FRIGHTFEST HALLOWEEN
ODEON Luxe West End
Saturday 1 November 2025
"The jaw-dropping Dolly delivers lashings of grimy 16mm grindhouse style and visceral gore, in a folk-horror nightmare of grit and grotesquerie'"
Whitlock & Pope
Director: Rod Blackhurst.
Stars: Fabienne Therese, Max the Impaler, Seann William Scott, Ethan Suplee. USA 2025. 84 mins.
UK PREMIERE -
Chase and Macy drop off his daughter and hike to a nearby overlook where he intends to propose. Those plans are soon forgotten when they discover a weird ‘art installation’ of dirty, broken dolls. Unfortunately, the dolls are actually more of an altar to the victims of Dolly - a violent, hulking, child-like maniac in a tattered dress and a porcelain doll mask - who arrives to bury the decapitated corpse of the latest plaything. When Macy becomes the next target for the dollhouse, she must navigate her captor’s delusions and family trauma to have any hope of surviving the demented nightmare.
1.40 & 2.10 PM - AFFECTION
Director: BT Meza.
Cast: Jessica Rothe, Joseph Cross, Julianna Layne. USA 2025. 90 mins.
UK PREMIERE -
HAPPY DEATH DAY franchise Scream Queen Jessica Rothe is the star of a gripping, intriguing and ultimately devastating dark science fiction tale of terror. Ellie is stuck in a cyclical nightmare, grappling with a medical condition that erratically resets her memory. Left unable to remember her loving husband or young daughter, each reset leaves her disoriented and haunted with vivid memories and scattered recollections of an unfamiliar life she’s never lived. What is the cause of her rare illness? Can her husband really help cope with her affliction? The nightmare answers are a complete shock to the nervous system.
3.50 & 4.20 PM - POSTHOUSE
Director: Nikolas Red.
Cast: Sid Lucero, Bea Binene, Andrea Del Rosario, Ryza Cenon. Philippines 2025. 94 mins.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE -
A troubled film editor and his distant daughter release an ancient monster while working to restore an incomplete silent horror movie from the forgotten Filipino horror past in an assured debut feature by editor and co-writer Nikolas Red. Based on his own personal experience while editing his brother Mikhail Red’s 2018 shocker EERIE - he came across a misplaced outtake that deeply disturbed him - Red’s further exploration into the grief over a vanished cultural era is a love letter to the lost ghosts of every cinematic heritage and a potent supernatural chiller in its own right.
6.10 & 6.40 PM -
THE TURKISH COFFEE TABLE
Director: Can Evrenol.
Cast: Hatice Aslan, Algi Eke, Elif Sevinç, Özgür Emre Yildirim. Turkey 2025. 90 mins.
UK PREMIERE -
One of the most unique movie-going experiences of 2022 was THE COFFEE TABLE, a shocker so devastating in impact that it became a festival sensation. Now comes the Turkish remake by FrightFest alumnus Can Evrenol, director of BASKIN and HOUSEWIFE. Once more, a couple's argument over a coffee table spirals into chaos when a simple mistake turns into a desperate web of lies, panic, deception, and the terrifying consequences of trying to cover up the truth. Time to remind you of the darkness underlying everything, one that forces you to look into the void with elegance, wit and sympathy.
8.30 & 9.00 PM -
COYOTES
"Colin Minihan knows how to make a gnarly horror film".
- William BibbianiI - The Wrap.
Director: Colin Minihan.
Cast: Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, Brittany Allen, Mila Harris. USA, 2025. 91 mins.
UK PREMIERE -
FrightFest favourite Colin Minihan (WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE, IT STAINS THE SAND RED) is back with a terrific and fun eco-horror. When wildfire hits the Hollywood Hills, a family is stranded as their neighbourhood is destroyed and their home becomes a blazing prison. An intimate domestic drama quickly escalates into a pulse-pounding survival thriller as a pack of predatory coyotes, disoriented by the fires, tighten their perimeter around the house. Rendered powerless by collapsing roads and the absence of electricity, the family must rely on their courage, resilience, and love for one another to survive the inferno and the snarling threat outside.
10.30 & 10.55 PM - MAG MAG
Director: Yuriyan Retriever.
Stars: Sara Minami, Takumi Saioto, Aoi Yamada. Japan 2025. 113 mins.
UK PREMIERE -
The first film from K2 Pictures, founded by directors Takashi Miike, Hirokazu Koreeda and Miwa Nishikawa, is the debut feature by Yuriyan Retriever, Japan's most popular comedian, and is destined to reinterpret the J-horror genre with a fresh perspective. "If you see her, it's too late. If she falls in love with you, the only escape is death." After her beloved is killed by the Mag Mag ghost, Sanae vows revenge, but soon discovers the true identity of the person she truly owes her retribution to in a twisted love story combining horror and humour, delivering a decisive blow to the world.
