Horror Channel FrightFest returns to London’s Empire, Leicester Square on Thursday and it’s the biggest horror film festival the UK has to offer!
Relocating to its previous location after moving to Shepherd’s Bush in more recent years, this year’s line-up looks bigger and better than ever. The festival kicks off with the World Premiere of the brand new Chucky film, Cult of Chucky.
We’ve rounded up the films you simply can’t afford to miss on Day 1 (Thursday 24th August 2017) of this year’s Horror Channel FrightFest!
Keep reading to find out more about the films…
Cult of Chucky
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Plot: Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica Pierce is erroneously convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family. But when her psychiatrist introduces a new therapeutic “tool” to facilitate his patients’ group sessions – an all-too-familiar “Good Guy” doll – a string of grisly deaths begins to plague the asylum, and Nica starts to wonder if maybe she isn’t crazy after all. Andy Barclay, Chucky’s now-grown-up original nemesis races to Nica’s aid. But he’ll have to get past Tiffany, Chucky’s bride, who will do anything, no matter how deadly or depraved, to help her beloved devil doll.
Cast: Brad Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, Fiona Dourif, Andy Barclay, Alex Vincent, Michael Therriault
Director: Don Mancini
When: 6pm (Horror Channel Screen) or 6.45pm (Arrow Video Screen)
Death Note
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Plot: Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, You’re Next/The Guest director Adam Wingard’s remake follows high school student Light Turner who comes across a supernatural notebook with the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, Light launches a secret crusade and begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante finds himself pursued by a reclusive detective known only by the alias L and a deadly game of cat and mouse begins to end his reign of terror.
Cast: Margaret Qualley, Lakeith Stanfield, Willem Dafoe, Shea Whigham, Nat Wolff
Director: Adam Wingard
When: 9pm (Horror Channel Screen) or 9.40pm (Arrow Video Screen)
Psychopaths
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Plot: The paths of multiple serial killers cross over one single, blood soaked night. Which psychopath will survive through to morning? Follow the soul of a recently executed serial killer as he descends back to earth and possesses his many followers beneath the full moon. There’s Alice, an escaped mental patient who thinks she’s living in the 1950s glamour world, Blondie, a beautiful seductress who lures men down into her suburban basement, the Midnight Strangler, first seen claiming a victim in a seedy hotel, and an enigmatic masked contract killer who stalks the city with his own deadly agenda.
Cast: Ashley Bell, James Landry Hébert, Angela Trimbur, Larry Fessenden, Mark Kassen
Director: Mickey Keating
When: 11pm (Horror Channel Screen) or 11.40pm (Arrow Video Screen)
Cineworld Discovery pick
Redwood
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Plot: After some bad news back at home, musician Josh and his girlfriend Beth head out to a secluded national park in search of some clarity on the situation they’ll face when they return. But the couple get more than they bargained for when they ignore the advice of Park Rangers and venture off the trail, coming face to face with The Redwood’s legendary wildlife. Redwood brings a fresh spin to a well-worn mythology to create an edge of your seat horror movie that will shred your nerves and have you thinking twice about going camping again.
Cast: Nicholas Brendon, Tatjana Nardone, Mike Beckingham, Muzz Khan, Jessica Jane Stafford
Director: Tom Paton
When: 8.45pm
Horror Channel FrightFest 2017 takes place from Thursday 24th to Monday 28th August.
