{"id":253966,"date":"2025-07-10T16:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253966\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:51:10","slug":"pete-davidson-james-demonaco-horror-home-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253966\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson & James DeMonaco Horror ‘Home’ Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: UK genre festival FrightFest<\/a> has revealed its 2025 lineup with the event opening with Pete Davidson horror The Home.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe event, which runs between August 21\u201325 at The Odeon LUXE Leicester Square for its annual five-day extravaganza, will showcase sixty-nine features, including\u00a0nineteen world premieres.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom director James DeMonaco, creator of\u00a0The Purge\u00a0franchise, actor-comedian Davidson plays Max in The Home, a rebellious twenty-something sentenced to community service at a quiet retirement home. Roadside\/Lionsgate is releasing in the U.S. later this month.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe festival will close with Kurtis David Harder\u2019s Influencers, which is being distributed by Shudder in the U.S. Set in southern France, it sees a young woman\u2019s fascination with murder and identity theft send her life into a whirlwind of chaos.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong the lineup, returning filmmakers include Erik Bloomquist who will be on hand with his latest chiller, Self-Help; Simon Rumley returns with Crushed; the Adams family are back with Mother Of Flies, their spiritual sequel to\u00a0Hellbender;\u00a0and Joe Begos is in the building with Jimmy And Stiggs \u2014 FrightFest\u00a0will be the first festival to show the new version with additional Eli Roth footage. Then there is Neil Marshall, who will be presenting the world premiere 4K restoration screening of The Descent, with some of the original cast also in attendance.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe festival will have the UK premiere of The Toxic Avenger, the reboot of the 1984 Troma cult film, the eye-opening A Serbian Documentary, Toshiaki Toyoda\u2019s Transcending Dimensions, Seth Daly\u2019s home invasion feature film debut,\u00a0The Rows, Mercedes Bryce Morgan\u2019s sex and lies thriller Bone Lake, What She Doesn\u2019t Know,\u00a0<\/strong>a serial killer thriller co-written by Terry Castle, daughter of the showman William Castle,\u00a0<\/strong>and the McManus Brothers will be at the festival with Redux Redux, a genre-bending sci-fi horror about a grieving mother searching for a reality where her murdered daughter is still alive.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong the main screen movies will be British entry Odyssey by Gerard Johnson, while Chris Marrs Piliero\u2019s Appofeniacs will have a world premiere. The Discovery strands will feature twenty-three U.S. entries, including Borderline\u00a0with Samara Weaving, star of the former\u00a0FrightFest\u00a0sensation\u00a0Ready Or Not, Patrick Rea\u2019s serial killer clown spree Super Happy Fun Clown and The Arborist.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tFrom the UK will be Bambi: The Reckoning, while there are also films from Spain, Korea, Norway and from Latvia is the UK premiere of Dog Of God,\u00a0a historical depiction of the most famous werewolf trial in Northern Europe. <\/p>\n

\n\tCo-director Alan Jones commented: \u201cFrightFest\u00a0in its 26th year remains the UK\u2019s number one destination for\u00a0genre fans. The 2025 event will be epic in every sense, celebrating the inventive, transgressive and diverse. So, join us for an event that has consistently remained in the top ten of the world\u2019s best fantasy festivals list\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe full lineup can be found later today on the festival\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: UK genre festival FrightFest has revealed its 2025 lineup with the event opening with Pete Davidson horror…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,97659,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-253966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-frightfest","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114829976247932518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}