SIGNATURE’S FRIGHTFEST 2019 SLATE

Signature Entertainment proudly announces 10 films for FrightFest 2019 which takes place in London from 22nd – 26th August at Cineworld Leicester Square and The Prince Charles Cinema.

The impressive spread of scarers includes 5 Signature Entertainment releases and 5 titles Signature will release under the FrightFest Presents (“FFP”) banner in conjunction with the festival’s team. Before those releases, all the films can be seen first at the festival. These include the inventive and gory Opening Film COME TO DADDY starring Elijah Wood and powerful Closing Film A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND which is a brilliant and shocking revenge thriller. Other significant actors in the line-up include Alice Lowe (Prevenge) in DARK ENCOUNTER, Luke Goss (Blade II) in EXTRACURRICULAR and Eddie Marsan (The World’s End) in FEEDBACK.

Expect suspense, terror and stand-out performances from the best new genre features around. More details for all 10 films below. See you there!

COME TO DADDY (FFP)

22nd August, 6pm at Cineworld Leicester Square (OPENING FILM) UK PREMIERE.

Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) stars in this offbeat dark comedy from the writer of The Greasy Strangler. After thirty years of no contact, Norval (Wood) visits his estranged father (Stephen McHattie) at his remote cabin by the sea. He quickly discovers that not only is his dad a disapproving alcoholic, he also has a shady past that is rushing to catch up with him. Also starring Martin Donovan and Michael Smiley.

“Smart, uncompromising, inventive and just downright hilarious. 10/10” – Film Threat

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2019films/come-to-daddy.html

Signature Entertainment presents COME TO DADDY on DVD & Digital HD early 2020

DARK ENCOUNTER

23rd August, 10:30am at Cineworld Leicester Square. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE.

An alien-abduction thriller set in a small rural town. A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8-year-old girl, her grieving family spot strange lights in the forest nearby their home. Starring Laura Fraser, Alice Lowe and Mel Raido.

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2019films/dark-encounter.html

Signature Entertainment presents DARK ENCOUNTER on DVD & Digital HD 21st October 2019

THE WIND (FFP)

23rd August, 10:45pm at Prince Charles Cinema

A critically acclaimed supernatural chiller set in the late 1800’s Western frontier, Lizzy (Caitlin Gerard, Insidious: The Last Key), a plainswoman coping with the recent loss of a child. Isolated and lonely while her husband is away, she is driven mad by the harshness of the farmland terrain and begins to wonder if the constant wind is a sign of an evil presence. Also starring Ashley Zuckerman.

“Indie horror at its best” – San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2019films/the-wind.html

Signature Entertainment presents THE WIND on Digital HD 2nd September 2019

FEEDBACK

24th August, 3:20pm at Cineworld Leicester Square. UK PREMIERE.

Eddie Marsan (The World’s End) stars in this nail-biting thriller from the producers of REC and The Shallows. Jarvis Dolan (Marsan) is the host of ‘The Grim Reality’, a successful late-night radio show. When two armed masked men burst in and hold the entire studio hostage, they want Jarvis to confess to a scandal that could ruin his career. However, he has no clue what they are talking about. And when the murdering stars, he finally discovers what his grim reality truly means. Also starring Paul Anderson and Ivana Baquero.

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2019films/feedback.html

Signature Entertainment presents FEEDBACK on Digital HD 26th August 2019

THE DARK RED (FFP)

24th August, 3:45pm at Prince Charles Cinema EUROPEAN PREMIERE.

An edge-of-your-seat twisted shocker from cult director Dan Bush (The Signal). Sybil (April Billingsley) is held against her will in a psychiatric ward as she claims that her new-born was stolen by a dark cult.

“Lo-fi scorcher. The Dark Red isn’t afraid to get a little bloody, and it’s all the more entertaining for it.” – Austin Chronicle

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2019films/the-dark-red.html

Signature Entertainment presents THE DARK RED on Digital HD 18th November 2019

EXTRACURRICULAR

24th August, 3:45pm at Cineworld Leicester Square. EUROPEAN PREMIERE.

An entertaining blast of mean-spirited and nasty genre thrills. Four high school seniors feel their day-to-day lives at school are getting a little dull. They make a pact to execute a series of perfect murders and get some thrills behind them before heading off to college. However, when their latest murder hits some unexpected speed bumps, the situation turns deadly, violent and bloody. Starring Luke Goss (bros: After the Screaming Stops).

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2019films/extracurricular.html

Signature Entertainment presents EXTRACURRICULAR on DVD & Digital HD 21st October 2019

I TRAPPED THE DEVIL (FFP)

24th August, 11:00pm at Prince Charles Cinema. UK PREMIERE.

A clever claustrophobic Christmas horror. When a family show up unannounced at the home of their estranged brother Steve (Scott Poythress, TV’s Sleepy Hollow) to celebrate the holidays, they are instead greeted with a horrifying surprise. Steve has trapped a man in his dark, dusty basement. But not just any old man. For he truly believes that his hostage is none other than the devil himself. Also starring AJ Bowen and Susan Burke.

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2019films/i-trapped-the-devil.html

Signature Entertainment presents I TRAPPED THE DEVIL on Digital HD 21st October 2019

THE FURIES

25th August, 10:45am at Cineworld Leicester Square

An elaborate and gory Ozploitation slasher. Rebellious high school student Kayla (Airlie Dodds) and her friend Maddie are abducted while out graffitiing their neighbourhood. Waking up in a forest, an axe-wielding masked man is hellbent on her murder. But she’s not alone. There are six more female victims each assigned a maniac stalker, implanted with retinal cameras so every moment of their terror can be streamed online for paying viewers. However, Kayla’s killer instinct is now unleashed and she does whatever it takes to survive and seek bloody revenge on her kidnappers.

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2019films/the-furies.html

Signature Entertainment presents THE FURIES on Digital HD 16th September 2019

HERE COMES HELL (FFP)

26th August, 6:15pm at Prince Charles Cinema

Downton Abbey meets Evil Dead in this supernatural murder mystery. With cut-glass British accents and a dodgy American in the cocktail party mix, a sophisticated 1930s soiree at an isolated country mansion descends into carnage, gore and demonic possession as rivalries and old friendships are put to the test when a gateway to Hell opens up without warning. Here Comes Hell is the critically-acclaimed, genre-clashing debut from wunderkind writer-director Jack McHenry.

http://www.frightfest.co.uk/2019films/here-comes-hell.html

Signature Entertainment presents HERE COMES HELL on Digital HD 11th November 2019

A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND

26th August, 8:45pm at Cineworld Leicester Square (CLOSING FILM). WORLD PREMIERE.

This crowd-pleasing and violent “kitchen-sink” revenge thriller is a dark and daring journey through Northern Ireland’s criminal underbelly. Recently widowed mother of two Sarah (a tour-de-force Sarah Bolger, The Spiderwick Chronicles) is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of their young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug-dealer, she’s forced to go beyond her humanity to protect her children and learn the truth.

“…a breakout performance by Sarah Bolger … an unmissable crime thriller from a new director to watch.” – Screen Anarchy