This year’s FrightFest film festival opens with the UK premiere of Ant Timpson’s deviously edgy stunner Come to Daddy (read our review), starring Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Martin Donovan and Michael Smiley.

Written by The Greasy Strangler co-writer Toby Harvard (based on an idea by Timpson), Elijah Wood stars as thirty-something Norval, who receives an out-of-the-blue invitation to visit his perpetually uncaring dad, As his father’s growing animosity towards him reaches a dark fever pitch.

The festival reaches its bloody conclusion with the world premiere of Abner Pastoll’s A Good Woman is Hard to Find, a Belfast-based crime story. It’s said to showcase a tour-de-force performance by Sarah Bolger, who plays a recently widowed mother of two desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of their young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping low-life drug-dealer Tito (Andrew Simpson) stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she’s forced into taking drastic action to protect her children while learning the awful truth about her spouse.

Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s biggest genre film festival, runs from Thursday 22 August to Monday 26 August at the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square and the Prince Charles Cinema. The full line up will be announced on Thurs July 4.  Festival & day passes go on sale from Sat July 6. Tickets for Individual films are on sale from Sat July 20.