Tubi FrightFest 2026 Discovery Screen 1 Schedule
BritFlicks is tracking the Tubi FrightFest 2026 Discovery Screen 1 schedule, with screening dates, times, film details, trailers and updates from this year’s London genre film festival.
Discovery Screen 1 forms part of the wider Tubi FrightFest 2026 programme, showcasing new horror, thriller, sci-fi, fantasy, cult and documentary cinema from the UK and around the world.
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THURSDAY 27 AUGUST
GRIN
Screening: Thursday 27 August, 8:30 pm
Director: Lawrence Fowler
Cast: Gareth Tidball, Simon Davies, Lucas Edwards, Virginia Gilchrist
Genre: Horror, Evil Doll Horror, Supernatural Horror
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 81 mins
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Synopsis: From Welsh filmmaker Lawrence Fowler, known for ‘THE CURSE OF THE WITCH’S DOLL’ and the ‘JACK IN THE BOX’ trilogy, GRIN introduces another sinister figure into the evil doll horror world.
Years after a horrific crime, four friends believe their secret has been buried for good. But when they discover and play a vintage board game, they unknowingly summon Grin, a grotesque clown demon with a taste for punishment.
As the entity begins to target those who have committed terrible sins, GRIN turns childhood secrets, supernatural judgement and board game horror into a new franchise-ready nightmare.
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BOWELS OF HELL
Screening: Thursday 27 August, 10:50 pm
Directors: Gurcius Gewdner, Gustavo Vinagre
Cast: Martha Nowill, Benjamin Damini, Majeca Angelucci, Rodrigo Apresentador
Genre: Horror, Gross-Out Horror, Comedy Horror
Country: Brazil
Language: Portuguese
Runtime: 111 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: BOWELS OF HELL is a Brazilian gross-out horror comedy built around trauma, family conflict and a surreal toilet-based curse.
Malu is struggling under the weight of unresolved trauma, including an intense fear of toilets. Her relationship with her teenage child Genesis is also under pressure, with Malu unable to accept their chosen name and pronouns.
When a bizarre curse transforms toilets into deadly monsters, Malu is thrown into a grotesque nightmare where grief, motherhood and personal reckoning collide with splatter horror. From Gurcius Gewdner and Gustavo Vinagre, BOWELS OF HELL delivers midnight movie chaos with a scatalogical horror twist.
FRIDAY 28 AUGUST
TERRESTRIAL
Screening: Friday 28 August, 10:45 am
Director: Steve Pink
Cast: Jermaine Fowler, James Morosini, Pauline Chalamet, Edy Modica, Rob Yang, Brendan Hunt
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 90 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: From ‘HOT TUB TIME MACHINE’ director Steve Pink, TERRESTRIAL follows four college friends reuniting for a weekend at a luxurious Los Angeles mansion owned by Allen, a rising science fiction author.
At first, Allen appears to have built the perfect life, with success, money and an enviable lifestyle. But as the weekend unfolds, his friends begin to notice cracks in the story he is telling about himself.
As strange events blur the line between reality and imagination, the group realise they may have become part of something they never agreed to. TERRESTRIAL mixes mystery, paranoia and sci-fi elements in an unusual thriller about friendship, status and the stories people create around their own lives.
ELECTRIC MEAT
Screening: Friday 28 August, 1:15 pm
Director: Dan Schaffer
Cast: Caspian Faye, Emily Booth, Nina Courson, Sylvia Soska
Genre: Horror, Psychological Horror
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 95 mins
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Synopsis: ELECTRIC MEAT follows a failed artist turned butcher whose disturbing creative obsession takes a horrific turn after he discovers one of his models has been murdered.
Rather than report what has happened, he keeps the body, convinced that his muse exists somewhere between life and death. As his fixation deepens, the dead model shifts in his mind from victim to something far more vengeful.
With another faded ex-model closing in and eager to become his new subject, the butcher is pulled between competing muses, artistic failure and violent delusion. ELECTRIC MEAT turns obsession, inspiration and decay into a nightmare of flesh, fear and fractured creativity.
