Pigeon Shrine Frightfest 2024, 25th Anniversary-August 22-26th-London, England

FULL LINE UP

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 MAIN SCREEN FILMS

 THURSDAY 22 AUGUST

 

BROKEN BIRD (World Premiere) OPENING FILM

Director: Joanne Mitchell. With: Rebecca Calder, James Fleet, Jay Taylor, Sacharissa Claxton. UK 2024. 96 mins.

Image: BROKEN BIRD

TEST SCREENING (World Premiere)

Director: Clark Baker. With: Chloë Kerwin, Drew Scheid, Johnny Berchtold and Rain Spencer. USA, 2024, 92 mins.

THE INVISIBLE RAPTOR (English Premiere)

Director: Mike Hermosa. With: Mike Capes, Sean Astin, Sandy Martin, Chad Bullard. USA 2023. 112 mins.

 

FRIDAY 23 AUGUST

 

AN TAIBHSE (The Ghost) (International Premiere)

Director: John Farrelly. With: Tom Kerrisk, Livvy Hill, Tony Murray. Ireland 2024. 93 mins.

BOOKWORM (European Premiere)

Director: Ant Timpson. With: Elijah Wood, Nell Fisher, Michael Smiley, Morganna O’Reilly. New Zealand 2024. 103 mins.

GHOST GAME (International Premiere)

Director: Jill Gevargizian. With: Emily Bennett, Kia Dorsey, Zaen Haidar, Vienna Maas. USA 2024. 90 minutes.

SHELBY OAKS (UK Premiere)

Director: Chris Stuckmann. With: Camille Sullivan, Keith David, Michael Beach, Sarah Durn. USA 2024. 99 mins.

THE HITCHER (World Premiere Restoration)

Director: Robert Harmon. With: C. Thomas Howell, Rutger Hauer, Jennnifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn. USA 1986. 98 mins.

HAUNTOLOGY (International Premiere)

Director: Parker Brennon. With: Nancy Loomis, Samantha Robinson, Naomi Grossman, Zoey Luna. USA 2024. 103 mins.

   SATURDAY 24 AUGUST

 

SURVIVE (UK Premiere)

Director: Frederic Jardin. With: Emilie Dequenne, Andreas Pietschmann, Lisa Delmar, Lucas Ebel. France 2024. 90 mins.

THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER (UK Premiere)

Director: André Øvredal. With: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian. USA 2023. 118 mins.

DEAD MAIL (International Premiere)

Director: Joe de Boer. With: Sterling Macer Jr., John Fleck, Tomas Boykin, Micki Jackson. USA 2024. 105 mins.

TRAUMATIKA (World Premiere)

Director: Pierre Tsigaridis. With: Rebekah Kennedy, Ranen Navat, Emily Goss. Susan Gayle Watts. USA 2024. 87 mins.

STRANGE DARLING (International Premiere)

Director: JT Mollner. With: Willa Fitzgerald, Ed Begley Jr., Robert Craighead, Kyle Gallner. USA 2023. 96 mins

MEMBERS CLUB (World Premiere)

Director: Marc Coleman. With: Dean Kilbey, Perry Benson, Steve Oram, Peter Andre. UK 2024. 90 mins

 

Image: MEMBERS CLUB

 

 SUNDAY 25 AUGUST

 

THE LAST ASHES (UK Premiere)

Director: Loic Tanson. With: Sophie Mousel, Timo Wagner, Jules Werner, Luc Schiltz. Luxembourg 2023. 120 mins.

THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER LEE (World Premiere)

Director: Jon Spira. With: Peter Serafinowicz, Harriet Walter, Peter Jackson, Joe Dante. UK 2024. 104 mins

AZRAEL: ANGEL OF DEATH (UK Premiere)

Director: E.L. Katz. With: Samara Weaving, Vic Carmen Sonne, Katariina Unt, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. USA 2024. 85 mins.

SAINT CLARE (UK Premiere)

Director: Mitzi Peirone. With: Bella Thorne, Rebecca De Mornay, Ryan Phillippe, Frank Whaley. USA 2024. 92 mins.

INVADER (International Premiere)

Director: Mickey Keating. With: Vero Maynez, Colin Huerta, Ruby Vallejo. USA 2024. 70 mins.

 

MONDAY 26 AUGUST

 

THE DEAD THING (International Premiere)

Director: Elric Kane. With: Blu Hunt, Ben Smith-Petersen, John Karna, Katherine Hughes. USA 2024. 94 mins.

A DESERT (European Premiere)

Director: Joshua Erkman. With: David Yow. Kai Lennox, Sarah Lind, Zacary Ray Sherman. USA 2024. 100 mins.

LADYBUG (World Premiere)

Director: Tim Cruz. With: Anthony Del Negro, Zachary Roozen, Scout Taylor-Compton, Charlene Tilton. USA 2024. 107 mins.

COLD WALLET (European Premiere)

Director: Cutler Hodieme. With: Raul Castillo, Josh Brener, Melonie Diaz, Tony Cavalero. USA 2024. 84 mins.

