Tubi FrightFest 2026 Main Screen Schedule
BritFlicks is tracking the Tubi FrightFest 2026 Main Screen schedule, with screening dates, times, film details, trailers and updates from this year’s London genre film festival.
Taking place from Thursday 27 August to Monday 31 August 2026, the Main Screen programme includes the World Premiere of Abner Pastoll’s ‘NERVOUS’ as the opening film and the UK Premiere of Marion Le Corroller’s ‘SPECIES’ as the closing film. Tickets
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THURSDAY 27 AUGUST
NERVOUS
Screening: Thursday 27 August, 5:30 pm
Director: Abner Pastoll
Cast: Sarah Bolger, Ko Asung, Sungsoo Yune
Genre: Horror
Country: United Kingdom, South Korea
Language: English, Korean
Runtime: 100 mins
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Synopsis: Hoping to repair their failing marriage, Sarah and her husband Sungsoo leave for the Korean countryside, where isolation quickly becomes something far more unsettling.
Inside their new home, Sarah discovers an unmarked vinyl record that appears to play only silence. After listening to it, she begins to experience a disturbing change: men’s voices start to disappear from her hearing. Cut off from her husband and increasingly unsure of what is real, Sarah becomes drawn to a mysterious neighbour whose presence pulls her deeper into obsession.
As paranoia, hallucinations and desire begin to take hold, ‘NERVOUS’ blurs psychological horror with something more sinister, as Sarah is forced to question whether the threat is inside her mind or hidden within the house itself.
COLONY
Screening: Thursday 27 August, 8:15 pm
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Cast: Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-hwan, Ji Chang-wook, Kim Shin-rok
Genre: Action, Zombie Horror
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Runtime: 122 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: Direct from the Cannes Film Festival, ‘COLONY’ brings Yeon Sang-ho back to large-scale zombie cinema, following his work on ‘SEOUL STATION’, ‘TRAIN TO BUSAN’ and ‘PENINSULA’.
The outbreak begins inside a biotech conference, where Professor Se Jeong watches events rapidly collapse after a mutating virus is accidentally released. Within minutes, attendees are infected, the facility is sealed, and those trapped inside are left to face a threat that is changing as quickly as it spreads.
As survivors move through the locked-down building, physical transformations, rising panic and shrinking options turn the conference centre into a battleground. With contamination spreading and time running out, ‘COLONY’ combines outbreak horror with action-driven survival cinema.
BIG BABY
Screening: Thursday 27 August, 11:00 pm
Director: Spider One
Cast: Krsy Fox, Brandon Scott, Adam Marcinowski, Catherine Corcoran
Genre: Horror, Slasher, Meta Horror
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 103 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: From the team behind ‘LITTLE BITES’ and produced by Cher, BIG BABY follows horror screenwriter Adam Lewis after a nightmare about a killer in a baby mask sparks the idea for his latest script.
But as Adam’s nightmares, visions and waking life begin to blur, the story he is writing starts to take on a terrifying life of its own. His grip on reality weakens as the horror moves from the page into the world around him.
Directed by Spider One, BIG BABY turns the slasher film inside out, using a meta-horror premise to explore creation, obsession and the deadly consequences of losing control of your own imagination.
FRIDAY 28 AUGUST
IMPOSTERS
Screening: Friday 28 August, 10:30 am
Director: Caleb Phillips
Cast: Jessica Rothe, Charlie Barnett, Yul Vazquez, Bates Wilden
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 102 mins
Premiere Status: English Premiere
Worldwide Sales: Blue Finch Films Releasing
Synopsis: IMPOSTERS follows Paul and Marie, a grieving couple whose infant son Theo vanishes during a housewarming party.
After a stranger arrives at their door with claims of a cave that can return their missing child, Marie goes there alone. She comes back covered in blood and carrying a baby who appears to be Theo, but she has no memory of what happened.
As Paul struggles to understand what his wife has brought home, he begins to suspect that the baby may not be their son, and that Marie may know more than she can admit.
