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Indie Filmmakers Brett and Jason Butler’s New Horror Film, ‘STRASUCKERS,’ To Premiere at Tubi FrightFest

Canadian indie directors Brett and Jason Butler are hopping across the pond this August for the World Premiere of their dark satire, STARSUCKERS. And it’s arriving at Tubi FrightFest 2026, the UK’s undisputed holy grail of genre cinema. Want to watch influencers and elite celebrity culture get dismantled in the most chaotic way possible? The Butler Brothers have you covered. Never Meet Your Idols Chuck and Eileen are an ordinary couple. They win a dream weekend getaway with ultra-glamorous celebrity icons Bjorg Everglow and Sasha Nightshade. Naturally, the “dream escape” rapidly degenerates into psychological warfare, manipulation, and casual murder as the famous duo reveals their deeply unhinged true intentions. STARSUCKERS skewers our cultural obsession with clout, status, and the desperate urge to live someone else’s highlight reel—proving that fame isn’t just toxic, it’s deadly. The film stars Manon Ens-Lapointe (The Last Anniversary) and Steven Hobé (How Disney Built America). Rising talents James Alex, Jersey Anderson, and Jacob Stickles join the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 4, 2026

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Fresh Blood: Heretic’s Chris Schwab Delivers New Trailer for ‘Dracula: The Night Around Us’ Ahead of Tubi FrightFest

Writer-director Chris Schwab (Heretic) has unveiled the trailer for his new feature Dracula: The Night Around Us. The film is a modern spin on Bram Stoker’s timeless horror masterpiece that proves you can never truly keep a good vampire down. Fresh off winning the Goule D’Or Award for Best Feature Film at the Portland Horror Film Festival, Dracula: The Night Around Us is now officially bound for London. It will celebrate its UK Premiere at Tubi FrightFest on August 30th as part of the Discovery Screen One lineup. “Dracula is a timeless story, and we’re thrilled to have been able to put a unique spin on one of cinema’s most iconic horrors,” says Schwab. “We can’t wait for London audiences to see what we’ve created.” Sewer-Dwelling Terror The dark reimagining centers on Dr. John Seward. He’s a depressed doctor working at an asylum for the criminally insane. However, he finds a rare glimmer of hope after bonding with his new

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 4, 2026

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Sing for Your Life: Horror-Comedy ‘Bad Karaoke’ Prepares to Slaughter Tubi FrightFest 2026

We’ve all sat through a karaoke cover so agonizing it felt like an actual hate crime. Now, co-directors Chris Lightbody and Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. are taking that universal nightmare and turning it into a literal body count. Making their feature directorial debut, Lightbody and Steinmiller have officially announced the world premiere of Bad Karaoke. It’s a pitch-black horror-comedy where an ambitious young band finds themselves locked in a battle for survival against a murderous, possessed karaoke machine. Safe to say, there’s a whole lot more on the line than a free round of pub shots. The film stars Lexi Underwood (Little Fires Everywhere), Case Walker (The Other Two), and singer-actor Kat Cunning (Trinkets). The Story When wedding band keyboardist Emily discovers an old karaoke machine in the back of a dive bar, she thinks it will lead to a fun-filled night of singing and bonding with her bandmates. Unfortunately, this karaoke machine seems to have a thirst for blood.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 2, 2026

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Spider One’s Slasher ‘Big Baby’ Set for Premiere at Tubi FrightFest

Just when you thought the slasher sub-genre couldn’t get any weirder, along comes a killer in a diaper. Lightbulb Film Distribution has announced that Big Baby—the new meta-slasher written and directed by Powerman 5000 mastermind Spider One—will make its official UK premiere at Tubi FrightFest London on August 27, 2026. And if the premise wasn’t wild enough, legendary Oscar-winner Cher serves as Executive Producer on the project. A Stacked Genre Cast The film packs an absolute powerhouse roster of horror favorites. It stars Brandon Scott (Descendent), Krsy Fox (Little Bites), Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier), and David Howard Thornton (best known as Art the Clown in the Terrifier franchise). The film marks a reunion for Spider One and actors Adam Marcinowski and Chaz Bono (American Horror Story), whom we interviewed about the film Bury the Bride. The plot follows a writer whose recurring nightmares about a maniacal killer wearing a baby mask inspire his latest screenplay. But as his personal life begins

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 23, 2026

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Tubi FrightFest 2026 Unleashes Its Mind-Blowing Fear Fare Lineup

London’s Tubi FrightFest is always a top-notch film festival destination for scare fare devotees, and this year the fest presents its biggest lineup ever! The event takes place Thursday August 27–Monday 31 August. Get your drool cups ready and have a gander at the official press announcement. Be prepared for a terrifying, record-breaking selection of World, International, and UK premieres as Tubi FrightFest 2026, the UK’s No.1 horror & fantasy film festival, returns to the Odeon LUXE Leicester Square and the ODEON Luxe West End for its annual five-day celebration of nerve-jangling eeriness, hair-raising shock, and epic scares. This year’s line-up highlights the genre’s transforming landscape and reflects the amazing span of progressive global genre filmmaking. Running from Thursday August 27 – Monday 31 August, Tubi FrightFest will showcase a record-breaking eighty-two features across five screens, including the popular ‘First Blood’, Documentary, and Retrospective strands. This year there are twenty-four world premieres, with sixteen countries represented, spanning four continents. The

