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Grimmfest

5 October – 8 October 2017

Still/Born
Still/Born

It's that time of year again and Grimmfest is back with a slate full of ghastly goodies to frighten film fans. Sponsored by the Horror Channel and Jurys Inn, it's screening some of the highlights of the horror year as well as making way for new talent and delivering, as always, an impressive showcase of shorts.

The festival runs from 5 to 8 October.

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  • Dave Made A Maze
    Review preview for Dave Made A Maze

    A film full of dazzling visual invention.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    One afternoon, Dave builds a cardboard maze in his living room, gets lost in it, and discovers that it's full of traps and monsters which he doesn't remember creating.
  • Trench 11
    Review preview for Trench 11

    When the film focuses on the living over the undead it is at its strongest.

    Emilia Rolewicz · 3 out of 5
    In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches of No Man’s Land to stop a German experiment that could turn the tide of the war. But the Germans have already lost control...
  • Attack Of The Adult Babies
    Review preview for Attack Of The Adult Babies

    There's a joyousness about this kind of filmmaking, unrestricted as it is by any concern for convention.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    A home invasion forces two teenagers to break into a remote country manor little realising it is a retreat for middle-aged men who like to dress in nappies... and who have a sinister plot.
  • Mohawk
    Review preview for Mohawk

    We are plunged straight into the emotional world of characters whose feelings for each other are as pertinent as their survival and combat skills.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Two members of the Mohawk people and their British lover are forced to flee into the woods when a group of vicious American renegades turns on them during the war of 1812.
  • Better Watch Out
    Review preview for Better Watch Out

    Miller is outstanding.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    As a 12-year-old prepares to confess his romantic feelings for his babysitter one Christmas Eve, something starts trying to break into the house.
  • Tag
    Review preview for Tag

    An adrenaline-fuelled adventure wrapped around an equally fierce political core.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A girl's life cascades into chaos as everyone around her suffers a gruesome fate while she herself becomes less and less certain of who she is and what kind of a world she lives in.
  • M.F.A.
    Review preview for M.F.A.

    Noelle's transformation from mouse to maniac is also hard to swallow, even with Eastwood's hard sell.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
    A woman who is raped goes on a rampage of vengeance.
  • Still/Born
    Review preview for Still/Born

    Burke's performance would be riveting even on an empty sound stage.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    For Mary, the joy of her son Adam’s birth is overshadowed by the stillborn death of his twin brother. Now she can't shake the feeling that something is coming for Adam too.
  • Ruin Me
    Review preview for Ruin Me

    Moments of reflection are balanced by playful scenes structured around the clichés of horror filmmaking.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Welcome to Slasher Sleepout: The Ultimate Horror Movie Experience combining camping, haunted house, and an escape room into one extreme 36-hour event. Six strangers are hooded, dropped in the middle of the woods, and must survive a simulated horror movie. But then people start dying for real.
  • Killing Ground
    Review preview for Killing Ground

    What Power does differently is to deny us the usual sources of comfort.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A young couple camping in the woods find an abandoned tent and then a lost toddler.

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