STARSUCKERS
Screening: Friday 29 August, 3:15 pm
Directors: Jason Butler, Brett Butler
Cast: James Alex, Manon Ens-Lapointe, Jersey Anderson, Jacob Stickles
Genre: Horror, Satire, Psychological Thriller
Country: Canada
Language: English
Runtime: 86 mins
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Synopsis: STARSUCKERS is a gory satire of influencer culture, celebrity worship and the dangerous need to be seen.
An influencer couple invite their most loyal superfan couple to an intimate weekend retreat, secretly planning to use them as the centrepiece of their next viral reinvention. But the carefully staged getaway soon begins to collapse as both couples bring very different expectations to the weekend.
As admiration twists into obsession and online performance gives way to psychological warfare, STARSUCKERS turns influencer devotion into something feral, bloody and deadly.
FACES OF DEATH
Screening: Friday 28 August, 6:00 pm
Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Cast: Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Charli XCX
Genre: Horror, Slasher, Meta Horror
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 97 mins
Premiere Status: English Premiere
Synopsis: FACES OF DEATH reworks the controversial 1978 mondo title as a meta-slasher set inside the world of online video moderation.
Margot Romero works for Kino, a video-hosting platform where she reviews and flags disturbing clips uploaded at speed. Although she has grown used to shocking imagery, a series of murder videos begins to trouble her because they appear to be real.
When her concerns are ignored, Margot starts investigating for herself. With help from her horror-fan roommate, she discovers the deaths may be modelled on scenes from the original Video Nasty tape.
WRATH OF THE GODS
Screening: Friday 28 August, 8:30 pm
Director: Justin Hardy
Cast: Francis Magee, Christiane Schaldemose, Lynsey Rendall, Martha Robertson
Genre: Folk Horror, Supernatural Horror
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 94 mins
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Synopsis: From Justin Hardy, director of ‘CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN’, WRATH OF THE GODS is a folk horror tale rooted in Norse mythology.
On the remote North Sea island of Hel, Anna lives isolated from a community that despises her. Haunted by her husband’s death, her own trauma and the ghosts of the past, she is forced to confront the island’s myths as an ill wind blows through the community and young girls begin to disappear.
As the missing children, family secrets and old beliefs become dangerously connected, Anna must face what is hidden in the shadows before the darkness reaches her daughter too.
THE LATCHER
Screening: Friday 28 August, 10:50 pm
Director: James Hunter
Cast: Lucy Lovegrove, Darcy Kent, Monique Fisher
Genre: Horror, Supernatural Horror, Psychological Horror
Country: Australia
Language: English
Runtime: 80 mins
Premiere Status: International Premiere
Synopsis: THE LATCHER follows Alice, a dedicated midwife and grieving mother who is placed on leave and sent back to the remote bushland home where her life changed forever.
Trying to process her loss, Alice finds herself increasingly unsettled by the presence of a nightmarish entity. As her sense of reality begins to fracture, memory, nature and the supernatural start to merge around her.
Drawn into a space between life and death, Alice is forced to confront the shadowy force that torments her, and the dangerous promise of reunion with the child she has lost.
SATURDAY 29 AUGUST
THE DEATH OF US
Screening: Saturday 29 August, 1:05 pm
Director: Annabella Rich
Cast: Nicholas Vince, Marta Svetek, Annabella Rich, Chris Mills
Genre: Horror, Supernatural Horror, Psychological Horror
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 88 mins
Premiere Status: First Blood - World Premiere
Synopsis: THE DEATH OF US explores grief, trauma and supernatural horror through a couple whose lives are destroyed after the loss of their child during a violent home invasion by a cult.
As Casey and Danny try to process the aftermath, their relationship is pushed to breaking point. Casey is haunted by visions of an entity connected to the tragedy, while both are drawn back towards the cult responsible for their nightmare.
Blending emotional horror with otherworldly threat, THE DEATH OF US asks whether love can survive unimaginable loss, or whether grief and darker forces will consume them completely.
