Rhyller Thriller (3)

Festival start: 30 August 2025      Festival end: 31 August 2025

Rhyller Thriller, once described as the ungodly love child of a film festival and a horror convention, returns in 2025.

Lauded as putting Rhyl, North Wales on the Horror map, here is what you will need to know about 2025. Our Third festival will run for an expanded TWO DAYS from Saturday August 30th to Sunday the 31st at the iconic Rhyl Little Theatre. We are a one screen event that will run from 10 am until 11pm on both days. The theme is all things Horror including Giallo , Slasher , sci-fi, fantasy ,thriller and everything in between.

In our previous 2 years we have shown 3 Premieres and over 70 short films.

attendees can expect to see films on our custom 9 Ft screen and to be seated in an Edwardian style Auditorium in one of North Wales oldest theatres . Following each film or block of shorts expect a Q&A session and interview with the film makers hosted by either Chad or Jason, all interviews will be filmed and pushed out on our social media. Our dedicated team truly love Horror and the level of talks will be of a quality you will have rarely experienced. We have a fully stocked bar and a plethora of alternative stalls at our events and this year we hope to have a food truck and also some horror based seminars .

The Rhyller Thriller team are actively involved in film making, so we understand the love you have for your projects and what you will have been through to get your films to the screen. We can only hope you trust us with your hard work and will want to return in the future.

Bloody seagull award for best feature and short film

To be considered for a bloody seagull award you must follow these rules .

When it comes to content anything is welcome as long as its horror.

Nothing hateful just for the sake of being hateful.

Non English speaking films welcome but must have subtitles.

Must have heart in abundance.

Must be from an original script.

One prize given for best independent short and one for independent feature.

Short films must be between 3 and 20 minutes to be entered for an award but longer films may still be shown at the festival.