Grimm Up North
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Coming October 28th to The Dance House, Oxford Road, Manchester.
Launched in 2009, Grimm Up North started as it means to go on. The inaugural festival screened 25 features, including 15 premieres, many featuring Q&As and seminars with directors, cast and crew. Last year we screened movies from Japan, Finland, Germany, Romania, Canada and Australia. Many of the award-winning international movies were UK premieres and for some this will have been their only UK outing on a big screen – indeed some may never get a UK release at all. We screened films as diverse as the Tarkovsky-influenced SAUNA from Finland and STRIGOI a Romanian art house vampire movie. Supporting our homegrown talent, we covered the new wave of UK horror from the micro-budgeted COLIN, to gritty social-realist psycho drama TONY. But we never lost sight of our hardcore genre audience, with sold-out screenings of genre classics DAWN OF THE DEAD and HALLOWEEN, a gala première of THE DESCENT 2 with director and cast; a HELLRAISER screening and cast reunion, Q+A and signing session; a reading of a previously unpublished short story by legendary author Ramsey Campbell; an exhibition of work by SFX legend Bob Keen; props, storyboards and production stills from locally-produced shocker SPLINTERED; and a special game room set up by CAPCOM where punters could try out the new RESIDENT EVIL: DARKSIDE CHRONICLES game before its release.Check out www.grimmfest.com for more info.
