UK Genre Event FrightFest Cancels October Cineworld Lineup Due To COVID
Andreas Wiseman International EditorUK genre event Arrow Video FrightFest will go virtual for the second time in 2020 due to the pandemic.Organizers are cancelling the planned physical event at the Cineworld, Leicester Square due to continuing COVID restrictions which they say make the event “socially, practically and commercially untenable.”The digital edition will run over the same days, from October 22-25 Oct, and “will combine the in-cinema and proposed Halloween digital event into one online festival experience.”The fest was due to open with Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula (pictured).Ian Rattray, co-director, said today: “It’s with a heavy heart that we announce the cancellation of the Cineworld event.