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A Journey to the Beginning of Time

A Journey to the Beginning of Time

Four boys living the excitement every boy dreams about in the most fantastic adventure of any age!

Programme
Fantasy Films, HÕFF Retro
Director
Karel Zeman
Adorable Humans

Adorable Humans

Four separate yet interconnected chapters of a contemporary horror adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen.

Programme
HÕFF Main Programme, Horror Films
Director
Anders Jon, Michael Kunov, Kasper Juhl, Michael Panduro
Country
Denmark
Affection

Affection

A gripping horror sci-fi starring scream queen Jessica Rothe.

Programme
Horror Films, Sci-fi Films, HÕFF Main Programme
Director
BT Meza
Country
USA
Anything That Moves

Anything That Moves

After having sex for money, an innocent Chicago food delivery boy finds himself involved in a series of murders.

Programme
HÕFF For Freaks, Horror Films
Director
Alex Phillips
Country
USA
Award ceremony and 'Never After Dark'

Award ceremony and 'Never After Dark'

With the help of her dead sister’s spirit, a medium takes on a grotesque apparition that haunts an isolated country home.

Programme
Horror Films, HÕFF Main Programme
Director
Dave Boyle
Country
Japan
Checkmate to the Queen of Diamonds

Checkmate to the Queen of Diamonds

One of the most notable and stylish crime mysteries to come out of Soviet-era Latvia.

Programme
HÕFF Retro
Director
Aloiz Brench
Country
Latvia
Crazy Old Lady

Crazy Old Lady

One stormy night, Laura asks her ex Pedro to watch over her senile mother. But when he arrives, Alicia draws him into a cruel game that turns into a nightmare.

Programme
HÕFF Main Programme, Horror Films
Director
Martín Mauregui
Country
Argentina, Spain
Dead, White and Blue

Dead, White and Blue

A 'green movie' made of recycled footage from over 300 stock and public domain films with a new storyline and dialogue.

Programme
HÕFF For Freaks
Director
Mike Davis
Country
USA
Deathsport

Deathsport

In the year 3000, there will be...motorcycles!

Director
Allan Arkush, Nicholas Niciphor, Roger Corman
Country
USA
Deathstalker (1983)

Deathstalker (1983)

One of the most popular movies in the genre leading to three sequels and countless imitators.

Director
James Sbardellati
Country
Argentina, USA
Deathstalker (2025)

Deathstalker (2025)

A remake of the cult classic 1983 sword and sorcery film, from the director of 'Psycho Goreman'

Programme
Fantasy Films, HÕFF For Freaks
Director
Steven Kostanski
Country
Canada
Demolition Man

Demolition Man

The future isn't big enough for the both of them! A modern science fiction classic that was ahead of its time.

Programme
HÕFF Retro, Sci-fi Films
Director
Marco Brambilla
Country
USA
Dolly

Dolly

A young woman fights for survival after being abducted by a deranged figure who wants to raise her as their child.

Programme
HÕFF For Freaks, Horror Films
Director
Rod Blackhurst
Country
USA
Dr. Sander's Hour of Horrors, vol 4

Dr. Sander's Hour of Horrors, vol 4

The fourth instalment of Dr. Sander's Hour of Horror presents Mart Sander's new films - including two world premieres!

Programme
HÕFF Special Screenings
Director
Mart Sander
Country
Estonia
Egghead Republic

Egghead Republic

An alternative reality where the Cold War did not end, and Soviet Kazakstan has been struck by an atomic bomb.

Programme
HÕFF Main Programme, Sci-fi Films, Fantasy Films
Director
Hugo Lilja, Pella Kågerman
Country
Sweden
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

The legendary 'Friday the 13th' and hockey-masked Jason Voorhees return to HÕFF with the fifth instalment.

Programme
HÕFF Retro, Horror Films
Director
Danny Steinmann
Country
USA
Fuck My Son!

Fuck My Son!

The most abject cinematic exercise to appear since “Pink Flamingos”.

Programme
Midnight Shivers
Director
Todd Rohal
Country
USA
Galaxy of Terror

Galaxy of Terror

'Alien' was the beginning ... Hell has just been relocated!

