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Plus we have some fantastic Frightfest film trailer to share with you!
We're delighted to be able to share the trailers to NIGHT DRIVE, HOTEL POSEIDON, RED SNOW, THE PARKER SESSIONS, BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES, CAPTIVE, THE LAST RITE, POST MORTEM, NOCTURNA: SIDE A – THE GREAT OLD MAN’S NIGHT, AS IN HEAVEN SO ON EARTH & ANTIDOTE.
We have also created an Arrow Video FrightFest playlist on the BritFlicks YouTube Channel. Check it out below or click here!
CINEWORLD DISCOVERY SCREEN 2
THURSDAY 26 AUGUST
Cast: AJ Bowen, Sophie Dalah, Scott Poythress, Nathan Owen.
NIGHT DRIVE (International Premiere) USA
18:45: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Directors: Brad Baruh & Meghan Leon.
Cast: AJ Bowen, Sophie Dalah, Scott Poythress, Nathan Owen.
Outline: Ride-share app driver Russell picks up his Hollywood fare Charlotte, who hires him for the rest of the evening. Their first stop at her ex's place sees Charlotte running out the door clutching a tiny suitcase being chased. They make their escape, but accidentally run over a pedestrian, setting in motion a chain of gruesome events that will go to places Russell could never have imagined in his wildest dreams. For what’s in the suitcase is something so surprising, so unexpected, it’s out of this world.
Watch the NIGHT DRIVE trailer below!
Cast: Tom Vermeir, Anneke Sluiters, Tania Van der Sanden, Dominique Van Malder, Steve Geerts.
HOTEL POSEIDON (European Theatrical Premiere) Belgium
21:00: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Stef Lernus.
Cast: Tom Vermeir, Anneke Sluiters, Tania Van der Sanden, Dominique Van Malder, Steve Geerts.
Outline: Welcome to the Hotel Poseidon, such an out-there place, and your new cult obsession. Dave walks the halls of the dilapidated Hotel Poseidon, which he inherited from his deceased father. His existence is clearly a hopeless one. Long days turn seamlessly into endless nights through which Dave drags himself lethargically. Then a young woman knocks at the hotel’s doors looking for a room and his best friend wants to throw an outrageous party in the backroom. Cue a recurring nightmare, which percolates, escalates and from which there is no escape. Wildly inventive and totally surreal.
Watch HOTEL POSEIDON trailer below!
Cast: Dennice Cisneros, Nico Bellamy, Laura Kennon, Alan Silva, Vernon Wells.
RED SNOW (International Premiere) USA
23:10: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Sean Nichols Lynch.
Cast: Dennice Cisneros, Nico Bellamy, Laura Kennon, Alan Silva, Vernon Wells.
Outline: From award-winning filmmaker/screenwriter/editor Sean Nichols Lynch, director of AUDIOBOOK OF THE DEAD and co-host, with his wife Lyndsey, of ‘Tapeheads’, the VHS nostalgia podcast, comes a Merry Christmas combo of TWILIGHT and DRACULA. Struggling horror novelist Olivia's dream of meeting a real-life vampire comes true when sexy Luke (Nico Bellamy from ‘The Walking Dead’) shows up at her isolated snowbound cabin in Lake Tahoe in urgent need of assistance. But on Christmas Eve, her romantic dreams becomes an undead nightmare as Luke's vampire family come knocking in a bloodsucking spook-a-blast that puts a stake through the heart of comedy horror.
Watch the RED SNOW trailer below!
CINEWORLD DISCOVERY SCREEN 2
FRIDAY 27 AUGUST
Cast: Bill Gillane, Danny James, Rachell Sean.
THE PARKER SESSIONS (International Premiere) USA
11:00: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Stephen King Simmons.
Cast: Bill Gillane, Danny James, Rachell Sean.
Outline: Based on his own experiences with night terrors and sleepwalking, director Stephen King Simmons’ stunning black-and-white feature debut is an existential nightmare. A woman suffering from night terrors and plagued by a troubled past schedules a series of appointments with a psychologist. But will she find the answers she’s looking for because the demons that haunt her could be evil or something that doesn’t exist? Not a monster or a ghost, but an all-black shadow watching from a distance…
Watch THE PARKER SESSIONS trailer below!
