📸Check out this still from our shorts selection: The Complete Package by wyn.wal1ace
In this found-footage analog horror short, a 1980s tele-dating tape is not what it seems...
You can catch this film during our first block of shorts on the 14th of March!
Get your festival passes now!
👻2 WEEKS TO GO 👻
5 FEATURE FILMS will be shown at Screams By The Sea International Horror Film Festival, but which one are you most excited for?
Drop a comment below and let us know!
📸Check out this still from "The Other People" By @chadmcclarnon
🖤The Other People is our final film from our feature line-up this March!
Screening at Screams By The Sea Saturday at 7:40pm, tickets are available now! 🔪Stab the link in our bio to get your tickets 🎟️
📸Check out this still from our shorts selection: SNACKTIME
Late at night, on a deserted platform, a man finds a vending machine that shouldn’t exist. Drawn by light and hunger, he can’t resist. But sometimes, in this world, the price to pay is far more than you’re willing to give
📣FRINGE EVENTS📣
How's your horror knowledge? Come test it out and see if you even have what it takes to WIN at our horror movie quiz at the Brass Haus on Wednesday 11th, 8PM.
£3 to enter on the night or £2 if you book online now! the-brass-haus.designmynigh...
📸Check out this still from "Dead By Dawn" By Dawid Torrone
Actors rehearsing at the mysterious Heissenhoff theater face a deadly threat when a masked killer appears.
Screening at Screams By The Sea Saturday at 3:20pm, tickets are available now! 🔪Stab the link in our bio to get your tickets 🎟️
📸Check out this still from Alien On Stage
Bus Drivers stage a homemade homage of Ridley Scott's Alien, with special effects needing 'more luck than judgement,' will it be alright on the night?
👽Alien On Stage is our third film from our feature line-up this March!
A huge thank you to our partners over at Brass Haus.
The Brass Haus located in the heart of Bournemouth is the host of all our fringe events at Screams By The Sea!
We are extremely honoured to have you be part of the festival!
📸Check out this still from "MAG MAG" directed by Yuriyan Retriever
A crazy ghost 👻 story about a woman named Sanaen seeking revenge for the death of her beloved.
Mag Mag is kicking off our feature film line-up this March!
🔪Love horror? So do we
🎬Tonight we recommend The Skin I Live In by Pedro Almodóvar
Let us know what you think of the film in our Discord discord.gg/u2PxNcFKPU
A huge thank you to our partners over at the BFI FAN!
The BFI FAN provides increased access to a broader range of UK and international film and screen culture.
You can check the film hub out here www.bfi-fan.org.uk/about-fa...
We are extremely honoured to have you be part of the festival!
❤️Want to get in the valentines mood?
Check out TOGETHER (2025) By Michael Shanks
Let us know what you think of the film in our Discord discord.gg/u2PxNcFKPU
⏳My my how the time flies and now there is only a month of waiting until the screams descend! 👻
🎟️Have you got your festival pass yet?
📸Check out this still from "The Other People" By Chad Mcclarnon
🖤The Other People is our final film from our feature line-up this March!
Screening at Screams By The Sea Saturday at 7:40pm, tickets are available now! 🔪Stab the link in our bio to get your tickets 🎟️
📸Check out this still from "Dead By Dawn" By Dawid Torrone
⌛Dead By Dawn is our fourth film from our feature line-up this March!
Screening at Screams By The Sea Saturday at 3:20pm, tickets are available now! 🔪Stab the link in our bio to get your tickets 🎟️
📸Check out this still from Alien On Stage @alienonstagedoc by Lucy Harvey & Danielle Kummer
👽Alien On Stage is our third film from our feature line-up this March!
Screening at Screams By The Sea Saturday at 1:20pm, tickets are available now! 🔪Stab the link in our bio to get your tickets 🎟️
📸Check out this still from "HUMAN" By Matt Stuertz
Human is our second feature film for the line-up this March!
Screening at Screams By The Sea Saturday at 09:15am, tickets are available now! 🔪Stab the link in our bio to get your tickets 👹🎟️
Check out this still from "MAG MAG" directed by Yuriyan Retriever
A crazy ghost story about a woman named Sanaen seeking revenge for the death of her beloved.
Mag Mag is kicking off our feature film line-up this March!
Screening at Screams By The Sea at 6pm, tickets are available now!
3 Years ago Nicholas Vince (Hellraiser, I am Monsters) visited Screams By The Sea with their film "I AM MONSTERS!"!
Here we still are going strong, bringing chills to Bournemouth.
If the Chatterer had a good time then you sure will too 🍿
🎉POSTER REVEAL 🎉
Here it is everyone! The Screams By The Sea poster is OUT!
Once again a huge thank you to Neil Fraser for making this incredible poster.
Screams By The Sea returns March 2026 at Pavilion Dance, Bournemouth
Tonight we recommend Mad God (2021) by Phil Tippett. This fully stop-motion film took 30 years to make and he used Kickstarter to finish it.
Let us know what you think of the film in our Discord discord.gg/u2PxNcFKPU
Check out this shot from last year featuring the winner of the 2025 screenwriting competition! ✍️📝
The screenwriting competition returns this year at our Industry Hub located in Patch, BOBBY'S! Check out the Screenwriting finalists on our profile
🎈POSTER REVEAL TOMORROW🎉
📅MARK 'EM, Only 1 more day to go until the Screams By The Sea Year 3 Poster is revealed!
Every year we are honoured by an amazing poster designed by Neil Fraser and this year he has outdone himself. Stay tuned for the poster reveal tomorrow!
📅MARK 'EM, Friday is the day the Screams By The Sea Year 3 Poster is revealed!
Every year we are honoured by an amazing poster designed by Neil Fraser and this year he has outdone himself. Stay tuned for the poster reveal on Friday!
🔪The days are counting down and the reapers are sharpening their scythes🔪
📆45 Days to go, we are preparing day and night to make sure Screams is the biggest and best it has ever been
We look forward to see you there
Check out this still from "The Other People" By Chad McClarnon
Screening at Screams By The Sea Saturday at 7:40pm, tickets are available now! 🔪Stab the link in our bio to get your tickets 🎟️
Check out this still from "Dead By Dawn" By Dawid Torrone
Actors rehearsing at the mysterious Heissenhoff theater face a deadly threat when a masked killer appears.
Screening at Screams By The Sea Saturday at 3:20pm, tickets are available now! 🔪Stab the link in our bio to get your tickets 🎟️
Tonight we recommend Hostel (2005) by Eli Roth. Hostel premiered at the Toronto Film Festival back on September 17th in 2005! 20 Years later the film is a cult classic!
Let us know what you think of the film in our Discord discord.gg/u2PxNcFKPU
🔪 THE SCREAMS BY THE SEA LINEUP IS HERE! 🔪
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🍿We’re back on 13th & 14th of March at PDSW and not only do we films but we have an amazing screenplay competition that will be held inside Patch, BOBBY'S.
🎉Huge congratulations to our finalists Luke Ollerton, Sam Rose, Diana Citra, and Brock LaBorde
Check out this still from "Alien On Stage" by Lucy Harvey & Danielle Kummer
Bus Drivers stage a homemade homage of Ridley Scott's Alien,' will it be alright on the night?
Screening at Screams By The Sea Saturday at 1:20pm, tickets are available now! 🔪Stab the link in our bio to get your tickets