THE SUBSTANCE (English Premiere) CLOSING FILM

Director: Coralie Fargeat. With: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Hugo Diego Garcia. USA/France/UK 2024. 140 mins.

Image: THE SUBSTANCE

 

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DISCOVERY SCREEN ONE FILMS

 THURSDAY AUGUST 22

 

CINDERELLA'S CURSE (UK Premiere)

Director: Louisa Warren. With: Kelly Ryan Sanson, Chrissie Wunna, Lauren Budd, Natasha Tosini. UK 2024. 78 mins.

CARNAGE FOR CHRISTMAS (European Premiere)

Director: Alice Maio Mackay. With: Jeremy Moineau, Olivia Deeble, Yassica Switakowski, Dominique Booth. Australia 2024. 70 mins.

 

FRIDAY AUGUST 23

 

THE DAEMON (World Premiere)

Director: David Yohe, Matt Devino. With: Adriana Isabel, Tyler Q Rosen, Sara Fletcher, Oscar Wilson. USA 2024. 87 mins.

THE LONELY MAN WITH THE GHOST MACHINE (European Premiere)

Director: Graham Skipper. With: Graham Skipper, Paul Guyet, Christina Bennett Lind. USA 2024. 85 mins

SCARLET BLUE (UK Premiere)

Director: Aurélia Mengin. With: Stefano Cassetti, Patricia Barzyk, Emmanuel Bonami, Amélie Daure, Anne-Sophie Charron. France 2024. 106 mins.

THE BUNKER (International Premiere) Trieste Science+Fiction Presentation

Director: Brian Hanson. With: Chelsea Edmundson, Chad Michael Collins, Tobin Bell, Tony Todd. USA 2024. 92 mins.

CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN (World Premiere)

Directors: Justin Hardy, Dominic Hardy, Chris Nunn. UK 2024. 86 mins

MUTILATOR 2 (International Premiere)

Director: Buddy Cooper. With: Terry Kiser, Eva Hamilton, Chaney Morrow, Cody Renee Cameron. USA 2024. 81 mins.

 

Image: THE DAEMON

 

 

SATURDAY AUGUST 24

 

TOUCHDOWN (First Blood, World Premiere)

Director: Josephine Rose. With: Clinton Liberty, Will Attenborough, Cressida Bonas, Kai Luke Brummer, Jason Flemyng. UK 2024. 78 mins.

SCOPOPHOBIA (First Blood, World Premiere)

Director: Aled Owen. With: Catrin Jones, Emma Stacey, Ellen Jane-Thomas, Bethany Williams-Potter. UK 2024. 102 mins.

YEAR 10 (First Blood, World Premiere)

Director: Benjamin Goodger. With: Toby Goodger, Hannah Khalique-Brown, Duncan Lacroix. UK 2024. 96 mins.

PROTEIN (First Blood, World Premiere)

Director: Tony Burke. With: Craig Russell, Andrea Hall, Charles Dale, Ross O’Hennessy. UK 2024. 100 mins.

7 KEYS (First Blood, UK Premiere)

Director: Joy Wilkinson. With: Emma McDonald, Billy Postlethwaite, Amit Shah, Kaylen Luke. UK 2024. 94 mins

 

SUNDAY AUGUST 25

 

THE A FRAME (European Premiere)

Director: Calvin Lee Reeder. With: Johnny Whitworth, Nik Dodani, Dana Namrode, Laketa Caston. USA 2024. 82 mins.

SHORT FILM SHOWCASE 2

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Director: Wes Craven. With: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, John Saxon, Ronee Blakely. USA 1984. 91 mins.

NEVER HAVE I EVER (World Premiere)

Director: Damon Rickard. With: Andrew Lee Potts, Beatrice Fletcher, Johnny Vivash, Amber Doig Thorne, Graham Skipper. UK 2024. 97 mins.

BOGIEVILLE (World Premiere)

Director: Sean Patrick Cronin. With: Arifin Putra, Eloise Lovell Anderson, Jonathan Hansler, Sean Cronin. UK 2024. 108 mins.

 

MONDAY AUGUST 26 

 

SHORT FILM SHOWCASE 3

CHARLOTTE (World Premiere)

Director: Georgia Conlan. With Georgia Conlan, Dean Kilbey, Liam Conlan. UK 2024. 86 mins.

AGATHA (World Premiere)

Director: Roland Becerra, Kelly Bigelow. With the voices of Emily Joyce-Dial, Ryan Whiting, Erin McDonough, Lauren Mascali. USA 2024. 60 mins.

SCARED SHITLESS (International Premiere)

Director: Vivieno Caldinelli. With: Steven Ogg, Daniel Doheny, Chelsea Clark, Mark McKinney. Canada 2024. 76 mins. 

Image: 7 KEYS

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DISCOVERY SCREEN TWO FILMS

 THURSDAY AUGUST 22

  

I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE (International Premiere)

Director: DW Medoff. With: Ken Trujillo, Katerina Eichenberger, Emma Anne Wedemeyer, Chris Genovese. USA 2023. 95 mins.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN (UK Premiere)

Director: Brittney Greer. With: Emma Reinagel, Aline O'Neill, Graham Weldin, Cameron Mabie. USA 2024. 96 mins. 

