FrightFest 2013 announces full line-up
Featuring a record 51 films from five continents
Film4 FrightFest has announced its line-up for 2013, with a record 51 films from five continents set to be screened.
Set to descend upon the Empire cinema in Leicester Square, London over the August bank holiday weekend, FrightFest 2013 will unveil several premieres.
Amid the world premieres are opening night film The Dead 2: India , the Zachary Quinto-produced Banshee Chapter , and Dementamania , Antisocial and For Elisa .
Don Mancini’s Curse Of Chucky will get its Euro-premiere at the fest, alongside I Spit On Your Grave 2 , Missionary and The Desert .
UK premieres includes closing night film Big Bad Wolves , cannibal remake We Are What We Are , Luke Evans starrer No One Lives , Bobcat Goldthwait’s Willow Creek and anthology sequel V/H/S/2 .
The highest-profile film of the fest is set to be ghost-cop blockbuster R.I.P.D. , starring Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges, which gets a preview screening. In the classics corner are the likes of Corman’s The Fall Of The House Of Usher and Murnau’s Nosferatu .
FrightFest 2013 runs from Thursday 22 - Monday 26 August 2013 at the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square. For the full line-up and more information, visit frightfest.co.uk .
Festival and day passes go on sale from 29 June 2013. Tickets for Individual films are on sale from 27 July 2013.
Bookings: 08 714 714 714 or www.empirecinemas.co.uk
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