Irish Film Institute -IFI HORRORTHON 2023

IFI HORRORTHON 2023

Horrorthon is back, October 26th - 30th!

This year’s IFI Horrorthon once again celebrates the most deliciously dark treats to have surfaced in the genre over the last twelve months. This year’s offering includes a number of in-depth documentaries that will thrill fans, as well as rare screenings of classics including Bigas Luna’s Anguish on 35mm and, on its fortieth anniversary, Psycho II, as well as this year’s Secret Film, a fan favourite never before screened in Horrorthon. Irish horror is well represented with Ian Hunt-Duffy’s Double Blind, while the rest of the programme features everything from alligators to zombies. We look forward to welcoming you to this year’s festival. Click here to view this year's Horrorthon brochure.

Tickets cost €13.00 for members, €14.50 for non-members. Passes and film bundles will be available to purchase directly from the IFI Box Office in-person or over the phone on (01) 679 3477: 5 films for €60;/ 10 films for €100/ Early Bird 5-Day pass for €140 (available until Monday, October 9th at 21.00)/ full 5-Day pass for €170.

HORRORTHON: WE ARE ZOMBIES
The new zom-com from the directors of Turbo Kid (2015) imagines a world where the non-threatening ‘living-impaired’ have been integrated into society, before an evil corporation’s dastardly plans lead to…
Thursday 26th Oct 2023 18.30
HORRORTHON: THE HAUNTING
Robert Wise’s spine-chilling classic, screening on the occasion of its sixtieth anniversary, has been praised by directors from Spielberg to Scorsese as one of the most frightening films ever made.
Thursday 26th Oct 2023 20.30
HORRORTHON: SUITABLE FLESH
Heather Graham and Barbara Crampton star in this H.P. Lovecraft adaptation written by Dennis Paoli. Fans of his work with Stuart Gordon will know what to expect, and are in…
Thursday 26th Oct 2023 23.00
HORRORTHON: THEY WAIT IN THE DARK
A woman and her young son on the run from her abusive partner hide out in an old farmhouse where a new threat appears in the form of a supernatural…
Thursday 26th Oct 2023 23.10
HORRORTHON: RIVER
From the director of Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes (2020), River is another brilliant mind-bender in which the staff and guests of an inn must escape from a temporal loop.
Thursday 26th Oct 2023 23.20
HORRORTHON: ENTER THE CLONES OF BRUCE
From the director of previous Horrorthon hit documentaries on Al Adamson and Richard Stanley’s Island Of Doctor Moreau comes this typically entertaining look at the world of Bruce Lee exploitation…
Friday 27th Oct 2023 13.20
HORRORTHON: PSYCHO II
Over two decades after audiences first checked in to the Bates Motel, Norman returns home, seemingly cured of his murderous impulses. However, when waitress Mary (Meg Tilly) moves in, ‘Mother’…
Friday 27th Oct 2023 15.20
HORRORTHON: MONOLITH
A disgraced journalist trying to rebuild her career through podcasts is drawn into an alien invasion conspiracy when investigating mysteriously decorated bricks in an increasingly intense and unsettling film.
Friday 27th Oct 2023 17.40
HORRORTHON: THE BLACK MASS
Devanny Pinn’s gritty true-crime horror-thriller covers a 24-hour period on a US college campus in 1978 when a serial killer whose identity becomes apparent stalks and attacks members of a…
Friday 27th Oct 2023 19.40
HORRORTHON: WHAT YOU WISH FOR
Nick Stahl (Terminator 3, Carnivàle) assumes a friend’s identity to escape gambling debts, an act that puts him in new danger when the ruse works too well in this dark…
Friday 27th Oct 2023 21.30
HORRORTHON: DOUBLE BILL: THE WELL / TRANSMISSION
The Well sees an art restorer suffer an evil curse when bringing a medieval painting to its former glory. Transmission’s clever, interweaving collage sees a channel-surfing viewer realise that humanity…
Friday 27th Oct 2023 23.20
HORRORTHON: DOUBLE BILL: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD III / WISHMASTER
This double bill evokes the spirit of the heady days of Vestron Video releases with these fan-favourites starring genre staples such as Melinda Clarke, Robert Englund, Ted Raimi, and Angus…
Friday 27th Oct 2023 23.40
HORRORTHON: DOUBLE BILL: THE GHOST WRITER / THE WITCH GAME
In The Ghost Writer, a struggling writer resorting to plagiarism must pay an unexpected cost. The Witch Game follows a young woman who can only save her family by learning…
Friday 27th Oct 2023 23.50
HORRORTHON: MASTERS OF THE GRIND
This epic documentary, almost twenty years in the making, is an exhaustive survey of exploitation cinema featuring a veritable who’s who of alumni from the 42nd Street scene and beyond.
