Screamfest Horror Film Festival to Open With ‘The Night Driver’
The 2026 Screamfest Horror Film Festival will open with Jeremy Weiss’s latest feature, The Night Driver, starring Josh Lucas, David Arquette, and Alyssa Milano, reports Deadline.
The festival, which runs October 6-15 at the Tcl Chinese Theatre, announced its first wave of titles today. The lineup features 8 world premieres, 6 North American premieres, 1 US premiere, and 3 West Coast premieres.
Highlight titles alongside The Night Driver include The Caged by Jeffrey Scott Collins and starring Edmund Kingsley (Capsule), Callen Carter, and Raffi Chapman (Vesper); Grow, by Brian Gottlieb and starring Annet Mehandru (The Americans) and Philip Tabor (Heights); Wounds, by Ron Krauss and starring Jack Kilmer (Palo Alto) and Paris Jackson (Swarm).
Screamfest will also honor veteran cinematographer Peter Deming with a Career Achievement Award. Deming’s acclaimed credits include David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks, for which he received an Emmy nomination for the 2018 episode “Part 8”, as well as Evil Dead II,