This year marks the 10th edition of the Frightening Ass Film Fest (FAFF); the Chattanooga Film Festival’s seasonal festival held in and around Halloween. Slated for October 30 and October 31, FAFF will be an exciting mix of short films, new indie features, and carefully curated cult classics. Organizers are also putting together a series of live events, similar to the events that made CFF’s virtual edition in May—an interactive fan-friendly experience.

FAFF All Access Badges are available now for the price of $25 with individual tickets for certain films being made available closer to the event. Attendees will be able to access all films beginning 12:00am EST October 30, and access ends 6:00am EST the morning of November 1st. This yearly event functions as a fundraiser for the Chattanooga Film Festival, a 501c(3), with all proceeds benefiting the staging of the 2021 edition of the fest.

FAFF also marks the return of Chattanooga Film Festival collaborators Media Team and Silver Scream FX Lab along with the much-anticipated return of fan-favorite characters Bubz, Professor Morte and Guna, who will be on hand to host the weekend's live offerings.

OFFICIAL FILM SYNOPSIS

76 HORROR BOOKSTORE: TIN OF FEAR

Directors David Chuang & Hung Tze-Peng
Taiwan, 2020

FAFF 10 is proud to present all four episodes in the first series of this bonkers Tawainese anthology series.

2011

Director Alexandre Prieur-Grenier
Canada, 2020

The daily life of a night owl video editor working in his apartment, gradually slides into anxiety when a mysterious neighbor, whom he never meets, but whose presence is constantly felt, gradually torments his existence.

ANONYMOUS ANIMALS

Director Baptiste Rouveure
France, 2020

In Baptiste Rouveure’s surreal and gorgeously photographed film, we’re presented a series of vignettes in which humans and animals seem to have switched places. The result is one of the most haunting and unique films you’re likely to see this year. It gives all new meaning to the phrase The Deer Hunter.

BAD CANDY

Directors Scott Hansen & Desiree Connell
USA, 2020

At FAFF, we’re suckers for horror anthologies and even bigger suckers for films that take place on Halloween Scott Hansen & Desiree Connell’s Halloween manages both with genre fan faves Zach Galligan (Gremlins) and Corey Taylor (Slipknot). DJ's Chilly Billy and Paul spin a bloody and twisted version of a small town's craziest Halloween Happenings.

CYST

Director Tyler Russell
USA, 2020

In the 1960s, a nurse's last day is ruined when a doctor inadvertently creates a cyst monster that terrorizes the office. Genre fans will be happy to see The Room’s Greg Sestero in this icky slice of frightening ass fun.

GET THE HELL OUT

Director I-Fan Wang
Taiwan, 2020

Taiwan's parliament turns deadly when a virus transforms politicians into ravenous zombie mutants. We cannot wait to see how people react to this bloody blast of pure fun!

HAIL TO THE DEADITES

Director Steve Villeneuve
Canada, 2020

HAIL TO THE DEADITES is a documentary about the fans of the EVIL DEAD films and explores the classic franchise's undying and ever-growing popularity.

LUCKY

Director Natasha Kermani
Special Bonus Screening - USA, 2020

A suburban woman finds herself being stalked by a threatening figure who returns to her house night after night. When those around her don't believe her, she is forced to take matters into her own hands.

SHE DIES TOMORROW

Director Amy Seimetz
Special Bonus Screening - USA, 2020

Amy thinks she's dying tomorrow...and it's contagious.

SISTER TEMPEST

Director Joe Badon
USA, 2020

Anne Hutchinson's troubled relationship with her missing sister is under alien tribunal. Meanwhile, her new roommate's mysterious illness causes her to go on a cannibalistic killing spree.

SPARE PARTS

Director Andrew Thomas Hunt
Canada, 2020

A group of girls get lost on a random dirt road. The tow truck driver toes them to his junkyard. Everything seems normal until they wake up with weapons for limbs, thrown into the fight of their lives.

STING OF DEATH

Director William Grefé
USA, 1966

College girl Karen visits her dad, a marine biologist, at his island compound in the Florida Everglades. Her partying friends show up, dance to Neil Sedaka tunes, and taunt the doctor's creepy assistant, Egon. Soon they're victims of a wetsuit-wearing, bipedal jellyfish monster. Jealous of Karen's boyfriend, Egon kidnaps her and carries her to his secret underground lair.

