Northwest Fear Fest logo featuring a white magpie skull with black eye sockets on a black background, with the words 'Northwest Fear Fest' in white and red, the latter in a rough, horror-style font.

SUBMISSIONS for NWFF 2026 are now OPEN!

NWFF 2026 will take place from OCTOBER 14th-18th!

NorthwestFEARFest Returns

October 14-18, 2026

IT’S ONLY A MOVIE…

Last year’s edition was an enormous success, with Edmonton audiences showing up in droves for retro classic screenings like our 40th Anniversary screenings of Reanimator, Return of the Living Dead, and Demons, along with some of 2025’s most buzzed-about new genre classics like Influencers, Night of the Reaper, Queens of the Dead, and 2026 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language FIlm, Sirât!

NorthwestFEARFest will return this October with a bone-chilling lineup of 15 horrifying features films and a casket-full of scary shorts!

Prepare yourselves for a mixture of terrifying new fright flicks and classic shockers from the vault, plus—come check out our booth at Edmonton Expo this September!

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