Two new horror movies shot in the north are to be screened at a major film festival in London next month.
Haunted Ulster Live and The Glenarma Tapes both feature in the programme for the 24th London FrightFest 2023.
The annual film festival showcases new horror and sci-fi movies.
Haunted Ulster Live, from Belfast director Dominic O’Neill, is based on fictional news coverage of a poltergeist case at a house in east Belfast in 1998, and will have its world premiere at the festival on August 26.
The film, starring Bangor-born Game of Thrones actress Aimee Richardson and Belfast's Mark Claney, is inspired by the 1992 BBC programme Ghostwatch, starring Michael Parkinson as himself, which aired on Halloween night and fooled many viewers into thinking the drama was a live broadcast from a haunted house.
The new movie has been described as "UTV meets the Blair Witch Project" and sees fictional broadcaster Gerry Burns team up with children's TV presenter Michelle Kelly to investigate paranormal activity at a family home on Belfast's Castlereagh Road.
Describing his film, director Dominic O'Neill said: "Growing up in Northern Ireland in the 80s and 90s, local TV provided an alternative vision to the violence and fear that existed on our streets. It created a weird alternate reality of a less violent, politics-free world. Of course, they couldn't keep the outside world out - news bulletins about bombs, and senseless killings at gunpoint often violently punctured this carefully crafted facade.
"In Haunted Ulster Live, these two worlds collide, and a 1990s ghost hunting TV show, with the wonderful array of characters these shows attract, provided the perfect microcosm to explore these themes."
Meanwhile, ahead of the Haunted Ulster Live screening at Cineworld Leicester Square, a screening of The Glenarma Tapes will take place.
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From actor-turned director Tony Devlin, the found-footage horror is also inspired by 1999's The Blair Witch Project, and tells the story of five students and two lecturers from the fictional Mid Ulster College of Art who disappear in a remote forest.
A description of the film, which was produced through NI Screen's New Talent Focus initiative, states: "What happened to them has remained unknown - until now. Their last movements are pieced together from found footage recovered from a police operation almost two years later, where it becomes clear that what started out as an innocent prank went badly wrong and became a horrific fight for survival in the cold darkness of Glenarma Forest."
The Glenarma Tapes, whose cast includes Vicky Allen and Charlie Bonner, previously went by the title The Quarry, and had its premiere at last year's Belfast Film Festival.