FROSTBITE
Screening: Friday 28 August, 1:05 pm
Director: Lukas Rinker
Cast: Zoe Boyle, Kris Hitchen, Andrew Scarborough, Lily Curley
Genre: Survival Thriller, Disaster Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany
Language: English
Runtime: 82 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: From ‘HOLY SHIT!’ director Lukas Rinker, FROSTBITE combines disaster movie spectacle with a contained survival thriller set high on the fog-covered summit of Canada’s Mount Killgore.
When a group of investors arrive to assess whether the area can become a prestigious winter sports destination, a controlled avalanche blast goes wrong. Former skating pro Charles, geologist Martia and her daughter Billy are left trapped inside a crashed cable car beneath the ice.
With injuries, freezing temperatures and environmental dangers closing in, the survivors fight to escape the collapsed ski lift. But as conditions worsen, it becomes clear that something outside may be trying to get in.
PONDEROSA
Screening: Friday 28 August, 3:25 pm
Director: Rob Rice
Cast: Bill Camp, Jack Dylan Grazer, Alexis Bledel, Nicholas Podany
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 88 mins
Premiere Status: International Premiere
Synopsis: Fresh from its Tribeca Festival launch, PONDEROSA follows Zeke, whose life is disrupted when the buffet where his mother works closes.
He soon finds himself dealing with the unwanted attention of a wealthy regular who appears strangely determined to become his father figure. But what first seems awkward and absurd may be hiding something far more sinister.
A surreal comedy-horror about generational tension, fading influence and competing ideas of the future, PONDEROSA turns an uncomfortable family dynamic into a strange and unsettling nightmare.
THE PITCHFORK RETREAT
Screening: Friday 28 August, 6:20 pm
Directors: Gregory Van Voorhis, Nicole Van Voorhis
Cast: Tony Todd, Danielle Harris, Dee Wallace, Adrienne Barbeau
Genre: Horror, Anthology
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 94 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: From the producers of the ‘TERRIFIER’ franchise, THE PITCHFORK RETREAT follows three genre writers, Matt, Mandy and Nikolai, as they travel to a secluded island for a high-stakes horror writing competition.
The retreat promises a life-changing prize, but the challenge soon becomes far more dangerous than expected. As the writers are forced to confront their own secrets and inner demons, the island becomes a place where buried darkness is brought violently to the surface.
Featuring Tony Todd in his final screen appearance, alongside Danielle Harris, Dee Wallace and Adrienne Barbeau, THE PITCHFORK RETREAT brings together anthology horror and genre legends for a story of secrets, ambition and terror.
DRAG
Screening: Friday 28 August, 8:45 pm
Directors: Raviv Ullman, Greg Yagointzer
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Lucy DeVito, John Stamos, Christine Ko
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 86 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: Co-produced by Danny DeVito, DRAG is a horror-comedy thriller built around a robbery that goes badly wrong.
Two sisters with a difficult relationship decide to rob a rural home in upstate New York, but what should be a simple break-in turns into a chaotic nightmare when one of them throws out her back and becomes trapped on the second floor.
With time running out, pain setting in and the homeowner’s return looming, the sisters’ desperate attempt to escape spirals into a dark, twisting mystery where nothing is quite what it seems.
HUNGRY
Screening: Friday 28 August, 10:55 pm
Director: James Nunn
Cast: Madison Davenport, Tracey Bonner, Michael Curiel, Joaquim de Almeida
Genre: Survival Thriller, Creature Feature, Horror
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 92 mins
Premiere Status: English Premiere
Synopsis: Set in the Louisiana swamplands, HUNGRY follows a group of holidaymakers who join Gator Joe’s airboat tour and are drawn away from the usual route by the promise of a rare sighting of Big Ben, a legendary alligator.
But the bayou hides a much stranger threat. A century earlier, the US government attempted to introduce hippopotamuses into the area as a new source of meat, and one surviving creature from that experiment now stalks the waterways.
As the tourists enter its territory, their trip becomes a desperate fight for survival against an unexpected and highly dangerous predator.
