Glasgow FrightFest 2025: Screams, gore, and popcorn galore!

FrightFest Glasgow is back with more ghoulish goodies for 2025…

Listen up horror fans! The Glasgow FrightFest horror festival is back at the renowned Glasgow Film Festival for its 20th year this spring, running from Thurs 6 March to Sat 8 March 2025 and what a line-up it has!

The three-day event, housed at the iconic Glasgow Film Theatre, presents a curated programme of four world premiere features, while the short film showcase highlights filmmakers exclusively from the UK and Ireland, including two from Scotland.

“There has never been a better time to be a fan of the horror, fantasy and science fiction genre and FrightFest, the UK’s biggest and most influential event, plays its vital part in spreading the communal message,” said FrightFest co-director Alan Jones. “This includes our residency at the Glasgow Film Festival, where the FrightFest audience is vibrant, welcoming and eager to embrace the dark unknown, and we absolutely love being a strand of such a truly interactive experience with the art of film.”

Check out the line-up below…

Psyche

Directed by Stephon Stewart (Bigfoot County), Psyche is a thriller starring Sarah Ritter, as Mara, who, with the aid of a vintage 1980s computer, embarks on a surreal journey where nothing is as it seems.

Not only that, but director Stephen Stewart will be attending the screening.

House Of Ashes

FrighFest will be hosting the UK premiere of House Of Ashes – Izzy Lee’s feature debut, which promises to be ‘an unpredictable ghost story, complete with thought-provoking gender commentary and Joe Lynch as a nosy jogger’.

Izzy Lee, lead actress Fanya Sanchez and writer/producer Steve Johanson will host the screening.

The Last Sacrifice

That’s not the only UK premiere from the festival. Glasgow FrightFest will also be showing the UK premiere of The Last Sacrificea documentary by filmmaker Rupert Russell, framed as an ‘unsettling true-crime investigation that probes into the eerie, enigmatic cultural undercurrents that shaped the 1970s folk horror genre’.

Rupert Russell will also be attending the festival.

By The Throat

Next is the world premiere of David Luke Rees’s UK-set horror By The Throat, starring Sex Education’s Patricia Allison and Bridgerton star Rupert Young.

The Doom Busters

The Doom Busters is from the team that brought Here Comes Hell, one of FrightFest Glasgow’s hits of 2019. With this movie director Jack McHenry once again promises to deliver ‘gross-out gore and wacky period where Dad’s Army meets Predator’.

Director Jack McHenry and the cast will be attending the event.

In Our Blood

Glasgow FrighFest will have the UK premiere of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Pedro Kos’ feature debut In Our Blood, which is said to ‘masterfully blend psychological mystery with chilling horror, weaving a twisted tale of reconciling with the ghosts of our past and confronting the complicity we share in creating a world preying on the most vulnerable’.

A Mother’s Embrace

The UK premiere of Brazilian supernatural horror A Mother’s Embrace will take place on the Saturday of the festival. Set in 1996, during one of the biggest storms to ever hit Rio de Janeiro, Cristian Ponce’s occult thriller stars Marjorie Estiano.

Hearts Of Darkness: The Making Of The Final Friday

Hearts Of Darkness: The Making Of The Final Friday is a probing documentary from director Adam Marcus who takes you behind the scenes for a never-before-seen look at the controversial ninth episode in the iconic series.

Adam Marcus and director Michael Flesher will be attending the festival.

The American Backyard

From Italian filmmaker Pupi Avati (director of The House with Laughing Windows) comes The American Backyard, a tale of absolute fear, which co-stars Rita Tushingham.

Scared To Death

Glasgow FrightFest will host the International premiere of Paul Boyd’s supernatural comedy horror Scared To Death, which stars Lin Shaye and Bill Moseley. It follows a chaotic film crew conducting a séance in an abandoned children’s orphanage. What could possibly go wrong?

Rumplestilskin

The event climaxes with Rumplestilskin, an eerie folk-horror adaptation, written and directed by Andy Edwards, which plunges audiences into the dark underbelly of the Brothers Grimm universe.

Andy Edwards will be attending the event with leading cast Hannah Baxter-Eve and Joss Carter, who plays Rumpelstiltskin.


Short Film Showcase

This is not the title of a movie you cheeky lot but rather a plethora of amazing short movies shown at the festival, which shines the spotlight on home-grown talent, unleashing the creative imaginations of seven up-and-coming directors from the UK and Ireland. All the directors and various cast will be at the event to introduce their films.


Tickets for Glasgow FrightFest

FrightFest Passes are £88 and available from 10am on Friday 17 January 2025.  Passes will be exchanged for admission wristbands, which must be worn at all times to access all FrightFest films on Friday 7 March and Saturday 8 March ONLY.

Tickets for the Friday and Saturday films are on sale to GFT Cinecard holders on Thursday 23 January from 10am. General sale starts on Monday 27 January at 10am priced at £12.00 / £9.50 (concessions).

Get your weekend passes here and tickets for individual films here. You can also purchase tickets by phone: (0141) 332 6535, extension 2 or in person at Glasgow Film Theatre Box Office, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB.

Find out more, including dates and times, at the official Glasgow Film Festival website here.