 

FRIDAY AUGUST 23

 

DRIVE BACK (UK Premiere)

Director: Cody Ashford. With: Whit Kunschik, Zack Gold, Robert Lewis Stephenson, Tammy Kaitz. USA 2024. 94 mins.

SHORT FILM SHOWCASE 1

SO UNREAL (European Premiere)

Director: Amanda Kramer. With: Debbie Harry. USA 2023. 98 mins.

THE FREAKS OF FANCY (World Premiere)

Director: Elliott Léon. With: Rachel Brownstein, Gordon Lawson, Holly Lovelady, Matthew Jackman. UK 2024. 96 mins.

CURSED IN BAJA (World Premiere)

Director: Jeff Daniel Phillips. With: Jeff Daniel Phillips, Jose Conejo Martin, Finnegan Seeker Bell, Barbara Crampton, Mark Fite, Robbyn Leigh. USA 2024. 80 mins.

 

SATURDAY AUGUST 24

DELERIUM (International Premiere)

Director: Arró Stefánsson. With: Hjörtur Jóhann Jónsson, Heiddis Chadwick Hlynsdottir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson. Iceland 2023. 83 mins.

PANEL – FROM FIGMENT TO FINANCE

 

IN THE NAME OF GOD (European Premiere)

Director: Ludvig Gür. With: Linus Wahlgren, Lisa Henni, Vilhelm Blomgren,Thomas Hanzon. Sweden 2024. 89 mins.

BOUTIQUE: TO PRESERVE AND COLLECT (World Premiere)

Director: Ry Levey. With: Chris Alexander, David Gregory, Joe Rubin, Peter Kuplowsky. USA 2024. 75 mins.

VIDEO VISION (International Premiere)

Director: Michael Turney. With: Andrea Figliomeni, Chrystal Peterson, Shelley Valfer, Hunter Kohl. USA 2024. 83 mins.

THE MONSTER BENEATH US (First Blood, World Premiere)

Director: Sophie Osbourne. With: Becca Hirani, Jack Forsyth-Noble, Nicola Wright, Jennifer Lim. UK 2024. 103 mins

 

SUNDAY AUGUST 25

 

DARK MATCH (International Premiere)

Director: Lowell Dean. With: Chris Jericho, Steve Ogg, Ayisha Issa, Michael Eklund. Canada 2024. 94 mins.

PANEL - AI: FOR YOU

CARA (World Premiere)

Director: Hayden Hewitt. With: Elle O’Hara, Michaela Longden, Donna Louise Bryan, Johnny Vivash. UK 2024. 96 mins.

DERELICT (World Premiere)

Director: Jonathan Zaurin. With: Suzanne Fulton, Michael Coombes, Pete Bird, Dean Kilbey. UK 2024. 122 mins.

RAZOR BLADE SMILE  (World Restoration Premiere)

Director: Jake West. With: Eileen Daly, Christopher Adamson, Kevin Howarth, David Warbeck. UK 1998. 102 mins.

 

MONDAY AUGUST 26

 

SCHLITTER: EVIL IN THE WOODS (UK Premiere)

Director: Pierre Mouchet. With: Louka Meliava, Léna Laprés, Gilles David, Cóme Levin. France 2023. 70 mins.

FRIGHT (World Premiere)

Director: Warren Dudley. With: Gwyneth Evans, Jill Priest, Daniel Tuite. UK 2024. 81 mins.

GENERATION TERROR (World Premiere)

Directors: Phillip Escott, Sarah Appleton. With: Adam Wingard, James Wong, Joe Lynch, Rob Zombie. UK 2024. 91 mins 

Image: VIDEO VISION

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DISCOVERY SCREEN 3

 FRIDAY AUGUST 23

 

THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT (UK Premiere)

Director: Michael Felker. With: Adam David Thompson, Riley Dandy, Justin Benson, Sarah Bolger. USA 2024. 102 mins.

THE LAST PODCAST (World Premiere)

Director: Dean Alioto. With: Eric Tabach, Kaikane, David Foley, Charlie Saxton, Mick Garris, Gabriel Rush. USA 2024. 98 mins.

 

SATURDAY AUGUST 24

 

FROM DARKNESS (UK Premiere)

Director: Philip Da Silva. With: Oscar Skagerberg, Rakel Benér Gajdusek, Peter Mörlin, Lars Adsten. Sweden 2024. 95 mins.

MERMAID LEGEND – 40th Anniversary (UK Premiere)

Director: Toshiharu Ikeda. With: Mari Shirato , Kentarô Shimizu, Jun Etô, Seiji Miyaguchi. Japan 1984. 110 mins.

A SAMURAI IN TIME (European Premiere)

Director: Junichi Yasuda. With: Makiya Yamaguchi, Norimasa Fuke, Yuno Sakura, Rantaro Mine. Japan 2024. 131 mins.