Grimmfest 2016
Beyond The Gates Beyond The Gates
Beyond The Gates and My Father Die
31 (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Rob Zombie; Writer: Rob Zombie; Stars: Elizabeth Daily, Malcolm McDowell, Meg Foster, Sheri Moon Zombie, Daniel Roebuck, Richard Brake, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Lew Temple, Tracey Walter, Ginger Lynn, Judy Geeson, Torsten Voges, Jane Carr, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Devin Sidell)
A group of carnival performers are kidnapped and forced to fight for their lives in a deadly maze.
Another Evil (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Carson D Mell; Stars: Steve Zissis, Jennifer Irwin, Dax Flame, Dan Bakkedah, Mark Proksch)
Modern artist Dan and his family come to their new weekend cabin for a relaxing few days away, but soon discover something else is in the house with them. As the paranormal encounters increase Dan decides to bring in a casual spiritualist to determine what’s going on.
Beyond The Gates (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Jackson Stewart; Writer: Stephen Scarlata, Jackson Stewart; Stars: Graham Skipper, Sara Malakul Lane, Brea Grant, Justin Welborn, Barbara Crampton)
Two brothers get into trouble playing the old VCR board game that led to their father's disappearance.
Broken (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Shaun Robert Smith; Stars: Morjana Alaoui, Mel Raido, Craig Conway, Patrick Toomey, Stephanie Thomas)
In England to make a fresh start after a harrowing childhood, Evie takes a job as an agency carer and is quickly placed with tetraplegic patient John. But looking after the bitter former rock star and his excessive demands is emotionally and physically draining.
The Burning (Country: US; Year: 1981; Director: Tony Maylam; Stars: Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer, Fisher Stevens, Holly Hunter, Jason Alexander)
A janitor at a summer camp is horrifically burned as the result a prank. Years later, he is released from an institute, and returns to the camp with a pair of hedge clippers to take his bloody revenge.
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The Rift: Dark Side Of The Moon and Train To Busan
The Chamber (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Ben Parker; Writer: Ben Parker; Stars: Charlotte Salt, Johannes Kuhnke, Christian Hillborg, Elliot Levey, James McArdle)
A submarine endeavours to locate a mysterious item at the bottom of the Yellow Sea off the dangerous shores of the Korean Peninusla. When an explosion causes it to overturn and take on water, the four-man crew enter a pressure cooker situation.
Darling (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Mickey Keating; Writer: Mickey Keating; Stars: Lauren Ashley Carter, Brian Morvant, Sean Young, Larry Fessenden, Helen Rogers)
A young woman alone in a supposedly haunted house gradually loses her grip.
Dearly Beloved (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Cory Kelly; Stars: James Foster, Cal McVann, Jay Booton, Nick Pearse, Lucy Hird)
A tangled web of love and lies catch up with James on his wedding day.
Director's Cut (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Adam Rifkin; Stars: Missi Pyle, Penn Jillette, Harry Hamlin, Lin Shaye, Nestor Carbonell)
A obsessive crowdfunded fan kidnaps a star so he can reshoot and recut an Adam Rifkin crime thriller.
A Father's Day (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Matt Johns; Stars: Garth Maunders, Hazel Gibson, Christopher Jordan)
Unexpectedly reunited with his daughter amongst the ruins of the world as they knew it, a father is determined to make this day special, even if they are already dead.
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31 and The Chamber
The Hills Have Eyes (Country: US; Year: 1977; Director: Wes Craven; Stars: Michael Berryman, Dee Wallace)
There's cannibals in them thar hills.
Let Me Make You A Martyr (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Corey Asraf, John Swab, Cast: Niko Nicotera, Marilyn Manson, Mark Boone Junior, Sam Quartin)
Drew Glass is back in town and it’s all about to hit the fan. Crossing paths with his crime boss father, his crack-addicted adopted lover, a dope-slinging trailer park attendant, a blind priest with a guilty secret, a missing little girl, and a reclusive hit man for hire.
My Father Die (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Sean Brosnan; Writer: Sean Brosnan; Stars: Joe Anderson, John Schneider, Kevin Gage, Candace Smith, Gary Stretch)
A young man is out for revenge.
NSFW (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Cosmo Wallace; Stars: Danny Web, Karl Davies)
When a blogger pretends to be a child online, his attempts to uncover a predator lead to unexpected and horrific consequences in a nearby wood.
