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A new trailer has been released for The Rows, Seth Daly’s minimalist home-invasion thriller, ahead of its International Premiere at this year’s FrightFest. The feature will screen on 25 August as part of the festival’s official selection, joining a slate that celebrates original voices in genre cinema.

Shot on 35mm in rural Ohio, The Rows follows seven-year-old Lucy, who wakes up in a labyrinthine cornfield with a head wound and no memory of how she got there. As she stumbles upon a corpse and a discarded firearm, she is hunted by three masked killers who are determined to find her before nightfall. With only her family dog and a mysterious golden creature lurking in the rows for protection, Lucy must outwit her pursuers and escape the field alive.

Writer-director Seth Daly, making his feature debut after a series of short films, described the project as crafted with the theatrical experience in mind.

There’s something wrong with the cornfield in shot-on-35mm home invasion horror The Rows, and we’re exclusively unveiling the trailer ahead of the film’s arrival at FrightFest next month.

The Rows will have its International Premiere at FrightFest on August 25.

The film is described as “A minimal dialogue 98-minute potboiler in the vein of No Country for Old Men, The Strangers, and The Town That Dreaded Sundown. “

In The Rows, “Seven-year-old Lucy wakes up in the middle of a mysterious cornfield. She has a bloody wound on her head and no memory of how she got there. Discovering a dead body and an abandoned gun in a nearby clearing, she is immediately confronted by three masked killers searching for her. Deadly games of cat-and-mouse ensue as Lucy tries to evade the gang while hunting for an exit from the seemingly endless corn. With night falling and the bad guys closing in,...

The 26th year serves up some delicious treats

James Demonaco’S The Home And Kurtis David Harder’S Influencers To Open And Close 26Th Edition.

Be prepared for the weird, the wild and the wonderful as FrightFest 2025, the UK’s No.1 horror & fantasy film festival, returns to The Odeon Luxe Leicester Square for its annual five-day extravaganza, taking over seven screens, including the two at the Odeon Luxe West End.

Running from Thursday August 21 – Monday 25 August, FrightFest will showcase sixty-nine features from across the world, embracing twenty-five main screen premieres and forty-four Discovery Screen titles, including the popular ‘First Blood’ strand, the latest genre documentaries, and a 4K restoration retrospective of one of the most game-changing British shockers ever. Plus, there’s the regular short-film strand, now extended to four showcases - to be announced later. This year there are nineteen world premieres, with fourteen countries represented, spanning four continents.

FrightFest, the number one horror and fantasy film festival in the UK, is back this year for its annual five-day extravaganza. Running from August 21 to August 25, 2025, FrightFest will showcase 69 features from across the world, including 19 world premieres from 14 countries and four short film showcase. This year, the festival returns to The Odeon Luxe Leicester Square and Odeon Luxe West End, taking over seven screens total for horror and genre filmmaking galore.

Festival co-director Alan Jones said, “FrightFest in its 26th year remains the UK’s Number One destination for genre fans. The 2025 event will be epic in every sense, celebrating the inventive, transgressive and diverse. So, join us for an event that has consistently remained in the Top Ten of The World’s Best Fantasy Festivals list”.

The Home

The festival opens with the UK premiere of The Home from director James DeMonaco, creator of The Purge franchise. It’s...

FrightFest 2025 returns to London’s Odeon Luxe Leicester Square from 21 to 25 August with a heady mix of world premieres, restored classics and electrifying genre films. And excitingly, this year Love Horror will be media partners for the event!

The festival opens with the UK premiere of James DeMonaco’s The Home and closes with Kurtis David Harder’s social-media nightmare Influencers, bookending five days of horror, fantasy and dark fantasy across seven screens. Full Festival Passes go on sale Saturday 12 July at noon, with day tickets available from Saturday 19 July.

Opening night sees comedian-turned-thesp Pete Davidson as Max in The Home, a tense tale of community service gone wrong at a retirement home under siege by unseen terrors. The closing night screening of Influencers brings Shudder’s hit series to the big screen as social-media chameleon CW manipulates followers into perilous games of Fomo. These two high-profile premieres are joined...

Exclusive: UK genre festival FrightFest has revealed its 2025 lineup with the event opening with Pete Davidson horror The Home.

The event, which runs between August 21–25 at The Odeon Luxe Leicester Square for its annual five-day extravaganza, will showcase sixty-nine features, including nineteen world premieres.

From director James DeMonaco, creator of The Purge franchise, actor-comedian Davidson plays Max in The Home, a rebellious twenty-something sentenced to community service at a quiet retirement home. Roadside/Lionsgate is releasing in the U.S. later this month.

The festival will close with Kurtis David Harder’s Influencers, which is being distributed by Shudder in the U.S. Set in southern France, it sees a young woman’s fascination with murder and identity theft send her life into a whirlwind of chaos.

Among the lineup, returning filmmakers include Erik Bloomquist who will be on hand with his latest chiller, Self-Help; Simon Rumley returns with Crushed...

“Stranger Things” star Matthew Modine will portray a baseball coach in the independent family drama “Chance.”

John B. Crye, a distribution executive with Wrekin Hill Entertainment and Newmarket Films, makes his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by Michael P. Daly (the real-life coach) and Seth Daly. Former actor Michael Hagerty is producing under his production company, Okerty Entertainment. Filming begins June 6 in Ohio.

“Chance” is based on the life of local baseball star Chance Smith, who committed suicide in 2012 at the age of 16 following a breakup. “I’m proud to be a part of this unique project — a town coming together to work through their grief at losing a cherished member of the community by sharing their story,” Crye said.

The drama raises questions how teens communicate with each other and the responsibilities of the adults who are raising and mentoring. The script is based upon actual text messages,...