Saturday 28th Oct 2023 12.30
HORRORTHON: ALLIGATOR
Co-written by John Sayles, Alligator is a witty take on the urban legend of baby alligators flushed down the toilet growing to huge size after exposure to growth hormones flooding…
Saturday 28th Oct 2023 16.40
HORRORTHON: MOTHER SUPERIOR
A young woman acting as nurse to an ageing baroness whose work on a Nazi breeding programme may solve the mystery of her birth and heritage is drawn deeper into…
Saturday 28th Oct 2023 18.40
HORRORTHON: DOUBLE BLIND + Q&A
One of the best Irish genre films of recent years sees Pollyanna McIntosh supervise the trial of an experimental drug that deprives participants, led by Millie Brady, of sleep. The…
Saturday 28th Oct 2023 20.20
HORRORTHON: HERE FOR BLOOD
A pro-wrestler acting as a stand-in babysitter is forced to defend his charge from a group of masked marauders in a very funny film filled with knowing nods.
Saturday 28th Oct 2023 22.50
HORRORTHON: HOW TO KILL MONSTERS
Expanding on the world of Book Of Monsters (2018), this not-a-sequel sees its unfortunate cast forced to defend a police station from an attack by a legion of otherworldly monsters
Saturday 28th Oct 2023 22.50
HORRORTHON: CORA
Decades into the future, after a deadly mist has destroyed the planet and all but annihilated humanity, Cora works for a mysterious organisation striving to undo the mist’s effects.
Saturday 28th Oct 2023 23.00
HORRORTHON: THE MANCUNIAN MAN: THE LEGENDARY LIFE OF CLIFF TWEMLOW
This loving tribute to an actor-writer whose career largely consisted of trying to follow the small success of his debut, G.B.H. (1983), makes for entertaining and occasionally melancholy viewing.
Sunday 29th Oct 2023 12.30
HORRORTHON: SECRET FILM
Over the years, Horrorthon has screened numerous classics of the genre. Sadly, many have been overlooked. This slot attempts to redress the balance by screening an undisputed fan favourite. Come…
Sunday 29th Oct 2023 15.00
HORRORTHON: BLACK MOLD
Two photographers whose art involves trespassing into abandoned buildings break into an old government testing facility, where they encounter a dangerous derelict and an hallucinogenic mould, with frightening consequences.
Sunday 29th Oct 2023 17.00
HORRORTHON: EIGHT EYES + TO FIRE YOU COME AT LAST
Vinegar Syndrome’s debut production is a dark, disorienting tale of a troubled, travelling couple burdened with an unofficial tour guide. Screening with To Fire You Come At Last, Sean Hogan’s…
Sunday 29th Oct 2023 19.00
HORRORTHON: THE DEEP DARK
A group of miners accompanying a professor (Jean-Hugues Anglade) underground to collect samples are trapped by a cave-in that awakens something in the dark in this claustrophobic chiller.
Sunday 29th Oct 2023 21.35
HORRORTHON: MUTE WITNESS
When Billy (Marina Sudina), a young, mute make-up artist, is inadvertently locked into a Moscow film studio overnight, she witnesses the after-hours production of a snuff movie.
Sunday 29th Oct 2023 23.35
HORRORTHON: BEATEN TO DEATH
Jack (Thomas Roach) survives a brutal assault by killing his attacker, only to be found by the dead man’s brother, who now wants to extract a prolonged, bloody vengeance.
Sunday 29th Oct 2023 23.40
HORRORTHON: SOCIETY
Brian Yuzna’s brilliant black comedy, a still-relevant satire of class and the liberties and comforts afforded by wealth, has lost none of its power to shock and disgust.
Sunday 29th Oct 2023 23.40
HORRORTHON: THE DARKSIDE OF SOCIETY
This documentary on Brian Yuzna’s film focuses on its writer, Woody Keith, now known as Zeph E. Daniel, and the traumatic upbringing he transformed into an enduring chiller.
Monday 30th Oct 2023 13.00
HORRORTHON: ANGUISH
Screening from 35mm, this overlooked, intricately constructed film from the director of Jamón, Jamón (1992) stars Zelda Rubenstein (Poltergeist, 1982) as an overbearing mother who forces her son (Michael Lerner)…
Monday 30th Oct 2023 14.50
HORRORTHON: THE SEEDING
A photographer lost in the desert seeks refuge in a house at the bottom of a crater. The following morning, he finds himself trapped with its mysterious occupant (Kate Lyn…
Monday 30th Oct 2023 16.45
HORRORTHON: THE SACRIFICE GAME
Christmas, 1971. A quartet of demon-worshipping cult members head for a girls’ boarding school where two students with nowhere to go for the holidays must fight back if they are…
Monday 30th Oct 2023 18.45
HORRORTHON: THE MOOR
A woman haunted by the disappearance of a friend in childhood is persuaded by the missing boy’s desperate father to keep the search alive, enlisting psychics to help search the…
Monday 30th Oct 2023 20.40