6th Annual Hellifax Film Festival
October 16 – 19, 2025
Opening Night Film: Häxan
Thursday | Oct. 16 | 6:30PM
Experience the surreal, frightening, and utterly mesmerizing descent into Hell in Benjamin Christensen’s silent epic! This transfixing portrait of occult debauchery will be presented on the big screen with an ORIGINAL SCORE PERFORMED LIVE BY TALL SHADOWS.
This is an opening-night event screening that is not to be missed!
Passes and Individual Tickets Available Now!
The Hellifax All-Access Pass is $40 and individual tickets for each feature screening and shorts program are $10 each!
The full program schedule and film selection will be revealed on Wednesday, October 8th! Check back for updates!
All screening will take place at the Carbon Arc Cinema, (1747 Summer Street)
Horrific Highlights from Hellifax 2024
Panel Discussion: Horror's Final Girls
Thank you to Colin MacDonald and OnStream Productions for filming and editing this video!
Live Script Reading!
Thank you to Chelsea Comeau for filming and editing these videos!
2024 Award Winners!
One Hell Of A Time
Hellifax Horror Fest is dedicated to horror genre fanatics
in Halifax and the Atlantic region.
We bring the best in genre cinema: the macabre, the deranged, the fantastical, the weird, the terrifying, the outrageous, and the eerie. Entering our fifth year, Hellifax Horror Fest offers audiences and filmmakers alike the opportunity to connect and share their passion for all-things horror!
"...the HHFF Team were amazing, great communication with the festival, they had a killer line up for this 2024 edition and a kick a** name!"
AdrianGdelaPena
Horrific Highlights from Hellifax 2023
Live Script Reading
Special Thanks to Mango Feet Media for producing these fabulous videos!
2023 Award Winners!
