Early Bird Passes For October’s GRIMMFEST Film Festival Now On Sale as First Two Films Revealed

July 9, 2013 Bat Events, News 0

GRIMMFEST, Manchester’s annual international festival of horror and cult films, has revealed the official poster and the first two films of the event line-up as early bird passes go on sale.

Expect big screen movie premieres and genre classics with special celebrity guests, Q&As and signings from 3rd to 6th October at The Dancehouse venue in Manchester.

This creepy inspiring official poster for GRIMMFEST 2013 has been designed by illustration graduate Samantha Beedie and looks rather fantastical.

With the tease of the first films of the line-up being revealed, we simply couldn’t contain our excitement. The first of the films is a Northern Premiere of HANSEL AND GRETEL GET BAKED.

The ghoulish Grimm tale of kids lost in the forest and gingerbread houses with sinister secrets gets updated to suburban America, where a cannibal pot dealer lures sibling stoners to their deaths with some super strong skunk weed. Featuring an unsettlingly witchy lead turn from TWIN PEAKS’ Lara Flynn Boyle, TWILIGHT hunk Michael Welch as Hansel, and a supporting turn from the Witchblade herself, Yancy Butler, this mischievous and mean-spirited black comedy of horrors serves as a rollicking reminder that fairy tales aren’t just for kids.

Following Hansel and Gretel is a forest-based fairy tale of a very different kind, with the English Premiere of Chad Crawford Kinkle’s astonishing JUG FACE.

Exec Produced by Lucky McKee, and featuring Lauren Ashley Carter and Sean Bridgers from McKee’s modern classic THE WOMAN, genre legend Larry Fessenden, and with a spit-vicious turn from Sean Young as a monstrous matriarch, this is an altogether moodier affair than McKee’s celebrated collaboration with Jack Ketchum. An unsettling tale of backwoods religion gone bad, blood sacrifice, incest, and frightening folk art, this sinister slice of Southern Gothic recalls such eerie, unsettling classics as WISEBLOOD and THE PASSION OF DARKLY NOON, and is guaranteed to haunt your dreams.

So if that’s whet your appetite, be sure to save a bundle by grabbing yourself an Early Bird pass – on sale today for just £51! Click here to get yours!
The Early Bird passes are strictly limited and only available until 8th August 2013. Early bird pass will save you well over £30.00 on entry price to the festival and get you into absolutely everything!

For more details on the festival, be sure to visit grimmfest.com

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