and that he knows where to find them.
Honeymoon Honeymoon
Honeymoon and Doc Of The Dead
Doc Of The Dead (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Alexandre O Philippe; Writer: Chad Herschberger, Alexandre O Philippe; Stars: George Romero, Simon Pegg, Charlie Adlard, Steven Barton, Arnold T Blumberg, Max Brooks, S.G. Browne, Bruce Campbell, Alex Cox, Danny Epperson, Charles Fultz, Stuart Gordon, John Harrison, Traycee King, Robert Kirkman, Fran Kranz, Jonathan London)
A documentary exploring the zombie genre.
Drew: The Man Behind The Poster (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Erik P Sharkey; Stars: Drew Struzan, Harrison Ford, Michael J Fox)
A documentary about the film poster artist Drew Struzan.
Expedition (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Adam Spinks; Stars: Sarah MacDonnell, Ben Loyd-Holmes, Daniel Caren, Neil Newbon, Simon Burbage)
Terror in the jungle in a found footage film.
The Forgotten (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Oliver Frampton; Stars: Shaun Dingwall, Clem Tibber, Elarica Gallacher, Lyndsey Marshal, James Doherty)
A teenager living in a council flat after his parents' break-up comes to suspect that he has a supernatural neighbour.
Honeymoon (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Leigh Janiak; Writer: Phil Graziadei, Leigh Janiak; Stars: Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway, Ben Huber, Hanna Brown, Henry Lawrence)
Two newlyweds find their relationship tested in a house by the lake.
House At The End Of Time (Country: Venezuela; Year: 2013; Director: Alejandro Hidalgo; Stars: Ruddy Rodriguez, Rosmel Bustamante, Adriana Calzadilla, Gonzalo Cubero. Guillermo Garcia)
A woman released from a lengthy prison term for killing her family returns to the scene of the crime to reckon with the curse that could spell a wider doom.
Julia (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Matthew A Brown; Stars: Ashley C. Williams, Jack Noseworthy, Tahyna Tozzi-MacManus, Brad Koed, Joel de la Fuente)
A victim of gang rape undergoes restorative surgery which gives her the power to undertake a terrible vengeance.
The Passage (Lemon Tree Passage) (Country: Australia; Year: 2014; Director: David Campbell; Writer: David Campbell; Stars: Jessica Tovey, Nicholas Gunn, Pippa Black )
Young Australians setting out to disprove an urban legend find themselves caught up in a different supernatural horror.
Preservation (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Christopher Denham; Writer: Christopher Denham; Stars: Pablo Schreiber, Aaron Staton, Wrenn Schmidt, Nick Saso, Cody Saintgnue, Michael Chacon)
Three family members head deep into the woods for a hunting trip that doubles as a distraction from their troubles at home. When all of their gear is stolen, they turn on each other, but soon realise there are much more treacherous forces at work.
The Remaining (Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Casey La Scala; Stars: Alexa Vega, Shaun Sipos, Italia Ricci, Johnny Pacar, Bryan Dechart)
A religious horror film in which a group of friends tries to survive the Biblical Day of Judgement.
Show Pieces (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Mitch Jenkins; Writer: Alan Moore; Stars: Darrell D’Silva, Siobhan Hewlett, Robert Goodman, Andrew Buckley, Alan Moore)
A triptych of macabre tales.
Truth Or Dare (Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Jessica Cameron; Stars: Jessica Cameron, Ryan Kiser, Heather Dorff, Shelby Stehlin, Devanny Pinn)
Internet film hoaxers fall foul of a crazed fan determined to make them play a deadly game of truth or dare for real.
White Settlers (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Simeon Halligan; Stars: Pollyanna Mcintosh, Lee Williams, Joanne Mitchell, James McCreadie, Dominic Kay)
A couple saying in a remote farmhouse face off against intruders.
WolfCop (Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Lowell Dean; Writer: Bannister Bergen, Lowell Dean; Stars: Leo Fafard, Amy Matysio, Jonathan Cherry, Sarah Lind, Aidan Devine, Jesse Moss, Corinne Conley, James Whittingham, Ryland Alexander, Laura Abramsen, Graham Bell, Victor Lam, Glenn LaPointe, Cheryl Mazil, Rob Hoskins)
A lazy small town policeman becomes a lycanthropic crime fighting hero when the moon is full.
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