FrightFest has presented global genre short films since 2004, and this year’s selection is as bold and diverse as ever. This year’s selection, screened at the ODEON Luxe West End, has films from across the world, including fourteen World Premieres.
This year’s three showcases feature a range of International Premieres, including the World Premiere of Open Your Eyes. Other US highlights the surreal VFX-inspired Trip, animation horror VHX, horror rom-com Hide Your Crazy, the Giallo-inspired Bath Bomb, Shadow, from Lebanese American filmmaker Kamell Allaway and Sketch, a creepy romp.
From Germany comes love story Forever Yours, from France The Cost Of Flesh and Game Over. Finally, from Denmark is Fomo/Armageddon.
The UK is represented with twenty-two entries, including the World Premiere of The Awakening. There are three returning directors this year: David Yorke, with the World Premiere of Safe, Tony Hipwell, with the World Premiere of Body Worn Video and John Ferrer, with two entries this year – The Milk Situation and 1 Star Review.
Other highlights are Breakfast, Deliverance, Off Cuts, and Dead Of Night. Then there’s the horror of DIY dentistry in The Vampire Theory, folk horror mockumentary, End Of Days, stalker chiller Yellowmeads, the sexually charged Skewered, and the wrong late-night spirits are served in Nyctophobia.
Other terror tales include Cakes!, Unravelling, Clubhammer, The Wedding Veil Of The Proud Princess, Punch, It’s Really You, Road Ahead Closed. And, finally, be careful what you fish for in What A Catch.
The Short Fim Showcase dates:
Friday 23 August – Short Film Showcase 1
• Odeon Luxe West End Screen 2 at 15:45
Sunday 25 August – Short Film Showcase 2
• Odeon Luxe West End Screen 1 at 13:15
Monday 26 August – Short Film Showcase 3
• Odeon Luxe West End Screen 1 at 10:50
This year there will also be six pre-feature shorts in the Main and Discovery Screens details below.
Sunday 25 August: Main Screen - Unsettled (UK Premiere)
Playing before Saint Clare, 6.15pm
Monday 26 August: Discovery Screen 1 - MLM (UK Premiere)
Playing before Agatha, 4.00pm
Friday 23 August: Discovery Screen 2 - Full Moon Glory Hole (World Premiere) Playing before Drive Back, 1.10pm
Sunday 25 August: Discovery Screen 2 - Hotline (World Premiere)
Playing before Razor Blade Smile, 9.15pm
Monday 26 August: Discovery Screen 2 Short: Barista (World Premiere)
Playing before Generation Terror, 3.15pm
Discovery Screen 3 Short: Stereo-Vision (World premiere)
Playing before From Darkness (Saturday,12.55pm & Sunday, 6.40pm)
Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024 runs from 22 – 26 August 2024 at ODEON Luxe Leicester Square & ODEON Luxe West End.
For full programme details & tickets: www.frightfest.co.uk
