FrightFest 2018: Trailer For Fest Unveiled and List of Guests Revealed
Ahead of this year’s Arrow Video FrightFest, the London-based genre festival has revealed this year’s trailer as well as its (ever expanding) list of guests. Directors, writers, producers, and stars from around the world will converge on the fest to promote their titles and partake in the genre event, which will see audiences come from just as far.
In addition to the trailer and guest line-up, two additional films have been added to the slate: David Baker’s modern transgressive erotic thriller Pimped as well as the 4K restoration of John Carpenter’s Halloween, which comes just in time for the film’s 40th anniversary!
Established in 2016 to celebrate the work of emerging UK genre talent, FrightFest is proud to team up for the third year running with Screen International to present the “Screen Genre Rising Star Award”. This year’s long list salutes the work of Kevin Chicken, director of Perfect Skin, actresses Hannah Arterton and Ella Hunt, Aislinn Clarke (director of The Devil’s Doorway), Mike Mort, director of Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires, actress/producer Marcia Do Vales, and actor Sam Gittins, The short list will be announced prior to the event.
FrightFest takes place at Cineworld Leicester Square and The Prince Charles Cinema between Aug 23-Aug 27. More information can be found at the festival’s official website.
Confirmed guests:
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot – Robert Krzykowski (director), Joe Kraemer (composer), Aidan Turner, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Shaked Berenson (Producer)
The Ranger – Jenn Wexler (director), Chloe Levine
What Keeps You Alive – Colin Minihan (director), Brittany Allen
White Chamber – Paul Aviary (director), Shauna McDonald
Heretiks – Paul Hyett (director), Hannah Arterton
Black Site – Tom Paton (director), Lauren Ashley Carter, Angela Dixon
Tigers Are Not Afraid – Issa Lopez
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich – Fabio Frizzi (composer), Barbara Crampton
Dead Night – Barbara Crampton, Brea Grant
The Cleaning Lady – Alexis Kendra
Bodied – Joseph Kahn
Summer of ’84 – François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell (directors)
Upgrade – Leigh Whannell (director)
The Golem – Doron and Yoav Paz (directors), Ariel Cohen (writer), Shalom Eisenbach (producer), Shaked Berenson (executive producer)
Cult of Terror – Gustavo Leonel Mendoza (director)
Dementia Part II – Matt Mercer (director), Graham Skipper, Suzanne Voss, Najarra Townsend
Hell is Where the Home Is – Orson Oblowitz (director)
Mega Time Squad – Tim van Dammen (director)
Open 24 Hours – Padraig Reynolds (director)
Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros. Years – Marcus Hearn (director)
Lifechanger – Justin McConnell (director)
Secret Santa – Adam Marcu (director)
Seeds – Owen Long
The Most Assassinated Woman in the World – David Murdoch (writer/producer)
Videoman – Kristian A. Söderström (director)
Crystal Eyes – Ezequiel Endelman and Leondro Montejano (directors)
Wolfman’s Got Nards – Andre Gower (director), Henry Darrow McComas (producer)
The FrightFest Guide to Ghost Movies – Axelle Carolyn (author)
Possum – Matthew Holness (director)
Await Further Instructions – Johnny Kervorkian (director), Jack Tarling (producer), Holly Weston, Sam Gittins, Neerja Naik, Grant Masters, Kris Saddler
Book of Monsters – Stewart Sparke (director)
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires – Mike Mort (director)
Frankestein’s Creature – Sam Ashurst (director)
Ravers – Bernhard Pucher (director), Georgia Hirst
CTRL – Harry Lindley (director)
F.U.B.A.R. – Ben Kent (director)
Perfect Skin – Kevin Chicken (director), Richard Brake
The Devil’s Doorway – Aislinn Clark (director)
Final Stop – Roxanne Benjamin (director)
Ghost Stories – Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson (co-directors/co-writers)
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