SATURDAY 29 AUGUST
LABYRINTH
Screening: Saturday 29 August, 10:30 am
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Cast: Mekhi Phifer, Alexxis Lemire, Chris Klein, Shane West, Tommy Flanagan
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 94 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: From FrightFest favourite Ryuhei Kitamura, director of ‘THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN’, ‘NO ONE LIVES’ and ‘NIGHTMARE CINEMA’, LABYRINTH brings a deadly moral test to the screen.
A group of strangers are brought together under mysterious circumstances and forced into a facility controlled by a sinister figure. Each has been chosen because of past transgressions, and each must face a series of brutal challenges designed to test their will to survive.
Drawing on the tradition of trap-based horror and action-driven survival cinema, LABYRINTH follows its victims through a descent into violence, judgement and possible redemption.
DEAD RESET
Screening: Saturday 29 August, 1:00 pm
Director: Stewart Sparke
Cast: Daniel Thrace, Lyndsey Craine, Dennis Rasaq, Andrina Carroll
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Time Loop Horror
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 98 mins
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Synopsis: Based on the popular video game of the same name, DEAD RESET traps surgeon Cole Mason inside an underwater research facility where he is forced to operate on a mutating parasitic creature.
But Cole is also caught in a violent time loop, forced to relive his own death again and again as the horror escalates around him.
To survive, he must learn from each brutal reset, confront the creature and find a way to break the loop before he is trapped in an endless cycle of blood, death and mutation.
ITHAQUA
Screening: Saturday 29 August, 3:30 pm
Director: Casey Walker
Cast: Luke Hemsworth, Kevin Durand, Michael Pitt, Leenah Robinson
Genre: Survival Horror, Supernatural Horror, Period Horror
Country: Canada
Language: English
Runtime: 110 mins
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Synopsis: Hammer returns to Tubi FrightFest with ITHAQUA, a period survival horror set in 1800s Canada.
American mercenary Cole Franklin is hired to work at the remote Fort William outpost, where the decline of the fur trade has left supplies running dangerously low. Pressured into leading a trading party to a nearby Indigenous village, Cole and the group discover the aftermath of a massacre and encounter the traumatised survivors.
Although the party returns to the fort with food and furs, the journey has brought something else back with them: the supernatural force responsible for the carnage.
GRIND
Screening: Saturday 29 August, 6:30 pm
Directors: Ed Dougherty, Brea Grant, Chelsea Stardust
Cast: Mercedes Mason, Barbara Crampton, Rob Huebel, Christopher Rodriguez Marquette
Genre: Horror, Anthology, Satire
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 103 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: GRIND is a horror anthology taking aim at the modern workplace through four stories of exploitation, pressure and survival.
The film explores the relentless grind of multi-level marketing, the repetitive strain of gig economy food delivery, the online trauma of content moderation and the tensions around unionising a high street coffee shop franchise.
Blending workplace satire with horror, GRIND looks at what it means to be an employee in a world shaped by inequality, bad bosses and systems that push people to breaking point.
THE NAMELESS BALLAD
Screening: Saturday 29 August, 9:00 pm
Director: Federico Zampaglione
Cast: Jamie Ward, Alana Boden, Fabrizio Ferracane, Seaumas Sargent
Genre: Horror, Supernatural Horror
Country: Italy
Language: Italian / English TBC
Runtime: 87 mins
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Synopsis: THE NAMELESS BALLAD follows a young musician under pressure from his record label, who retreats to an isolated Italian villa in search of inspiration for his next album.
Inside the villa, he discovers an ancient piano and a forgotten diary, drawing him into a disturbing world of obsession, ghostly presences and supernatural visions.
From FrightFest favourite Federico Zampaglione, director of ‘SHADOW’ and ‘THE WELL’, THE NAMELESS BALLAD turns artistic pressure into a descent towards madness, where death becomes a dangerous source of inspiration.
