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Grimmfest

6 October – 9 September 2022

The popular Manchester festival is back with a focus on premiering new horror and genre cinema from around the world. Alongside the films there will be Q&As, talks and exclusive events.

The festival runs from 6 to 9 October.

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Latest reviews

  • Moon Garden
    Review preview for Moon Garden

    Ryan Stevens Harris’ Moon Garden invites viewers to explore not only another world but a very different perspective.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A comatose five-year-old girl journeys through a dark industrial dreamscape, following her mother’s voice on a transistor radio to find her way back to consciousness.
  • Candy Land
    Review preview for Candy Land

    The characters are wonderfully drawn, each with their own complexities which go beyond their reasons for doing this job, and the acting is strong all round.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A seemingly naïve and devout young woman finds her way in the underground world of truck stop sex workers a.k.a. 'lot lizards'.
  • Vesper
    Review preview for Vesper

    A story which is, ultimately, about learning to think differently, to change the way that we direct our attention and resources in order to open up the possibility of renewal.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    At some point in the future the Earth’s ecosystem collapses. A tough 13-year-old called Vesper, whose father is paralysed, tries to get food for them wherever she can. When she finds a mysterious woman in the forest one day she starts to hope that things will change.
  • Piggy
    Review preview for Piggy

    Galán is extraordinary as the traumatised girl in a performance which requires a considerable amount of courage.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Sara deals with constant teasing from girls in her small town. But it comes to an end when a stranger kidnaps her tormentors. Sara knows more than she's saying and must decide between speaking up and saving the girls or saying nothing to protect the strange man who spared her.
  • Cult Hero
    Review preview for Cult Hero

    There are a lot of cute ideas here which don’t all successfully come to fruition but which entertain nonetheless.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Manager-summoning control freak Kallie Jones attempts to rescue her husband from a 'wellness center' with the help of a washed-up expert cult buster.
  • Dark Nature
    Review preview for Dark Nature

    Brady knows the landscape well and makes effective use of it.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Members of a therapy group are forced to confront the monsters of their past when an isolated weekend retreat tests their emotional resilience and ability to survive.
  • Megalomaniac
    Review preview for Megalomaniac

    It’s a film shot mostly in shadow, in the long-neglected house or in the narrow confines of locker rooms and toilet blocks at the factory.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A film about the weight of patriarchy and the illusion of Manichaeism.
  • The Harbinger
    Review preview for The Harbinger

    Skilfully crafted, The Harbinger is a rightly distressing, melancholy take on the events of the recent past and the troubles we still live with today.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A woman leaves her family quarantine to help a friend who's suffering from terrible nightmares - but she learns too late that the bad dreams are contagious, along with the demon behind them.
  • Final Cut
    Review preview for Final Cut

    An homage to truly bad film-making - but it sails perilously close to self-parody

    Richard Mowe · 2 out of 5
    Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.

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