THE STRINGS

Director Ryan Glover
Canada, 2020

In the dead of winter, a musician travels to a remote cottage to work on new material, but soon finds herself under attack from a mysterious dark presence.

THE HORROR CROWD

Director Ruben Pla
USA, 2020

A revealing, intimate documentary spotlighting the Hollywood horror community.

OFFICIAL SHORT FILM SYNOPSIS

ABBYGAIL WAS HERE

Director Keaton Smith

A young woman is left stranded at an abandoned house in apocalyptic rural America. Isolated for the first time in her life, she searches for a mysterious and valuable object. Is it all just a cruel trick? Or is it a cruel trick?

AXE TO THE FACE

Director Andrew Moorehead

Anna and Dylan meet on a dating app, and the two begin a budding relationship. As their chemistry progresses, we begin to see there is much more to this seemingly chance encounter than we were originally led to believe.

BLOODSHED

Director Paolo Macini

Grief-stricken and ridden with guilt after his wife’s untimely death from a rare blood disease, Getty turns his hobby shed into a bloody altar of worship and brutal sacrifice in his relentless search for Redemption. As he descends into madness, many will bleed. BLOODSHED. It's where you bleed.

CASSETTE

Director Ilya Polyakov

A young man working the graveyard shift at an old video store soon discovers something very sinister about the place.

COTTONMOUTH

Director Zachary Wincik

A woman takes action once she is sure that someone, or something, is sneaking into her room at night.

DEATH WALKS ON NITRATE

Director Kevin Fermini

Rose, an icy photographer, encounters a mysterious old woman who plunges her headfirst into a psychedelic nightmare.

INFECTION

Director Michael Davis

A bizarre late-night text message from a friend sends a woman's quiet evening hurtling into violent madness, with only one hope of salvation. Based on the “Smile Dog” Creepypasta and made in quarantine on an iPhone8. —In collaboration with Michael Lutz and The NoSleep Podcast.

MOMMA, DON’T GO

Director Rael De Leon Jr.

A mother and daughter struggle to survive a deadly home invasion.

NO ONE IS COMING

Director Matthew Barber

A young woman awaits the return of her boyfriend at a secluded cabin only to discover that she may not, in fact, be alone.

QUARANSTEIN

Director Brian Lonano

Filmmakers Brian Lonano & Kevin Daniel Lonano, responsible for the cult short film Gwilliam”, sought out filmmakers and friends under quarantine to create an exquisite corpse version of the classic film “Frankenstein.” Expect other notable monsters to appear in the film, including Brian and Kevin’s own creation “Gwilliam.”

SEEK

Director Aaron Morgan

Two sisters have been driving all night when they come across a dilapidated roadside park and bathroom. Horrific events follow when one of them stumbles upon a strange message and a mischievous resident that wants to play a terrifying game.

SUSPENSE

Director Ben Burghart

Having survived a harrowing plane crash, an army pilot finds himself suspended from a canopy of trees high above the forest floor by his parachute. After making contact with his co-pilot on the ground, they realize that something is stalking them in the dark.

THE DOOR

Director Kyle Mumford

After the unexpected death of her twin sister, a young woman makes an escape to the family cabin to get away from the trauma and guilt. However, all goes belly up when a mysterious tiny door appears at the foot of her bed.

THE HOUSE GUEST

Director David Walton Smith

A young woman reluctantly agrees to a seance because she suspects her house is haunted.

THE PURPLE IRIS

Director Arif Khan

In the near future, a refugee with a purple iris attempts to cross the border to start a new life, but is kidnapped by a doctor obsessed with collecting the rarest eyes.

THE SURROGATE

Director South Turk

A young boy ventures into the woods to retrieve a ball, unaware that he's being watched.

WELCOME TO HELLTOWN

Director Dominic Reno

SHOCK! Ghost stories. BOO! Local legends. GAG! Everything you’ve heard is true. In Helltown, allow the Genuine Nerd from Cleveland, Ohio, Toby Radloff (American Splendor), to guide you through three weird tales that could only happen in Northern Ohio on the Fourth of July. Welcome to Helltown.

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