Due to current global circumstances, the team at Grimmfest have decided to take this year’s Grimmfest film festival online, with the in-cinema festival experience set to return in 2021.
Grimmfest 2020 online edition will run from the evening of Wednesday 7th Oct through to the evening of Sunday 11th Oct. 20 feature films, two short film showcases, plenty of Q&As, an exclusive talk with Mick Garris (Masters of Horror, Stephen King’s The Stand), who will also be receiving a Lifetime achievement award. There’ll also be a special panel session on Iconic Women in Horror.
To give the authentic festival experience, there’ll also be scheduled livestream Q&A’s with many of the film stars and makers where ticketed audience members can participate in chats and ask questions.
Films shown during the online festival will run from the advertised times but will be available for a longer window than at the ‘Live’ festival so there’ll be chance to watch them at your leisure. All films will be DRM-protected and geo-blocked for the UK. Watch on your laptop, device or smart TV in the comfort and safety of your home. You’ll be able to tune into Grimmfest 2020 via TV viewing apps, including Apple TV, Roku and Android TV.
Individual film tickets will go on sale in August while full festival passes are on sale now.
Film Line-Up
Wondering what Grimmfest might have in store for its grimmlins this year? Don’t fear! The first ten feature film premieres for this year’s online event have been announced…
A focus on iconic female horror stars will feature Adrienne Barbeau (THE FOG) confronting a Faustian pact with a fracking company in the UK Premiere of UNEARTH.
Grimmfest favourite Pollyanna MacIntosh (THE WALKING DEAD) revs up for the European premiere of girl-gang biker revenge flick REVENGE RIDE.
34 years after TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2, Caroline Williams returns to Stretch’s midnight DJ slot for the European Premiere of vampire flick for the #Me Too era, TEN MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT.
There’s more female-centred horror in the UK premiere of Jose Luis Montesinos’ ROPES in which a wheelchair-bound woman finds herself trapped in an isolated house with a loyal service dog turned rabid.
Grimmfest continues to champion independent voices in horror, with a selection of soon-to-be cult classics. There’s the UK premiere of South African psychedelic drug-trip alien possession movie, FRIED BARRY.
FATAL ATTRACTION meets THE BLOB as Misogynous sexual mores encounter old school EC Comic style poetic justice in the UK premiere of B. Harrison Smith’s THE SPECIAL.
Body jacking parasites disrupt a polite dinner party with gory consequences in the European premiere of outrageous black comedy AN IDEAL HOST.
THE BIG CHILL meets BATTLE ROYALE as a college camping trip turns into a fight for survival in the northern premiere of TRIGGERED.
And an African American family on the run collides with cannibal Klansmen in the world premiere of DEATH RANCH, Charlie Steeds’ delirious tribute to Seventies grindhouse and blaxploitation cinema, which suddenly feels all-too-uncomfortably topical.
Seventies cult cinema is evoked, too, in the UK premiere of URUBU, Alejandro Ibáñez Nauta’s homage to his own father, Spanish genre legend Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, whose most famous work, WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? is ruthlessly re-imagined for a new generation.
Grimmfest will also host an exclusive panel on Iconic women in horror, featuring some of the stars of this years selected films, talking about their careers.
Steve Balshaw, chief programmer, said: “We are selecting some fantastic genre movie premieres that people can enjoy from the safety of their own home. With so many titles already confirmed, this is shaping up to be a fine alternative.”
Simeon Halligan, festival director said: “We are indebted to the ODEON, who have worked with us to offer alternative ways to present the festival and are pulling out all the stops to help us make sure Grimmfest 2020/21 is a success. We are also pleased that our key Sponsor ‘Horror Channel’ are able to continue their support throughout 2020, enabling us to put on an amazing post-lockdown celebration of genre cinema”.
For more info on the festival or to purchase Grimmfest 2020 full festival ‘Online’ passes, click here.
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