Irish Film Institute -IFI HORRORTHON

IFI HORRORTHON

Horrorthon is back, October 24th - 28th! 

The Irish Film Institute’s annual IFI Horrorthon is back, celebrating everything that lurks in the shadows, creeps through the hallways, and haunts the darkened corners of your vision. This year’s festival, which runs at the IFI, Dublin from Thursday October 24th to Monday October 28th, promises an eerie mix of fresh frights, both Irish and international, alongside classic gems seldom seen on the big screen. With documentaries and filmmaker talks, a Horror Pub Quiz and live DJs, and the IFI Café Bar serving up specially curated plates and cocktails across the weekend, the IFI is the biggest celebration of in-cinema scares anywhere in Ireland this Halloween. With this superb weekend of thrilling events, Horrorthon cements its place as Ireland’s biggest and best genre festival, offering something spooky and unique for every horror fan.
TICKET BUNDLES*
Full Festival Pass (All 5 Days)**: €160.00 (IFI Member) / €165.00 (Non-Member)
10-Film Deal: €100.00 (IFI Member) / €105.00 (Non-Member)
5-Film Deal: €60.00 (IFI Member) / €65.00 (Non-Member)
 
*Ticket bundles and Festival Pass are not applicable for SLAUGHTERHOUSE OF HORROR events. **The Festival pass will cover all films except in instances where film times clash, so you must choose which title you want to see. These passes can only be booked in-person or by calling the IFI Box Office on 01 679 3477.
 
