Horror fans rejoice! It\u2019s that time of year again: The Horror Channel FrightFest 2016 line-up has been announced and it is excellent.<\/p>\n
The 17th<\/sup> FrightFest event will take place at Vue Shepherd\u2019s Bush from 25-29 August, with My Father Die<\/em><\/strong> opening the festival. It\u2019s described as a \u201cultra-stylish, uber violent revenge thriller,\u201d while the closing night zombie movie Train To Busan<\/em><\/strong> promises to take the audience \u201con a first class horror action thrill-ride, mixing slaughter, suspense and splatter with incredible visual \u00e9lan.\u201d<\/p>\n So that\u2019s opening and closing covered, but there\u2019s DAYS worth of films left to talk about.<\/p>\n There\u2019s Adam Wingard\u2019s The Woods<\/em><\/strong>, Rob Zombie\u2019s 31<\/em><\/strong>, Darren Lynn Bousman\u2019s Abbatoir<\/em><\/strong>, Simon Rumley\u2019s Johnny Frank Garrett\u2019s Last Word,<\/em><\/strong> Adam Rifkin\u2019s Director\u2019s Cut<\/em><\/strong>, Jackson Stewart\u2019s Beyond The Gates<\/em><\/strong> (good to see the tradition of Barbara Crampton movies at FrightFest is continuing from last year!).<\/p>\n We\u2019re very also very excited about Anna Biller\u2019s The Love Witch<\/em><\/strong>, Fabien Delage\u2019s Fury Of The Demon<\/em><\/strong>, Craig Anderson\u2019s Red Christmas<\/em><\/strong>, and Cody Calahan\u2019s Let Her Out<\/em><\/strong> and Bobby Miller\u2019s The Master Cleanse<\/em><\/strong>, while Argentine horror We Are The Flesh<\/em><\/strong> reportedly comes with Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu\u2019s approval. If you missed Sean Byrne\u2019s The Devil\u2019s Candy<\/em><\/strong> at FrightFest Glasgow, we highly recommend catching it here.<\/p>\n There are also twelve UK movies on the slate, including dark fantasy Crow<\/em><\/strong> (starring Terence Stamp, Nick Moran and Emily Bevan), Egomaniac<\/em><\/strong> (from On Tender Hooks director Kate Shenton), and PTSD horror The Unkindness Of Ravens<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Tricia Lee\u2019s Blood Hunters<\/em><\/strong> has a woman waking up to discover that everyone is dead and that she is nine months pregnant, Pet<\/em><\/strong> has Dominic Monaghan imprisoning the woman he\u2019s obsessed with in the basement of the animal shelter where he works, while The Rezort<\/em><\/strong> offers a zombie theme park (what could possibly go wrong?).<\/p>\n There\u2019s plenty more besides, and we\u2019ll be offering a more in-depth rundown of the films on offer in the near future, but this is a great line-up for what\u2019s sure to be a great weekend of horror. Tickets are on sale NOW, so go! Buy tickets!<\/p>\n Buy tickets for Horror Channel FrightFest 2016 here<\/a>. Get more information about this year’s festival at the official website<\/a>. Keep up with the latest horror news with the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Get ready, horror fans, Horror Channel FrightFest 2016 is coming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":88741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2634,797],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image014.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}