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SCREAMS BY THE SEA 2026

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Well, it happened again!

A trip to the seaside to partake in the fantastic Screams by the Sea International Horror Film Festival in Bournemouth. You may have read about my experiences there last year, but this year was bigger and bolder, and Radi and his team put on another spooktacular event for all the Screamers, packed full of value for money screenings, talks, competitions, and social events.

Spread out over two days this year, Screams 2026 kicked off at lunch time on Friday the 13th of March (very apropriately) and faded into the night, like a ghostly whisp in the early hours of Sunday the 15th of March when all the excitment caught up with us and we succumbed to tiredness and, perhaps, one whisky too many…

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Night Terror (A.K.A. Eye for an Eye) (2025)

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Written by Elisa Victoria and Michael Tully
Directed by Colin Tilley

Follows the story of Anna who grieves the death of her parents as she moves from New York to Florida to stay with her grandmother. She falls in with some other teens, but when she sees a grisly act of violence, she finds herself trapped. (IMDB)

Night Terror/Eye for an Eye opens with a bright and peppy cheerleading number that could be straight out of one of Tilley’s music videos.

However, all is not entirely cheery.

The scene effortlessly lulls the audience with a sense of cheeky fun, before plunging the viewer into horror as lead cheerleader, May (S. Epatha Makerson) meets with an unpleasant accident and wakes from her dream with considerably fewer eyes than when she went to sleep.

But hey, at least who (or whatever) took them was kind enough to sew up the sockets afterwards!

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Sinners (2025)

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Written and Directed by Ryan Coogler

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. (IMDB)

Michael B. Jordan plays Smoke and Stack, twin brothers returning to their Mississippi Delta roots to open a juke joint in their home town. They have been away for several years, working in Chicago, the name Al Capone being bandied about; they are tough guys with a reputation even after all this time. With a truck full of Irish Beer and Italian wine, there is also the suggestion that they might be in hot water if their old bosses find out what they have been up to. But the fear of reprisals from gangsters is nothing compared to the fear of devils and demons, rife in the superstitious South.

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