FrightFest

Just one week left until our opening film at FrightFest Glasgow! The countdown is ON and we’re beyond excited. Here’s what we’ve got lined up...a killer lineup of glorious titles. See you there! 🤩

FrightFest Glasgow update! Only a handful of festival passes left and single tickets for the following films are sold out:

The Restoration at Grayson Manor
Short Film Showcase
The Convenience Store
Red Riding
Bone Keeper

Seats are going fast for everything else! Just 28 days from our opening film!

Tickets and passes going fast, don’t miss out on a fantastic line-up!

Fiendishly excited for this @frightfest.bsky.social 🖤👻

Frightfest single tickets go on sale today from 10am via the Glasgow Film Festival website!!

Check out our event guide from the link below for all the film info, plus features & interviews! 📷

FrightFest Glasgow Guide: shorturl.at/0sAQf

Closing out FrightFest Glasgow is the World Premiere of DEATH KEEPER! Reclusive immortal Luke can only stay young by taking lives. As evil Malagor rises, Luke must protect the innocent and face a deadly battle of Good vs Evil. Director Tristan Barr & cast join us for a Q&A.

Get ready for KARMADONNA! Yelena’s pregnancy is threatened by a mysterious call from a voice claiming to be God, forcing her to cross names off a deadly hit list. Aleksander Radivojević’s psychedelic, darkly political fable explores crime, corruption, and phone obsessed society.

It's the World Premiere of RED RIDING! After her mother’s overdose, Red moves to her grandmother’s Scottish estate, uncovering vanished children, a monstrous wolf, and dark family secrets. Director Craig Conway with Producer Neil Marshall & cast join us for a Q&A.

It’s the UK Premiere of THE CONVENIENCE STORE! Based on the acclaimed video game, a college girl’s night shifts turn terrifying when strange events and a mysterious package force her into dark choices. Jiro Nagae’s supernatural thriller blurs imagination, hauntings, and far worse!

Foreign Bodies
A simple itch descends into an outbreak with many legs. Certain things will always find their way to the surface

Director: Lysander Wong

The Trick
A mysterious stranger. A deck of cards. And a trick that’s far more sinister than anyone could imagine. THE TRICK is a dark, suspenseful short that will leave you questioning what’s real… and what’s magick.

Directors: Matt Fitch, Chris Baker
Cast: Rowan Polonski, Jennie Eggleton

What Goes Round (Or Things That Go Bump In The Night)
A woman wakes up on a London night bus and is provoked by a series of passengers, setting her on a bloody journey of self-discovery.

Director: Edie Deffebach
Cast: Stella Talpo, Alexander Arnold

Nazar
Harbir channels his envy of Ben by calling out his beliefs in Punjabi superstition and black magic at his cousin's birthday lunch. Harbir quickly finds there's more to this tale than he bargained for.

Director: Kaljeven Singh Lally
Cast: Tajinder Singh, Michael MacLeod

Muff
Commitment-phobic Noah is spellbound to fight a duel for the hand of a spectral lady whose bewitching Muff is an accessory…to die for!

Director: Elliot Ancona.
Cast: Ronni Ancona, Bradley John, Jason York.

A Hand to Hold
Moira, an elderly Irish woman, finds herself literally attached to her deceased husband, Patrick. When his hand refuses to let go after death!

Director: Philip Clyde-Smith

Cast: Murray McArthur, Shane Casey, Frances Barber, Frank Bourke, Lisa O'Connor

Behind
A global butt dial outbreak sweeps the planet, but the real nightmare is only just beginning.

Director: Alessio Avezzano. Cast: Jade McDonald, Kyle Wallace, Tanyaradzwa Gimani, Graham Pritz-Bennett, Olivia Jane Topalian, Saaniya Abbas, Suani Rincon

We bring you another selection of Short Films in our Showcase on Saturday at FrightFest Glasgow!

Plastic Surgery:
A doctor on her last day before maternity leave is thrown into chaos when a hidden threat emerges.

Director: Guy Trevellyan.
Cast: Anna Popplewell, Daniel Ings

Saturday at FrightFest Glasgow kicks off with the International Premiere of VIOLENCE! In an alternate 1980s of graffiti and crime, antihero Henry must navigate gang wars, drugs, and betrayal to save his ex-lover. Connor Marsden’s punk-fueled action-horror hits like a sledgehammer!

We’re 6 weeks from our first film at FrightFest Glasgow! We kick off with the World Premiere of JAILBROKEN A relentless single location thriller where Joe must obey a caller’s orders to save his kidnapped family. Director Vasily Chuprina & lead Bryan Larkin join us for a post-screening Q&A

THE CURSE closes out Friday at FrightFest Glasgow with its UK Premiere. Receptionist Riko investigates a string of mysterious deaths tied to social media, facing a deadly online curse. Kenichi Ugana’s shocking satire updates The Ring for the TikTok age.

We bring you the UK Premiere of THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR! Irish playboy Boyd gets experimental nano-tech hands, that take on a murderous life of their own! Glenn McQuaid’s campy, melodramatic sci-fi horror comedy hits big. Director & cast join us for a post-screening Q&A

It’s the UK Premiere of BOORMAN & THE DEVIL! David Kittredge’s documentary revisits EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC as John Boorman, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher and more reflect on ambition, artistry and the legendary Hollywood misfire. Essential for genre fans.

Howard J Ford returns to FrightFest with the WORLD PREMIERE of THE BONE KEEPER. A cosmic crash awakens an ancient cave terror. Decades after a disappearance, a new expedition becomes the hunted. Howard and cast join us for a post-screening Q&A.

Friday begins with the Wolrd Premire of BURY THE DEVIL. In a daring single-take thriller, a hospice nurse trapped with a dementia patient uncovers a dark, otherworldly secret. Director Adam O’Brien delivers 86 minutes of nerve-shredding tension and twisty exorcism terror.

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MUFF, the comedy-horror short I wrote and produced, heads to @frightfest.bsky.social - the dark heart of cinema 🖤@glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social on March 6.

“You just need the right accessory to slay.”

Looks great! Clara looked like a mermaid once in Black Sails where Anne Bonny was part of a pirate raid on a ship. Back in the water again!

It’s full scream ahead as FrightFest announces its @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social 2026 line-up. The nation’s favourite horror fest presents three days of trauma, terror & tantalising thrills, embracing the latest genre discoveries from around the world. Details: www.frightfest.co.uk

A Desert has just been released on Shudder. Saw it at @frightfest.bsky.social and it was excellent, a twisted film with bonus points for having a great performance from David Yow of @jesuslizard.bsky.social fame. Thoroughly recommended

Finally, I branched out into the world of production notes writing an in-depth story from page to screen about Matt Stuertz's HUMAN which screened at @frightfest.bsky.social, Grimmfest and @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social