The wait is over! The line-up for the 2024 edition of Pigeon Shrine FrightFest is here. Taking place between Thursday, August 22nd and Monday, August 26th, the event will take place at its new home, Odeon Luxe on Leicester Square.
As usual, there will be an array of world premieres (WP), UK premieres (UK), international premieres (IP), European premieres (EU), and English premieres (EP) to keep fans of every subgenre happy. You can feast your eyes on the horrors that await below…
Main Screen
Thursday, August 22nd
5.30pm Broken Bird – director:Joanne Mitchell (Before Dawn) (WP)
8.10pm Test Screening – director: Clark Baker (WP)
10.25pm The Invisible Raptor – director: Mike Hermosa (EP)
Friday, August 23rd
10.15am An Taibhse (The Ghost) – director: John Farrelly (EU)
12.45pm Bookworm – director: Ant Timpson (Come to Daddy) starring Elijah Wood. (EU)
3.15pm Ghost Game – director: Jill Gevargizian (The Stylist) (IP)
6pm Shelby Oaks – director: Chris Stuckmann (UK)
8.30pm TBC
11pm Hauntology – director: Parker Brennon (IP)
Saturday, August 24th
10.15am Survive – director: Frederic Jardin (UK)
12.35pm The Last Voyage of the Demeter – director: André Øvredal (UK)
3.25pm Dead Mail – director: Joe de Boer (IP)
6.15pm Traumatika – director: Pierre Tsigaridis (WP)
8.30pm Strange Darling – director: JT Mollner (EU)
11pm Members Club – director: Marc Coleman (WP)
Sunday, August 25th
10.30am The Last Ashes – director: Loic Tanson (UK)
1.20pm The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee (documentary) – director: Jon Spira (WP)
4pm Azreal: Angel of Death – director: E.L. Katz (UK)
6.15pm Saint Clare – director: Mitzi Peirone (UK) starring Bella Thorne, whose short Unsettled also screens.
9pm Invader – director: Mickey Keating (IP)
Monday, August 16th
10.30am The Dead Thing – director: Elric Kane (IP)
1pm A Desert – director: Joshua Erkman (EU)
3.30pm Ladybug – director: Tim Cruz (WP)
6.10pm Cold Wallet – director: Cutler Hodieme (EU)
8.30pm The Substance – director: Coralie Fargeat, starring Demi Moore. (EU)
Discovery Screen 1
Thursday, August 22nd
8.15pm Cinderella’s Curse – director: Louisa Warren (WP)
10.35pm Carnage for Christmas – director: Alice Maio Mackay (IP)
Friday, August 23rd
11am The Daemon – directors: David Yohe, Matt Devino (WP)
1.25pm The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine – director: Graham Skipper (The Leech) (EU)
3.40pm Scarlet Blue – director: Aurélia Mengin (UK)
6.15pm The Bunker – director: Brian Hanson – Trieste Science+Fiction presentation (IP)
8.45pm Children of the Wicker Man – directors: Justin Hardy, Dominic Hardy, Chris Nunn (documentary, WP)
11.05pm Mutilator 2 – director: Buddy Cooper (IP)
Saturday, August 24th
10.45am Touchdown – director: Josephine Rose (First Blood, WP)
1pm Scopophobia – director: Aled Owen (First Blood, WP)
3.30pm Year 10 – director: Benjamin Goodger (First Blood, WP)
6pm Protein – director: Tony Burke (First Blood, WP)
8.35pm 7 Keys – director: Joy Wilkinson (First Blood, WP)
11pm The Duke Mitchell Club – event
Sunday, August 25th
11am The A-Frame – director: Calvin Lee Reeder (EU)
1.15pm Short Film Showcase 2 (TBA)
3.45pm A Nightmare on Elm Street – director: Wes Craven (40th-anniversary screening)
6.20pm Never Have I Ever – director: Damon Rickard (WP)
9pm Bogieville – director: Sean Patrick Cronin (WP)
Monday, August 26th
10.50am Short Film Showcase 3 (TBA)
1.30pm Charlotte – director: Georgia Conlan (WP)
4pm Agatha – directors: Roland Becerra, Kelly Bigelow (WP)
6.30pm Scared Shitless – director: Vivieno Caldinelli (IP)
Discovery Screen 2
Thursday, August 22nd
8.10pm I Will Never Leave You Alone – director: DW Medoff (IP)
10.30pm Happy Halloween – director: Brittney Greer (UK)
Friday, August 23rd
1.10pm Drive Back – director: Cody Ashford (UK)
3.25pm Short Film Showcase (TBA)
6.15pm So Unreal – director: Amanda Kramer with Debbie Harry (documentary, EU)
8.45pm The Freaks of Fancy – director: Elliott Léon (WP)
11pm Cursed in Baja – Jeff Daniel Phillips (WP)
Saturday, August 24th
11am Delirium – director: Arró Stefánsson (IP)
1.15pm Film Sussex Panel (TBA)
3.30pm In the Name of God – director: Ludvig Gür (EU)
6pm Boutique: To Preserve and Collect – director: Ry Levey (documentary, WP)
8.25pm Video Vision – director: Michael Turney (IP)
10.50pm The Monster Beneath Us – director: Sophie Osbourne (First Blood, WP)
Sunday, August 25th
11.05am Dark Match – director: Lowell Dean starring Chris Jericho (IP)
1.30pm Sponsor Panel (TBA)
3.45pm Cara – director: Hayden Hewitt (WP)
6.15pm Derelict – director: Jonathan Zaurin (WP)
9.15pm Razor Blade Smile – director: Jake West (4K restoration WP)
Monday, August 26th
11am Schlitter: Evil in the Woods – director: Pierre Mouchet (UK)
1pm Fright – director: Warren Dudley (WP)
3.15pm Generation Terror – directors: Phillip Escott, Sarah Appleton (documentary, WP)
Discovery Screen 3
Friday, August 23rd
6.30pm Things Will Be Different – director: Michael Felker (UK)
9.15pm The Last Podcast – director: Dean Alioto (WP)
Saturday, August 24th
12.55pm From Darkness – director: Philip Da Silva (UK)
3.30pm Mermaid Legend – director: Toshiharu Ikeda (retrospective screening, UK)
6.25pm A Samurai in Time – director: Junichi Yasuda (EU)
Sunday, August 25th
1pm A Samurai in Time
4pm Mermaid Legend
6.40pm From Darkness
Monday, August 26th
3.45pm The Last Podcast
6.30pm Things Will be Different
Festival co-director Alan Jones comments: “FrightFest, the Dark Heart of Cinema, has been beating loud and proud now for an amazing 25 years. An incredible quarter of a century that has seen major challenges and transformations to the global film industry that FrightFest has embodied, embraced and emblazoned. Our past 25 glorious years have shown FrightFest in a state of continuous evolution, something we are determined will never, ever stop. So let the 25th Anniversary FrightFest begin”.
Tickets for Pigeon Shrine FrightFest go on sale on Saturday, July 13th. For more information, head to www.frightfest.co.uk
The festival guest line-up and full details for the Short Film Showcases and other events will be revealed soon. Watch this space!
