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Horror fans will be reunited with their favorite Good Guys doll when Cult of Chucky is released on home media beginning October 3rd, but those attending Horror Channel's FrightFest 2017 can encounter the deadly doll on August 24th when the seventh film in the Child's Play franchise makes its world premiere:

Press Release: Back in the heart of London’s West End for its 18th ‘adults-only’ anniversary, the world renowned horror and fantasy film festival will take place at the Cineworld Leicester Square and The Prince Charles Cinema from Aug 24 - Aug 28 2017, taking over five screens to present 64 films including 20 World, 22 European and 18 UK Premieres. Fourteen countries are represented spanning five continents, reflecting the current global popularity of the genre.

The opening night attraction is the global premiere of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment’s criminally entertaining Cult Of Chucky, with writer and director Don Mancini and stars Jennifer Tilly and Fiona Dourif in attendance,...

The UK genre film festival also announces a new headline sponsor, Horror Channel.

Screen International is to partner with FrightFest (Aug 25-29), offering digital dailies during the UK genre film festival’s 17th edition.

As official media partner, Screen will also chair a panel debating the future of British horror and host the festival’s Director’s Lunch, where the winner of the Upcoming UK Horror Director/Producer Of The Year Award will be announced.

FrightFest director Greg Day said: “We’re very excited to be collaborating with Screen. This will be a truly creative partnership and further vindicates the genre’s growing reputation as a hotbed for cinematic talent.”

Screen International editor Matt Mueller said: “We’re thrilled to be partnering with FrightFest this year, and building on our long-running support for the genre films market.”

In addition, Horror Channel and FrightFest have secured a three-year partnership deal, which sees the UK broadcaster - owned by CBS...

Genre fans living in the United Kingdom and Ireland are in for a real treat. In fact, I'm jealous. Icon Film Distribution (formerly owned by Mel Gibson) and FrightFest have teamed up in an exclusive partnership to bring genre films to VOD in the UK and Ireland. Under the name "FrightFest Presents," fans can see film via Ifd's digital partners (including Sky, iTunes, Amazon, Blinkbox, Film4OD, VirginMovies, TalkTalk, Google, Volta, and Eircom) giving film fans instant access to some of their favorite FrightFest titles. Each release will have the collective backing of Ifd and FrightFest across marketing, PR and social media. The partnership deal was negotiated by Zak Brilliant, Head of Theatrical, and Sophie Wong, TV and Digital Sales Manager, for Icon, and Greg Day...

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Distributor to release films from horror fantasy film festival under FrightFest Presents banner.

Icon Film Distribution (Ifd) and UK horror fantasy film festival FrightFest have entered into an exclusive partnership that will see Ifd releasing FrightFest curated films under the banner ‘FrightFest Presents’.

Select titles for the joint venture will be announced over the coming weeks.

In a move to expand the festival brand nationwide, select FrightFest endorsed films will be made available across the UK and Ireland via Ifd’s digital partners, including Sky, iTunes, Amazon, Blinkbox, Film4OD, VirginMovies, TalkTalk, Google, Volta, and Eircom.

Each release will have the collective backing of Ifd and FrightFest across marketing, PR and social channels. The partnership deal was negotiated by Zak Brilliant, head of theatrical, and Sophie Wong, TV and digital sales manager, for Icon, and Greg Day and Ian Rattray, directors of FrightFest.

Paul McEvoy, co-director of FrightFest said: “In expanding the FrightFest brand we are opening...

The delights of genre cinema are born from human imagination. The stories are nurtured by individuals who optimistically hope and believe across the years of their lives that a single film will devour that their tales arrive at the intended destination – to discover and touch the sensibilities of the audience.

If films are born out of the imagination then so the same could be said for the festivals that showcase them – festivals such as FrightFest that are crafted according to an ethos shared by four men who genre cinema continues to owe an immeasurable debt of gratitude – “‘Run by fans for the fans”, to find those great new voices in genre and see what difference they can make, and to ensure the FrightFest spirit of community endures.

But those who champion and showcase films, supporting their endeavours to find an audience on their ongoing journey from the intimate confines of its maker’s world,...

Jen and Sylvia Soska are twins who enjoy the darker side of cinema and their first movie, the succinctly titled Dead Hooker In A Trunk is getting its UK TV premiere on the Horror Channel on Fri July 29th @ 10.55pm. Greg Day was nice enough to send us over this interview to post.

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Here they chat about spiders, grindhouse and their new movie, American Mary.

So it’s true Poltergeist was the first horror movie you saw?

S: Yes and it was awesome. After that, my mom had a very particular rule about horror. It was Ok to see the movie if we read the book first. She was an avid Stephen King fan and let us borrow her books. My first book, then movie in Mr. King’s horror land was Cujo. Any word or scenario or what not that I had questions about while reading, my mom...