Observance (Country: Australia; Year: 2015; Director: Joseph Sims-Dennett; Writer: Joseph Sims-Dennett, Josh Zammit; Stars: Lindsay Farris, Stephanie King, Brendan Cowell, John Jarratt, Benedict Hardie, Tom O'Sullivan, Roger Ward, Gabriel Dunn, Joseph Sims-Dennett, Louisa Mignone, Ash Ricardo)
Surreal horror, sees a man in the grip of grief after the death of his son take a surveillance job that leads to trouble.
Darling Darling
Darling and What We Become
Pet (Country: US, Spain; Year: 2016; Director: Carles Torrens; Stars: Dominic Monaghan, Ksenia Solo, Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Parsons, Gary J. Tunnicliffe)
A stalker cages his high school crush in an attempt to make her fall in love with him.
The Rezort (Country: Spain, UK, Belgium; Year: 2015; Director: Steve Barker; Writer: Paul Gerstenberger; Stars: Dougray Scott, Jessica De Gouw, Martin McCann, Bentley Kalu, Jassa Ahluwalia, Sam Douglas, Claire Goose, Shane Zaza, Jamie Ward, Elen Rhys, Richard Laing, Sean Power, Robert Firth, Patrick Holland, Derek Siow)
Trouble brews on a zombie safari.
The Rift: Dark Side Of The Moon (Country: Serbia; Year: 2016; Director: Dejan Zecevic; Writer: Barry Keating, Milan Konjevic; Stars: Ken Foree, Katarina Cas, Monte Markham, Dragan Micanovic, Mick Garris)
A team of American and Serbian agents are sent to retrieve remains of a downed satellite. But when they locate the site, all is not as it seems.
The Sunken Convent (Country: Denmark; Year: 2016; Director: Michael Panduro; Stars: Claus Flygare)
A man wakes up, he goes to work, he eats in, he does a bit of home surgery, he drives to the woods.
The Tag-Along (Country: Taiwan; Year: 2015; Director: Wei-hao Cheng; Stars: Wei Ning Hsu, River Huang, Po-Chou Chang)
An ambitious radio DJ, her estate agent boyfriend and his grandmother find themselves targeted by a “Hungry Ghost” that feeds on their various insecurities and guilty secrets.
Observance Observance
Observance and The Rezort
Tonight She Comes (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Matt Stuertz; Stars: Frankie Ray, Adam Hartley, Larissa White, Jenna McDonald)
After a girl goes missing, two of her friends and a mysterious set of strangers will find themselves drawn to the cabin in the woods where she disappeared. They will laugh, they will drink, they will kiss, they will have sex, and they must all die.
Train To Busan (Country: South Korea; Year: 2016; Director: Yeon Sang-ho; Writer: Yeon Sang-ho; Stars: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-Mi, Ma Dong Seok, Kim Su-An, Sohee), Trailer
A train journey is complicated by the presence of the living dead.
Trash Fire (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Richard Bates Jr.; Writer: Richard Bates Jr; Stars: Ronnie Gene Blevins, Ezra Buzzington, Leonel Claude, Fionnula Flanagan, Sibyl Gregory, Adrian Grenier, Matthew Gray Gubler, Alexa Hamilton, Sally Kirkland, Michael Laren, Molly McCook, AnnaLynne McCord, Ray Santiago, Karl Schott, Angela Trimbur)
When Owen is forced to confront the past he's been running from his whole adult life, he and his girlfriend, Isabel, become entangled in a horrifying web of lies, deceit, and murder. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll be scarred for life.
The Unseen (Country: Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Geoff Rednapp; Stars: Aden Young, Camille Sullivan, Julia Sarah Stone, Ben Cotton, Eugene Lipinski)
A man who abandoned his family now risks everything to find his missing daughter, including exposing the secret that he is becoming invisible.
Villmark Asylum (Country: Norway; Year: 2016; Director: Pål Øie; Stars: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen)
Five contract workers take on the task of checking a huge old sanatorium for hazardous waste before the place is demolished. They quickly realize that the job is more than a matter of searching for asbestos and mercury. The enormous building has much darker secrets.
What We Become (Country: Denmark; Year: 2015; Director: Bo Mikkelsen; Writer: Bo Mikkelsen; Stars: Mille Dinesen, Ole Dupont, Mikael Birkkjær, Troels Lyby, Marie Hammer Boda, Therese Damsgaard, Benjamin Engell, Rita Angela, Diana Axelsen, Ella Solgaard, Michael Molin, Sonny Lahey)
A family is quarantine after a deadly virus hits their community.
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