NorthwestFEARFest

11/26/2025

NorthwestFEARFest is thrilled to host a sneak preview of Mike P. Nelson’s twisted reimagining of the controversial 1984 classic, SILENT NIGHTDEADLY NIGHT, Dec. 8, 2025! Slide into the holiday spirit with the ghost of on your heels.

🎟 https://www.northwestfest.ca/nwff-news/sneak-preview-silent-night-deadly-night
📍Metro Cinema

SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT | 2025 | 95 MIN
Dec. 8, 2025 - 7:00 PM
Directed by: Mike P. Nelson
Cast: Rohan Campbell, Ruby Modine, Mark Acheson, David Tomlinson, Erik Athavale, David Lawrence Bron

After witnessing his parent's brutal murder on Christmas Eve, Billy transforms into a Killer Santa, delivering a yearly spree of calculated, chilling violence. This year, his blood-soaked mission collides with love, as a young woman challenges him to confront his darkness. This Christmas, ask yourself: “Have you been naughty?”

Be among the first to see one of 2025's most hotly-anticipated horror films!

SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT - 2025 | 95 minutes Directed by: Mike P. Nelson Cast:Rohan Campbell, Ruby Modine, Mark Acheson, David Tomlinson, Erik Athavale, David Lawrence Bron NorthwestFEARFest is thrilled to present this special Sneak Preview screening of director Mike P. Nelson's twisted reimaginin...

10/22/2025

🏆🏆🏆 Our 2025 audiences have spoken!
What an amazing festival run, folks. There was so much to see! We gotta hand it to our stellar filmmakers and our killer prgramming crew. Thank you. 👏🖤🖤

As the final credits roll, we close the book on this year's nightmare fuel with a high note: OUR AUDIENCE AWARDS!

🏆Best Canadian Feature: INFLUENCERS 📷 Kurtis David Harder
🏆Best International Feature: STRANGE JOURNEY👄
🏆Best Retro Feature: THE GOONIES ☠
🏆Best Short Film: WHITCH 🐇

Thank you to everyone for coming out and supporting our filmmakers, we are so grateful to our die-hard audiences.

And be warned,
THE NIGHTMARES RETURN NEXT YEAR.
Sleep tight.
(From the crew at 🖤🖤)

10/10/2025

💀 Oct 17, 2025 9:00 PM – 10:31 PM 💀
THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD

“They’re back from the grave, and ready to party.” With those words, one of the greatest horror comedies of all time was born. When two bumbling (and we mean bumbling!) employees of a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas, all hell breaks loose—literally—as the vapours cause the dead to rise. And they’re hungry for brains.

Director Dan O’Bannon’s brilliant and beloved cult classic (which also happens to contain one of the most kick-ass soundtracks of any film released in the ’80s!) comes to us in a brand new, 4K restoration, allowing audiences to experience this film the way it was meant to be seen—on the big screen with an audience!

🎟 Tickets and more info:
https://www.northwestfest.ca/fearfest-2025/return-of-the-living-dead

RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985)OCTOBER 17, 2025 | 9:00 PM–10:31 PMMetro Cinema - 8712 109 Street NW, Edmonton TICKETS RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD - 40th Anniversary, 4K Restoration | 90 min | 1985 | Rated 18+“They’re back from the grave, and ready to party.” With those words, one of the great...

10/08/2025

💀 Oct 19, 2025 8:15 PM – 9:45 PM 💀

NIGHT OF THE REAPER
*Second Film in our Closing Night Double Feature*

In the wake of the brutal murder of a teenage babysitter, college student Deena returns home for the weekend and is roped into a babysitting gig of her own. When the local sheriff receives evidence that proves the murder may not have been an isolated incident, he goes on a scavenger hunt to reveal that the killer may be planning a sequel.

🎟️ Tickets and more info:
https://www.northwestfest.ca/fearfest-2025/night-of-the-reaper

      NIGHT OF THE REAPER        Double feature w/ bodycam @ 6:30 PM  OCTOBER 19, 2025 | 8:15 PM–9:45 PMMetro Cinema - 8712 109 Street NW, Edmonton TICKETS *Spotlight on Brandon Christensen, part of our closing night Double Feature film - see tickets for optionsSecond film - 8:15 PM NIGH...

10/08/2025

🎥 Oct 19, 2025 6:30 PM – 7:48 PM 🎥

BODYCAM
*First Film in our Closing Night Double Feature*

When a routine domestic disturbance spirals into tragedy, two police officers find themselves trapped in a relentless nightmare. Over the course of one harrowing night, their bodycams capture a descent into pure terror—where every moment feels inescapably real.

🎟 Tickets and more info:
https://www.northwestfest.ca/fearfest-2025/bodycam

10/08/2025

🎥 Oct 19, 2025 4:00 PM – 5:55 PM 🎥

SIRÂT

Best described as an unholy mashup of "Hardcore", "Sorcerer", and "Mad Max Fury Road", the astounding Cannes sensation "Sirāt" follows a father searching for his daughter, with the help of his son, after she disappears at a rave in Morocco. As they make their way from party to party, a journey through altered states, violence, and grief ensues.

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10/08/2025

🎥 Oct 19, 2025 2:00 PM – 3:29 PM 🎥

IN OUR BLOOD

Nothing is as it seems when filmmaker Emily Wyland (Brittany O’Grady) enlists cinematographer Danny Martinez (E. J. Bonilla) to document a long-overdue reunion with her estranged mother. When her mother suddenly vanishes—possibly consumed by the very addictions that tore their family apart—Emily and Danny are thrust into a harrowing search, unravelling a trail of increasingly sinister clues that suggest something far darker is at play.

🎟 Tickets and more info:
https://www.northwestfest.ca/fearfest-2025/in-our-blood

10/07/2025

👰🏻 Oct 19, 2025 12:00 PM – 1:25 PM 👰🏻

Tim Burton's CO**SE BRIDE

One wedding, two brides, and a grave misunderstanding. Returning to the painstaking stop-motion animation he employed in "The Nightmare Before Christmas", Tim Burton presents a hair-raising legend based on a 19th-century Russian folk tale, in which a young man mistakenly weds a co**se while on a two-day trek to the village of his real bride-to-be.

🎟 Tickets and more info:
https://www.northwestfest.ca/fearfest-2025/the-co**se-bride-2005

10/07/2025

💃🧟 Oct 18, 2025 9:45 PM –1:34 PM 💃🧟

QUEENS OF. THE DEAD

Preceded by the Short Film 'In Jeff We Trust'
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Live Performances and sponsored by Fruit Loop Edmonton by:
✨ The Bearded Beauty GoGo Fetch and Moranna Hurry ✨

Director Tina Romero proudly carries the zombie family torch passed on by her legendary filmmaker father, in a raucous, gory, and absolutely hilarious feature film debut. On the night of a massive warehouse party in Brooklyn, the city’s nightlife descends into chaos as a zombie apocalypse erupts.

An eclectic mix of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies—each armed with their own flair, skills, and grudges—must put aside their drama to survive the night. Between glitter, bass drops, and impromptu heroics, they face off against the brain-thirsty, scrolling undead, discovering that survival may require more than just courage—it demands creativity, unity, and a whole lot of sass.

🎟️ Tickets and more info:
https://www.northwestfest.ca/fearfest-2025/queens-of-the-dead

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