Frightfest is back yet again with a collection of thrills and chills to delight horror fans. It opens with Joanne Mitchell's mortuary tale Broken bird and closes with Coralie Fargeat's stylish body horror The Substance. We're just beginning to add the details here, so check back for more.

The main festival runs from 22 to 26 August and the Halloween edition runs on 1 and 2 November.

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Magpie
Magpie
When Ben and Anette's daughter is cast in a film alongside glamorous movie star Alicia, Ben is quickly drawn into Alicia's world. Anette is left at home with the baby, pushed to her emotional limits and psychologically on the brink.
The Bitter Taste
The Bitter Taste
A former pentathlete stuck in a small forest village while her car is being fixed finds her self drawn into a mystery surrounding the inhabitants of the local castle, a strange competition, and an ancient manuscript which people are willing to kill for.
Animale
Animale
Surrounded by men, 22-year-old Nejma trains hard to fulfill her dream of winning the upcoming annual bull race, but news of a rogue and violent bull on the loose terrifies the community. Young men are being murdered everywhere, and the beast is nowhere to be seen.
Advent
Advent
A young woman acquires a cursed advent calendar and plays a game against the devil in the run up to Christmas.
Azrael
Azrael
Many years following the apocalypse, a devout cult of mute zealots hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment.
Things Will Be Different
Things Will Be Different
In order to escape police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a metaphysical farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.
The Hitcher
The Hitcher
A thriller about a hitch-hiker with murderous intent.
Scared Shitless
Scared Shitless
A father and son plumbing duo face a gruesome challenge: rid a building of a toilet-dwelling creature before it unleashes itself to the rest of the world.
Charlotte
Charlotte
In the dead of night, a young teenager appears on Roy's doorstep, fleeing from her abusive father. Despite a few too many drinks, Roy reluctantly offers her shelter for the night. But is either of them what they seem?
Fright
Fright
1937: young Emily is trapped in a nightmare. Chronic agoraphobia and a strange, domineering mother have turned their sprawling gothic mansion into a prison. On the brink of madness, she's haunted by lurking malevolent forces, her only hope that her missing father might save her. But as she longs for his return, she's tormented by visions of a sinister, gnarled black hand—a spectre haunting her earliest memories.
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FrightFest Features

Small town problems
Boston McConnaughey and Renny Grames on Utah, demolition derbies and Alien Country
The endless highway
Robert Harmon on Rutger Hauer, C Thomas Howell and making The Hitcher
A piece of cake
Yasuda Jun’ichi on sweetness and keeping it real in A Samurai In Time
An assault on the senses
JT Mollner and Giovanni Ribisi on colour, chemistry and creativity in Strange Darling
True colours
Aurélia Mengin on depicting schizophrenia in Scarlet Blue
True to herself
Joanne Mitchell on damaged people and Broken Bird
Style and substance: the best of Frightfest 2024
Strange Darling, Children Of The Wicker Man, The Dead Thing, Scared Shitless and Scarlet Blue
Family forever
Isaac Ezban on exploring a troubled world through children's eyes in Parvulos
Los Angeles after dark
Elric Kane on the nocturnal city and The Dead Thing
A whale of a time
Cutter Hodierne on cryptocurrency, character creation and Cold Wallet
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