Directed by Scott B. Hansen & Desiree Connell.
BAD CANDY (London Premiere) USA
13:20: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Scott B. Hansen, Desiree Connell.
Cast: Corey Taylor, Zach Galligan, Derek Russo, Ryan Kiser, Alexandra Lucchesi.
Outline: The best Halloween anthology since TRICK ‘R TREAT with delicious bites of bloody and demented terror? You decide as this multi-award-winning horror unfolds chilling local stories of myth, urban legend and lessons learned in the community of New Salem. With its annual Psychotronic FM Halloween show, re-enactment radio DJs Chilly Billy (Corey Taylor, lead vocalist of Slipknot) and Paul (Zach Galligan of GREMLINS fame) weave the gory and twisted tales of the supernatural from years gone by. In this small town it’s a grimy ending for most, but will a few good souls survive the craziest of Halloween Happenings?
Cast: Demián Salomón, Héctor Alba, Mirta Busnelli, Fernando Miasnik, Pasta Dioguardi.
THE UNBURIED (European Premiere) Argentina
16:00: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Alejandro Cohen Arazi.
Cast: Demián Salomón, Héctor Alba, Mirta Busnelli, Fernando Miasnik, Pasta Dioguardi.
Outline: Psychiatrist Maximiliano has just published a book. As an orphan raised in a provincial foster home by a hard line patriarch his childhood memories have left scars he has been desperate to forget. But when he receives a call from a ‘brother’ who reveals their ‘father’ has died, he makes a life-changing decision to return home to deal with an unusual inheritance. But Maxi hasn’t seen any of his relatives for nearly two decades and when they tell him what he must now do for the family, the shocking past floods back with a sinister force.
Tanya Burr, Harry Jarvis, Nina Wadia, Loreece Harrison, Erin Austin
BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES (UK Premiere) Japan
18:45: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Junat Yamaguchi.
Cast: Kazunari Tosa, Riko Fujitani, Gota Ishida, Masashi Suwa, Yoshifumi Sakai.
Outline: A massive Japanese hit, acclaimed by ONE CUT OF THE DEAD director Shin'ichirô Ueda as a worthy successor to his continuous one-take sensation, it’s the time travel suspense comedy of the decade. Cafe owner Kato is relaxing after a long day when an image of himself suddenly appears on his television speaking from the future of two minutes. Soon Kato, his staff and regular customers are trapped in a time prison eager to learn about the distant future. But a Time Echo accelerates the paradox fiasco and a mysterious duo pays a visit as the future strikes back.
Watch the BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES trailer below!
Cast: Tanya Burr, Harry Jarvis, Nina Wadia, Loreece Harrison, Erin Austin.
FOLLOWERS (World Premiere) UK
20:35: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Marcus Harben.
Cast: Tanya Burr, Harry Jarvis, Nina Wadia, Loreece Harrison, Erin Austin.
Outline: A found-footage horror set in the cut-throat world of social media influencers. Four very different students move into a house suffering the usual social, financial and sexual anxieties that come with this exciting experience. They soon realise they are sharing their flat with a vengeful ghost from the 1990s called Dawn and she wins them millions of followers on social media. The big-money sponsorship deals quickly follow and greed becomes more powerful than fear. But the media attention awakens an old evil far more deadly than any ghost and the students must face the deadly consequences of their actions.
Cast: William Kircher, Tori Kostic, Meghan Hanako, Jolene Andersen, Jairus Carey.
CAPTIVE (European Premiere) USA
23:25: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Savvas Christou.
Cast: With: William Kircher, Tori Kostic, Meghan Hanako, Jolene Andersen, Jairus Carey.
Outline: A taut psychological thriller exploring twisted family bonds and the ties that truly do bind. Lily runs away from her abusive father. Just when she thinks she has found help, she ends up locked in a basement by the mysterious Evan. While clearly delusional, Evan has an innate sadness making every move he makes an unpredictable nightmare for fearful Lily to safely navigate. So she pretends to be his daughter in order to plot her escape. But this isn’t just another crazy captor story - it’s about shifting relationship dynamics, false senses of security and a shocking climax.
Watch the CAPTIVE trailer below!
CINEWORLD DISCOVERY SCREEN 2
SATURDAY 28 AUGUST
BOY #5 (World Premiere) FIRST BLOOD STRAND - UK
11:25: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Ian Steele.
