10.15 7:00PM - 8:39PM

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror charts the rise, fall, and resurrection of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, exploring its groundbreaking themes, iconic performances, and enduring cult status that continues to bring enjoyment, foster inclusive spaces, and reach new audiences to this day.

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10.15 9:30PM - 11:12PM

A grizzled detective, a rookie cop, a chain-smoking greaser, and a determined young woman must stop Dracula’s plan to turn a small American town into his army of vampire zombies.

Preceded by the short film: Worm

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10.16 6:45PM - 8:38PM

In the beautiful south of France, a young woman’s obsession with murder and identity theft spirals into chaos, in Kurtis David Harder’s sequel to his 2022 sleeper hit Influencer.

Preceded by the short film: Cease to Exist

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10.16 9:30PM - 11:08PM

A filmmaker documents her boyfriend's violent parasomnia during their holiday at a remote cabin in the woods. As his sleepwalking worsens, she believes the cause might be something sinister. One of the scariest movies of 2025—see this one with someone you love!

Preceded by the short film: You are Currently Being Recorded

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10.17 7:00PM - 8:30PM

A brilliant but unhinged medical student drags his unsuspecting classmate into grotesque experiments to reanimate the dead in Stuart Gordon’s outrageous Lovecraft-inspired cult classic Re-Animator.

Preceded by the short film: Whitch

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10.17 9:00PM - 10:31PM

When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapours cause the dead to rise as zombies.

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10.17 11:00PM - 12:02AM

Produced by the legendary Dario Argento and directed by Lamberto Bava, Demons (1985) traps an unsuspecting group of moviegoers inside a theatre, only to be hunted by blood-spewing, Satanic creatures!

Preceded by the short film: Pimple

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10.18  12:00PM-1:54PM

Steven Spielberg, Richard Donner, and Chris Columbus’ 1985 film The Goonies follows a group of kids who race through booby-trapped caverns in search of a legendary pirate treasure to save their home from demolition.

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10.18  2:30PM-4:08PM

Megaforce is widely regarded as one of the worst movies of the ‘80s … so filmmaker Bob Lindenmayer has made a documentary to convince us that we’ve been wrong all along. 

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10.18 4:45PM - 6:16PM

In the astounding, pitch black comedy Our Hero, Balthazar, a New York teen ventures to Texas to win over his activist crush by stopping a would-be mass shooter, in a darkly satirical thriller about gun culture, incels, and performative activism. What could possibly go wrong?

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10.18 6:45PM - 8:52PM

Stripped of purpose and poisoned by corporate evil, the Toxic Avenger is turned against Tromaville. Now, in this definitive cut of Parts II and III, he must confront the monster he’s become before his town—and soul—are lost forever.

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10.18 9:45PM-11:34PM

A zombie apocalypse breaks out in Brooklyn on the night of a giant warehouse party, where an eclectic group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies must put aside their drama and use their unique skills to fight against the brain-thirsty, scrolling, undead.

Preceded by the short film: In Jeff we Trust

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10.19 10:00AM-11:20AM

How do you like your short films? We like ours for breakfast.

Join us for FREE cereal and the year's scariest short films in competition, with the winner chosen by you, the audience!

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10.19 12:00PM-1:25PM

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005) tells the tale of a young man who accidentally weds a corpse while journeying to marry his true fiancée, leading to a bittersweet clash of brides in this Academy Award–nominated stop-motion fable.

Preceded by the short film: Howl if You Love Me

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10.19 2:00PM-3:29PM

Pedro Kos’ narrative debut In Our Blood follows filmmaker Emily Wyland and her cinematographer as they uncover sinister clues while searching for her missing mother, blurring documentary intimacy with psychological mystery and chilling horror.

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10.19 4:00PM-5:55PM

Sirāt follows a father searching for his daughter after she disappears at a rave in Morocco. A winner of this year's Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize, this astounding film is best described as an unholy mashup of Hardcore, Sorcerer, and Mad Max: Fury Road.

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10.19  6:30PM-7:48PM

Double Feature film #1:

When a routine domestic call spirals into tragedy, two officers are thrust into a nightmarish descent captured on their bodycams. Brandon Christensen’s Bodycam reinvents the found footage genre, pulling the audience into the front seat of the most terrifying ride-along of the year!

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10.19 8:15PM - 9:45PM

Double Feature film #2:

When college student Deena takes on a seemingly ordinary babysitting job, she finds herself pulled into a deadly web as the local sheriff uncovers clues that a recent murder might just be the tip of the iceberg.

Close out NWFF 2025 with Brandon Christensen's terrifying new shocker, Night of the Reaper. 

Filmmaker will be in attendance!

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All festival-long: Frank’s Community Pub is our official festival hangout spot, and the The Lobby will be onsite!

Wednesday, Oct. 15: YEG’s Rocky Horror shadow cast “Low Down Cheap Little Punks” appears for Strange Journey!

Saturday, Oct. 18: The Book Archive will be onsite all day, slingin’ books, and Fruit Loop brings us performances by GoGo Fetch & Moranna Hurry ahead of Queens of the Dead.

Sunday, Oct. 19: We will have free cereal (provided by us) and complimentary coffee supplied by Coffee Bureau, for our breakfast short film competition. Canadian Blood Services NextGen will be onsite with blood-inspired activities from 11AM to 2PM.