Running from Thursday August 27 – Monday 31 August 2026, Tubi FrightFest will showcase eighty-two features, including the popular ‘First Blood’, Documentary, and Retrospective strands. This year there are twenty-four world premieres, from sixteen countries, spanning four continents.
The opening night of the festival will be the World premiere of Nervous, Abner Pastoll’s tale of psychological alienation and dangerous obsession. The director and cast will be attending.
This is followed by Colony, the highly anticipated zombie shocker from Yeon Sang-ho, director of Seoul Station and Train to Busan - both will also be screened – the latter to celebrate its 10th Anniversary.
The Asian line-up also includes 2026 Berlin Film Festival favourite Ghosts in the Cell, a horror-comedy, Salmokji:
Whispering Water. Ther’s also the cult Japanese Crazy Lips and Gore from Outer Space, remastered from the original negatives.
The closing night film is the UK premiere of Species, a comic sci-fi body-horror. Its unique body-mutation sequences were created by special make-up effects designer Pierre-Olivier Persin, who won an Oscar for The Substance.
The twenty-five films presented on the main screen see the return of many familiar names. The Adams family, with The Glorious Dead, Spider One with comedy Big Baby, Lukas Rinker with his survival thriller Frostbite, directors Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis with their crime thriller Valley View Motel. Federico Zampaglione, with supernatural chiller The Nameless Ballad, and Ryuhei Kitamura with Labyrinth, a shocker in the Saw tradition.
Tubi FrightFest welcomes back Christopher Smith, with the World premiere of his satirical horror, Spider Island, Padraig Reynolds with his homage to 1970s creature features, Gator Face, and James Nunn with thriller Hungry, where Louisiana bayou tourists are stalked by a hippopotamus.
Hammer returns with Ithaqua, a period survival horror, directed by Casey Walker, who becomes the first director to have two films screening at the same festival, the other being a Christmas movie, Home Bodies.
There is the anthology The Pitchfork Retreat, from the producers of Terrifier, horror comedy Drag, co-produced by Danny DeVito. Brea Grant, Chelsea Stardust and Ed Dougherty present Grind, an anthology about the modern gig economy, and actress Lulu Wilson is back in Jenn Wexler’s The Last Temptation of Becky.
Other Main Screen titles include Oddities, a tale of antiques and aliens, You Are the Film, an interactive, fourth wall-breaking experimental feature, Hyena, a serial killer thriller, Dead Reset, a video game inspired twist on the time travel genre, paranoia thriller Imposters, and surreal nightmare, Ponderosa.
This year’s Discovery strands continue to demonstrate Tubi FrightFest’s ethos for promoting new talent, original content and experimental formats, and this is no more evident than in the ‘First Blood’ strand.
The five World premieres this year are: Annabella Rich’s The Death of Us, where grief and supernatural forces collide, Paul Stainthorpe’s The Brook, in which a search for historical answers spirals into a serial-killer mystery, William Brooke’s The Alice Paradox, which offers new perspective on the time-travel genre, as does Conscian Morgan’s Binding Eva. Finally, there is Ashley Nashville‘s Heraldry Paranormal, a take on classic paranormal investigation horror which also stands as a vivid representation for queer voices.
Besides the ‘First Blood’ entries, the UK is represented by many talents, both established and new. These include the World premieres of demonic board game horror Grin, the erotically charged Electric Meat. Then, Justin Hardy’s Wrath of the Gods, the definitive conclusion to the Wicker Man trilogy. Howard Ford’s latest nerve-jangler Zip Wire. Other UK titles include B-movie homage The Peril at Pincer Point and Welcome To G-Town, a Glaswegian splatter-comedy, and Chris Green’s music and murder mix Synthesized.
Other Discovery screen presentations include Faces of Death, a retooling of the cult classic, gross-out shocker Bowels of Hell, unusual thriller Terrestrial from Hot Tub Time Machine director Steve Pink, and a gory satire Starsuckers.
Larry Fessenden’s monster mash Trauma Or, Monsters All, found-footage horror Infirmary. Then Dracula: The Night Around Us, a tale of fangs, forgiveness and funerals, the dark web thriller Compliance, and Snapshot, the first found-footage film to use a unique pinhole camera aesthetic.
The Discovery screens will also host films from around the world. From North America comes horror dramedy Slay, psychological horror thriller Blood Secret, Andy Chen’s anticipated Another, Justin M. Seaman’s ends his creature feature trilogy with The Barn Part III, Henry Chaisson’s ghostly Recluse, the home invasion nightmare Lesions.
There’s the trippy Buddy, the demonic Do You Want to Play?, the cursed Bad Karaoke, the possessed Bloom. Also presented are the shocker Mother and Me, and the J-Horror inspired Night After Night. Finally, Frogman is back in the sequel Frogman Returns. There will be a retrospective screening of Frogman, with Cousins in attendance.
South America is represented by the sequel to Invoking Yell, Invoking Scream, from Brazil the psychological thriller The Flesh Itself, plus cosmic drama Remanence. And from Uruguay comes Sweet Violence.
From down-under there is Our Effed Up World, from transgender director Alice Maio Mackay, first-person found-footage horror Dead Eyes, the haunting chiller The Latcher, and the apocalyptic Bunny Rabbit.
Canada delivers punk-rock tribute Turn It Up!, the blood-soaked survival horror Fresh Meat, and Meat Kills.
In the documentary strand there is the world premiere of Sarah Appleton’s Full Moon Rising: The Charles Band Story,
There is the European premiere of Rubberhead: The Life & Times of Steve Johnson. And the UK premiere of The Fright Stuff, Mike Meyer’s documentary behind the scenes of the US haunted house industry.
There are 4K restorations of both Ghostkeeper, Jim Makichuk’s supernatural slasher classic, and Val Guest’s The Abominable Snowman. This is a World premiere presentation from Hammer Films and is a restored version of the original UK cut complete with original title sequence.
The festival guest line-up, the Short Film Showcases and other events will be revealed soon.
Ticketing information:Full Festival Passes will be on sale from 12.00, Saturday 18 July
Day Passes and Single tickets will be on sale from 12.00, Saturday 25 July.
Full booking and programme details can be found at
frightfest.co.uk