The line-up for the 2026 Tubi FrightFest has been announced with an unprecedented 82 features screening across five screens.

The opening night has an Asian flavour, starting with the world premiere of Abner Pastoll’s Nervous Set in South Korea, it reunites the director of A Good Woman is Hard to Find with its star Sarah Bolger. This is followed by Colony, the latest from Yeon Sang-ho, whose films Seoul Station and Train to Busan will also screen during the festival. Also screening is Ghosts in the Cell, Salmokji: Whispering Water (the highest grossing Korean film of all time), and newly remastered versions of cult Japanese films Crazy Lips and Gore from Outer Space.

The closing night film is the UK premiere of Marion Le Corroller’s Species (aka Sanguine), a dark comedy sci-fi bod horror with effects from Pierre-Olivier Persin, who won an Oscar for The Substance (which closed the festival a couple of years ago).

Other films screening throughout the five-day event are The Adams Family’s latest The Glorious Dead, Spider One’s Big Baby, Lukas Rinker’s Frostbite, Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis’ stylish crime thriller Valley View Motel, Federico Zampaglione’s The Nameless Ballad, and Ryuhei Kitamura’s Labyrinth.

Christopher Smith (Creep) returns with the world premiere of his satirical creepy-crawly pic Spider Island, and there are more horrific creatures in Padriag Reynolds’ Gator Face, and James Nunn’s Hungry, which features a ravenous hippo!

Casey Walker becomes the first director to have two films screened in one year with Home Bodies and the new Hammer production Ithaqua.

Jenn Wexler’s eagerly-awaited sequel The Last Temptation of Becky gets a UK premiere, alongside anthologies Grind and The Pitchfork Retreat. Danny DeVito’s daughter Lucy stars twisted comedy horror Drag, with Danny producing.

Also on the main screen are Oddites, starring Adrienne Barbeau, the fourth-wall-breaking You Are the Film, serial killer thriller Hyena, Stewart Sparke’s Dead Reset, paranoia thriller Imposters, and the hilariously surreal Ponderosa.

In the four Discovery screens, there’s an eclectic mix of new talent and unmissable movies. The ‘First Blood’ strand highlights debut UK filmmakers with world premieres of Annabella Rich’s The Death of Us, Paul Stainthorpe’s The Brook, William Brooke’s The Alice Paradox, Conscian Morgan’s Binding Eva, and Ashley Nashville’s Heraldry Paranormal.

Other homegrown movies set to screen are Lawrence Fowler’s Grin, Dan Schaffer’s Electric Meat (starring Emily Booth and Sylvia Soska), Justin Hardy’s Wicker Man conculsion Wrath of the Gods, Howard Ford’s Zip Wire, Jake Kuhn and Noah Stratton-Twine’s The Peril at Pincer Point, Nathan and Ben McQuaid’s Welcome to G-Town, and Chris Green’s Synthesized.

There’s the UK premiere of Daniel Goldhaber’s Faces of Death, there are killer toilets in Gurcius Gewdner and Gustavo Vinagre’s Bowels of Hell, Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine) unveils Terrestrial, Brett and Jason Bulter’s satirical Starsuckers, Nicholas Pineda’s Infirmary, Larry Fassenden’s Trauma or, Monsters All, Chris Schwab’s Dracula: The Night Around Us, Craig Zobel’s Compliance, and the pinhole camera found footage flick Snapshot.

The terror continues with Kyra Elise Gardner’s Slay, Cameron Francis’ Blood Secret, Andy Chen’s Another (starring Heather Langenkamp and Doug Jones), Justin M. Seaman’s conclusion to his trilogy The Barn Part III, Henry Chaisson’s Recluse, Cody S. Wilson’s Lesions, Casper Kelly’s Buddy, Nick Lyon’s Do You Want to Play?, Robert J. Steinmiller and Chris Lightbody’s Bad Karaoke, Stefan Colson’s Bloom, Carson McKinnon’s Mother and Me, and Josh Lobo’s Night After Night. There’s also the cryptid sequel Frogman Returns, from Anthony Cousins. Frogman will also be screened, with Cousins in attendance.

From South America, there’s Patricio Valladares’ Invoking Scream, the sequel to his Invoking Yell. Ian SBF’s The Flesh Itself, Kapel Furman’s Remanence, and the debut from Jeremias Segovia, Sweet Violence all highlight the talent from the continent.

From Australia, there’s a return of Alice Maio Mackay with Our Effed Up World, Richard E. Williams’ Dead Eyes, James Hunter’s The Latcher, and James Branson’s highly praised Bunny Rabbit.

Canada is represented by Sam Scott’s Turn it Up! and Daniel Turres’ Fresh Meat, while Dutch director Martijn Smits informs us that Meat Kills.

Documentaries are always a popular part of Tubi FrightFest, and this year, there’s the world premiere of Sarah Appleton’s Full Moon Rising: The Charles Band Story, which covers the legendary director/producer. Charles Band will be in attendance too! There’s the European premiere of the brilliant Rubberhead: The Life & Times of Steve Johnson from Nick Taylor, which looks at the brilliant work of the FX artist behind Ghostbusters and Fright Night. Mike Meyer’s The Fright Stuff takes a look at the haunted house industry in America.

Retrospective screenings this year include Ghostkeeper, Jim Makichuck’s slasher classic. Hammer Films present Val Guest’s atmospheric The Abominable Snowman, a world premiere of the restored UK cut with the original title sequence.

Tubi FrightFest co-director Alan Jones said “Co-director Alan Jones comments: “Tubi FrightFest knows what creates resonance with its audience: that there has to be space for depth of exciting storytelling and that what is important in the ultimate scheme of festival priorities is to interact, scream, laugh and debate in a safe space, with a like-minded community”.

Full festival passes are on sale from Saturday, July 18th at noon, with day passes and single tickets on sale from noon on Saturday, July 25th. To book, and for more information head over to https://www.frightfest.co.uk

The short film showcase titles and guests will be announced soon.