The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (BHFF) has unveiled the full program for its 2025 edition, running 10 days this year in celebration of their 10-year anniversary. The festival will run from October 16-25, with all screenings held at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg. Here are the full details, from the press release: The Opening Night film is Tina Romero’s award-winning, Brooklyn-set […]
The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (BHFF) has unveiled the full program for its 2025 edition, running 10 days this year in celebration of their 10-year anniversary.
The festival will run from October 16-25, with all screenings held at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg.
Here are the full details, from the press release:
The Opening Night film is Tina Romero’s award-winning, Brooklyn-set horror-comedy QUEENS OF THE DEAD. The 2025 festival boasts the world premieres of Adam MacDonald’s zombie feature THIS IS NOT A TEST and Connor Marsden’s bloodsoaked thriller VIOLENCE. The Festival will also feature the North American Premiere of Johanna Moder’s paranoid motherhood horror film MOTHER’S BABY. Other highlights include Avalon Fast’s mesmerizing sophomore feature CAMP as the festival’s Centerpiece Film.
This year’s Closing Night feature is the ultra violent and fast-paced KARMADONNA from director Aleksandar Radivojevic. Additional highlights include horror/sci-fi icon Bryan Fuller’s weird and whimsical new feature DUST BUNNY; Kenichi Ugana’s strange and disturbing new feature INCOMPLETE CHAIRS; a screening of the first three episodes from season two of THE CREEP TAPES; alumni Alice Maio Mackay’s latest feature THE SERPENT’S SKIN; Robbie Banfitch’s latest found footage feature TINSMAN ROAD; and Julie Pacino’s fever dream I LIVE HERE NOW.
The festival’s signature sidebar programs return, starting with FEAR IN FOCUS: BLACK HORROR, which includes the North American premiere of James Ross’s PARASOMNIA, as well as retro screenings of DEF BY TEMPTATION and There will also be a sidebar for ZOMBIES!, which includes the 1974 blaxploitation film screening on 35mm, a 4K restoration of in honor of its 35th anniversary, and the theatrical premiere of the uncut version of Tom Savini’s remake of the George A. Romero classic . Animated horror gets a spotlight with , featuring a trio of heavy-hitters: the 1973 Japanese masterpiece ; the 1981 cult classic anthology film ; and the remarkable Czechoslovakian stop-motion dark fantasy .
