Grimmfest, Manchester’s International Festival of Fantastic Film will be returning to its regular venue, The Odeon Great Northern, October 9th – 12th, for four high-impact, fear-filled days of the very best in genre cinema.
The full line-up of features, shorts, guests, and associated events is yet to come, as the team continue to select content for the programme. But, just to get your mouth-watering in anticipation, Grimmfest is delighted to offer a first glimpse of this year’s poster art, and reveal the first couple of selected feature films.
First up we are excited to announce that Grimmfest will host the European Premiere of TRIBE. Packed with high-concept ideas and wild leaps of imagination, with nods to Philip K. Dick and the cosmic horrors of H.P. Lovecraft. TRIBE is gripping, engrossing and creepy as hell.
A retired university lecturer’s investigation into the mysterious death of an old friend leads to time loss, amnesia, chilling conspiracies and cover-ups, and cataclysmic cosmic horrors, in Dan Asma’s terrifying, mind blowing found footage nightmare. We can’t wait to unleash this on the Grimmfest crowd.
And we are excite to share an exclusive sneak peek at the teaser trailer and poster for TRIBE.
Meanwhile a black female bounty hunter’s latest contract uncovers racial exploitation and predatory vampires, in Remington Smith’s sharp, savage, socially-engaged fusion of vertite style aesthetics and smartly repurposed genre archetypes, LANDLORD will have a premiere screening at Grimmfest in October.
LANDLORD deals explicitly with issues of race, class, exploitation and poverty, combining the gritty realism of Andrea Arnold and the genre tropes of John Carpenter in a heady mix that will undoubtedly secure major festival screenings over 2025 and heralds Smith as a new and exciting voice in genre cinema.
And in keeping with the theme of ‘other worldly’ horror, Grimmfest’s regular artist, Ilan Sheady, visual stylist par excellence, and master of all the colours of darkness, offers a vision of the Grimmfest Reaper as a Cthulhu inspired monster on a celestial scale. With a nod to H.P. Lovecraft, we welcome a cosmic horror theme to this year’s festival.
Further announcements and reveals to come, as the festival takes terrifying shape across 2025.
Grimmfest 2025 Festival Passes are available now, RIGHT HERE.