FilmFear 2025 at HOME
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FilmFear
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HOME aren’t pulling any punches with this year’s hefty Halloween line-up. 2025’s FilmFear brings together some serious horror heavyweights, with a focus on 1970s horror that includes a 35mm showing of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a mystery movie, and a brand new true crime documentary investigating the murder that inspired a British horror classic.
Delivered in partnership with Film4, FilmFear really dives into horror history for 2025 and we reckon fans are going to be delighted with what they find across five fear-filled evenings.
The season opens on Wednesday 29 October with The Wicker Man, which should prove the perfect primer for a Q&A screening of The Last Sacrifice (Thu 30 Oct), a new documentary which uncovers the real-life witchcraft killing that inspired Robin Hardy’s 1973 film and helped birth British folk horror. Sticking with that theme, HOME have lined up Christopher Lee in Hammer Horror’s To the Devil the Daughter to screen later that same night.
Heading into Friday 31 October, Halloween night, and there’s more demonic drama as Richard Donner’s 1976 The Omen delivers another spawn of the devil. That’s followed by HOME’s mystery screening; the only clue we’ve been given is to expect some 1970s horror — are you brave enough to find out what it might be? Meanwhile, Saturday night has more big screen bucket list shockers, with Donald Sutherland in the meme-making 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, joined by Dario Argento’s fabulous 1975 giallo Deep Red.
The chance to see the flickering dust and grime of rural Texas on 35mm celluloid and on HOME’s biggest screen makes this one an insta-book for us.
We’d argue that HOME have saved the best ’til last though. Showing in a fresh 4K restoration, Delphine Seyrig vamps up the place in 1971’s sapphic Euro-horror classic Daughters of the Dust, before Tobe Hooper’s grim, muscular masterpiece The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Hooper’s 1976 film works as satire, allegory and a sublime vehicle for sheer, primal terror. The chance to see the flickering dust and grime of rural Texas on 35mm celluloid and on HOME’s biggest screen makes this one an insta-book for us.
