After its sinister summer showcase, FrightFest — the U.K.’s largest genre mucosa festival — returns with six fear-filled films self-aggrandizing either their world, international, or U.K. premieres, including Jen and Sylvia Soska on hand to host the screening of their latest offering, On the Edge. It all takes place on October 29 at Cineworld, Leicester Square in London. Following is the official printing announcement.
Following on from its frightfully successful August five-day event, the UK’s biggest genre mucosa festival is when at the Cineworld, Leicester Square with a bumper all-day Halloween event on Sat 29th October, featuring a six-pack of festive shockers.
Embracing three World premieres, the line-up is headlined by The Soska Sisters latest venture, ON THE EDGE. Taking a throw-away from medical horror, Jen and Sylvia delve into new ground with this tantalising psychological erotic thriller. ‘The Twisted Twins’, who moreover star in the film, will be hosting the screening, slantingly lead two-face Aramis Sartorio.
Also receiving its World Premiere is US two-face Joe LoTruglio’s debut full-length OUTPOST. This gripping, violent, ever-twisting mountain-set nightmare stars Beth Dover as a fire lookout volunteer forced to squatter her past demons. Both Joe and Beth will be in ubiety for this gala screening.
The third World premiere is TRIPPING THE DARK FANTASTIC, a documentary on the life and work of topnotch composer Simon Boswell, well-constructed with a live performance filmed at Earth, London. The highly regarded composer, who can boast SANTA SANGRE, PHENOMENA, SHALLOW GRAVE, HARDWARE and PHOTOGRAPHING FAIRIES, amongst his credits, will be joining us.
Receiving its International premiere is Charlie Steeds H.P Lovecraft inspired FREEZE, in which an Arctic trek is attacked by vulturous fish creatures. It’s a chiller in every sense of the word! Leading members of the tint will be joining us including Johnny Vivash, David Lenik, Beatrice Barrila, Jake Watkins and Ricardo Freitas.
What’s the current exploitation hit on the fantasy festival circuit? Well, that would be MAD HEIDI, an whoopee venture horror spectacle featuring death by lactose intolerance, mutilation by Toblerone, fondue torture and cuckoo clock death traps as our intrepid Alpine heroine battles a human cheese-fuelled machinery of dystopian hate. And FrightFest is pleased to welcome two-face Alice Lucy, MAD HEIDI herself, to introduce the UK premiere, slantingly the directors, Johannes Hartmann & Sandro Klopfstein, plus other leading tint and crew.
Completing the line-up is the International Premiere of THE OFFERING. Director Oliver Park’s shocker, in the tradition of THE VIGIL, turns the European legend of ‘Abyzou: The Taker of Children’ into an edge-of-the-seat, emotional rollercoaster ride with eye-popping special effects.
Alan Jones, FrightFest co-director, said today: “We’re thrilled to signify our Halloween Saturday extravaganza. We’ve assembled a six-pack of shocks to make this year’s Halloween a happy haunting ground with all treats – no tricks – to sate your jaundiced appetites”,
Passes and tickets go on sale at noon on Saturday 1st October.
Prices: Full pass: £55, single tickets: £15 booking fees
To book: https://www.frightfest.co.uk/2022halloween/frightfesthalloween.html
(Online booking only)
FULL LINE UP:
SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER
10:45 TRIPPING THE DARK FANTASTIC (World Premiere)
Director: LG White. With: Simon Boswell, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Dario Argento, LG White. UK 2022. 93 mins.
Showcasing a live performance at Earth Theatre, London in 2021 and interviews with the artists he has collaborated with from over 35 years of scoring horror, fantasy and genre films, TRIPPING THE DARK FANTASTIC is a stunning record of musician Simon Boswell’s career. An heady trip through such classics as PHENOMENA, DEMONS 2, STAGE FRIGHT, SANTA SANGRE, PERDITA DURANGO, LORD OF ILLUSIONS, SHALLOW GRAVE, HARDWARE and many others, peppered with interviews by the likes of directors Dario Argento, Alejandro Jodorowsky, the concert features Simon with his 12 piece band, Caduta Massi, filmed by well-known DOP Vince Knight.