HORRORTHON 2024: TEST SCREENING
Oregon, 1982. Four teens suspect that a mysterious upcoming screening at their local cinema is the finale of George Lucas’s trilogy, only to discover something far more sinister in this…
Thursday 24th Oct 2024 19.00
HORRORTHON 2024: HALLOWEEN (TV EDITION)
Don’t miss this extremely rare opportunity to see on the big screen this expanded version of John Carpenter’s timeless classic, first premiered on US television in 1981, and longer by…
Thursday 24th Oct 2024 21.00
HORRORTHON 2024: THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER LEE
Featuring the likes of Joe Dante and John Landis, this innovative and commendably balanced documentary mixes footage and interviews new and old in a fitting tribute to a remarkable man…
Friday 25th Oct 2024 12.00
HORRORTHON 2024: TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER
Hammer’s Dennis Wheatley adaptation sees writer John Verney (Richard Widmark) asked to help rescue a young girl (Nastassja Kinski) from the clutches of cult-founder and excommunicated priest Michael Rayner (Christopher…
Friday 25th Oct 2024 14.00
HORRORTHON 2024: CURE
Our J-Horror strand kicks off with this story of a detective investigating a series of violent murders, each committed by people who confess to their crimes, but cannot explain them.…
Friday 25th Oct 2024 16.05
HORRORTHON 2024: DEAD MAIL
When a bloodied note crosses the desk of postal worker Jasper (Tomas Boykin), who specialises in delivering dead letters, he is drawn into the world of its sender and his…
Friday 25th Oct 2024 18.30
HORRORTHON 2024: YOUR MONSTER
We are delighted to be able to add  this preview of Caroline Lindy’s Your Monster to this year’s Horrorthon line-up. The film premiered in the Midnight section of this year’s Sundance festival,…
Friday 25th Oct 2024 20.40
HORRORTHON 2024: HORROR TABLE QUIZ
Join us in the IFI Bar for a horror-themed quiz sure to test the knowledge of even the most ardent fan. Bragging rights are up for grabs, with spot prizes…
Friday 25th Oct 2024 22.00
HORRORTHON 2024: DOUBLE BILL: MESSIAH OF EVIL / THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE
This double bill of dark, eerie, and rarely screened films of the 1970s brings us to a California town in the grip of a mysterious cult, and a zombie infestation…
Friday 25th Oct 2024 22.40
HORRORTHON 2024: DOUBLE BILL: SCARED SHITLESS / MERMAID LEGEND
This double bill pairs a new comedic creature feature about a pair of plumbers hunting something slimy through the pipes with an ‘80s Japanese title in which a grieving widow…
Friday 25th Oct 2024 22.50
HORRORTHON 2024: DOUBLE BILL: DEUS IRAE / TRAUMATIKA
Deus Irae sees a group of excommunicated priests using violence as well as prayer to carry out exorcisms, while Traumatika sees a family haunted by a curse down through the…
Friday 25th Oct 2024 23.00
HORRORTHON 2024: NOROI: THE CURSE
One of the most effective films in the ‘found footage’ subgenre, Noroi: The Curse sees an investigator of the paranormal embroiled in increasing danger as he uncovers hard evidence of…
Saturday 26th Oct 2024 12.50
AN TAIBHSE + Q&A
The first-ever Irish language horror film sees the father-and-daughter caretakers of a remote mansion take up residence in the harsh winter months, accompanied by an uninvited and unwanted guest. The…
Saturday 26th Oct 2024 17.50 Saturday 9th Nov 2024 15.30
HORRORTHON 2024: SECRET CLASSIC
This slot offers the audience the opportunity to see on the big screen, almost certainly for the first time, a film overlooked on release whose stature has grown over the…
Saturday 26th Oct 2024 15.30
HORRORTHON 2024 & BRAM STOKER FESTIVAL: SLAUGHTERHOUSE OF HORRORS – SEANCHOÍCHE
Ireland is known for storytelling, bearing some of the greatest writers and storytellers in history, including the mastermind behind Dracula himself, Bram Stoker. As part of Slaughterhouse of Horrors, Seanchoíche…
Saturday 26th Oct 2024 20.30
HORRORTHON 2024 & BRAM STOKER FESTIVAL: SLAUGHTERHOUSE OF HORRORS – PET SEMATARY
For years, IFI Horrorthon has given Dublin cinema-goers nightmares. A place where boundary-pushing new films, undiscovered gems, and cult icons collide in the Irish Film Institute. As part of Slaughterhouse…
Saturday 26th Oct 2024 20.40
HORRORTHON 2024 & BRAM STOKER FESTIVAL: SLAUGHTERHOUSE OF HORRORS – IRISH HORROR MASTERCLASS
Irish horror is having a moment. Actors, directors, writers and more are going global with their work, but where did it all begin? As part of Slaughterhouse of Horrors, two…
Saturday 26th Oct 2024 20.50
HORRORTHON 2024: SUZZANNA: THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC
From the team that brought IFI Horrorthon documentaries on Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau, Al Adamson, and Bruce Lee knock-offs comes another fascinating story, on the enigmatic queen of…
Sunday 27th Oct 2024 12.00
HORRORTHON 2024: BODY DOUBLE
Brian De Palma’s thriller offers an idiosyncratic take on Hitchcockian voyeurism that brings eroticism to the fore. Starring Melanie Griffith, it has gained a dedicated following in the four decades…
Sunday 27th Oct 2024 13.45
HORRORTHON 2024: RING
One of the best-known and most influential J-Horrors, Hideo Nakata’s superb chiller centres on a cursed videotape responsible for the death of its viewers seven days later. Screening as part…
Sunday 27th Oct 2024 16.05
HORRORTHON 2024: SURPRISE FILM
Be sure to book your ticket early to see a film that could be a preview of something eagerly anticipated, or a treat from an obscure corner of the globe.…
Sunday 27th Oct 2024 18.15
HORRORTHON 2024: RAVENOUS
Featuring a cast of familiar faces and a soundtrack collaboration between Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman, this cult classic sees cannibalism take hold in a nineteenth century U.S. Army outpost.…
Sunday 27th Oct 2024 20.45
HORRORTHON 2024: THE ‘BURBS
Joe Dante’s black comedy features an all-star cast including Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, and Bruce Dern, amongst others, whose suspicions and prejudices run riot when a strange new family moves…
Monday 28th Oct 2024 13.00
HORRORTHON 2024: PULSE
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s dread-filled film is a deeply unsettling techno-horror in which the ghosts of the dead find a way back to the world of the living through the internet. Screening…
Monday 28th Oct 2024 15.15
HORRORTHON 2024: PARVULOS
Following a viral pandemic that has devastated the global population, three young brothers forced to raise themselves in a destroyed world keep one of its greatest dangers locked in their…
Monday 28th Oct 2024 17.45
HORRORTHON 2024: DEMON HUNTER: TIME 2 KILL
We are delighted to close this year’s festival with a special advanced screening of Zoe Kavanagh’s long-awaited sequel to her 2016 debut. Taryn Barker (Niamh Hogan) returns, fighting to save…
Monday 28th Oct 2024 20.20