GRIMMFEST EASTER: APRIL 15th – 16th
‘Grimmfest Easter’ offers all the cinematic thrills, spills, and chills, all the blood and black comedy that you have come to expect from Grimmfest, but in a leaner, meaner, more concentrated form.
Grimmfest Easter will present horror movie premieres and welcome some of the film makers and stars of the films at our regular host venue the Odeon Great Northern in Manchester UK.
Here are some highlights:
THE CELLAR. New Irish supernatural thriller starring Elisha Cuthbert. English premiere.
GHOSTS OF THE OZARKS. New US horror starring David Arquette and Tim Blake Nelson. International premiere.
POST MORTEM. New Hungarian folk horror and Oscar nominee. Northern premiere.
EGO. New Spanish psychological horror starring María Pedraza from Netflix’s MONEY HEIST. European premiere.
CROSS THE LINE. Spanish psychological thriller starring Mario Casas (Netflix’s THE INNOCENT) and Milena Smit (Almodóvar’s PARALLEL MOTHERS). UK premiere.
More details:
The festival kicks off in fine style with a sharp and genre-savvy spin on the classic haunted house mystery. Alchemic lore meets quantum physics, and the devil is in the details, in the English Premiere of Brendan Muldowney’s Irish horror, THE CELLAR, which stars Elisha Cuthbert (CAPIVITY) and Eoin Macken (RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER).
There’s a sobering reminder that pandemic panic is nothing new, as a traumatised young photographer confronts the restless dead and his own sense of survivors’ guilt in a rural Hungarian village ravaged by the post-World War One Spanish Flu outbreak, in the Northern UK Premiere of Péter Bergendy’s critically-acclaimed, and visually sumptuous spinechiller, POST MORTEM.
In the first of a brace of UK Premiere, white-knuckle thrillers from Spain, Maria Pedraza (Netflix’s MONEY HEIST), stars as a troubled young woman whose search for online romance amid the Covid-19 Lockdown unleashes a particularly intrusive stalker, in the UK premiere of Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas’ slippery psychodrama of identity theft and personality breakdown, EGO.
While Alex de la Iglesias regular Mario Casas (Netflix’s THE INNOCENT) stars as a timid young man hopelessly out of his depth and driven to ever greater extremes in David Victori’s brutal and breakneck modern spin on the “Yuppie Nightmare” neo-noir, CROSS THE LINE.
Cleanliness is not always next to godliness in the A PURE PLACE Nikias Chryssos’ much-anticipated follow-up to DER BUNKER, an unsettling and darkly witty allegorical fairy tale of ex-Nazis, mad messianic ambition, and arcane cult activity in the Greek Islands, which also has its UK Premiere at Grimmfest.
An oppressive cult of a very different kind features in Dan Slater’s tense and claustrophobic exploration of religious oppression and group-think gaslighting, THE FAMILY, while guilt leads people to take strange and winding forest paths, in Adam Reider’s eerie and enigmatic existential survival drama, WOODLAND GREY. Both films are European Premieres.
And a seemingly utopian community in post-Civil War America is finally brought face to face with the falsehoods and fantasies necessary to sustain it, in the festival’s closing film, Matt Glass and Jordan Wayne Long’s sharp, socio-political Southern Gothic Folk Horror, GHOSTS OF THE OZARKS, starring David Arquette (SCREAM), Tim Blake Nelson (WATCHMEN) and Angela Bettis (12 HOUR SHIFT), and reuniting many of the creative team behind Grimmfest audience favourite, 12 HOUR SHIFT. This will be the film’s international premiere.
Grimmfest Director Simeon Halligan said: Continuing to bring film fans back into the cinema post Covid is something we are very keen to do, here at Grimmfest. We look forward to bringing some cinematic mayhem to brighten Easter 2022”.
Grimmfest Easter full festival passes are available now, from www.grimmfest.com