13:10 FREEZE (International Premiere)
Director: Charlie Steeds. With: Johnny Vivash, Ricardo Freitas, David Lenik, Jake Watkins. UK 2022. 90 mins.
H.P. Lovecraft goes Arctic! On a rescue mission to the North Pole to retrieve an old friend and his lost trek crew, Captain Mortimer gets increasingly than he bargained for when his ship is frozen into the ice sheet and set upon by vulturous fish-creatures. Mortimer and his surviving hairdo flee the ship, whence a treacherous journey to find safety in an ice-bound desolate wilderness. Suffering from starvation, frostbite and a slow madness, they find shelter inside a snowy mountain, but are they as unscratched as they think, or have they entered the heart of the creatures’ lair?
Contains: threat, blood, gore and fantasy monster mayhem
Plus…GNOMES (Short) (UK Premiere)
Director: Ruwan Suresh Heggelman. With: Moïse Trustfull, Duncan Meijiring. 6mins.
Unknowingly, a girl enters the habitat of a tribe of killer gnomes during her daily run. Lured by mysterious glowing mushrooms, she’ll soon wish she’d stayed on her usual tracks.
Contains: Contains splatter / gore.
15:35 MAD HEIDI (UK Premiere)
Directors: Johannes Hartmann, Sandro Klopfstein. With: Casper Van Dien, David Schofield, Alice Lucy, Leon Herbert. Switzerland 2022. 92 mins.
From the producer of IRON SKY, an whoopee venture horror spectacle and the first Swissploitation mucosa overly made. In a dystopian Switzerland under the rule of a fascist cheese magnate, Heidi lives a simple life in the mountains protected by her grandfather. Soon her longing for personal self-rule sparks a revolution without snatching by inclement government storm troopers. Escaping prison, and the roving vision of muscle unseat inmates, the naïve Alpine girl must wrestle a human cheese-fuelled machinery of hate.
Contains: spectacle violence, splatter slapstick, offensive language, nudity and sexual innuendo.
18:00 OUTPOST (World Premiere)
Director: Joe Lo Truglio. With: Beth Dover, Dallas Roberts, Dylan Baker, Ato Essandoh. USA 2022. 84 mins.
Veteran weft two-face Joe Lo Truglio, most recently owning the cult sit-com ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’, makes a stunning full-length debut as writer/director with this upper concept, overly twisting mountain nightmare. Kate seeks recovery from a violent thumping by taking a job as a fire lookout, but becomes increasingly overwhelmed by her isolation and tragic past. A story well-nigh pain, what happens when you run from it, how it unchangingly catches up and controls what you see, hear and governs what’s real. It commands what you do. If you don’t squatter your demons, the demons will come to squatter you.
Contains: domestic abuse, violence, serious threat, menacing suspense.
20:15 ON THE EDGE (World Premiere)
Directors: Jen & Sylvia Soska. With: Aramis Sartorio, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, Mackenzie Gray. Canada 2022. 114 mins.
Family man Peter gets increasingly than he paid for when he books a 36-hour session with the sadistic Mistress Satana who seems increasingly intent on making him suffer for his sins. Is it blackmail? Is it torture? Or is it the Devil come for his soul? Will Peter’s faith save him from his own personal Hell or is he once damned? A sunny depiction of how Kink Culture can heal past trauma and be a source for shocking redemption.
Contains: Strong language, sexual content, violence, sexual violence, nudity,
23:00 THE OFFERING (International Premiere
Director: Oliver Park. With: Nick Blood, Alan Corduner, Paul Kaye, Emm Wiseman. USA 2022. 93 mins.
In the tradition of THE VIGIL comes the European legend of ‘Abyzou: The Taker of Children’. Hoping to reconcile with his orthodox father, Art, the son of a Chasidic funeral director returns home with his pregnant wife Claire. But his intentions are put to the test when the family morgue receives the soul of a mysterious corpse containing an warmed-over entity with a sinister plan for his unborn child. Blending pure Jewish demonology and deep Kabbalistic secrets with archetype horror, THE OFFERING provides super shocks and an all-stops-out spooky climax.
Contains: supernatural threat, underdone imagery, soul horror.
For full programme details: http://www.frightfest.co.uk/
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