
FrightFest 2024, the UK’s leading horror, fantasy, and thriller film festival, will take place from August 22nd to 26th at the ODEON Luxe Leicester Square in London. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the festival, promising a spectacular lineup of films and events. The festival will feature over 70 films, including UK and international premieres, documentaries, and films from emerging global talent.

Having its World Premiere at this year’s Fright Fest is director Joanne Mitchell’s feature debut Broken Bird. Adapted from her short film Sybil, the opening film of this year’s festival explores the desperate loneliness of professional mortician Sybil as she spirals into darkness as she is kept company by the dead.

This year’s Fright Fest also features the international premiere of Irish language film An Taibhse (The Ghost). With the wealth of Irish horror that has flooded the international stage in recent years, here at What A Scream we are feeling an extra level of excitement for John Farrelly’s chilling tale set against An Gorta Mór (The Great Famine). Father and daughter duo Éamonn and Máire are employed as caretakers in an isolated mansion, where soon awakens a malevolent supernatural force.

Directed by JT Mollner and starring everyone’s favourite horror boyfriend Kyle Gallner, Strange Darling has its international premiere on the Fright Fest screen and charts a day in the life of a perverse serial killer. Attempting to escape The Demon is The Lady who becomes weaker as time goes on. Described as a “twisty roller coaster”, Strange Darling is bound to keep audiences on the edge of their cinema seat.

Hitting Discovery Screen 2 on the Monday afternoon of Fright Fest is the documentary Generation Terror. Fresh off of last year’s success with The J-Horror Virus, director Sarah Appleton documents the horror films that marked the turn of the century along with co-director Philip Escott. With contributions from Xavier Gens, Rob Zombie, and Joe Lynch, as well as a few of our favourite Ghouls (!), we are practically dying to immerse ourselves in the films that made the late nineties and early noughties such a seminal time period in the horror genre.

No horror weekend is complete without a contribution (or an appearance) by Fright Fest fave, Graham Skipper, and this year’s The Lonely Man With The Ghost Machine has its European premiere at the festival on Friday afternoon. The last man on earth ruminates on his past, present and possible future after a global catastrophe leaves him utterly alone. With influences of H.P Lovecraft, I Am Legend and A Christmas Carol, we are excited to see Skipper display his amazing acting ability in such a claustrophobic sounding set up.

Directed by Chris Stuckmann, Shelby Oaks has its UK premiere at this year’s Fright Fest. After four YouTubers known for their paranormal investigations go missing in the town of Shelby Oaks, everyone assumes it's a publicity stunt, but twelve years later when the group still hasn’t reappeared, one of their sisters takes on the task of discovering what happened to them.

Members Club directed by Marc Coleman will be having its world premiere on the late night Saturday slot in the main screen and the reason we’re excited for this one? Three reasons: Steve Oram. Peter Andre. Male Strippers. ‘Nuff said.
For more detailed information and updates, you can visit the official FrightFest website. https://frightfest.co.uk/LondonFilms2024/
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