Tag: Grimmfest
Forced to move when her mother gets a new job, a teenager called Sol has to face dangers ranging from power outages, bullies at a new school, the worrying behaviour of her mother’s boyfriend, and attacks in the night the press are reporting as a “puma”. These attacks drive the community into a frenzy that
Seagull (2019) is an oddball revenge story centred on family drama, secrets, and spite. After 8 years of eking out survival on a beach, Rose returns home and the full story of why she lived outside of society for that long is going to cause chaos for a family living with a fair few secrets.
After the tragic loss of their newborn baby, a family retreat to a cabin in the woods to spend some time focusing on themselves to heal. Unfortunately, something is haunting those woods with them, and a similar tragic backstory has the spirit attracted to the family like a moth to a flame. If you want
Euro-surrealism at its most mind-assailing, as Dave has inherited his father’s run-down and weird Hotel Poseidon. A dilapidated hellscape where logic is frequently suspended attracts the weirdest of the weird, Dave himself is no exception. Prepare for the bizarre, everything here from start to finish is weird to the point of being oppressive. The claustrophobic
Witness protection isn’t enough to keep a mother and her young daughter safe, as the vigilantes hunting them down catch up to the pair. They want a confession the mother either can’t, or won’t, give and the location is so remote any help will be at least an hour away. There’s no obvious way out,
Something deadly has begun in the woods as an infectious spore mutates from ‘Patient Zero’ to begin an alarming spread. People are its food source as well as reproduction method, giving it plenty of chances to evolve even further, and there doesn’t appear to be any way to stop it. The structure of The Spore
A news personality shares the shocking story that the reptilian Deep State is using the basements of pizza places in satanic rituals involving children. With the government doing nothing– to be fair, probably because there’s no basement at the named pizza parlour– a reporter desperate for a big story recruits a member of a militia
The Guest Room (La Stanza in Italian) is a 2021 Italian thriller directed by Stefano Lodovichi, making its debut as part of Grimmfest in Manchester UK. Shot in a single location and with an intimate cast, the film, on paper, may prove to be a challenge to many – especially being dialogue driven and subtitled
Blast 2021, or Deflagrations in its cooler sounding, original French title, is a tense thriller focusing on a small company that disarms landmines around the world. After a recent successful contract in Ukraine, they come face to face with their jobs back home. Even worse, children become involved. This setup follows a one-set shoot with
When Norman Graysmith is invited into the home of an aspiring serial killer, Aidan Mendle to be exact, he believes he has the subject for a career-defining documentary. However, the documentary crew soon learns of a few crucial issues with the production. Notably, the professed murderer has yet to take a life. Under the limelight,