FFFA: Dead Eyes

This film is also showing at our sister cinema, Ritz Cinemas

Dead Eyes

Australian Premiere

A relentless first-person POV supernatural thriller, Dead Eyes drags the viewer into the horror rather than letting us watch from a safe distance. Writer-director Richard E. Williams has built a creature feature centring on grief’s capacity to warp not only the mind, but the world itself.

When Sean and his fiancée Grace follow a trail of clues into remote bushland to locate his father Paul, they expect to find a broken man. But what they encounter is something more terrifying than they could have imagined: Paul has been playing God in the undergrowth, cloning his youngest daughter Lilly in an obsessive attempt to bring her back from the dead. The forest is now crawling with the results of his experiment: feral, cannibalistic iterations of Lilly, each convinced they alone are the real thing.

With echoes of the classics Frankenstein and Eyes Without a Face, Dead Eyes probes something raw and uncomfortable: the line between devotion and destruction.

Screens with Parasomnia [link].

Festival Appearances & Awards
SXSW 2026 – World Premiere

Rating

Unclassified 18+

Duration

81 min

Country

Australia

Language

English

Cast

Ana Thu-Nguyen, Mischa Heywood, Rijen Laine, Charles Cottier, Alea O’Shea, Stephen Phillips, Freya Callaghan

Director

Richard E. Williams