Celebrate Halloween with our Very Spooky Film Festival!

Our annual Halloween on TV festival returns this month, celebrating the best horror shorts and animations from talented contemporary indie filmmakers worldwide!

Expect zombies, witches, spooky kids, haunted houses, and lots, lots more…

Every night at 9pm, Thursday 24th – 31st October, with an omnibus on Halloween night.

Thursday 24th

EPISODE 1

Màthair by Gary J Hewitt
8:00, UK
When two sibling go fly-tipping in the countryside, Mother Nature fights back.

Phantom Requiem by Zazie Productions
4:54, US
“Phantom Requiem” unfolds in the desolate expanse of an abandoned factory, where shadows and silence are the only remnants of a once-thrumming industrial heartbeat. In this spectral setting, a coterie of puppets emerges—ethereal figures, each step and gesture echoing the dissonant unraveling of a viewer ensnared in a psychotic fugue.

Inheritance by Denis Curej
10:00, UK
When Claire learns that her estranged mother is dying, she returns to her hometown unaware that it is led by a religious cult to which her mother belongs to and is a host of something sinister that the family has been containing for generations.

The Detachment by Lee Daehan
38:56, Republic of Korea
In a world overrun by zombies, Ha-young struggles with his love for his daughter Ye-eun, who has become one of the undead. As he grapples with the morality of his actions, he encounters an old childhood friend, Suck-kil, which leads to a series of events that force Ha-young to confront the true horror of his situation.

Friday 25th

EPISODE 2

Look at Me by Simone Giufrè & Marco Nassisi
4:33, Italy
An eye-obsessed killer gets a visit from his latest victim, a blind girl.

A Nightmare on 34th Street by Kevin McGuiness
5:52, Canada
A nerdy young man named Wilbur accidentally purchases a cursed Christmas gift for his shallow girlfriend Candy with horrifying consequences.

The Short Way by Jeremy Espaillard
10:45, Canada
What would you do if a version of yourself appeared,
In a realm where reality and fantasy blurred,
Trapped in a place where the vanished leave no sign,
You confront your fears, but wonder: is this truth, or only mine?

Lancashire 1981 by Tom Bohan
4:21, UK
In 1981, a containment failure at the blackslate anomaly research centre led to the immediate lockdown of several towns within the Lancashire border.T he incident was quickly contained and the footage suppressed, until internal blackslate documents were recently leaked onto the internet via an unknown source. This film contains footage shot by the anomaly response team on the date of the incident.

Vamp by Céline Ribard
6:00, UK
When a young woman wakes up after being left for dead, she has to process her trauma before stepping into the daylight.

Bone Idol by Alba Fernandez Dawson
4:00, UK
A young man is trying to complete his gruesome art project.

The Beast by Joris Laquittant
23:00, France
On vacation on his family in the countryside, a young city boy is forced to participate in wild boar hunts in the cornfields. Naive and fearful, he lives in constant fear of a mysterious beast that adults say would live in the countryside.

Saturday 26th

EPISODE 3

Anguish by Mandisa Mary – Jane Mtembu & Lerato Modise
11:00, South Africa
In what seems to be a zombie-infested world, a devoted son tends to his zombie mother.

Cellar Door by Chris Pearson
10:09, US
An experimental film focusing on a man combating his obscured surroundings.

Les Journaleux by Pierre Renverseau & Sébastien Cassen
4:28, France
Two journalists interview a strange man in his sinister house.

The Hitchhiker at the Lone Oak Tree by Austin Saxton
9:46, US
When a driver picks up a hitchhiker, he will take him to a place few go out to venture. But once they reach the destination, will they be able to return? This horror short uses moving stills, rotoscoping, and traditional animation styles.

Hellhound by Lincoln Barela
23:50, Brazil
The arrival of a strange package reunites two friends who have taken different paths in life, putting their friendship at stake over something that may be more than just a prank.

Sunday 27th

EPISODE 4

Noodles by Kayleigh Pepper
9:22, UK
The world is a wasteland, and Nobody will always be found taking photographs. She documents all that she finds of what has happened to the world and takes them back to her favourite place, her darkroom to develop her findings. But something is coming for her, something that she knew was going to happen from the very start. She finds comfort eating her noodles, trying to deal with what has happened and what will soon happen to her.

Fungi from Yuggoth by Daniel Alfredo Buitrago Fernandez
5:28, Columbia
In the oppressive atmosphere of a Victorian study, H.P. Lovecraft delves into a night of frenetic work. Surrounded by ancient books, strange artifacts, and an aura of mystery, Lovecraft receives a mysterious box containing extraterrestrial fungi.

