Saturday nights on Horror Channel in July sees the UK TV premieres of Casey La Scala's disaster shocker The Remaining , based on the Book of Revelations; Mark Young's contagious chiller Feral ; Robbie Pickering's comedy horror
Freaks of Nature and Nils Taylor's fearsome female thriller Quarries .
In the UK TV premiere of The Remaining on the 6th, a group of close friends gathers for a wedding, but the celebration is shattered by a series of cataclysmic events and enemies foretold by apocalyptic biblical prophecies. The survivors face a
horrifying, uncertain future as they scramble for safety, but as their world collapses around them in chaos and terror, will they choose real life through faith, or just try to survive? Another wild TV premiere on the 13th, Feral. A wild animal
attacks six medical students on a weekend hike in the woods. One by one, they become infected with a feral disease, turning them into rabid, bloodthirsty creatures, and the vacation becomes a nightmare as they fight to survive each other.
We take you to Dillford on the 20th to meet some Freaks of Nature. Here, where, three days ago, everything was peaceful and business as usual: the vampires were at the top of the social order, the zombies were at the bottom, and the humans were
getting along in the middle. But this delicate balance is ripped apart when the alien apocalypse arrives. Now it's humans vs. vampires vs. zombies in all-out, blood-sucking, brain-eating, vamp-staking mortal combat. We pack in another UK TV
premiere into July on the 27th, Quarries. In order to escape her abusive boyfriend, Kat joins a wilderness expedition with a group of women, all of whom are struggling against the uncertainty of life. But what was supposed to be an opportunity
for personal discovery quickly becomes a fight for survival when they are viciously stalked by a pack of predators. They are forced to uncover the strength even they didn't know they possessed.
Frightfest 2019
Cineworld and Prince Charles Cinemas on Leicester Square
22-26th August 2019
This year's festival opens with the UK premiere of Ant Timpson's deviously edgy stunner COME TO DADDY , starring Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Martin Donovan and Michael Smiley.
The festival reaches its bloody conclusion with the world premiere of Abner Pastoll's A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND , a superbly crafted Belfast-based crime story. It showcases a tour-de-force performance by Sarah Bolger, who plays a
recently widowed mother of two desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of their young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping low-life drug-dealer Tito (Andrew Simpson from ROAD GAMES) stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr.
Big, she's forced into taking drastic action to protect her children while learning the awful truth about her spouse.
Frightfest co-director Alan Jones commented:
FrightFest's 20th year celebration year is all about honouring our past while looking towards an exciting future for the genre. Our opening attraction marks the debut feature of someone we have grown up with; producer Ant Timpson, who has
consistently provided top notch fantasy fare throughout our formative two decades. Our world premiere closer is Abner Pastoll's dark and dazzling thriller 'A Good Woman Is Hard To Find'. Pastoll impressed with his previous FrightFest entry 'Road
Games and is now set to expand his mainstream appeal big time. Past friends, present family and future frights - that's FrightFest 2019.
Other main screen international attractions include producer Guillermo del Toro and director André Řvredal's SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK , producer Sam Raimi and director Alexandre Aja's gruesome gator yarn CRAWL, the Radio Silence gang's
lethal thriller READY OR NOT, director Kiah Roache-Turner's futuristic Ozploitation classic NEKROTRONIC , Pedro C. Alonso's startling captive chiller FEEDBACK , with a career-defining performance from Eddie Marsan, Kirill Sokolov's splatterpunk
action comedy WHY DON'T YOU JUST DIE! and Jason Mewes insanely brilliant MADNESS IN THE METHOD , starring Mewes, Vinnie Jones, Kevin Smith, Teri Hatcher, Dean Cain and with a final on-screen appearance from Stan Lee.
Making their second, very welcome appearance at the festival will be The Soska Sisters, attending for the World Premiere of RABID , their eagerly anticipated re-imagining of the Cronenberg classic. The sisters will also introduce a special
retrospective screening of the original. Also attending is the legendary Dario Argento, here for a special screening of his giallo masterpiece TENEBRAE . He'll also be in conversation with Festival co-director Alan Jones and signing copies of his
autobiography, Fear, which Jones has adapted and edited. More attending guests will be announced later this month (July).
November on Horror Channel has a distinctive cutting-edge with a Saturday night prime-time Bloody British Season, celebrating the new wave of British horror movies that reinvigorated the UK horror industry in the early 2000s. There are 9pm
network premieres for Neil Marshall's sensational werewolf debut feature Dog Soldiers (2002) (Saturday 11th), his monstrous all-female star cast follow-up The Descent (2005) (Saturday 25th), Christopher Smith's underground ghost train journey
through hell, Creep (2004) (Saturday 18th), and Nick Hamm's psychologically gripping The Hole (2001) (Saturday 4th), with Keira Knightley in her first significant film role.
And the cuts get deeper with a Sharkmania Marathon - a slew of six salt-water B-movie shockers on Sunday 12th, highlighted by the network premieres of the last two adventures in the sky-flying sharks cult franchise Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens
(2016) at 8.10pm and Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017) on at 9.50pm. The other teeth-chattering offerings are: Planet Of The Sharks (2016), Super Shark (2011), Ice Sharks (2016) and The Reef (2010).
There are seven other primetime network premieres this month: M. Night Shyamalan's boldly unsettling survival movie The Happening (2008), starring Mark Wahlberg; Paul Schrader's hypnotic and erotic classic Cat People (1982); Christopher Smith's
hilariously shocking Severance (2006) starring Danny Dyer and Andy Nyman; the creepy sequel Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003); Silent Hill (2006), Christophe Gans' eerie adaptation of Konami's video game series of the same name; Fran Rubel Kuzui's Buffy
The Vampire Slayer (1992), starring Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer and Hilary Swank; and croc-shocker Lake Placid 2
