Grimmfest 2024 at Odeon Great Northern
Tom Grieve, Cinema Editor
Manchester’s biggest horror and genre film festival is back for 2024, and they’ve let us in on the some early line up news. Scheduled for early October at the Odeon Great Northern, Grimmfest 2024 features four fear-filled days of feature and short movies, premieres, special guests and extra events set to lure genre film fans together from far and wide.
As in previous years, variety is at the heart of Grimmfest’s 16th edition, with titles that showcase the many modes (and monsters) of horror filmmaking. There’s From Darkness, a fark fusion of Scandi-noir and Swedish mythology, alongside Robin August’s KillHer, an 80s-inspired satirical slasher about a hen party camping trip gone awry.
Then, director Federico Zampaglione channels the classic Italian giallo with The Well, in which a young art restorer discovers demonic activity in the cellar of the house of a sinister Baroness. Speaking of sinister, Aaron Fradkin’s Beezel uses a portmanteau structure to explore the ancient evil and dark history of a suburban New England house over a fifty-year period.
Meanwhile Loïs Dols de Jong’s Amsterdam Alert is billed as an emotionally brutal, white knuckle, cinema verité film which follows events as the city of Amsterdam is given a thirty-minute countdown to a nuclear strike. Made in the tradition of Peter Watkins’ The War Game and Mick Jackson’s Threads, the film is an example of the terrifying stretch and scope of horror.
As Festival Director, Simeon Halligan, tells us; ‘That’s just a taster of the incredible movie premieres we are lining up for Grimmfest 2024. We don’t want to give too much away at this stage and there is still a whole body of premieres to be announced in late Summer. We can’t wait to reveal more amazing movie exclusives for Grimmfest fans, over the coming months, keep your eyes peeled for further news!’
