GRIMMFEST ONLINE

Our last online festival ran 5th-8th Dec 2025 

IF YOU LOVE NEW HORROR AND GENRE CINEMA, THIS IS THE PLACE FOR YOU.

A long weekend of movie premieres for you to enjoy at home. Fifteen feature film premieres and one shorts programme, we want you to see. Every year at Grimmfest we shortlist way more amazing new movies than we can squeeze into the LIVE festival. This year we thought we would give you an opportunity to catch some of those movies. GRIMMFEST 2025 PART TWO!

All Q&As free to watch. 

 

Event Ticket

Click on the individual films to book a single screening ticket (£6.50 each), or purchase a PASS that will allow access to the full online event (£55.50). Once you have purchased a pass or ticket, you will receive an email with full details on how to access the online event.

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WHATS SCREENING

SCREENINGS

SHADOWS OF WILLOW CABIN

Albert and Devon retreat to a remote cabin to explore a connection sparked by a string of sexually charged messages on a dating app. Albert is a closeted …

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5th – 8th Dec

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ADORABLE HUMANS

A couple move to the countryside looking for a new beginning. But a mysterious mirror turns everything inside out. A young care worker agrees to care for a …

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5th – 8th Dec

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DON’T HANG UP

Summer travels to Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the wedding of a college friend. Boyfriend Chris can’t make it, but she keeps in contact with him via FaceTime. After …

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5-8th Dec

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SHORTS PROGRAMME

A selection of awesome short film premieres for you to watch at home. PROM PARTY MASSACRE (USA, 18 min 38 sec) Director: Jordan Gustafson, Writer: Phil Tice. Cast: Ashley Campbell, …

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5th – 8th Dec

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THE DRIFTLESS

Deep river valleys, tall limestone bluffs sawing through the sky… thousands of years ago, this unique portion of the Midwest escaped the crushing effects of the giant Ice …

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5th – 8th Dec

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GOLEM.AI

Two estranged friends, a hard-headed AI researcher and a recovering manchild, reconnect over video chat to repair their relationship, but when they open their favourite retro online shooter, …

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5th – 8th Dec

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CONTENT

A seemingly affable would-be director stalks and blackmails his actors into living a real-life horror movie. GRIMMFEST SAYS: Quentin Tarantino got to live the dream, due to a …

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5th – 8th Dec

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DEATH CYCLE

After the death of her sister, still distraught Abby is visited by a man looking to solve a series of murders by a motorcycle maniac. As their shared …

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5th – 8th Dec

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WHERE DARKNESS DWELLS

Assigned to a missing person case, reporter Trish Bostwick follows the trail to a secluded asylum hidden in the New England woods. But everything changes when a knife-wielding …

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5th – 8th Dec

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THE TREE HOUSE

After her boyfriend’s death in a mysterious fall from a cabin high in the woods, Ale returns a year later convinced it wasn’t an accident. Something …

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5th – 8th Dec

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IT NEEDS EYES

Following a traumatizing event, teenager Rowan goes to stay at her estranged aunt’s oceanside home. In her distressed state she finds herself seeking out increasingly bizarre, violent internet …

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5th – 8th Dec

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HUMAN

Dani is currently, and unofficially, living on the set of the film she is working on. Her attempt to arrange a late night hook-up with an ex-boyfriend instead …

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5th – 8th Dec

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THE HAVEN

To escape a deadly virus, a father drives his family to the remote countryside where they are given refuge by a farmer. But after the brutal slaughter of …

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5th – 8th Dec

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PORTRAITS OF THE APOCALYPSE

The zombie apocalypse hits Buenos Aires. Through the eyes of various characters, we experience the initial confusion, the ensuing chaos, and the fight for survival in a devastated …

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5-8 Dec 2025

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BAD HAIRCUT

Billy Crumpus has never been the confident type. A socially awkward college student with a goofy charm that never quite lands, he hits rock bottom after a humiliating …

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5th – 8th Dec

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FRANKIE MANIAC WOMAN

Battling against the legacy of childhood trauma, internalised misogyny, and the image-obsessed fat shaming of the LA music business, aspiring singer-songwriter Frankie Ramirez finally snaps, with bloody results… …

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5th – 8th Dec

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On Line

PLEASE NOTE ALL FILMS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM MIDDAY FRID 5th – 8.00PM MON 8th DEC, SO YOU HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO WATCH THEM BEFORE THE WINDOW CLOSES ON THE ONLINE FESTIVAL.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

If you can’t find the information you need here, please get in touch: info@grimmfest.com

You will receive an automated email that will give you all the details on how to access the online festival. It may take a while to arrive so don’t worry if it isn’t in your inbox immediately.

Unfortunately not. The festival is Geo-blocked to the UK, so only people in the UK can view the content. This is to make sure the films hold their premiere status in other countries around the world.

Yes, you will be able to cast from your mobile or laptop to a tv if you have a smart tv or Amazon fire stick.

The annual Grimmfest film festival takes place annually, at the Odeon Great Northern in Manchester UK in early October. This year we are also presenting an ONLINE edition from 5th – 8th Dec.

Yes. Passes are onsite now. Individual film tickets coming very soon.

You can access our online event from this page.

Yes. Grimmfest is open for submissions most of the year round. Submissions should be made via Film Freeway, where you will also find all of the necessary information about the submission process, the kinds of films we are looking for, and any spec requirements. Short and feature films with a focus on the fearsome, the fantastic, or the blackly comic are all welcome.

Grimmfest has been running since 2009 and is now considered one of the most prestigious festivals of fantastic film in Europe.

We pride ourselves on presenting the very best in independnet genre cinema and host a broad selection of movie premieres on the big and small screen. As most of the films we screen are yet to be released in the UK, attending Grimmfest online allows you to see them first before they get released to the general public.

Yes: Grimmfest 2025 Part two is an online virtual festival.

Outside of watching movie premieres, you can also watch film maker and film star Q&As on our online platform or chat to other attendees via our Grimmfest Facebook group over at ‘THE REAPERS ARMS‘.

FESTIVAL NEWS

NEWS

CONTENT online horror now available to buy and rent

Adam Meilech’s CONTENT (Grimmfest 2025 part 2) is now available to buy and rent in the UK via GRIMMVISION. Available in the UK, US and many other world territories! Shown …

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PAST LIFE – UK CINEMA SCREENINGS

A gripping Manchester made thriller that we recommend you see on the big screen! As we roll out the cinema screenings of PAST LIFE in the UK, we …

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PAST LIFE – HITS UK PLATFORMS FROM 6TH APRIL

PAST LIFE, the new movie from the head honchos at Grimmfest and which opened the festival back in Oct 2025, will be releasing in cinemas and on digital just …