Cast: Laura Montgomery Bennett, Lennon Leckey, Natasha Naomi Rea, Adrian Palmer.
Outline: Produced on a low budget, bravely acted and directed and imparting a smartly different take on an age-old horror myth. The Vampire! Director Ian Steele’s labour of love tells the story of a burned-out social worker who has reached the end of her sympathetic tether. But then she comes across a boy who has been found on the streets of Manchester. Nathan is shy and withdrawn and clearly a suitable case for treatment. But as she gets closer to him, she learns that Nathan has a very peculiar type of mutation - a thirst for human blood!
Cast: Aleksandra Szczepanowska, Jun Yang, Jiangwei Yuan, Beckhan, Aixan Teng.
TOUCH (European Premiere) USA
13:35: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Aleksandra Szczepanowska.
Cast: Aleksandra Szczepanowska, Jun Yang, Jiangwei Yuan, Beckhan, Aixan Teng.
Outline: The winner of the NYC Independent Film Best Movie and Best Director Awards 2020, director/star Aleksandra Szczepanowska’s intense drama features an obsessive and possessive relationship between a married Western woman and her blind Chinese masseur. Set in a small town in China Fei Fei meets Bai Yu and are drawn together by a powerful passion. But as their love affair against all odds unravels, jealously and betrayal rear their heads and all conflicted and affected parties involved find the demons they've created can only implode in a clash of mixed desires and violent impulses.
Cast: Charlotte Olivia, Jathis Sivanesan, John Black, Stefan Chanyaem, Justin Hayward.
ARE WE MONSTERS (World Premiere) FIRST BLOOD STRAND. UK
15:55: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Seb Cox.
Cast: Charlotte Olivia, Jathis Sivanesan, John Black, Stefan Chanyaem, Justin Hayward.
Outline: Maya is a werewolf conflicted with an identity crisis. She must seek to understand the two sides of herself before the consequences become deadly. Director Seb Cox’s feature film debut delves deep into the folklore of lycanthropy, Greek mythology and fabulous legend, then back again to ask important questions about identity, exactly who we are and who decides. With his background in animation and visual effects, Cox strives to communicate emotional wellbeing through fantasy, using metaphors to link audience empathy with real world problems.
Cast: Johnny Fleming, Kit Smith, Bethan Waller, Ian McNaughton.
THE LAST RITE (World Premiere) UK
18:40: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Leroy Kincaide.
Cast: Johnny Fleming, Kit Smith, Bethan Waller, Ian McNaughton.
Outline: A vibe of true horror coupled with the dank sense of uncertainty. Fact can be stranger and more terrifying than fiction. Medical student Lucy (Bethan Waller), suffering from sleep paralysis, finds herself plagued by a demonic entity after moving in with her boyfriend. Torn between sanity and the unknown, Lucy seeks help from a local priest forced to make a deathly choice. With the clock ticking, will Lucy escape the dark force consuming her from inside? Actor-turned-writer/director Leroy Kincaide makes his accomplished feature debut with a stark supernatural horror, one inspired by Kincaide’s own real-life paranormal experiences.
Watch THE LAST RITE Teaser below!
Cast: Ed Hartland, Jared Rogers, Yasen Atour, Octavia Gilmore, Kaitlin Reynell.
WHEN THE SCREAMING STARTS (World Premiere) UK
21:15: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Conor Buro.
Cast: Ed Hartland, Jared Rogers, Yasen Atour, Octavia Gilmore, Kaitlin Reynell.
Outline: When Norman Graysmith (Jared Rogers, THE KINDRED) is invited into the home of an aspiring serial killer, Aidan Mendle (writer/producer Ed Hartland, he believes he has the subject for the documentary that will make his career. What could possible go wrong? Especially as Aidan is a particularly inept homicidal maniac and fledgling filmmaker Graysmith is willing to do anything stupid to achieve his ambition. A spirited comedy horror mockumentary that’s both outrageously dark and gut-wrenchingly funny, you will be engaged from frame one as the camera becomes a character allowing for a heightened sense of ‘fly on the wall’ reality.
Watch the WHEN THE SCREAMING STARTS teaser below!
Cast: Ciara Bailey, Tad Morari, James Devlin.