GHOST IN THE CELL
Screening: Saturday 29 August, 11:10 pm
Director: Joko Anwar
Cast: Abimana Aryasatya, Endy Arfian, Bront Palarae, Morgan Oey
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Country: Indonesia
Language: Indonesian
Runtime: 106 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: GHOST IN THE CELL is set inside a high-security prison ruled by a tyrannical warden, where a series of gruesome murders leaves bodies displayed in increasingly disturbing ways.
As fear spreads through the prison, the inmates must look beyond gang rivalries and work out who, or what, is behind the killings. Their search for answers unfolds against a chaotic backdrop of sudden prayers, political statements, ecological concerns, dance-offs and brutal confrontations.
From Indonesian genre filmmaker Joko Anwar, GHOST IN THE CELL mixes horror, comedy and graphic brutality in a prison-set mystery with an otherworldly threat at its centre.
SUNDAY 30 AUGUST
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECKY
Screening: Sunday 30 August, 11:00 am
Director: Jenn Wexler
Cast: Lulu Wilson, Neil Patrick Harris, Kate Siegel, James Urbaniak
Genre: Action, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 89 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECKY continues the indie action-thriller franchise starring Lulu Wilson as Becky Hooper, a teenage girl who has repeatedly found herself targeted by violent criminals, only to prove more dangerous than anyone expected.
Now working as a CIA field agent, Becky goes undercover in Poland to infiltrate a family-run inn at The Wolf’s Lair, one of Hitler’s Second World War bunkers. Behind the inn, a plot is forming to ignite the Fourth Reich.
With extremists once again in her path, Becky is forced to take matters into her own hands in what is described as the franchise’s biggest, bloodiest and most unhinged instalment yet.
THE GLORIOUS DEAD
Screening: Sunday 30 August, 1:20 pm
Directors: Toby Poser, John Adams
Cast: Toby Poser, Lulu Adams, Zelda Adams, John Adams
Genre: Horror, Apocalyptic Horror
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 80 mins
Premiere Status: International Premiere
Synopsis: THE GLORIOUS DEAD marks the return of the Adams family to FrightFest with an apocalyptic horror fable set in a small town descending into chaos.
A sheriff and her deputy wake to a world that has changed overnight. Blood drips from taps, people and pets begin to disappear, strange fleshy creatures move through the woods, and the community around them starts to collapse.
As snow falls from white skies and the dead refuse to stay buried, the town is pushed towards breaking point in a bleak, surreal and violent vision of the end.
3:30 pm TBC
GATOR FACE
Screening: Sunday 30 August, 6:40 pm
Director: Padraig Reynolds
Cast: Tabitha Brownstone, Amariah Dionne, Nikolas Kolasinski, Kiara Mitjans
Genre: Creature Feature, Horror, Exploitation Horror
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 80 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: GATOR FACE brings Padraig Reynolds back to FrightFest with a practical-effects creature feature inspired by 1970s exploitation horror.
A group of friends head to Florida for a sun-soaked holiday, only for their trip to take a violent turn when they encounter a remote cult devoted to an ancient alligator deity.
Featuring real alligators, practical gore and no CGI or AI, GATOR FACE turns a carefree getaway into a swamp-set fight for survival, full of bloody sacrifice, cult madness and snapping reptilian terror.
SPIDER ISLAND
Screening: Sunday 30 August, 8:50 pm
Director: Christopher Smith
Cast: Rose Williams, Andy Nyman, Tim McInnerney, Avani Gregg
Genre: Comedy Horror, Creature Feature
Country: UK
Language: English
Runtime: 98 mins
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Synopsis: SPIDER ISLAND marks Christopher Smith’s return to FrightFest with a comedy-horror creature feature set on a secluded tropical island.
The Oceania Pearl Hotel is preparing for its opening party, inviting a group of famous social media influencers to help promote it as one of the world’s most exclusive new luxury resorts.
But beneath the polished surface, construction has disturbed a network of subterranean caves and awakened a deadly horde of spiders. As the creatures emerge to reclaim the island, the glamorous launch event turns into an eight-legged fight for survival.