THE BROOK
Screening: Saturday 29 August, 3:40 pm
Director: Paul Stainthorpe
Cast: Connor Lawson, Helen Chong, Kylie Ann Ford, Jill Dellow
Genre: Horror, Folk Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 93 mins
Premiere Status: First Blood - World Premiere
Synopsis: THE BROOK follows art student Jacob as he moves to Elmbrook, the village where his mother grew up, and discovers that his grandfather’s old video camera can show one hour into the past.
The village is steeped in folklore, with locals believing Elmbrook is protected by a puma that watches over the good. But when one of those supposedly good villagers disappears, Jacob and his friends begin using the camera to uncover clues.
Their search pulls them deeper into Elmbrook’s strange history, where local legends, hidden secrets and a vengeful killer connected to the past begin to collide.
THE ALICE PARADOX
Screening: Saturday 29 August, 6:30 pm
Director: William Brooke
Cast: Jessica Kinsey, Gwithian Evans, Madeline Smith, Jeffrey Kissoon
Genre: Sci-Fi, Philosophical Sci-Fi, Time Travel
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 85 mins
Premiere Status: First Blood - World Premiere
Synopsis: THE ALICE PARADOX follows Alice as she travels back in time and finds herself in an alternate version of the recent past.
Trapped in a world where collectivism is valued above individuality, Alice is forced to examine her choices, her identity and the forces that may have shaped her life.
Inspired by ideas from quantum mechanics, THE ALICE PARADOX brings philosophical science fiction into a story of time travel, fate and meaning, exploring the human questions that emerge when science looks at nature on its grandest scale.
BINDING EVA
Screening: Saturday 29 August, 8:45 pm
Director: Conscian Morgan
Cast: Ryan Ralph Gerrard, Catherine Deevy, Darcey Wood
Genre: Sci-Fi, Time Loop, Drama
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 76 mins
Premiere Status: First Blood - World Premiere
Synopsis: BINDING EVA is the feature debut from award-winning short film director Conscian Morgan, set deep in the Forest of Dean.
Felix, a small-time criminal on the run, finds himself returning again and again to the same moment of judgement. Caught in a repeating cycle, he is forced to face the same impossible choice and the consequences of the life he has led.
Shot with a minimal crew in the mud and rain, BINDING EVA uses its time-loop premise to explore love, self-sacrifice and the painful cost of redemption that may arrive too late.
HERALDRY PARANORMAL
Screening: Saturday 29 August, 10:55 pm
Director: Ashley Nashville
Cast: Jimmy Roberts, Parker Paige, Tara Buranakul, Lance J. Parker
Genre: Horror, Comedy Horror, Found Footage
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 93 mins
Premiere Status: First Blood - World Premiere
Synopsis: HERALDRY PARANORMAL follows four paranormal investigators searching Yorkshire for definitive proof of ghosts, only to find themselves caught between conmen, online backlash and a level of terror they are not prepared for.
Blending found-footage horror with modern social media and vlog-style storytelling, the film gives the paranormal investigation format a fast-paced comic edge.
With a focus on engaging characters and queer representation, HERALDRY PARANORMAL brings together ghost hunting, internet culture and supernatural chaos in a lively new take on the genre.
SUNDAY 30 AUGUST
ZIP WIRE
Screening: Sunday 30 August, 11:05 am
Director: Howard J. Ford
Cast: MyAnna Buring, Joseph Millson, Saffron Burrows, Silvia Presente
Genre: Thriller, Action Thriller, Survival Thriller
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 88 mins
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Synopsis: Festival regular Howard J. Ford returns to FrightFest with ZIP WIRE, following previous FrightFest titles including ‘THE DEAD 2: INDIA’ and ‘NEVER LET GO’.
Amy Watson has spent her life searching for a cure after watching her mother die from an incurable disease when she was 13. Years later, she is working inside a high-security pharmaceutical company when her breakthrough discovery is stolen and her partner is murdered.
The attack forces Amy into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse high in the Dolomite mountains. With escape only possible across a treacherous aerial runway, Amy must confront her fear of heights and fight to protect both herself and the research that could change lives.
1:30 pm TBC
INFIRMARY
Screening: Sunday 30 August, 6:50 pm
Director: Nicholas Pineda
Cast: Paul Syre Lee, Mark Anthony Williams, Danielle Kennedy, Corinna Wagner-Smith
Genre: Horror, Found Footage, Psychological Horror
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 87 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: INFIRMARY follows Edward as he begins his first shift as a security guard at the abandoned Wilshire Hospital, a former psychiatric facility with a disturbing history of experimental practices.