BRING OUT THE FEAR (World Premiere) Ireland
23:20: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Richard Waters.
Cast: Ciara Bailey, Tad Morari, James Devlin.
Outline: From long time FrightFest community member Richard Waters and a graduate of our innovative New Blood strand. Rosie and Dan are a couple in a doomed relationship. Deciding to call it a day in the least acrimonious way possible, they decide to take one last walk in a favourite destination, the local forest. But suddenly the endlessly winding paths lead nowhere, the trees never seem to end, the sun never sets and a sinister presence starts stalking and tormenting them, trying to drive them insane... There is no escape but what exactly are they hiding?
CINEWORLD DISCOVERY SCREEN 2
SUNDAY 29 AUGUST
Cast: Ian Ogilvy, Piers Haggard, Roberts Eggers, Alice Lowe, Robin Hardy.
WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR (UK Premiere) USA
10:00: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Kier-La Janisse.
Cast: Ian Ogilvy, Piers Haggard, Roberts Eggers, Alice Lowe, Robin Hardy.
Outline: Exploring the folk horror phenomenon from its roots in authors Arthur Machen and M.R. James to the Unholy Trinity of WITCHFINDER GENERAL, BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW and THE WICKER MAN, director Kier-La Janisse’s exhaustive study investigates the many ways we alternately celebrate, conceal and manipulate our own histories in an attempt to find spiritual resonance in our surroundings. With a fabulous array of illustrative clips from little-known world cinema, taking in everything from THE SHUTTERED ROOM, PSYCHOMANIA and LAKE MUNGO to GANJA & HESS, KURONEKO and, yes, even ‘Bagpuss’ this is definitely the must-see documentary of the decade.
Cast: Viktor Klem, Fruzsina Hais, Judit Schell, Andrea Ladányi, Zsolt Anger.
POST MORTEM (UK Premiere) Hungary
13:50: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Péter Bergendy.
Cast: Viktor Klem, Fruzsina Hais, Judit Schell, Andrea Ladányi, Zsolt Anger.
Outline: Set in an epic reconstruction of the Spanish Flu pandemic, a superstitious farming community, magic and religion are set in stark relief against the scientific and technological advances in photography. In the chilly winter of 1918, Tomás is a post-mortem photographer, snapping corpses of the war dead for Hungarian records. Lured to a small village by talk of hauntings and strange nocturnal sounds, local hostility, mysterious deaths and the shadowy figures that appear in his photographs all urge him to leave as soon as possible. But he’s determined to investigate in a sumptuous take on the classic ghost story.
Watch the POST MORTEM trailer below!
Cast: Lautaro Delgado, Mora Della Veccia, Marilú Marini, Jenaro Nouet, Desirée Salgueiro.
NOCTURNA: SIDE A – THE GREAT OLD MAN’S NIGHT (UK premiere) Argentina
16:30: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Gonzalo Calzada.
Cast: Lautaro Delgado, Mora Della Veccia, Marilú Marini, Jenaro Nouet, Desirée Salgueiro.
Outline: From Gonzalo Calzada, also writer/director of the FrightFest 2018 selection LUCEFERINA, an astonishing tour de force reflection on the twilight years as a unique opportunity for redemptive connection with the truth of one’s being. Ulysses is 100 years old and lives alone on the verge of death. On this, the last night of his life, he experiences something forcing him to rethink his past, his present and his reality. Tortured by guilty remorse and confused by his senile dementia, he must make a last ditch effort to embrace his demise in freedom or become a soul in sorrow for eternity.
Watch the NOCTURNA: SIDE A – THE GREAT OLD MAN’S NIGHT trailer below!
Cast: Eva Basteiro-Bertoli, Ania Rizzi Bogdan, Federico Cesari, Philippe Guastella, Margherita Mannino.
AS IN HEAVEN, SO ON EARTH (UK Premiere) Italy
18:40: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Francesco Erba.
Cast: Eva Basteiro-Bertoli, Ania Rizzi Bogdan, Federico Cesari, Philippe Guastella, Margherita Mannino.
