Tubi Frightfest, the UK’s largest horror and fantasy film festival, has announced its 27th lineup, with the biggest film presentation ever.
The five-day event, to be held at London’s Odeon Luxe Leicester Square and Odeon Luxe West End from 27th to 31st August, will feature 82 films, including 24 world premieres across four continents and 16 countries.
Opening the bloody curtain at Tubi FrightFest is the world premiere of director Abner Pastor’s subversive cross-cultural tale of psychological alienation and dangerous obsession, “Nervous,” filmed entirely in South Korea. The film reunites Pastor and “A Good Woman” star Sarah Bolger, who plays a woman who loses the ability to hear men’s voices.
Also from South Korea is the long-awaited zombie shocker “Colony” from director Yeon Sang-ho, who bowed at Cannes, and his cult hit “Train to Busan” and its animated prequel “Seoul Station” will also be screened to commemorate their 10th anniversary. The Asian lineup also includes Indonesian genre director Joko Anwar’s horror-comedy 2026 Berlinale favorite “Ghost in the Cell,” as well as “Salmokuji: The Whisper of Water,” which recently became the highest-grossing Korean horror film of all time, and remastered versions of cut Japanese titles “Crazy Lips” and “Gore from Outer Space.”
Tubi FrightFest’s closing night film is Species, a Gen Z shocker film released in the UK for the first time. French writer and director Marion Le Colla’s darkly comic debut is a sci-fi body horror with a deeper allegorical message about workplace burnout, featuring a body mutation sequence created by Oscar and BAFTA winner Pierre-Olivier Persan for The Substance.
Other festival highlights include the world premiere of Christopher Smith’s eight-legged satirical horror “Spider Island,” Padriag Reynolds’ homage to 1970s biological exploitation “Gator Face,” and James Nunn’s survival thriller “Hungry,” about a Louisiana tourist being chased by ravenous hippos.
Meanwhile, Hammer returns with Casey Walker’s period survival horror film Ithaqua, making him the first director to have two films screened at the same Frightfest, along with Home Bodies.
Other high-profile titles in the lineup include “The Pitchfork Retreat,” an anthology from the producers of the “Terrifier” series (featuring the final screen appearance of “Candyman” star Tony Todd), and the twisted horror comedy “Drugs,” co-produced by Danny DeVito and starring his daughter Lucy DeVito. Brea Grant, Chelsea Stardust and Ed Doherty have released Grind, a horror satire anthology about the modern gig economy, and actress Lulu Wilson has returned as a deadly antihero in Jen Wexler’s The Last Temptation of Becky. The film has been described by FrightFest as “the biggest, bloodiest, and most free-spirited yet” in the series.
In addition to royalty, there was room for pop icons in the lineup, and Faces of Death, a meta-slasher take on the 1978 cult classic starring Charlie X, was selected.
“Tubi FrightFest knows what resonates with audiences. We need space for the depth of exciting storytelling, and in the ultimate plan of the festival’s priorities, it’s about interacting, shouting, laughing and debating with like-minded communities in a safe space,” said festival co-director Alan Jones.
The full lineup can be viewed on the FrightFest website.