Paired with Lester, a retiring guard whose behaviour immediately feels off, Edward quickly senses that the building is not as empty as it should be. As the night unfolds, unexplained intruders, unseen forces and the hospital’s dark past begin to close in around him.
Told through CCTV footage and bodycam recordings, INFIRMARY builds a night of escalating terror inside a decaying institution where the evidence only makes the mystery more disturbing.
DRACULA: THE NIGHT AROUND US
Screening: Sunday 30 August, 9:05 pm
Director: Chris Schwab
Cast: Eric Toms, Marlene Mc’Cohen, Spencer Weitzel, Brent Jones
Genre: Horror, Vampire Horror, Gothic Horror
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 71 mins
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Synopsis: DRACULA: THE NIGHT AROUND US offers a fresh take on Bram Stoker’s vampire mythology from visual effects artist Chris Schwab.
The story follows a disillusioned Dr. John Seward, who begins to recover his faith in humanity through his bond with Mina and her daughter Lucy. But that fragile hope is threatened when a legendary evil force begins hunting them.
Reworking familiar characters and themes through a new angle, DRACULA: THE NIGHT AROUND US blends flesh, fangs, forgiveness and funerals in a compact gothic horror tale built around grief, faith and the enduring shadow of Dracula.
MONDAY 31 AUGUST
COMPLIANCE
Screening: Monday 31 August, 10:30 am
Director: Kyle Mangione-Smith
Cast: Megan Wilcox, Lindsey Normington, Charlie Wood, Neil Wachs
Genre: Thriller, Conspiracy Thriller, Tech Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 104 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: COMPLIANCE follows Sam Cornell, a young crisis manager working for tech start-up UVisit, as she is brought in to manage the fallout from a sexual assault scandal that threatens a major business deal.
Trying to contain the story while also supporting the victim of a horrific crime, Sam finds herself pulled into something far more dangerous than corporate damage control.
As a powerful shadow organisation begins to manipulate events around her, Sam is forced into a violent conspiracy involving UVisit, its investors and her own unresolved past.
FULL MOON RISING: THE CHARLES BAND STORY
Screening: Monday 31 August, 3:45 pm
Director: Sarah Appleton
Cast: Charles Band, Richard Band, Dennis Paoli, John Carpenter
Genre: Documentary, Horror Documentary
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 97 mins
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Synopsis: FULL MOON RISING: THE CHARLES BAND STORY is a feature documentary exploring the life and career of prolific producer and director Charles Band.
The film looks back at Band’s work across genre cinema, including titles and franchises such as ‘RE-ANIMATOR’, ‘FROM BEYOND’, ‘TRANCERS’, ‘CASTLE FREAK’, ‘PUPPETMASTER’ and ‘EVIL BONG’.
Directed by Sarah Appleton, the documentary also covers Band’s early career, the Empire Pictures years, the rise of Full Moon Features, and the Media and Wizard labels that helped shape the home video boom of the 1980s, with the story told through Band’s own words and those closest to him.
SNAPSHOT
Screening: Monday 31 August, 6:30 pm
Director: Joseph Archer
Cast: Cathy Wippell, Lydia Helen, Nadia Lamin, Hazel Rodgers
Genre: Found Footage, Gothic Noir, Horror Documentary
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 85 mins
Premiere Status: English Premiere
Synopsis: SNAPSHOT takes place in 1888, as the Jack the Ripper killings begin and an amateur inventor creates an early moving image machine to document the work of an all-female ghost-hunting society.
The group believes the brutal murders across East London are not the work of a man, but of something far more monstrous. Their investigation unfolds against a Victorian backdrop of misinformation, sensationalist journalism and fabricated stories designed to sell newspapers.
Blending found footage, gothic noir and horror documentary, SNAPSHOT presents a fragmented and manipulated version of reality, using a distinctive pinhole camera aesthetic to reframe one of history’s most infamous crime stories.