If there's one reason to be completely envious of our friends across the pond it's London's Film4 FrightFest. Every year the show kicks a copious amount of ass and all us yanks can do is drool. Well, drool and check out coverage that is!

Below you'll find FrightFest's official coverage video of the Day One proceedings which included two films we've been talking about forever, Dead Cert and Hatchet II (review here). Dig it!

Day One, Thursday 26th August 2010, of the eleventh annual Film4 FrightFest, held at the Empire Leicester Square. FrightFest gurus Alan Jones, Ian Rattray, Paul McEvoy and Greg Day discuss the fun and hard work that goes into organising such an event, and explain how the festival's greatest asset is its fans; the cast of Dead Cert, here making its world premiere, explain how to mix East End gangsters into a vampire movie; and Kane Hodder, Tony Todd...

Organisers of the London Film4 Frightfest have decided not to screen the controversial A Serbian Film in light of the Five Minutes of cuts demanded by the BBFC (and Westminster Council). The festival are also screening I Spit on Your Grave in a cut version – FrightFest’s Greg Day told us exclusively that the BBFC have insisted on 40 seconds of cuts to bring the film into line with current UK legislation.

In a statement released to the press, FrightFest co-director Alan Jones said:

Film4 FrightFest has decided not to show A Serbian Film in a heavily cut version because, as a festival with a global integrity, we think a film of this nature should be shown in its entirety as per the director’s intention. Several film festivals across the world have already done so.

Unlike the I Spit on Your Grave remake, where we are showing the BBFC certified print,...

Alan Jones is an internationally renowned reporter on the fantasy, horror and science fiction genres in all media and extensively travels all over the world to cover the making of movies in production. He has written for magazines such as ‘Empire’, ‘Fangoria’, ‘Total Film’, ‘The Dark Side’, ‘GQ’, ‘Vogue’, ‘Shivers’, ‘Femme Fatales’, ‘DVD Review’, ‘The Independent’, ‘The Guardian’ and ‘Premiere’.

Along with Paul McEvoy, Ian Rattray and Greg Day, Jones also organises the world renowned FrightFest horror film festival that takes place in London and Glasgow every year, and it was at this years Glasgow FrightFest where I managed to track down Mr. Jones for a chat:

This years Glasgow FrightFest has seen many screenings sell out, how and why do you think people keep coming back?

Because we give them what they want. It’s a strong line up this year I think, last year’s was a bit dodgy…...

Alan Jones is an internationally renowned reporter on the fantasy, horror and science fiction genres in all media and extensively travels all over the world to cover the making of movies in production. He was the sole London correspondent for the seminal American magazine ‘Cinefantastique/Cfq’ from 1977 (when he interviewed the entire Star Wars cast and crew) to its final issue in 2005.

During the past 30 years he reviewed every genre release for Great Britain’s ‘Starburst’ and he is currently a film critic for ‘Film Review’ and the ‘Radio Times’. Other magazines and newspapers he has written for include ‘Empire’, ‘Fangoria’, ‘Total Film’, ‘Wonderland’, ‘The Dark Side’, ‘Heat’, ‘GQ’, ‘Vogue’, ‘FHM’, ‘Preview’, ‘Shivers’, ‘Femme Fatales’, ‘DVD Review’, ‘The Independent’, ‘The Guardian’ and ‘Premiere’.

He, along with Paul McEvoy, Ian Rattray and Greg Day, also organises the world renowned FrightFest horror film festival that takes place in London and Glasgow every year,...

For most of us the August Bank Holiday weekend means barbeques, beer on the village green and meeting up with the friends you’ve ignored for weeks but FilmShaft’s Ed Whitfield, having received no invitation to eat charcoaled meat went to London’s premier horror film festival instead. One week on, he’s finally ready to talk about what he saw there. Dare you read on?

I’m not a horror aficionado. Having cut my corneas on Huston, Hitchcock and Verhoven, there seemed to me something witless and crude about ninety percent of the genre’s staples. It was, from the perspective of a nervous boy who harboured night time fantasies about being eviscerated by burglars while his dear single mother was bludgeoned by their hands, and who still, in his thirties for God’s sake, bolts upright in bed at the odd creak, rustle or howl, never a genre that connoted entertainment.

For most of us the August Bank Holiday weekend means barbeques, beer on the village green and meeting up with the friends you’ve ignored for weeks but FilmShaft’s Ed Whitfield, having received no invitation to eat charcoaled meat went to London’s premier horror film festival instead. One week on, he’s finally ready to talk about what he saw there. Dare you read on?

I’m not a horror aficionado. Having cut my corneas on Huston, Hitchcock and Verhoven, there seemed to me something witless and crude about ninety percent of the genre’s staples. It was, from the perspective of a nervous boy who harboured night time fantasies about being eviscerated by burglars while his dear single mother was bludgeoned by their hands, and who still, in his thirties for God’s sake, bolts upright in bed at the odd creak, rustle or howl, never a genre that connoted entertainment.