Following the continued restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Arrow Video FrightFest is going virtual once more, with their October event lining up 45 movies and 2 short film showcases.

Over 3 screens – Arrow Video and Horror Channel as with the main August event, and this time the addition of the Zavvi Discovery Screen. Pass holders will have more choice to view what they want.

The films screening are:

Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff’s Held

Courtney Paige’s The Sinners

Chris Smith’s The Bannishing

Hayden J. Weal’s Dead

Andy Collier and Toor Mian’s Sacrifice (starring Barbara Crompton)

Dmitriy Tomashpolskiy’s Stranger

Derek Carl’s The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (yes – a remake of the 1962 cult classic!)

David Simpson’s Dangerous to Know

Neil Marshall’s The Reckoning

Julius Berg’s The Owners

Kohl Glass’ Babysitter Must Die

Andrew Thomas Hurt’s Spare Parts

Aaron B. Koontz’s The Pale Door

Takeshi Kushida’s Woman of the Photographs

Lodewijk Crijins’ Tailgate

Adrian Langley’s Butchers

Jens Dahl’s Breeder

Laura Casabé’s The Returned

Jeffrey Reddick’s Don’t Look Back

Will Jewell’s Concrete Plans

Natalie Erika’s Relic

Jud Cremata’s Let’s Scare Julie

Gabriel Carrer and Reese Eveneshen’s For the Sake of Vicious

Edward Drake’s Broil

Thomas Robert Lee’s Blood Harvest

Marc Price’s Dune Drifter

Adam Leader and Richard Oakes’ Hosts

Martyn Pick’s Heckle

Matthew Benjamin Jones and Luke Skinner’s The World We Knew

Patricio Valladares’ Embryo

Tyler Russell’s Cyst

In the First Blood section – sponsored by Horror Channel there is:

Danielle Kummer and Lucy Harvey’s Alien on Stage

David Ryan’s Redwood Massacre: Annihilation

Karl Holt’s Benny Loves You

Horror Channel manager Stewart Bridle will choose a winner of the FrightFest First Blood: Horror Channel Best Film Award 2020 (the two First Blood films from August – They’re Outside and Playhouse are also in the running)

Luciana Garraza’s Scavenger

Mauro Iván Ojeda’s Funeral Home

Rigoberto Castañeda’s Origin Unknown

Liam O’Donnell’s Skylin3s

Devereux Milburn’s Honeydew

Jill Gevergizian’s The Stylist

Natasha Kermani’s Lucky

Elza Kephart’s Slaxx

Paul Tanter’s The Nights Before Christmas

Damian McCarthy’s Caveat

FrightFest co-director Alan Jones said: “The latest safety regulations and social distancing measures brought in to contain the spread of Covid-19 meant we had no other choice but to cancel our much-anticipated physical edition of FrightFest in October. So the only option open to Team FrightFest, despite all the hard work everyone has put in over the past months, was to take the new normal by its devil horns and reconfigure FrightFest 2020 once more to give everyone an important horror fantasy lifeline. Our virtual event in August was so well received that we knew we had to do it again – with even more picks of want-to-see new releases, hot previews, unusual options and first-rate titles. Enjoy”.

For more information on the line-up and ticket details as well as guidelines for the event, head over to https://frightfest.co.uk/tickets.html

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