Arapuca / Bird Trap by Joel Caetano
20:00, Brazil
We follow the daily life of Marcos, a man who returns to his old home to take care of his father, an elderly man who is in an advanced stage of a degenerative disease that deprives him of seeing clearly the reality around him. Marcos is unable to communicate with his father and this invisibility is slowly corrupting him, mainly because it prevents him from finding answers to something that has bothered him for a long time in the relationship between the two.

Earl’s Death by Kathleen Bryson & Kimmo Moykky
4:25, UK
In the surrealist short film Earl’s Death spin-off from feature film Baked Alaska, we delve into the disjointed, disorienting and dead reflections of goldminer Earl moments after his violent demise in a 1925 Alaskan brothel at the hands of time-traveling prostitutes. As Earl’s disembodied voice narrates, he confronts a cascade of humiliating and painful memories, questions the nature of death and negotiates trippy existential visuals for good measure. Earl reflects on the absurdities/indignities of his life, from embarrassing childhood mishaps to adult regrets. In a final, irreverent revelation, Earl’s darkly humorous musings reach a grim conclusion.

It’s All Wrong by Jon Parkin
25:00, UK
Three masked creatures wait in a basement to open a mysterious cupboard.

Monday 28th

EPISODE 5

Just Meat by Rhys Jones
14:54, UK
Tommy, a Pizza bike delivery driver, is held hostage at the hands of a disturbed woman called Catrin and her girlfriend Zoe. But not all is as it seems…

The Memory Emporium by Michael Allred
3:53, New Zealand
Stanley, who is grieving about a hit and run, decides to search for more alcohol to ease his suffering. Wandering down the street, he finds an Emporium. Lined with bottles on the display and thinking it’s a bottle store, he enters. Inside is a different world, and he sees and experiences strange things.

The Seance by Hunter Burns, Jordan Spalding
9:00, US
Sadie, a teenage witch, helps her crush, the cutest boy in school, get in contact with his late mother, despite ample warnings from the spirit world.

Horror Mansion by Burç Kaan Saraç
4:56, Turkey
When a babysitter and a thief make a pact about a baby in a haunted house, they unwittingly awake a spirit who will protect their victim at all costs.

Civil War by Flávio Carnielli
25:00, Brazil
A small community decides to confront the holy in pursuit of the secrets that can set mankind free.

Tuesday 29th

EPISODE 6

Soul//靈 by Alison Wong
5:30, UK
A struggling photographer gets passed on a vintage camera from his missing father, only to find it has the ability to grant them success for a sinister exchange of capturing people’s souls.

Nobody to Play With by Annabel Howe
3:24, UK
Walking home from school, a girl loses her ribbon in a mysterious fog. She tracks it to an abandoned playground, which comes alive when she enters it. Terrified, she then encounters the ghost behind the hauntings and must learn to face her fears.

What I’m Hiding From You… by Conor Devlin-Powell
5:00, UK
A short semi-animated experimental horror film about masking neurodivergence.

V1-Truvius by Ivan Guerrero, Mario Rodríguez Herrera & Fernanda Ocampo
3:36, Mexico
In a rusted world, a robot is trying to assemble its final creation.

C.A.T. a Cosmic Alien Thing by Ashley Gwen Patrick & Jaime Chapin
15:58, US
An alienated single woman discovers her house cat is a creature from another planet.

Bloodstain by Corentin Le Meur
25:29, France
In the 12th century, after a large part of the king’s army has been decimated during the last crusade, a strange disease is spreading in a remote kingdom. The knight Erold de Troie is secretly dispatched to investigate a sorceress accused of causing the infection.

Wednesday 30th

EPISODE 7

Dropouts by Leon Tarris Thompson
8:59, UK
Six People wake up in a dark room and are forced to play a survival death game. Pass The Parcel! Follow these characters as they try to make sense of things before the game finishes…

Madeline’s House by Eliska Dvorackova
3:22, UUK
A little girl, Madeline, takes us on a tour of her beloved childhood home. The more rooms we explore, she slowly remembers the strange and disturbing events that led to her death.

The Scale by Alexandre Royal Pelletier & Sharbel Showary
11:53, Canada
A man, alone in a bathroom, gets ready to go out. He’s stopped in his tracks when he trips on his bathroom scale. Desperate to rid his body’s imperfections, he decides to weigh himself, to devastating consequences.

Greece is Burning by Lampros Kordolaimis
9:04, Greece
6 stories taking place in the same area, starting with an animal abuser and a serial killer targeting women. As the Greek system and society don’t seem willing to deliver justice, the victims take matters into their own hands.

A Caution For the Wise by Gaius Brown
28:53, UK
When an 18th Century Cleric is appointed to a new rural Parish, he finds his faith tested by local superstitions surrounding a strange mound in an ancient woodland. Loosely based on a chapter from the smash hit novel ‘Skendleby’, written by the Director’s father, Nick Brown.