Director
Bruce D. Clark
Country
USA
Hokum

Hokum

A novelist is haunted at a remote inn during a trip to scatter his parents' ashes.

Programme
HÕFF Main Programme, Horror Films
Director
Damian Mc Carthy
Country
Ireland, USA
Incomplete Chairs

Incomplete Chairs

An obsessive furniture designer takes his desire to create the perfect chair to truly... excessive lengths.

Programme
Horror Films, HÕFF For Freaks
Director
Kenichi Ugana
Country
Japan
Kaiju Glam Metal Shark Attack

Kaiju Glam Metal Shark Attack

Godzilla meets Detroit Rock City meets Jaws!

Programme
HÕFF For Freaks, Sci-fi Films
Director
Brett Kelly
Country
USA
Layer Cake

Layer Cake

Programme
In Focus: Stanisław Lem 100
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Country
Poland
Lone Wolf McQuade

Lone Wolf McQuade

Memes live forever: the legendary Chuck Norris film gets live-dubbed into Estonian by Merle Jääger.

Programme
HÕFF Retro
Director
Steve Carver
Country
USA
Meat Kills

Meat Kills

The bloodiest Dutch film of all time, in the spirit of French New Extreme classics.

Programme
HÕFF Main Programme, Horror Films
Director
Martijn Smits
Country
Netherlands
Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant

Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant

When a messy millennial underachiever accidentally gets alien-pregnant she must reclaim her life.

Programme
Sci-fi Films, HÕFF Main Programme
Director
Jordan Mark Windsor, Sean Wallace
Country
New Zealand
Nightborn

Nightborn

When the forest beckons... Fresh Finnish folk horror.<br /><br />

Programme
Opening Ceremony and Opening Film, Horror Films
Director
Hanna Bergholm
Country
Finland, France, Lithuania, United Kingdom
Pervert!

Pervert!

Sex! Death! Freedom! The most outrageous movie ever to be committed to celluloid.

Programme
HÕFF For Freaks, Horror Films
Director
Jonathan Yudis
Country
USA
Phenomena

Phenomena

One of Dario Argento&rsquo;s most eccentric and bizarre films.

Programme
HÕFF Retro, Horror Films
Director
Dario Argento
Country
Italy
Public Debate with a Witch: Urmas E. Liiv vs. Kirsti Timmer

Public Debate with a Witch: Urmas E. Liiv vs. Kirsti Timmer

For the first time on the main stage of the Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival – a public debate between a practicing witch and a fortune-teller!

Programme
HÕFF Special Events
Country
Estonia
Saccharine

Saccharine

Hana, a lovelorn medical student, becomes terrorized by a sinister force after taking part in a weight loss craze.

Programme
HÕFF Main Programme, Horror Films
Director
Natalie Erika James
Country
Australia
Sexmission

Sexmission

Cult science-fiction comedy. Considered the best comedy in the history of Polish cinema.

Programme
Fantasy Films, HÕFF Retro, Sci-fi Films
Director
Juliusz Machulski
Country
Poland
Sicko

Sicko

A cash-strapped couple becomes embroiled in a toxic web of social media, violent criminality and spiralling greed.

Director
Aitore Zholdaskali
Country
Kazakhstan
The Man Who Saved the World

The Man Who Saved the World

Known as the 'Turkish Star Wars', this is possibly one of the most awe-inspiringly bad films you could ever see.

Programme
Fantasy Films, HÕFF Retro, Sci-fi Films
Director
Çetin Inanç
Country
Türkiye
Ukraine Solidarity Auction and the closing film 'The Dam'

Ukraine Solidarity Auction and the closing film 'The Dam'

Ukrainian soldiers find a hidden Soviet research bunker full of the walking dead.

Programme
HÕFF Main Programme, Horror Films
Director
Oleksiy Taranenko
Country
Ukraine
Vinski of the Town

Vinski of the Town

The film is only in Estonian.

Programme
HÕFF Retro, Fantasy Films
Director
Ivo Eensalu
Country
Estonia
Zhaza

Zhaza

In a small town, a corrupt major learns that his daughter has been raped by the chief of police.

Programme
HÕFF Main Programme
Director
Darkhan Tulegenov
Country
Kazakhstan