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Manchester's premiere horror and cult film festival returns this year for another instalment of strange and creepy goodness. There's a great line-up of films and guests include The Woman star Pollyanna McIntosh and Nightbreed's Nicholas Vince. The action kicks off on October 3, featuring highly-anticipated headliner American Mary.
Weekend festival passes are available.
View previous years coverage of the Grimmfest festival:
Grimmfest Latest Reviews
A serial killer makes taunting phone calls.
A writer returns to his Galician village expecting to receive an award, but the villagers have very different plans for him.
When a garage owner hires a mysterious hitman to dispose of his business rival, things go from bad to worse.
A disenfranchised medical student goes AWOL into the lucrative underworld of unnecessary surgery.
A ghost story and found footage meet a hackneyed true-crime novelist.
Released from an asylum, a young man struggles to rebuild his life, but he's still threatened by the high school bullies who caused his breakdown. It's time to make them pay.
Bank robbers fight their way out of zombie-infested London.
A small island community is terrorised by monsters from the sea.
When two friends discover a third has become caught up in a Satanist cult, the race is on to save his soul and that of a beautiful stranger.
Cult horror à la basket.
Grimmfest Features
Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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