FrightFest 2015

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Some Kind Of Hate Some Kind Of Hate
Some Kind Of Hate and Turbo Kid
Cherry Tree (Country: Ireland; Year: 2015; Director: David Keating; Stars: Anna Walton, Naomi Battrick, Sam Hazeldine, Patrick Gibson, Minnie Phipps)
A teenage girl makes a fateful pact with a coven of witches in an attempt to save her dying father.
A Christmas Horror Story (Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, Brett Sullivan; Writer: Jason Filiatrault, James Kee, Sarah Larsen, Doug Taylor, Pascal Trottier; Stars: William Shatner, George Buza, Zoé De Grand Maison, Caprice Bauer, Rob Archer)
An anthology of fearsome festive tales.
Curve (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Iain Softley; Stars: Julianne Hough, Teddy Sears, Madalyn Horcher, Penelope Mitchell, Drew Rausch)
After she deliberately crashes her car to escape a dangerous hitchhiker, a woman must make her way through the mountains, knowing he's on her trail.
Deathgasm (Country: New Zealand; Year: 2015; Director: Jason Lei Howden; Stars: Milo Cawthorne, James Blake, Kimberley Crossman, Sam Berkley, Daniel Cresswell)
A thrash metal band accidentally summons a a demon which turns family and friends into murderous psychopaths.
Demonic (James Wan's Demonic) (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Will Canon; Writer: Max La Bella, Will Canon, Max La Bella, Doug Simon; Stars: Maria Bello, Frank Grillo, Cody Horn, Dustin Milligan. Megan Park)
In the aftermath of a horrific massacre where five college students were brutally murdered inside an abandoned home, Detective Mark Lewis and psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Klein question the lone survivor of a ghost-hunting excursion that seemingly went horribly wrong.
Jeruzalem Jeruzalem
Jeruzalem and Landmine Goes Click
The Diabolical (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Alistair Legrand; Stars: Ali Larter, Patrick Fischler, Arjun Gupta, Tom Wright, Chloe Perrin)
When she and her children suffer due to a strange presence in their house, young woman seeks help from her scientist boyfriend.But does he know more than he's letting on?
Emelie (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Michael Thelin; Writer: Richard Raymond, Harry Herbeck; Stars: Sarah Bolger, Susan Pourfar, Ryan Monolopolus, Elizabeth Jayne, Dante Hoagland, Robert Bozek, Randi Langdon, Brian Mysliwy, Daniel James, Sara Kow-Falcone, Christopher Srock, Carly Adams, Carl Bailey, Michael Joseph Dugan, Daniel James)
A replacement babysitter seems to have sinister intentions towards her young charges.
Frankenstein (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Bernard Rose; Stars: Xavier Samuel, Danny Huston, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tony Todd, Maya Erskine)
Adam is artificially created with a revolutionary 3D printer by married research scientists. But when bodily malfunctions relegate him to the scrapheap, Adam faces nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him as he discovers the true nature of humanity.
Hellions (Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Bruce McDonald; Writer: Pascal Trottier; Stars: Robert Patrick, Rossif Sutherland, Luke Bilyk, Rachel Wilson, Peter DaCunha, Chloe Rose, Sydney Cross, Adelaide Humphreys, Joe Silvaggio, Karlo William, Nicholas Craig, Stephanie Fonceca, Aliyah Jhirad, Emir Hirad Mokhtarieh)
A young pregnant woman is threatened by malignant children.
Inner Demon (Country: Australia; Year: 2015; Director: Ursula Dabrowsky; Stars: Sarah Jeavons, Kerry Ann Reid, Andreas Sobik)
A teenager abducted by a serial killing couple escapes only to stumble into a house of horrors.
Hellions Hellions
Hellions and Emelie
Jeruzalem (Country: Israel; Year: 2015; Director: Doron Paz, Yoav Paz; Writer: Doron Paz, Yoav Paz; Stars: Yael Grobglas, Danielle Jadelyn, Tom Graziani, Yon Tumarkin, Itsko Yampulski, Yoav Koresh)
Three Americans visiting Jerusalem are caught up in the Day of Judgement.
Landmine Goes Click (Year: 2015; Director: Levan Bakhia; Writer: Levan Bakhia, Adrian Colussi, Lloyd S Wagner; Stars: Sterling Knight, Spencer Locke, Kote Tolordava, Dean Geyer, Nana Kiknadze)
When a young American steps on a landmine in the remote Georgian countryside, he knows that if he takes his weight of it, he'll die.
