IDW Dark’s FATAL FEST Blends Survival Horror With Hollywood Satire

WEPA! Horror fans, lock the doors and hide the cameras, because IDW Dark is about to turn the film festival fantasy into a full-blown nightmare buffet.

After the breakout success of THE EXORCISM AT 1600 PENN and its upcoming feature adaptation from Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, creator Hannah Rose May is back with FATAL FEST, a twisted new horror ride from IDW Dark that asks one savage question: how badly do you want fame?

Six rising horror filmmakers enter a mysterious festival run by reclusive horror legend Frank Finch, only to learn this ain’t Sundance, champ — this is survival with a director’s chair and a body count.

With art by Andrea Scalmazzi, FATAL FEST slices into Hollywood obsession, IP worship, fame hunger, and the brutal business of turning art into product.

Bold, bloody, cinematic, and nasty in all the right ways, this sounds like the kind of comic that doesn’t knock on the door — it kicks it open holding a camera and a knife.

More information about FATAL FEST will be revealed at a later date. Until then, new issues of SMILE: FOR THE CAMERA and the acclaimed sequel THE EXORCISM AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE are currently available in comic shops. The collected edition of THE EXORCISM AT 1600 PENN is out now wherever graphic novels are sold.