Outline: 1275: A young girl is imprisoned in the dungeons of an abbey where an alchemist uses her for his strange experiments and a young literary assistant tries to free her. 2011: Two teenagers go missing in the woods while a young woman appears from nowhere. Investigations lead the police to an odd manuscript in a tomb. Today: The Chief of the Cold Case department is compelled to leave his video-testimony, because in the light of recent findings, he fears for his own life. A stunning mix of Gothic horror mystery and shocking police procedural using live action and puppet animation.
Watch the AS IN HEAVEN, SO ON EARTH trailer below!
Cast: Cecilia Milocco, Albin Grenholm, Ville Virtanen, Krister Kern, Alexander Salzberger.
KNOCKING (UK Premiere) Sweden
21:00: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Frida Kempff.
Cast: Cecilia Milocco, Albin Grenholm, Ville Virtanen, Krister Kern, Alexander Salzberger.
Outline: The Sundance sensation based on the bestseller by Johan Theorin. After a nervous breakdown, Molly leaves a mental institution ready to start over. Her new life takes her to an apartment complex, but as a heat wave sets in, this place of potential new beginnings turns sinister and ominous. There’s a strange, inexplicable knocking sound coming from the apartment above – or so Molly thinks. No one else in the building can hear it, and when Molly asks her upstairs neighbors if they’re making the noises they greet her questions with confusion. But something is going on in this building…isn’t it?
Watch the KNOCKING teaser trailer below!
CINEWORLD DISCOVERY SCREEN 2
MONDAY 30 AUGUST
Cast: Louis Mandylor, Ashlynn Yennie, Yorgos Karamihos, Augie Duke, Christos Vasilopoulos.
ANTIDOTE (UK Premiere) USA
11:25: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Peter Daskaloff.
Cast: Louis Mandylor, Ashlynn Yennie, Yorgos Karamihos, Augie Duke, Christos Vasilopoulos.
Outline: Sharyn Berkley (HUMAN CENTIPEDE star Ashlynn Yennie) needs an emergency appendectomy. But when she wakes up from the hospital procedure she finds herself held captive in an underground medical facility. Head surgeon Dr. Aaron Hellenbach refuses to tell her where she is or why she is being incarcerated. All she knows is that other prisoners are being perpetually mutilated and then miraculously healed with a secret formula. Sharyn must go deep into her sordid, criminal past to fully understand what’s going on. And when she finally grasps the full horror of her situation it just might be too late.
Watch the ANTIDOTE trailer below!
Cast: Meredith Garretson, Alma Sisneros, Andy Umberger, Wylie Small, Phuong Kubacki.
SHE WATCHES FROM THE WOODS (International Premiere) USA
13:35: Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Director: Beau Ballinger.
Cast: Meredith Garretson, Alma Sisneros, Andy Umberger, Wylie Small, Phuong Kubacki.
Outline: A chilling walk between the blurred lines of supernatural curses, past atrocities, and mental health. Troubled artist June has spent many years in a psychiatric institution. As a child, she saw her sister Willow being drowned, and ever since, she’s heard mysterious voices. Her doctors have chalked it all up to a coping mechanism but when she travels to visit her dying, ungrateful mother, June takes the opportunity to finally dig for the truth. What she discovers turns everything she thought she knew about her hometown on its head as she realizes it wasn’t just post-traumatic stress.
Cast: André Øvredal, Patrick Brice, Ruggero Deodato, Eduardo Sánchez, Stephen Volk.
THE FOUND FOOTAGE PHENOMENON (UK Premiere) UK
15:55 Discovery Screen 2. Tickets
Directors: Sarah Appleton & Phillip Escott.
Cast: André Øvredal, Patrick Brice, Ruggero Deodato, Eduardo Sánchez, Stephen Volk.
Outline: An incisive and informative documentary charting the origins of the Found Footage sub-genre from its roots in classic Universal horror, Orson Welles’ 1938 ‘War of the Worlds’ radio broadcast, PEEPING TOM, Mondo movies, DAVID HOLZMAN’S DIARY, SNUFF and CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST to its explosive fruition in MAN BITES DOG, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, THE LAST BROADCAST, REC, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, MEGAN IS MISSING, HATE CRIME, DIARY OF THE DEAD, HOST and beyond. Directors, producers and technicians discuss the Alternate Reality of POV Cinema and track it through continual media changes to the technique's current form and asks what the future holds.
Watch the THE FOUND FOOTAGE PHENOMENON trailer below!
