GENERATION TERROR
DISCOVERY SCREEN 2
MONDAY 26 AUGUST - 3.15 PM
Directors: Phillip Escott, Sarah Appleton.
With: Adam Wingard, James Wong, Joe Lynch, Rob Zombie.
UK 2024. 91 mins
DOCUMENTARY - WORLD PREMIERE - Horror bleeds into the 21st Century in an incisive documentary looking back at the late 1990s film industry on a global scale to find out what happened at the turn of the millennium to allow for the huge wealth of horror films flooding out from all corners of the globe. From SCREAM (1996), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) and FINAL DESTINATION (2000), to WRONG TURN (2003), HOSTEL (2005) and SAW (2004), with insight from Joe Lynch, Xavier Gens and Bill Malone who track the technology, the industry and the societal changes behind the next generation of horror films.
BARISTA
Director: Zack Parker.
With: Lizzy Walther, Katelyn Goodpaster.
USA 2024 5 mins.
UK PREMIERE - Photographed on glorious 16mm film, BARISTA is a love letter to 70's Exploitation, Giallo Elegance, Revenge, Torture, Gore… & Coffee
FrightFest features horror, fantasy, science fiction and thriller films with an overall 18 rating. Therefore, all films will feature an assortment of the following: supernatural/alien threats, strong language, upsetting scenes, violence, gore, blood, suicide, monstrous menace, tobacco products, creature mayhem, psychological intimidation, sexual imagery, death, child endangerment, maiming, religious profanity, abusive behaviour, bullying, nudity, drug use, strobe lighting and racial stereotyping.