Tickets Are Now on Sale for Midnight Mania
Four highly anticipated horror films are set to premiere in the Gothenburg Film Festival’s midnight section – the lineup features Irish folk horror, paranormal voyeuristic terror, a demonic Mollywood superstar, and a feminist splatter comedy.
For several years, the Gothenburg Film Festival has presented the festival’s bloodiest, quirkiest, and scariest films under the banner Cinema, Beer, and Blood. This year’s highlights include the Sitges Award-winning Fréwaka, the Cannes buzz The Balconettes, the Argentine horror epic The Wailing, and the critically acclaimed Bramayugam.
– The past year has been incredible for horror films, but what has made it to Swedish cinemas has been almost exclusively American thrillers. That’s why it feels fantastic to showcase the best horror films of the year from around the world at Midnight Mania, from southern India to northern Ireland, says Olle Agebro from the Gothenburg Film Festival’s programming committee.
As in previous years, Midnight Mania screenings will take place at Hagabion just before midnight. The ticket price includes a cinema-ticket, beer, and blood.
– Gothenburg’s midnight audience is the best horror audience in Sweden – nowhere else does love for film feel as loud, intense, and sweaty as it does in Hagabion’s main hall at midnight during the Gothenburg Film Festival, says Olle Agebro.
Get your tickets now for one or all screenings!
The Wailing
Director: Pedro Martín-Calero
Argentina, Spain, France
Andrea is stalked by a mysterious older man who inexplicably appears in her FaceTime calls, in debut filmmaker Pedro Martín-Calero’s devastating horror epic that spans continents and generations.
The Balconettes
Directors: Noémie Merlant, Céline Sciamma
France
A bloody, playful, and fiercely vengeful feminist reckoning with male self-righteousness, crafted by Merlant and Sciamma, about three women on a balcony during a heatwave in Marseille.
Fréwaka
Director: Aislinn Clarke
Ireland
A young nursing student cares for an elderly woman with a dark and vivid imagination in rising horror star Aislinn Clarke’s raw, poetic paranoia thriller. Set amidst Na Sídhe fairies, religious symbols, taxidermy, and inherited trauma, this film weaves a haunting and atmospheric tale.
Bramayugam
Director: Rahul Sadasivan
India
Mollywood superstar Mammootty delivers a phenomenal portrayal of pure evil in this ultra-aesthetic, black-and-white folk horror exploring power, caste, and India’s colonial legacy.