The dates are set in stone, Thursday 9th - Sunday 12th October. The venue is Odeon Great Northern, Manchester UK. Yes, Grimmfest is back with four fear-filled days, twenty one brand new feature films and more World and International premieres than ever before. Here's the full list of movies screening and for more information click HERE.
Big screen stars include: Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire), Jeremy Piven (Entourage), Pixie Lott (Pop star), Aneurin Barnard (Dunkirk), Jon Header (Napoleon Dynamite), Tim McInnerny (Gladiator 2), Rosy McEwen (Black Mirror), Richard Roxburgh (Van Helsing), Shawnee Smith (The Saw Franchise), Torry Hanson (Candyman) and Thomas Lennon(Reno 911!)
WORLD PREMIERES
PAST LIFE. Grimmfest directors Simeon Halligan and Rachel Richardson-Jones new ‘Made in Manchester’ thriller, starring Jeremy Piven, Pixie Lott, Aneurin Barnard and Tim McInnerny in a twisted tale of repressed memory, regression therapy, and unsolved murders from the 80s.
SYPHON. Tom Botchii (ARTIK) makes a welcome return with this bone crunchingly brutal cat-and-mouse revenge thriller, in which a smug computer hacker learns the hard way that there is no such thing as a victimless crime.
LILY'S RITUAL. young witches, deadly rituals and bloody demonic revenge, in Manu Herrera's loving, visually ravishing homage to the horror cinema of the 80s and 90s.
THE DRIFTLESS. And an avuncular antique dealer has a sinister tale to accompany every item in his shop. Tim Connery's new movie reinvents the classic horror anthology as a celebration of the landscapes and mythologies of his native MidWest.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERES
LANDLORD. A black bounty hunter finds herself confronted by a vampire using an apartment complex as his private chicken coop in Remington Smith's gritty, neo-realist sociopolitical shocker.
I SEE THE DEMON. A surprise birthday party starts to come... unravelled... in Jacob Lees Johnson's slippery psychedelic psychodrama, I SEE THE DEMON, starring Jon Heder and Alexis Zollicoffer.
TRIBE. A disorientated man tries to reconstruct his damaged memory and recover lost time, in Dan Asma's astonishing, mind-blowing fusion of found footage, paranoid conspiracy theories and Lovecraftian cosmic horror, TRIBE.
WEEKEND AT THE END OF THE WORLD. The fate of the universe depends on the incompetent efforts of a couple of drunken idiots in Gille Klabin's riotous black comedy.
WORMTOWN. Parasitic mind controlling worms pair up with Patriarchal Religious Fundamentalism in, Sergio Pinheiro's savage and squirm-inducing allegory of... well, whatever the hell's going on the USA right now.
ITCH! A grief-stricken widower and his young daughter find themselves trapped in the family's 99 cent store as a terrifying infection rages outside, in Bari Kang's tense and emotionally harrowing reimagining of the classic zombie siege scenario.
INCOMPLETE CHAIRS. Kenichi Ugana (LOVE WILL TEAR US APART) is back with this utterly unhinged splatter satire, in which a psychopathically perfectionist furniture designer takes his craft to truly...excessive lengths.
EUROPEAN PREMIERES
FORGIVE US ALL. A tough rancher's widow embarks on a mission of mercy and redemption, in Jordana Stott's elegiac post-apocalyptic Western, starring Lily Sullivan, Callan Mulvey and Richard Roxburgh
FRANKIE MANIAC WOMAN. Dina Silva undergoes a cathartic confrontation with her demons in FRANKIE, MANIAC WOMAN, a characteristically unflinching evisceration of Entertainment Industry misogyny from Grimmfest favourite Pierre Tsigaridis (TWO WITCHES).
UK PREMIERES
SQUEALERS. A group of animal rights activists find themselves being hunted by murderous slaughterhouse workers in, Abel Ferry's savage study of conflicting values taken to brutal and bloody extremes.
THE OTHER. A well-meaning middle class white couple quickly come to regret adopting a traumatised black child with some serious... “issues”, in Paul Etheredge's smart and slippery sociopolitical spin on the classic “demon child” trope.
BEAST OF WAR. A group of ANZAC soldiers find themselves adrift in an open boat in shark-infested waters in Kiah Roache-Turner's nail-biting survival thriller.
DON'T LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE. Proves to be sage advice in Emilio Portes' droll, pitch-black supernatural comedy, as a couple of bickering young brothers start to suspect that they are not really alone in the house at all...
NORTHERN PREMIERES
RABBIT TRAP. A musician couple fall foul of the Fae, and their hold on reality starts to crumble... Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen star in Bryn Chainey's icy, elegantly retro-styled folk horror.
DEVIANT. A lecherous Tinder user gets catfished into the worst Christmas of his life in Daniel M. Caneiro's outrageously twisted pitch-black comedy.
DEAD BY DAWN. A group of actors discover that their latest role is as sacrificial victims in an occult ritual, in Dawid Torrone's dazzling and delirious homage to the classic giallo.
KOMBUCHA, An office worker starts to realise something is severely amiss at his new job in Jake Myers' sly and splattery satire of corporate workplace culture and the commodification of creativity.
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