‘Tis the season for the scary, ominous, and frightening! October is here, and with it comes many new horror releases and film festivals. The 2022 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival is hosted by Shudder and will take New York by storm from October 13th to October 20th, 2022, with a jam-packed roster of terrifying features and shorts.

This year, the festival is screening many World Premieres, as well as exclusive screenings of Smile and Tubi’s newest horror feature Terror Train. Films in this year’s lineup have screened at Cannes, TIFF, and more – so we’re excited to see what this year’s films have in store!

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Brooklyn Horror Film Festival will take place at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg and Williamsburg Cinemas from October 13th until October 20th, 2022. The festival lineup will have features, short films, and BHFF’s locally made horror shorts in the “Home Invasion” blocks. With seven days of festival screenings and a wide range of horror films being shown, let’s dig into Brooklyn Horror Film Festival’s most anticipated features!

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival: Features

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This year’s Centerpiece film is making its East Coast premiere at Brooklyn Horror Film Festival after a screening at Cannes! Falcon Lake is a coming-of-age story with a supernatural twist, taking place at a haunted lake cabin in rural Quebec. Falcon Lake is Charlotte Le Bon’s feature debut, and after a screening at Toronto International Film Festival, we’re sure Falcon Lake is sure to be thrilling!

Likewise, this year’s closing night film is a fright. Gaspar Noé’s feature Irreversible will be screening for its 20th anniversary, but it won’t be the cut audiences have seen before. The “straight cut” of Irreversible shows the film in chronological order, and with this new edit, the film is sure to bring a “newfound dose of visceral devastation."

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BHFF will also host the World Premiere of Tubi’s remake of the 1980 classic Terror Train. Many horror fans are familiar with the Jamie Lee Curtis original, and Tubi’s reimagining of this terrifying film is sure to bring new frights.

With a summary like that, we’re excited to see Tubi’s Terror Train when it releases!

“Tubi’s rambunctious and blood-drenched new remake takes place during a Halloween-themed bash, where college seniors on board a party train soon find themselves amidst locomotive-bound carnage en route to its body-count-heavy final destination.”

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival: Short Films

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The features may sound thrilling, but BHFF didn’t stop there. This year’s shorts blocks are packed full of bite-sized horror, ready to scare audiences over and over again. The shorts blocks are broken up by theme and will feature dozens of incredible works from all over the world.

The “Nightmare Fuel” block will focus on “Nocturnal encounters, bizarre run-ins with four-legged creatures, supernatural unease, and slasher riffs mark this year’s batch of short-form, going-for-the-jugular terror.” The “Head Trip” category will feature shorts that blend genres that are sure to leave your head spinning. “Creeping Terror” is slow-building terror and folk horror, “Laugh Now, Die Later” is the horror-comedy block, and always a crowd favorite, the “Slayed: LGBTQ+ Horror Shorts” block is back with all the queer dread we could ask for.

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival also features locally made shorts, and this year there will be two blocks in their “Home Invasion” category. Every short is NYC-made with local talent, and there are 14 terrifying films between the two blocks to check out!

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival: More Thrilling Fun

The 2022 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival is sure to have a frightening film for everyone – whether you like to be truly terrified or laughing between scares. The festival is set to screen an impressive anthology project called Give Me An A, which is female-directed and advocates for reproductive rights. The summary in BHFF’s press release sounds incredible:

All proceeds from the screening will go to The New York Abortion Access Fund to help provide access to reproductive services.

“An urgent and passionate response to the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, GIVE ME AN A is an anthology collecting 15 brand new shorts and a wraparound piece running the genre gamut from satire to horror, all thematically focused on abortion rights and bodily autonomy. An ambitious project put together in record time, GIVE ME AN A sees a massive ensemble of female filmmakers gather in unprecedented fashion to use their creative voices at a crucial moment in history. This is art for survival.”

BHFF will also have a category for French horror films called “Focus: French Extremity Sidebar” and a lineup of “Head Trip” features that push the boundaries of the horror genre. There is also an entire LGBTQ+ features lineup, with four incredible films from around the world and a book launch event for Feminist Press’ “It Came From the Closet” essay anthology.

With a diverse selection of films and categories, we’re sure Brooklyn Horror Film Festival will have a scare for everyone this year! The festival starts October 13th and goes through the 20th, so if you’re a fan of scary movies, BHFF has got you covered this Halloween season.