Here are the highlights of this year’s FrightFest, featuring the best movies playing at London’s legendary genre festival, including The Invisible Raptor, Bookworm, and opening night film Broken Bird. FrightFest is “genre Christmas” for gore-hounds, with multiple screens in Leicester Square filled with horror of all flavors, from slashers and psychological thrillers to paranormal stories and creature features. This year’s highlights include Cannes winner The Substance , eagerly anticipated found footage flick Shelby Oaks , and a movie about an invisible dinosaur.
You can already read our 14 favorite movies from FrightFest 2023 , or scroll down for the best movies at the 2024 edition, which we’ll be updating as films screen throughout the long weekend. Broken Bird Directed and co-written by Joanne Mitchell, Broken Bird is the character study of a deeply troubled woman that transforms into a dark gothic horror. Rebecca Calder delivers a powerhouse performance as Sybil, a lonely figure with a troubled past, who works as a mortician, and spends her spare time writing bad poetry and looking for something to fill the hole in her heart.
The film also follows the plight of a local policewoman who is breaking down following the disappearance of her child. Which begs the question, how are these twin storylines connected? The answer is predictably upsetting, and connected to the delusions and hallucinations that are fogging Sybil’s mind. All of which leads to a devastating.