Glasgow Frightfest 2026 Full Lineup: Here are all 12 films at the festival of horror this year - and how to get tickets

Taking place at the Glasgow Film Theatre from March 6-8 the feast of horror will include five world premieres, a documentary about director John Boorman and a short film showcase which highlights filmmakers exclusively from the UK and Ireland.

Stars in attendance at the event, will include Glee star Chris Colfer, Star Trek actress Alice Krige (Star Trek), and Bryan Larkin, who has appeared in the likes of London Has Fallen and Vikings.

FrightFest co-director Alan Jones said: “For twenty-one years, FrightFest has joyfully programmed for collective gasps, laughs, screams and applause from our ever-supportive audiences within the Glasgow Film Festival. This year’s prime selection of unusual films will innovate, challenge, thrill and amaze as we platform both features and shorts from the most creative talents working in the genre”.

It all kicks off on the Thursday with a special world premiere screening of thriller Jailbroken, which is set entirely within a single prison cell and stars Scottish trio David Hayman, Bryan Larkin and Shauna MacDonald.

The next two days will feature 10 films and the short film showcase, all included in the Frightfest passes that go on sale at 10am on Friday, January 16, on the GFT website here. Passes are priced at £88.

Tickets for Jailbreak, plus individual tickets for the Friday and Saturday films, are on sale to the GFT’s CineCard/CineCard+ members from Friday, January 23 from 10am and on general sale at 10am on Monday, January 26.

Here’s the full lineup.

Friday, March 6

1.30pm: Bury The Devil (UK Premiere)

Director: Adam O’Brien. Cast: Jason Cavalier, Dawn Ford, Emmanuelle Lussier Martinez, Mark Anthony Krupa. Canada 2025 1hr 26m.

When a hospice nurse finds herself trapped with a dementia patient, she suspects something else is wrong with the woman, that she is harbouring dark secrets, something otherworldly, and must fight to survive the night. Opting for an ambitious single-take approach to the supernatural-tinged home invasion tale, director Adam O’Brien ratchets up the tension to depict the most harrowing 86 minutes of the nurse’s life.

3.50pm: Bone Keeper (World Premiere)

Director: Howard J. Ford. Cast: Sarah Alexandra Marks, Louis James, Tiffany Hannam-Daniels, John Rhys-Davies. UK 2026 1hr 30m.

A cosmic fireball crashes into remote woodland, awakening a terrifying creature hidden in the depths. 1976: James Wheeler enters a cave determined to uncover the truth – and is never seen again. Now Wheeler’s granddaughter, along with five explorers, set out to investigate the legend of the ‘Bone Keeper’. But deep in the caves, they realise they are being hunted and the line between hunter and prey blurs.  Will they uncover the truth and escape the creature – or become the next missing souls?

6.10pm: Boorman & The Devil (UK Premiere)

Director: David Kittredge. Cast: John Boorman, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher, Mike Flanagan USA 2025 1hr 52m.

After the success of Point Blank and Deliverance, Warner Bros. offered John Boorman the chance to direct a sequel to their 1973 blockbuster hit, The Exorcist. The result was one of the biggest disasters in movie history, which nearly ended Boorman’s career. But to be an artist is to be a risk-taker. In super-fan David Kittredge’s eye-opening documentary, Boorman, stars Linda Blair and Louise Fletcher and many more reflect back on the ambition of Exorcist II: The Heretic, the artistry and craft, and the value of big creative swings.

8.50pm: The Restoration at Grayson Manor (UK Premiere)

Director Glenn McQuaid Cast Chris Colfer, Alice Krige, Daniel Adegboyega, Declan Reynolds. Ireland/Austria 2025. 1hr34m.

Irish playboy Boyd Grayson delights in bringing men home to his sprawling family estate for sex, just to spite his legacy-obsessed mother, reminding her she’ll never get the grandchildren she craves. When an accident leaves him incapacitated, Boyd finds himself handless, helpless and at the mercy of her care. Luckily, family wealth means he will be the first person in history to pilot an experimental technology: nano-tech mechanical hands controlled entirely by his subconscious. Soon, however, the hands begin to move on their own.

11.05pm: The Curse (UK Premiere)

Director: Kenichi Ugana. Cast: Yokino Kaizu, Yu, Shiho, Mimi Shao. Japan 2025 1hr 34m

After seeing her friend’s disturbing social media posts, beauty salon receptionist Riko intervenes but fails to prevent her from dying a mysterious, violent death. Convinced there is more to the story than a suicide, Riko dives into a world of memes, influencers, and posting for attention. As the pile of bodies grows, and Riko faces her own possible curse, she and her friends travel to Taiwan to find the community horror source of this demonic social media killer.

Saturday, March 8

10.35am: Violence (International Premiere)

Director: Connor Marsden. Cast: Rohan Campbell, Maddie Hasson, Sarah Grey, Greg Bryk. Canada 2025 1hr 24m.

Living in an alternate 1980s filled with graffiti-covered squalor and danger around every corner, antihero Henry Violence comes to the rescue of his ex-lover as she sinks deeper into their treacherous world of drugs and crime. Unfortunately, Henry gets entangled in a brutal gang war as rival cartels battle for supremacy and must double-cross a powerful drug lord, setting in motion turbo-charged, blood-drenched carnage.