MONDAY 31 AUGUST
ODDITIES
Screening: Monday 31 August, 10:45 am
Director: Tyler Savage
Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Xander Berkeley, Lovie Simone, Lilimar
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 91 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: Based on Tyler Savage’s award-winning 2023 short, ODDITIES follows two self-destructive best friends whose lives spiral after they accidentally kill their drug dealer.
With few options left, they flee town and stop at a quiet roadside antique shop run by an apparently helpful owner, played by genre icon Adrienne Barbeau.
But the shop is not as harmless as it first appears, and the owner’s offer of help soon leads the pair into darker and more dangerous territory.
VALLEY VIEW MOTEL
Screening: Monday 31 August, 1:10 pm
Directors: Kevin Ignatius, Nick Psinakis
Cast: Kevin Ignatius, Nick Psinakis, Melissa Collins, Laura Im
Genre: Crime Thriller, Horror, Noir Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 93 mins
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Synopsis: From Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis, co-directors of FrightFest 2023 title ‘CHEAT’, VALLEY VIEW MOTEL is a noir-tinged chiller set in 1977.
After a diamond heist goes violently wrong, two small-time crooks go on the run from a hitman sent after them. Looking for somewhere to hide, they take refuge at a remote Pennsylvania motel run by a peculiar owner and his sister.
But the motel offers anything but safety. As the night unfolds, the pair realise they have escaped one nightmare only to walk straight into something even darker.
YOU ARE THE FILM
Screening: Monday 31 August, 3:30 pm
Director: Makoto Ueda
Cast: Riko Fujitani, Takafumi Imai, Kai Inowaki, Gôta Ishida
Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 68 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: YOU ARE THE FILM marks the feature directorial debut of Makoto Ueda, writer of ‘BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES’ and ‘RIVER’.
Shimokitazawa playwright Madoka and Sangenjaya band member Kazuma separately visit the Tollywood independent cinema, only to discover something impossible. Each appears inside the film the other is watching, with Madoka on Kazuma’s screen and Kazuma on Madoka’s.
As events begin to cross between their two stories, the pair communicate through the screen and try to solve the problems unfolding in each other’s narratives, creating a playful sci-fi multiverse built around cinema, identity and connection.
HYENA
Screening: Monday 31 August, 6:30 pm
Director: Matthew Ninaber
Cast: Storm Steenson, Kristen Kaster, Jeremy Ninaber, Matthew Ninaber
Genre: Crime Thriller, Horror, Serial Killer Thriller
Country: Canada
Language: English
Runtime: 84 mins
Premiere Status: World Premiere
Synopsis: HYENA follows Nicole after a brutal breakup draws her into the dangerous world of online sex work, where money fuels increasingly extreme fantasies.
Influenced by the charismatic Rachel, Nicole’s life takes a darker turn when she becomes the target of a serial killer. Detectives Dan and Hugh are pulled into the case after finding Nicole and Rachel at the scene of a horrific car crash, alongside two dead bodies.
As the detectives race to protect Nicole and uncover the killer’s identity, they are forced to confront both the violence around them and their own unresolved demons.
SPECIES (SANGUINE)
Screening: Monday 31 August, 8:55 pm
Director: Marion Le Corroller
Cast: Mara Taquin, Karin Viard, Kim Higelin, Sami Outalbali
Genre: Sci-Fi, Body Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Language: French
Runtime: 103 mins
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Synopsis: SPECIES (SANGUINE) is the debut feature from French writer-director Marion Le Corroller, blending dark comedy, sci-fi and body horror with a story rooted in workplace pressure and burnout.
Mara Taquin stars as Margot Loiseau, a young intern working in one of the country’s most competitive emergency rooms. Struggling to keep up in an exhausting, high-pressure environment, Margot begins to suffer from a mysterious and life-threatening sickness.
With body-mutation effects created by Oscar-winning special make-up effects designer Pierre-Olivier Persin, SPECIES (SANGUINE) turns professional anxiety and physical collapse into a Gen Z body-horror thriller.
