Hexploitation Film Festival

After 15 years of thrills, chills, and kills, Hamilton, Ontario's Hexploitation Film Festival is being retired. To send off Hamilton's longest-running festival and screening program dedicated to horror and genre films, we invite you to The Final Hex: Hexploitation Farewell Tour with dates across the month of April.

Hello friends,After 15 years of thrills, chills, and kills, The Hexploitation Film Festival is coming to an end…but not without one last scream. THE FINAL HEX Farwell Tour will bring the Hexploitation's unique program of monsters, maniacs, and murder to a series of venues throughout Hamilton all culminating in not-to-be-missed screenings in April 2

CONTEST!Win a pair of tickets to see DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (1968) on Friday, June 02, 2023 / 9pm at The Westdale Theatre (1014 KING ST W HAMILTON, ON L8S 1L4)DESTROY ALL MONSTERS is screening as part of The Way of the Sword’s KAIJU SUMMER film talk series HOW TO ENTER:Email aaron@hexfilmfest.com with DESTROY ALL MONSTERS in the subject line and incl

The Hexploitation Film Festival is collaborating with The Way of the Sword film talk series at The Westdale (1014 KING ST W, HAMILTON, ON) to host a summer-long celebration of giant Japanese monster movies and tokusatsu! Presented in their original Japanese language with English subtitlesFrom Godzilla to Gamera and other titantic beasts between, te

The Hexploitation Film Festival is excited to usher in the Halloween season with a screening of Rob Zombie's trashterpiece HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES at The Staircase Theatre! HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES (2003)|| RETRO GRADE ||DIR.

Celebrate Summerween at The Staircase!August 01 - August 02, 2021Hexploitation returns to the Staircase for the first time since the pandemic!The People Under the Staircase and the Hexploitation Film Festival are collaborating this August long weekend to present two nights of Halloween-themed events with a socially-distant Summer twist at 27 Dundur

A special update from Hexploitation Film Festival Director / Lead Programmer Aaron Allen Hello fellow fright fans, horror hounds, and cult film connoisseurs. I hope that you and your loved ones have been able to weather this COVID-19 storm so far, but if you or your families have suffered hardship this past year and half, you have my sympathies.

CONTEST!Win an iTunes Canada download code for HALL, the new apocalyptically viral horror film release from Black Fawn DistributionHOW TO WIN:Email info@hexfilmfest.com with HALL CONTEST in the subject line and include the following:1) Your full name.2) Indicate consent (write yes or no) to sign up for the HXFF email list for future fest, film scre

A Hexploitation Film Festival Update from Director and Lead Programmer Aaron AllenHello film fiends,It has been over a year since we held the 2020 edition of the Hexploitation Film Festival at The Staircase Theatre followed by our rocking afterparty at This Ain't Hollywood in Hamilton, ON. Since then, it has been a year of turmoil and uncertainty f

Dear HXFF Fans, Filmmakers, and Supporters, Due to COVID-19 and related circumstances that are beyond our control, and with the health and safety of all our supporters as top priority, the Hexploitation Film Festival has made the decision to postpone its February 2021 festival indefinitely. Rest assured; we are working hard to make arrangements to