EXCLUSIVE: UK style pageant FrightFest has revealed its 2025 lineup with the occasion opening with Pete Davidson horror The House.
The occasion, which runs between August 21 – Monday 25 August at The Odeon LUXE Leicester Sq. for its annual five-day extravaganza, will showcase sixty-nine options, together with nineteen world premieres.
From director James DeMonaco, creator of The Purge franchise, actor-comedian Davidson performs Max in The House, a rebellious twenty-something sentenced to neighborhood service at a quiet retirement dwelling. Roadside/Lionsgate is releasing within the U.S. later this month.
The pageant will shut with Kurtis David More durable’s Influencers, which is being distributed by Shudder within the U.S. Set in southern France, it sees a younger lady’s fascination with homicide and id theft ship her life right into a whirlwind of chaos.
Among the many lineup, returning filmmakers embrace Erik Bloomquist who will likely be available together with his newest chiller, Self-Assist; Simon Rumley returns with Crushed; the Adams household are again with Mom Of Flies, their non secular sequel to Hellbender; and Joe Begos is within the constructing with Jimmy And Stiggs — FrightFest would be the first pageant to indicate the brand new model with extra Eli Roth footage. Then there may be Neil Marshall, who will likely be presenting the world premiere 4K restoration screening of The Descent, with a number of the unique solid additionally in attendance.
The pageant can have the UK premiere of The Poisonous Avenger, the reboot of the 1984 Troma cult movie, the eye-opening A Serbian Documentary, Toshiaki Toyoda’s Transcending Dimensions, Seth Daly’s dwelling invasion characteristic movie debut, The Rows, Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s intercourse and lies thriller Bone Lake, What She Doesn’t Know, a serial killer thriller co-written by Terry Fortress, daughter of the showman William Fortress, and the McManus Brothers will likely be on the pageant with Redux Redux, a genre-bending sci-fi horror a couple of grieving mom looking for a actuality the place her murdered daughter continues to be alive.
Among the many foremost display films will likely be British entry Odyssey by Gerard Johnson, whereas Chris Marrs Piliero’s Appofeniacs can have a world premiere. The Discovery strands will characteristic twenty-three U.S. entries, together with Borderline with Samara Weaving, star of the previous FrightFest sensation Prepared Or Not, Patrick Rea’s serial killer clown spree Tremendous Completely satisfied Enjoyable Clown and The Arborist.
From the UK will likely be Bambi: The Reckoning, whereas there are additionally movies from Spain, Korea, Norway and from Latvia is the UK premiere of Canine Of God, a historic depiction of probably the most well-known werewolf trial in Northern Europe.
Co-director Alan Jones commented: “FrightFest in its twenty sixth yr stays the UK’s primary vacation spot for style followers. The 2025 occasion will likely be epic in each sense, celebrating the ingenious, transgressive and numerous. So, be part of us for an occasion that has persistently remained within the prime ten of the world’s finest fantasy festivals checklist”.
The total lineup may be discovered later in the present day on the pageant’s web site.