12.50pm: Short Film Showcase

Nazar (World Premiere)

Director: Kaljeven Singh Lally.  Cast: Tajinder Singh, Michael MacLeod.  UK 2025. 17 min. 

Harbir channels his envy of Ben by calling out his beliefs in Punjabi superstition and black magic at his cousin's birthday lunch, but he quickly finds there’s more to this tale than he bargained for. 

Foreign Bodies (Scottish Premiere) 

Director: Lysander Wong.  United Kingdom 2025. 4 min. 

A simple itch descends into an outbreak with many legs. Certain things will always find their way to the surface. 

A Hand To Hold (European Premiere)   

Director: Philip Clyde-Smith.  Cast: Murray McArthur, Shane Casey, Frances Barber, Frank Bourke, Lisa O’Connor, Katherine Moran, Jimmy Tarbuck, Brian Byrne.  UK 2025. 15 min. 

Moira, an elderly Irish woman, finds herself literally attached to her deceased husband, Patrick. When his hand refuses to let go after death, it leads to increasingly grotesque events. Everyone in the couple’s orbit, from their daughter to the local doctor, a farmer, a priest, and a Satanist, tries to intervene with horrific consequences. 

Muff (Scottish Premiere) 

Director: Elliot Ancona.  Cast: Ronni Ancona, Bradley John, Jason York.  UK 2025. 6 min. 

Commitment-phobic Noah is spellbound to fight a duel for the hand of a spectral lady whose bewitching Muff is an accessory…to die for. 

What Goes Around (Or Things That Go Bump In The Night) (World Premiere)

Director: Edie Deffebach.  Cast: Stella Talpo, Alexander Arnold.  United Kingdom 2025. 15min. 

A woman wakes up on a London night bus and is provoked by a series of passengers, setting her on a bloody journey of self-discovery. 

The Trick (World Premiere) 

Directors: Matt Fitch, Chris Baker.  Cast: Rowan Polonski, Jennie Eggleton.  UK 2025. 5min. 

A mysterious stranger. A deck of cards. And a trick that’s far more sinister than anyone could imagine. The Trick is a dark, suspenseful short that will leave you questioning what’s real… and what’s magic. 

Plastic Surgery (Scottish Premiere) 

Director: Guy Trevellyan.  Cast: Anna Popplewell, Daniel Ings.  UK 2025. 12 min.

A doctor on her last day before maternity leave is thrown into chaos when a hidden threat emerges. 

Behind (UK Premiere)

Director: Alessio Avezzano.  Cast: Jade McDonald, Kyle Wallace, Tanyaradzwa Gimani, Graham Pritz-Bennett, Olivia Jane Topalian, Saaniya Abbas, Suani Rincon.  UK 2025. 17min.

A global butt-dial outbreak sweeps the planet, but the real nightmare is only just beginning. 

3.10pm: The Convenience Store (International Premiere)

Director: Jiro Nagae. Cast: Kotona Minami. Japan 2026 1hr23m.

Based on the acclaimed video game, a college girl works the night shift at a local convenience store. She must handle multiple customers and perform menial tasks, but as the nights go by, she discovers strange things starting to happen around the store. Then a deliveryman gives her a package and her whole life changes because what’s inside forces her to make the darkest of decisions. Is it all in her imagination? Or is the store truly haunted? Or has she awakened something far worse?

5.30pm: Red Riding (World Premiere)

Director: Craig Conway. Cast: Victoria Tait, Ian Whyte, Robert Cavanagh, Bill Fellows. UK 2026 1hr 35m.

After her mother’s overdose, troubled teen Redele Riding is sent from her London council estate to live with her estranged aristocratic grandmother in the Scottish Highlands. At first, Red is captivated by the grand estate, but beneath the elegance, she uncovers disturbing secrets: vanished children, whispers of a monstrous wolf stalking the woods, and a sinister control exerted by her grandmother and the menacing gamekeeper. As folklore and reality blur, Red struggles to make sense of cryptic warnings left by her mother and a dark family legacy.

8.00pm: Kamadonna (UK Premiere)

Director: Aleksander Radivojević. Cast Jelena Đokić, Sergej Trifunović, Miomir Mima Karadžić, Milica Stefanovic.  Serbia 2025 1hr 59m.

Yelena’s third pregnancy trimester is complicated by an enigmatic phone call from a voice claiming to be a God. After a sinister demonstration of the self-proclaimed deity’s powers, she’s offered an ultimatum: murder a select list of individuals or lose her unborn child. So Yelena descends into the hellish Serbian criminal underworld to cross names off a divine hit list, from corrupt cops to toxic social-media influencers.

10.45pm: Deathkeeper (World Premiere)

Director: Tristan Barr. Cast: Charles Cottier, Shuang Hu, Peter Thurnwald, Rebecca Barr. Australia 2025 1hr 35m.

Reclusive Luke is a near-immortal angel and stands on the side of good. He is an eternally cursed young man who only ages when he saves lives. However, as he ages, he can only become young once again by taking another life. Drawn to a possessed woman seeking refuge, a series of murders ensues whilst the evil Malagor pursues Luke and amasses an army of the dead. Only Luke can defeat him in a battle of Good vs Evil. But Luke must protect the innocent, aided by his lover, a troubled cop, a local priest and a mysterious wanderer.

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