Weird Horror Film Festival 2026

We’re back!

Do you like horror movies? Do you like weird stuff? The Weird Horror Film Festival is returning for the second annual event!

Screening on June 13th at Newtown Community Centre in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington, followed by a Zombie Prom at Moon Bar! With live musical accompaniment by - The interlopers, Blue Summer, The Beach Balls, and DJ TV DISKO.


At last year’s SOLD OUT festival we screened 11 short films made specifically for the festival, along with some other creepy artistic delights, for a night of celebrating and awarding weird, horror-based, independent cinema.

We are calling out again for horror fans with any level of film-making experience to create a short film (up to 6 minutes and 66 seconds long) to enter for this year’s festival line-up. Films must have been created between April 6th and June 1st to be entered into competition.

To register to enter into the festival visit https://weirdhorrorfilmfest.com/ and fill in our registration form. Purchase your $30 Registration Fee from UTR with the same name used on the registration form and you’re all set!

If you’re just interested in coming along to the screening then grab yourself a ticket and check out our website for some of last year’s films, our 2025 festival zine and to keep up to date with our fundraising events.