Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Glasgow 2025 Line Up Promises ‘Mayhem’

Dark hearts of cinema, your time is nearly here! Today Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Glasgow reveal the 2025 line up that promises mayhem!

Last year the Glasgow Film Festival celebrated it’s 20th year, 2025 it’s FrightFest at the festival. The 3 day event taking place under the roof of the iconic Glasgow Film Theatre  between the 6th and 8th March. With a programme of mayhem, menace and monstrosity of new features and shorts which showcases the talented filmmakers currently bursting onto the genre scene.

FrightFest kicks off things on the Thursday night ( 6th)with the minding bending sci-fi thriller Psyche from Stephen Stewart (Bigfoot County). Starring by Sarah Ritter, as Mara, who, with the aid of a vintage 1980s computer, embarks on a surreal journey where nothing is as it seems.

The traditional two-day event kicks off on Friday 7th March opening up with the UK premiere of Izzy Lee’s House Of Ashes. A highly anticipated feature debut with a unpredictable and wonderfully deranged ghost story, with a thought-provoking gender commentary.

It’s documentary time with the UK premiere of The Last Sacrifice directed by Rupert Russell (who’ll be attending). An unsettling true-crime investigation style doc that probes into the eerie, enigmatic cultural undercurrents that shaped the 1970s folk horror.

This is followed by the World Premiere of David Luke Rees’s sinister By The Throat. The UK set horror also stars Sex Education‘s Patricia Allison and Bridgerton star Rupert Young.

If you want gross out core Jack McHenry‘s The Doom Busters is your film. Jack is no stranger to FrightFest Glasgow, as he brought his wacky Here Comes Hell to the Fest in 2019. Expect the same fun and if “where Dad’s Army meets Predator” doesn’t get you buying a ticket what will!?

The First full day ends with the UK premiere of Oscar-nominated Pedro Kos’ feature debut In Our Blood. Blending a psychological mystery with chilling horror, weaving a twisted tale of reconciling with the ghosts of our past. Confronting the complicity, share in creating a world preying on the most vulnerable.

Day 2 kicks off the UK premiere of monstrous Brazilian supernatural horror A Mother’s Embrace. Set in 1996, during one of the biggest storms to ever hit Rio de Janeiro.

The ever popular FrightFest Short Film Showcase strand will give homegrown talent a chance to shine. Unleashing the creative imaginations of seven up-and-coming directors from the UK and Ireland.

Next up is the world premiere of Hearts of Darkness: The Making of the Final Friday. A probing documentary which director Adam Marcus dives behind the scenes of the classic 9th Friday the 13th franchise . Adam and director Michael Flesher will be attending.

The evening line up heats up with some giallo American Backyard. Directed by Italian maestro Pupi Avati (House Of Laughing Shadows) who returns to behind the camera, gothic thriller roots with a tale of absolute fear, which co-stars Rita Tushingham.

Some might think Horror is just all blood and guts, Yes. It’s also comedy like Paul Boyd‘s Scared To Death starring Bill Moseley. What could wrong a with séance in an abandoned children’s orphanage?

Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2025 will close with Andy Edward‘s folk-horror adaptation of Rumpelstiltskin. Taking us into the dark underbelly of The Brothers Grimm universe.

FrightFest co-director Alan Jones said: “There has never been a better time to be a fan of the horror, fantasy and science fiction genre and FrightFest, the UK’s biggest and most influential event, plays its vital part in spreading the communal message. This includes our residency at the Glasgow Film Festival, where the FrightFest audience is vibrant, welcoming and eager to embrace the dark unknown, and we absolutely love being a strand of such a truly interactive experience with the art of film”.

FrightFest Glasgow es are £88 and available from 10am on Friday 17th January. es will be exchanged for ission wristbands, which must be worn at all times to access all FrightFest films on Friday 7th March and Saturday 8th March ONLY.

Tickets for Psyche, plus individual tickets for the Friday and Saturday films are on sale to GFT Cinecard holders on Thursday 23rd January from 10am. General sale starts on Monday 27th January at 10am.

Prices: £12.00 / £9.50 (concessions).

How to Buy Tickets
Online: https://glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-film-festival
Telephone: 0141 332 6535 (£1.50 fee per transaction, voice-mail available during peak business periods.
In person: Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB.

Pigeon Shrine FrightFest Glasgow will take place on 6th March until 8th March.