FrightFest 2026

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Another and Bunny Rabbit
Another (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Andy Chen; Writer: Andy Chen, Alex Hernandez-Maxwell; Stars: Bob Morley, India de Beaufort, Doug Jones, Heather Langenkamp)
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.
Bad Karaoke (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Robert J Steinmiller Jr, Chris Lightbody; Stars: Lexi Underwood, Case Walker, Kat Cunning, Kate Miner)
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.
The Barn Part III (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Justin M Seaman; Stars: Courtney Gains, Kelli Maroney, William Ragsdale, Felissa Rose)
The third part of the story of of a haunted barn in Weary Falls, home to an assortment of evil entities.
Blood Secret (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Cameron Francis; Stars: Katherine Lozon, Tiana Akers, Garin Jones, Cory Stark)
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.
Bloom (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Stefan Colson; Stars: Meghan Carrasquillo, Robert Craighead, Jadon Cal Fitzpatrick, Cara Leoni)
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.
Our Effed Up World Our Effed Up World
Our Effed Up World and Hoarder
Bunny Rabbit (Country: Australia; Year: 2026; Director: James Branson; Writer: James Branson; Stars: Kate Wilson, Andy Golledge, Saxon Cook, Ontrei)
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.
Dead Eyes (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)
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.
Do You Want To Play (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Nick Lyon; Stars: Quinn Aune, Maxwell Mushallo, G. Anthony Joseph, Alexander Rain)
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.
Hoarder (Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: James Owen; Writer: James Owen; Stars: Daisy Jelley, Paul Casar, David Sterne, Annabella Lanyon, Terry Bamberger)
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.
Home Bodies (Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Casey Walker; Writer: Adrian Murray, Marcus Sullivan; Stars: Ess Hödlmoser, Ian Ho, Emma Ho)
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 Peril At Pincer Point The Peril At Pincer Point
The Peril At Pincer Point and Welcome To G-Town
Invoking Scream (Country: Chile; Year: 2026; Director: Patricio Valledares; Stars: María Jesús Marcone, Luna Martínez, Teresita Rios, Matías López)
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.
Lesions (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Codey S Wilson; Stars: Elsa Ames, Alexander McPherson, Audrey Deitz, Jeremy Fogt)
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.
Meat Kills (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2025; Director: Martijn Smits; Writer: Paul de Vrijer; Stars: Caro Derkx, Sem Ben Yakar, Bart Oomen, Chardonnay Rillen)
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.
Mother And Me (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Carson McKinnon; Stars: Caylee Cowan, Tara Janae Smith, Brady Noon, Isaac Akers)
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.
Our Effed Up World (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)
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.
Home Bodies Home Bodies
Home Bodies and Trauma Or, Monsters All
The Peril At Pincer Point (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)
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.
Recluse (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)
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.
Slay (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Kyra Elise Gardner; Stars: Zoey Luna, Aya Cash, Malina Pauli Weissman, Shawnee Smith)
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.
Trauma Or, Monsters All (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)
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.
Turn It Up (Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Sam Scott; Stars: Justine Nelson, Gwen Cumyn, Xavier Lopez, Jonathan Craig)
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.
Welcome To G-Town (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Ben McQuaid, Nathan McQuaid; Writer: Ben McQuaid, Nathan McQuaid; Stars: Danny McAllen, Stan Ross, Ruben Ross, Matthew Crawford Russell)
Shape-shifting aliens land in Glasgow.
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