FrightFest 2025: UK’s Biggest Horror Film Festival Reveals Full Line-Up
FrightFest, the UK’s premier horror and fantasy film festival, returns for its 26th edition at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square and West End from Thursday 21 August to Monday 25 August 2025. With 69 feature films, 25 main screen premieres, and 44 Discovery Screen entries, this year’s programme promises the weird, the wild, and the wonderful from around the world.
🎟️ Full Festival Passes on sale from Saturday 12 July, noon
🎟️ Day Passes & Single Tickets available from Saturday 19 July, noon
🔗 Visit FrightFest.co.uk for bookings
Once again, BritFlicks will be creating a FrightFest 2025 Playlist on our YouTube channel, featuring trailers from this year’s lineup. In the meantime, check out last year’s FrightFest 2024 playlist, which featured 34 trailers and attracted over 370,000 views.
Opening Film – 'THE HOME'
From The Purge creator James DeMonaco, 'THE HOME' makes its UK premiere courtesy of Signature Entertainment. Comedian and actor Pete Davidson stars as Max, a rebellious twenty-something sentenced to community service in a quiet retirement home — a setting that soon becomes a suspense-filled nightmare.
Closing Film – 'INFLUENCERS'
FrightFest 2025 concludes with the UK premiere of Kurtis David Harder’s 'INFLUENCERS', the second film in Shudder’s original franchise. Known for its stylish and twisted narrative, this instalment explores the return of the chameleon-like CW — a mysterious figure who triggers online obsession and offline terror.
British Highlights
'ODYSSEY' – Gerard Johnson’s neon-soaked thriller set in London.
'BAMBOO REVENGE' – A world premiere eco-horror.
'COGNITIVE' – A smart sci-fi thriller exploring AI anxieties.
'BLOCKHEAD' – The first narrative feature from Matt Harlock.
'BAMBI: THE RECKONING' – A violent reimagining of the 1923 novel and 1942 classic.
First Blood Strand – World Premieres:
'HE KILLS AT NIGHT' – A rollercoaster horror thriller directed by Tom Pickering.
'THE CARETAKER' – A character-driven mystery thriller from director Luke Tedder.
'HEALING ANDY' – A found-footage horror comedy shot entirely on an iPhone, directed by Villablanca.
'THE HAUNTING AT JACK THE RIPPER’S HOUSE' – A harrowing ghost story directed by Natasha Tosini and Stephen Staley, in which YouTubers are trapped inside the infamous killer’s home.
International Highlights
'THE SERPENT’S SKIN' (Australia) – Trans identity and supernatural horror from Alice Maio Mackay.
'SALT ALONG THE TONGUE' (Australia) – A poetic blend of witchcraft and possession.
'SICK PUPPY' (Canada) – A chilling portrait of a serial killer couple.
'FOREIGNER' (Canada) – A horror-drama on the cost of assimilation.
'THE WEED EATERS' (New Zealand) – A flesh-eating horror making its international premiere.
'ABOVE THE KNEE' (Norway) – A psychological thriller about Body Integrity Identity Disorder.
'EL INSTINTO / INSTINCT' (Spain) – A tension-filled tale of agoraphobia.
Documentary Features
'SANE INSIDE INSANITY: THE ROCKY HORROR PHENOMENON' – Exploring 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
'THE DEGENERATE: THE LIFE & FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN' – A look at one of horror’s most divisive and provocative directors.
'CAPTURED SOULS: IN CONVERSATION WITH GRAHAM HUMPHREYS' – A documentary profiling the legendary UK horror illustrator.
'WHERE IS JUAN MOCTEZUMA?' – A mockumentary about the mysterious 1970s Mexican auteur.
Animated Selections
'DOG OF GOD' (Latvia) – Based on Europe’s most notorious werewolf trial.
'GILL' (South Korea) – From the team behind The Shaman Sorceress and Green Days.
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