Grimmfest 2024
Children Of The Wicker Man Children Of The Wicker Man
Children Of The Wicker Man and Dead Mail
Amsterdam Alert (Year: 2024; Director: Loïs Dols de Jong; Writer: Suzan de Swaan; Stars: Lukas Bulteel, Aline Cornelissen, Evalinde Lammers)
When an NL Alert indicates that people have 30 minutes to seek shelter from a nuclear disaster, 16-year-old Leah tries to get home to rescue her younger sister, whom she was supposed to be babysitting.
Black Cab (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Bruce Goodison; Writer: Virginia Gilbert; Stars: Nick Frost, Synnove Karlsen, Luke Norris, George Bukhari)
A jovial cab driver diverts a couple to a remote, haunted road, revealing disturbing motives and his true intentions.
Bleeding (Year: 2024; Director: Andrew Bell; Stars: John R Howley, Jasper Jones, Tori Wong)
In a world where vampire blood is harvested as a drug, two desperate teenagers on the run from a vicious dealer break into an empty house and find a sleeping girl locked inside.
Blood Star (Year: 2024; Director: Lawrence Jacomelli; Stars: John Schwab, Britni Camacho)
A young Latina petty thief driving cross country through New Mexico finds herself the target of a devious, psychopathic, small town sheriff , who views his badge as a licence to prey on vulnerable young women. She must use all of her street-smarts to survive.
Children Of The Wicker Man (Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Justin Hardy, Dominic Hardy, Chris Nunn)
A documentary about The Wicker Man and its legacy.
Self Driver Self Driver
Self Driver and Traumatika
Crumb Catcher (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Chris Skotchdopole; Writer: Chris Skotchdopole, Larry Fessenden, Rigo Garay; Stars: Rigo Garay, Ella Rae Peck, John Speredakos, Lorraine Farris, Rebecca Watson)
A newlywed couple is held captive in a remote lake house by a maniacally optimistic inventor and his sour wife who are desperate to finance his dream project with a half-baked blackmail plot.
Dead Mail (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Kyle McConaghy, Joe DeBoer; Writer: Kyle McConaghy, Joe DeBoer; Stars: Sterling Macer, Jr, John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Nick Heyman, Tomas Boykin)
An ominous, bloody help note finds its way to the desk of a seasoned 'dead letter' investigator at a 1980's Midwestern post office, leading him down a violent, unforeseen path to a kidnapped keyboard engineer and his demented business associate.
Delivery Run (Year: 2024; Director: Joey Palmroos; Stars: Alexander Arnold, Nadine Higgin, Liam James Collins)
A food delivery driver with a gambling problem and serious debts falls foul of a sinister snowplow driver.
Early Birds (Year: 2023; Director: Michael Steiner; Stars: Silvana Synovia, Nilam Farooq, Anatole Taubman)
In the bloody aftermath of a wild party, two desperate women form an uneasy alliance after they find themselves in possession of a mysterious package, on the run, and with violent criminals on their tail.
From Darkness (Country: Sweden; Year: 2024; Director: Philip Da Silva; Stars: Oscar Skagerberg, Rakel Benér Gajdusek, Peter Mörlin, Lars Adsten)
Park ranger Angelica seeks the help of her dog-handler ex-boyfriend Viktor to search for a missing woman in a dangerous Swedish nature reserve, complicated by a disturbing myth about the Cave Banshee, a vengeful spirit from Nordic folklore that once lured miners to their deaths in the treacherous caves. As they delve deeper into the forest, Viktor starts to question his own sanity and whether the rumoured Banshee is more than just a myth.
Strange Harvest: Occult Murder In The Inland Empire Strange Harvest: Occult Murder In The Inland Empire
Strange Harvest: Occult Murder In The Inland Empire and The Substance
Heresy (Witte Wieven) (Year: 2024; Director: Didier Konings; Stars: Anneke Sluiters, Len Leo Vincent, Reinout Bussemaker, Nola Elvis Kemper)
In a medieval Dutch village, a young woman is caught between her faith, fanatic townsfolk and the dark forces lurking in the woods.
