Still from "Evil Spirit" (dir. Stepan Burnashev, Jevgeni Ossipov) The Sakha Republic or Yakutia isn't famous only for its biting colds, diamonds or mammoth bones. In recent years we've been hearing more and more about the films emerging from their local film industry, the exotic Sakhawood. One of those special films will be screened at the 13th Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival. "Evil Spirit" (Хара дьай) is a horror film based on local Yakutian fol...

The 13th Haapsalu Horror & Fantasy Film Festival has announced their first film GHOST STORIES (2017) which has already been hailed as the best British horror in recent years.     In GHOST STORIES, a skeptical professor Philip Goodman investigates three strange cases of ghost sightings that take him on a bone-chilling journey. Based on a popular play, the film was directed by Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson. Starring Andy Newman with a memorable role from Martin Freeman&n...

Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival (HÕFF), taking place from 27th to 29th of April 2018, is the “one and only stop” for the genre hungry in the Baltics. Held in the unique setting of the city of Haapsalu - once a renown summer retreat of the Russian Czars, now a picturesque town, and the home of an infamous Baltic ghost - the White Lady, haunting the medieval castle on the the western coast of Estonia.   Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival ...