The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival has dropped its full program for 2026, locking in eight days of blood-splattered premieres, retrospectives, and late-night drinking at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg from October 15–22.

Australian director Nicky Murphy gets things moving on opening night with the U.S. premiere of I Love Paris, a vampire mockumentary about an underground singer who gets turned and decides a relentless bloodlust is actually great for her music career. On the other end of the week, Nick Kozakis closes out the festival with Kick On, a drug-fueled Australian siege thriller that pits four friends against a mobster’s unhinged son.

In between, the lineup is packed with proper weirdness. The festival is honoring indie horror icons the Adams Family with their Leviathan Award alongside the New York premiere of their Lovecraftian creature feature The Glorious Dead. There’s also world premieres like Michael Schwarz’s early-2000s slasher throwback The Only One, plus feature documentaries on practical FX legend Steve Johnson (Rubberhead) and Full Moon Features maverick Charles Band (Full Moon Rising).

As for the sidebars, the festival is tackling digital dread in its Cyber Horror section with 35mm screenings of Rachel Talalay’s 1993 killer-computer flick Ghost in the Machine, alongside modern screenlife shockers The Den and We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. Over in the Culture Shock section, they’re celebrating the 35th anniversary of Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs and a 50th anniversary 35mm print of Blaxploitation gem J.D.’s Revenge.

Throw in a 35mm screening of Michael Dougherty’s Trick ’r Treat, complete with his original restored short Season’s Greetings and a live Q&A, a silent-era screening of The Passion of Joan of Arc with a live score, and a mystery secret screening, and Brooklyn is looking properly stacked for spooky season.