THE WEED EATERS
Directed by Callum Devlin | 80 min | 2025 | New Zealand | Rated 14+
Starring: Alice May Connolly, Anabel Kean, Samuel Austin
Discover this NWFearFest 💎 hidden gem! All tickets $10.
When Jules joins her new boyfriend on a New Year’s Eve getaway with his old high school mates, she’s looking to get some peace and quiet, smoke a bit of weed, and make some new friends. But when the holiday-makers stumble across their host’s long-forgotten stash of ancient weed, things quickly take a turn for the nightmarish.
By the time they figure out the weed’s strange effect—an insatiable hunger for human flesh!—it’s too late and the four would-be friends become accidental cannibals. Attempting to cover up their crime triggers a hilariously twisted spiral of panic, blame, and even more cannibalism that Jules is determined to survive—even if she’s the only one!
Channeling the spirit of early Peter Jackson (Bad Taste, Dead Alive), THE WEED EATERS is one of the most fun—not to mention gross, disgusting, and just downright gnarly—rides you’ll have at a movie this year.
Festivals: SXSW Sydney, FrightFest UK
Rated 14+, gory scenes, coarse language, drugs.
*Patrons under 14 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.
Feature film preceded by the short film:
SLAUGHTER SLATE
Directed by Xavier Wehrli | 8 min | 2026 | Canada
An obsessive film student tries to direct a non-cliché horror movie, but his clapperboard gains sentience and eats the crew in a slasher-style bloodbath.