Killher (Year: 2023; Director: Robyn August; Stars: MC Huff, Tom Kiesche, Emily Hall, Jenna Z Alvarez, Nicole Lovince)
Mattie and her friends go on a weekend trip to the woods to plan Mattie’s wedding, settled near the camp of Mr. Rogers, and with no phone signal, their trip starts to turn into a bad idea when they start dying and a secret is revealed.
M (Country: North Macedonia, Croatia, France, Kosovo, Luxembourg; Year: 2023; Director: Vardan Tozija; Writer: Darijan Pejovski, Vardan Tozija; Stars: Matej Sivakov, Sasko Kocev, Toni Mihajlovski, Kamka Tocinovski)
The world has been ravaged by a pandemic. Alone and outside the safety of the forest, Marko faces a shattered world shrouded in silence and danger.
Peg O' My Heart (Year: 2024; Director: Nick Cheung; Stars: Fala Chen, Nick Cheung, Chun-Him Lau, Natalie Hsu)
Choi San-keung is a sleep-deprived taxi driver plagued by nightmarish visions, and a danger to anyone who sets foot in his taxi. Following a particularly dangerous driving incident, he finds himself under the care of maverick psychiatrist, Dr. Man, who has some serious issues of his own.
Self Driver (Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Michael Pierro; Writer: Michael Pierro; Stars: Nathanael Chadwick, Reece Presley, Lauren Welchner, Harold Tausch, Christian Aldo)
Facing mounting expenses and the unrelenting pressure of modern living, a down-on-his-luck cab driver is lured onto a mysterious new app that promises fast, easy money.
The Well The Well
The Well and Heresy
Strange Harvest: Occult Murder In The Inland Empire (Year: 2024; Director: Stuart Ortiz; Writer: Stuart Ortiz; Stars: Peter Zizzo, Terri Apple)
A faux true-crime documentary about two detectives pursuit of an infamous serial killer named Mr. Shiny, who terrorised Southern California for almost two decades.
The Substance (Country: UK, US; Year: 2024; Director: Coralie Fargeat; Writer: Coralie Fargeat; Stars: Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Demi Moore, Hugo Diego Garcia, Joseph Balderrama, Oscar Lesage, Gore Abrams, Olivier Raynal, Vincent Colombe, Tiffany Hofstetter, Matthew Géczy, Tom Morton, Philip Schurer, Matthew Luret, Alexandra Papoulias Barton)
A fading television star tries to restore her fame with the help of a suspicious drug.
Succubus (Year: 2024; Director: RJ Daniel Hanna; Stars: Brendan Bradley, Ron Perlman, Rosanna Arquette, Olivia Grace Applegate, Rachel Cook.)
A new father with a failing marriage joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious woman, whose strange allure and manipulative powers of seduction entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he could have ever imagined.
Tim Travers And The Time Traveler's Paradox (Year: 2024; Director: Stimpson Snead; Writer: Stimpson Snead; Stars: Samual Dunning, Joel McHale, Kieth David, Danny Trejo, Felicia Day)
A scientist creates a time machine and kills his younger self to see what would happen. That self-obsessed, misanthrope, mad genius of a scientist is Tim Travers, and the universe was bad enough with only one of him.
Traumatika (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Pierre Tsigaridis; Writer: Rebekah Kennedy, Ramen Navet, Emily Goss. Susan Gayle Watts; Stars: Rebekah Kennedy, Ramen Navet, Emily Goss. Susan Gayle Watts)
Mikey’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.
The Well (Country: Italy; Year: 2023; Director: Federico Zampaglione; Writer: Federico Zampaglione, Stefano Masi; Stars: Lauren LaVera, Claudio Nathan Brezzi, Yassine Fadel, Peppe Fonzo, Gianluigi Galvani, Melanie Gaydos, Claudia Gerini, Jonathan Dylan King, Elisabetta Klein, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Stefano Martinelli, Denise McNee, Maria Grazia Ortesani, Courage Osabohine, Tony Pandolfo)
A budding art restorer travels to a small Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory. Little does she know the sinister secret behind it - or what is going on down in the cellar.
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