Arrow Video Frightfest 2018 Halloween Line Up Of Alternate Universes And Deathly Magicians

Hallow’s Eve is nearly upon us and Horrorphiles will be yearning for blood, gore, and shocks. The dark heart of Cinema will provide that substance in Arrow Video‘s annual Halloween all-dayer. Unleashing an intoxicating six-pack of horror, 12-hour monstrous marathon embraces four continents and includes two world premieres and four UK premieres. The shockfest now at the Cineworld Leicester Square on Saturday 3 November.

If you’re going to kick off a Horrorfest like this, start starring the First Lady of FrightFest, Barbara Crampton. Julian Richards’ latest chiller REBORN, a Carrie for the Z Generation, starring, and featuring a stunning performance from rising newcomer Kayleigh Gilbert. Richards, famous for The Last Horror Movie, is with us for this World Premiere screening.

Isaac Ezban will always be known for his Spanish language horrors The Incident and The Similars. Now he’ll make his first English language horror fantasy with the UK premiere of PARALLEL. Be prepared for an ingenious killer alternate-universe concept, pitch-black thrills and a top-notch cast including Brit-star Georgia King.

Keep your eyes wide open for the UK premiere of MARA, Clive Tonge’s intensely tormenting psychological thriller about Sleep Paralysis, This demonic jolter stars the dazzling Olga Kurylenko, with sterling from Craig Conway. Olga is planning to attend.

Frightfest regular Paul Hyett (Heretiks) will present the World Premiere of his sinister and unsettling PERIPHERAL. Technology has no boundaries in his sci-fi horror fantasy, boasting an astonishing performance from Hannah Arterton. (Hannah and Paul will be present, alongside co-star Elliot James Langridge).

If you love The Mist and the Cloverfield franchise, nail-biting disaster Swedish epic THE UNTHINKABLE will be right up your street.
It made its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival The Onetti Brothers’ ABRAKADABRA will close the day with it’s UK Premiere. The final installment of the brothers ‘Giallo’ Trilogy and will be their wackiest, wildest and most twisted thriller yet.

Alan Jones, FrightFest co-director, said today: “After a hugely successful Arrow Video FrightFest at the Cineworld Empire Leicester Square this August, we are thrilled to be returning to such an auspicious venue for our annual sort-of-Halloween, all-screaming, all-entrancing Shriek Saturday. Team FrightFest searched long and hard for the most trenchant, traumatizing and trend-setting movies, which we hope you’ll for a long time to come”.

Full line up

10.40: REBORN (World Premiere)

Director: Julian Richards | Cast: Kayleigh Gilbert, Barbara Crampton, Michael Paré, Rae Dawn Chong, Chaz Bono| USA 2018 |80 mins.

Synopsis: A stillborn baby girl is abducted by a deranged morgue attendant and brought back to life by electro-kinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday, traumatized Tess escapes captivity and sets out to find her birth mother leaving a trail of horrifying violent destruction and chilling chaos behind her.

12:45 PARALLEL (UK Premiere)

Director: Isaac Ezban. |Cast: Kathleen Quinlan, Carrie Genzel, Georgia King, Martin Wallström, Ami Ameen. |Canada 2018.| 104 mins. |

Synopsis: Four friends living and working together in Seattle developing apps discover a mirror portal to parallel universes in their house. Faced with an impossible time crunch to improve a new parking app, they use the portal to get the job done. But while each alternate universe looks the same, there are small differences as they learn to their cost when each tries to take advantage of the time shifts.

PLUS….DEEP CLEAN (London Premiere)
Director: Matt Harlock | Cast: Paul Kaye, Tony Way, Joshua Glenister.| UK 2018. |15 mins.
A troubled kid forced into boring work experience on his Uncle’s road crew discovers it is hiding an amazing secret…

15:15 MARA (UK Premiere)

Director: Clive Tonge.| Cast: Olga Kurylenko, Craig Conway, Javier Botet, Rosie Fellner, Lance E. Nichols. |UK 2018.| 98 mins.

Synopsis: Sleep Paralysis: a comatose state somewhere between sleeping and being awake and experiencing horrific nightmares while unable to move a single muscle. Criminal psychologist Kate Fuller is assigned to the murder of a man who has seemingly been strangled in his sleep by his wife and the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. As Kate digs into the mystery of an ancient demon which kills people as they lie in slumber, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and spirals through a chilling nightmare to save herself and Sophie before she dares fall asleep again.

18:00 PERIPHERAL (World Premiere)

Director: Paul Hyett.| Cast: Hannah Arterton, Tom Conti, Elliot James Langridge, Rosie Day, Jenny Seagrove. |UK 2018.| 89 mins.

Synopsis: Bobbi Johnson (Hannah Arterton), a young literary sensation, is struggling with her difficult second novel. While dealing with a crazed stalker and a junkie ex-boyfriend, Bobbi’s publisher convinces her to use new smart editing software. But soon the A.I. programme starts manipulating her work to suit its nefarious ends leaving Bobbi to suspect she’s being controlled by sinister forces. Fighting possible hallucinations as her deadline looms, is she just a hapless cog in a monstrous machine?

20:15 THE UNTHINKABLE (UK Premiere)

Directors: The Crazy Pictures Collective – Hannes Krantz, Albin Pettersson, Olle Tholén, Rasmus Råsmark, Victor Danell | Cast: Christoffer Nordenrot, Lisa Henni, Jesper Barkselius, Pia Halvorsen, Magnus Sundberg. | Sweden 2018 | 129 mins.

Synopsis: Midsummer in Sweden and the country wakes up to a high-security warning. The TV, Internet, and telephone signals are all down and a series of unexplained events take place without anyone knowing their source. As the shock and disorientation sets in, celebrated musician Alex is forced back to his hometown where he must reconcile with his estranged father and team up with his first love, Anna, in their struggle to survive the chemical rain and ominous military attacks.

22:45 ABRAKADABRA (UK Premiere)

Directors: Luciano Onetti, Nicolás Onetti. | Cast: Germán Baudino, María Eugenia Rigón, Clara Kovacic, Ivi Brickell, Raúl Gederlini. Argentina/New Zealand 2018 | 70 mins

Synopsis: Dante the Great, a prestigious magician accidentally dies during one of his riskiest illusions. Thirty-five years later his protégé son Lorenzo presents a magic show in one of the most important theatres in the city. But a series of violent murders begin to take place that seems to incriminate him. Will Lorenzo discover who and why before it is too late?

PLUS….THE PREDICAMENT (World Premiere)
Director: Steve Baker. Cast: Coben Storer Goto, Carlee Baker, Harley Neville. | New Zealand 2017 |15 min.
Three survivors are trapped in a car surrounded by zombies and one of them has leveraged his supposed inexperience to lose the keys on purpose, in order to win the heart of his unrequited love.

Arrow Video FrightFest Halloween All Day Event will take place on Saturday 3rd November.

For full programme details: http://www.frightfest.co.uk/
Day es (£45) and single tickets (£15) go on sale at noon on Saturday 6th October.
To book: http://www.frightfest.co.uk/tickets.html (online only)