Night Fare (Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Julien Seri; Stars: Fanny Valette, Jonathan Howard, Jonathan Demurger, Jess Liaudin)
After Chris and Luc dodge a taxi fare, the ruthless driver hunts them down, killing anyone who gets in the way.
Nina Forever (Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine; Writer: Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine; Stars: Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Abigail Hardingham, Cian Barry, David Troughton, Elizabeth Elvin)
A checkout girl fascinated by death hooks up with a suicidal bereaved man - but his dead girlfriend isn't ready to let go of her man.
Rabid Dogs (Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Éric Hannezo; Stars: François Arnaud, Franck Gastambide, Guillaume Gouix. Lambert Wilson, Virginie Ledoyen)
A new take on Mario Bava's story of a bank job gone wrong and three desperate criminals fighting for survival.
Road Games Road Games
Road Games and A Christmas Horror Story
Road Games (Fausse Route) (Country: UK, France; Year: 2015; Director: Abner Pastoll; Writer: Abner Pastoll; Stars: Barbara Crampton, Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de La Baume, Frédéric Pierrot, Lou Castel)
Two strangers travelling together in rural France find themselves in a dangerous situation after agreeing to stay in an older couple's mansion.
Scherzo Diabolico (Country: Mexico, US; Year: 2015; Director: Adrián García Bogliano; Writer: Adrián García Bogliano; Stars: Francisco Barreiro, Daniela Soto Vell, Jorge Molina, Milena Pezzi, Vita Vargas, Pablo Guisa Koestinger, Evan Alducin, Tito Guillén, Pau Alva)
Armed with a fine-tuned chokehold and penchant for piano sonatas, a wearied accountant breaks his mild-mannered routine when he kidnaps a young woman. What starts as a carefully calculated plan soon crescendos into his worst nightmare.
Shut In (Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Dominic Brunt; Stars: Victoria Smurfit, Joanne Mitchell, Jonathan Slinger, Rula Lenska, Adam Fogerty)
Two women who dream of opening their own café go to the wrong person for a loan, but they're not willing to go down without a fight.
Slumlord (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Victor Zarcoff; Stars: PJ McCabe, Sean Carrigan, Sarah Baldwin, Brianne Moncrief, Neville Archambault)
Fractious newlyweds move into a house where the lascivious landlord has installed secret cameras.
Some Kind Of Hate (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Adam Egypt Mortimer; Writer: Brian DeLeeuw, Adam Egypt Mortimer; Stars: Ronen Rubinstein, Grace Phipps, Spencer Breslin, Maestro Harrell, Sierra McCormick)
A bullied boy summons the spirit of a girl who killed herself after facing the same problem, and she sets out to wreak bloods vengeance on his tormentors.
Nina Forever Nina Forever
Nina Forever and We Are Still Here
Stung (Country: Germany, US; Year: 2015; Director: Benni Diez; Writer: Adam Aresty, Adam Aresty; Stars: Lance Henriksen, Clifton Collins Jr., Matt O'Leary, Jessica Cook, Florentine Lahme, Daniele Rizzo, David Masterson, Cecilia Pillado, Kathleen Renish, Eve Slatner, Tony de Maeyer)
Parasitic wasps party on down.
Tales Of Halloween (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Darren Lynn Bousman, Axelle Carolyn, Adam Gierasch, Andrew Kasch, Neil Marshall, Lucky McKee, Mike Mendez, Dave Parker, Ryan Schifrin, John Skipp , Paul Solet; Writer: Axelle Carolyn, Andrew Kasch, Neil Marshall, Lucky McKee, Mike Mendez, Dave Parker, Ryan Schifrin, Clint Sears, John Skipp; Stars: Lin Shaye, Pollyanna McIntosh, John Landis, Adrienne Barbeau, Greg Grunberg)
An anthology of short horror tales set in a sleepy American suburb one Halloween night.
Turbo Kid (Country: New Zealand, Canada; Year: 2015; Director: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell; Writer: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell; Stars: Munro Chambers, Michael Ironside, Romano Orzari, Laurence Leboeuf, Aaron Jeffery, Patrick Kerton, Edwin Wright, Marcello Bezina, Jean-François Ferland, Evan Manoukian, Maxime Lapointe)
In a post-Apocalyptic wasteland, a scavenger trades scraps for food and comics, until a new friendship and a new weapon change his life.
We Are Still Here (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Ted Geoghegan; Writer: Ted Geoghegan; Stars: Barbara Crampton, Andrew Sensenig, Lisa Marie, Larry Fessenden, Monte Markham)
A couple grieving the death of their son move into an old house were they find themselves tormented by vengeful spirits.
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