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Joseph Perry

Jul 16, 2026

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Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Halloween 2024 Lineup: From Time Travel to Serial Killers and Beyond

London’s Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Halloween film festival is the place to be for fright-fare fanatics! The event features horror and science fiction features with world, international, and U.K. premieres aplenty. Following is the official press announcement. Following the success of its spectacular 25th Anniversary August five-day event, the UK’s most popular genre film festival returns to the Odeon Luxe West End in Leicester Square. Taking over both screens on Friday 1st November and Saturday 2nd November, the Halloween special will feature nine premiere titles from six countries, spanning Europe, North America, South America and Asia, making it a truly spine-chilling display of global talent. Each film will be screened twice. Tickets Opening the event is the UK premiere of Sam Yates’s MAGPIE, a darkly intense psychological thriller which thrives in its classic neo-noir atmosphere, eliciting tension that is seconds away from permanently snapping. Daisy Ridley delivers a tour de force performance as a neglected wife on the edge, and will

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Joseph Perry

Oct 4, 2024

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Spoiler-Free Reviews: MEMBERS CLUB and THE DEAD THING (Pigeon Shrine FrightFest)

MEMBERS CLUB Official synopsis: Wet Dreams, a middle-aged male stripper group have hit rock bottom. After a string of disastrous gigs, the gang considers disbanding. Alan (Dean Kilbey), the group’s happy-go-lucky front man, takes over the business and books the boys a lucrative and mysterious gig in rural Essex. But when the group arrive at the desolate club, their night quickly takes a dark turn when they find themselves tangled up in a plot to raise a murderous 16th century witch from the dead. The humor is Rabelasian and the gory dismembering of male genitalia is prominent in writer/director Marc Coleman’s horror comedy Members Club (U.K., 2024). The film is an overall fun romp that makes its well-past-their-prime male strippers a rather likable bunch for whom it is easy to cheer, and to hope for their survival. Members Club boasts additional heart in its family drama between front-man Alan (Dean Kilbey) and his daughter Daisy (Barbara Smith). The practical effects

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Joseph Perry

Sep 2, 2024

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Spoiler-Free Reviews: AN TAIBHSE (THE GHOST) and BROKEN BIRD (Pigeon Shrine FrightFest)

AN TAIBHSE (THE GHOST) Writer/director John Farrelly’s excellent Irish chiller An Taibhse (The Ghost; 2024) — the first horror film in the Irish language — has echoes of The Shining and classic haunted house stories in its tale of Éamon Finegan (Tom Kerrisk) and his daughter Máire (Livvy Hill), who have been hired on as maintenance workers for a large mansion in need of repair. The proceedings take place during a great famine in the winter of 1852, and the pair will be the only people there for most of the winter. Máire believes that a ghost haunted her at their previous home, and it seems that it has either followed her or that she has new specters with which to deal. Éamon injures himself and turns to the bottle, becoming increasingly unhinged. Coollattin House, County Wicklow, which has been uninhabited for 25 years, makes for a superbly eerie setting, and cinematographers Farrelly and Ross Power maximize the atmosphere of

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Joseph Perry

Aug 29, 2024

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The Sinister Six: A Half-Dozen Horrors Recommended for Pigeon Shrine FrightFest

London’s Pigeon Shrine FrightFest kicks off on Thursday, August 22 and runs through Monday, August 26, with 69 features from around the globe on tap. With chillers, thrillers, documentaries, and other genre fare scheduled, the festival presents a wealth of cinematic riches. Horror Fuel has selected six films that we are greatly looking forward to, including a few that we have already been lucky enough to have an advance look at (but we can’t say anything until the embargoes lift!). Check out the official festival descriptions below and then the links for more information, including trailers when available. The Monster Beneath Us Windswept Yorkshire, 1898. A grieving woman and her son move back to the unoccupied house of her ex-husband, who was recently found dead in mysterious circumstances. However, they soon discover they are not alone inside the icy house in a slow-burn horror, exploring the themes of isolation, otherness and loss. The house is home to a Boggart, an

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Joseph Perry

Aug 21, 2024

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Lovecraftian Horror ‘The DÆMON’ Premiering at FrightFest

Prepare to be consumed by darkness. Co-directors Matt Devino and David Michael Yohe have announced the world premiere of their horror film, THE DÆMON, at FrightFest. This Lovecraftian slow-burn delves into the depths of the human psyche. A family grapples with unresolved trauma, only to find themselves trapped by an ancient, evil force. Haunted by his father’s suicide, Tom seeks refuge at the lakeside cottage where his father met his end. There, his tormented memories from childhood resurface. An ancient, mysterious force lurks beneath the lake’s depths, driving Tom to madness. Tom’s communication dwindles into an eerie silence. His wife becomes desperate to rescue her husband. She enlists the help of her brother, Mark, and his wife, Jess, a trauma and grief counselor. Unaware of the sinister malevolence seeping from the lake, Tom becomes a willing vessel for the same evil that claimed his parents and now threatens all who dare draw near. With its haunting atmosphere and chilling narrative,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 25, 2024