6 AUGUST - TUBI FRIGHTFEST LONDON 2026
2026 short film showcases

Once again, the UK’s most popular genre festival offers a delightfully deadly dose of horror to disgust, delight and demoralise, with four short film showcases, curated to unleash the newest terrifying gems from the UK and across the world.

This year’s selection, screened at both the ODEON Luxe Leicester Square and the ODEON Luxe West End, offers 16 world premieres from 10 countries spanning four continents.

FRIDAY 28 AUGUST  - The first International Shorts Showcase kicks off with Fangoria Presents’ GOODBYE MONSTER, followed by Noah Lang’s psychologically winding PRIORITY RIDE. Dan Abramovici brings a taste of live action and animation from Canada with LEOPARD, before we head to North Macedonia with the impressive TLSM. Australian director David Robinson-Smith gives us a dark, truth-revealing tale with THE SHIRT OFF YOUR BACK, followed by more offerings from the US: Richard Mulock’s SOUNDS GOOD, Casimir Nozkowski’s BOOK U CAN ASK???s, Rob Himebaugh’s FEED THE DARK and Erick Freita’s dark comedic experience SATURDAY MORNING COFFEE. The showcase finishes with a blend of South Korean and Spanish filmmaking, with Adrián Nassar’s IN A ROOM STANDING STILL and Martha G. Ayerbe’s BAIT, bringing a fantastical ending to the day.


SATURDAY 29 AUGUST - On Saturday, there is a number of devilish delights from the UK and Ireland, starting with Cheryl Bayliss’ disturbing look into childhood nostalgia with PRETEND WITH PIBBLE, starring Julia Davis, continuing with Dean Plunkett’s nightmarish FUCK FACE, starring Craig Russell, Lainya Craig’s deliciously violent JAMMY, and Matthew Bulley’s weirdly entertaining BENEATH THE SHEETS. Then Irish writer Seán Connolly offers us THE CURE, UK filmmaker Leila Murton Poole displays a not so pretty picture with VIOLENT DELIGHT, and Nick Arthurs curses us with IT ALWAYS COMES BACK, starring Michael McKell. Finally, the showcase concludes with HUSH LITTLE ONE, starring Sheil Chandak and directed by Syd Heather, who brings a team that has worked on The Dark Knight, Rings Of Power, and Love, Death & Robots.

SUNDAY 30 AUGUST - There are more international talents to make you squirm in your seat, starting with seasoned professional Kevin McTurk, bringing US and Icelandic cinema together with a wonderful mix of animation in GRÝLU SKER: AN ICELANDIC GHOST STORY. Then US filmmaker Ren Ariel Sano offers us a vengeful cake in THE CANDLE, Steven Schloss teams up with Ready Or Not 2’s stunt coordinator Thomas Lorber with VAPE GLOW, and Ryan Lillenfield brings us psychedelic cult ritual in INHERITOR. Then there are nasty therapeutic twists in THE CHOSEN, starring Toby Poser, deep psychological fear in DREAD, dark dairy horror in UDDERS!, and in SKINNED, is sexual betrayal skin-deep? Emily Lawson brings us a uniquely neurodivergent viewpoint in MAN EATING PUSSY, starring Julian Richings, and we climax with US director Joe Heath NO.3, starring Michael X Sommers.

MONDAY 31 AUGUST - FrightFest’s final showcase brings us home, back to the talent of UK & Ireland - opening with Irish writer-director Dylan Delaney’s CALL CENTRE SHIVA. Then, in Quentin Beroud’s DECORUM, has Angie met the love of her life (Jonny Labey) or is she about to die? VR goes extremely wrong in CRAK HACK, starring Johnny Vivash, and how can Eve stop AI from destroying her in THE TEST? There’s a stranger’s eye for horror in David Yorke’s I SPY, starring Emma Louise Webb, and pigs don’t fly in HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL. There’s a heavy dose of supernatural mockumentary in horror comedy BAXTER HAMMOND: PI, while Scottish filmmaker Aimie Willemse takes us on an exploration of dementia through the eyes of a nine-year-old in SUNDOWNING. We finish our final showcase of this year with a UK and Taiwanese collaboration in THE SORROWS OF YOUNG CHARLOTTE, directed by Shir Ariya, in which a rebound encounter climaxes in an unimaginable, explosive way.

The full list of film in the 2026 line up can be found HERE