introduction Contents Introduction from the Festival Director 3 Greetings Grimmlins, Gorehounds, and Preview Night 5 Ghouls! Film programme: A big warm welcome to this, the sixth, Grim- All I know is Nothing 22 mfest. Over the last eight months the Grimm Autumn Harvest 22 team have been scouring the globe for the 7 very best new horror and sci-fi movies. ’s The Canal 30 been a bumper year with so many amaz- Coherence 24 ing new films coming our way, which has Dawn of the Dead 21 only made our selection task even harder. Dead Snow 2: Red Vs. Dead 27 Sometimes its almost heart breaking to Devil’s Mile 13 have to pick one film rather than another but Don’t Play with the Food 22 ultimately we have a limited number of slots The Forgotten 23 ‘THE CULT HORROR to fill and the only way to decide is to put it to Get Some 28 a vote. If the whole team loves a movie then it The Herd 11 COMEDY OF THE YEAR’ goes in. This year we’ve tried to squeeze in as House at the End of Time 9 ALAN JONES, FILM4 FRIGHTFEST many shorts and features into the line up as Julia 10 we possibly can (So grab those food and drink Let God Sort Them out 7 ‘DEFINITELY breaks while you can between screenings!) Let us Prey 12 WORTH THE HYPE’ presenting films you may have heard of and Life After Beth 29 some that you may not have. ATTACK OFA Nightmare THE on Elm Street 4 HHHH [LOBOS DEOpen ARGA] Grave 27 STARBURST MAGAZINE We think its our best line up so far and cant Reconstruction of William Zero 19 wait to get your responses at the festival. Spain; 2012; The98 min Samurai 29 Come join us for madness and mayhem from Director: SolitudoJuan Martinez Moreno 24 2nd – 5th Oct at the Dancehouse and Gorilla Sororal 19 Starring: Gorka Otxoa, Carlos Areces, Secun de la Rosa in Manchester. Split 22 Status: English Premiere She 10 Screening: 6.45PM – 8.25PM Starry Eyes 25 The Bastard The Love Stomach Child Of… 22 ON BLU-RAY & DVD sponsors Paul Naschy and John Landis 12 A huge ‘thank you’ to our sponsors: OCTOBER 13 After 15 yearsSuspiria away, Tomas, an unsuccessful writer, returns21 to the village Tasha of Arga and in his Friends native Galicia, supposedly to get5 an award. In Truthreality, or however, Dare he is needed there to end 9a curse that hasThe been Visitant hanging 22 over the village for the past hundred years. Vomica 22 GRIMM’s EYE VIEW:The Well Achieving the same masterful balance11 of ENTER AND DISCOVER NEW AND CLASSIC HORROR FILMS. FOLLOW US IF YOU DARE! /HORRORVAULT What and genuinewe do in chills the Shadows as the classic AMERICAN25 WolfCopIN LONDON, Juan Martinez Moreno’s gory and30 mordantly funny tribute to the classic werewolf films of Scan Simply download the Amazon app, click on ‘search’ Zombeavers 27 & Buy and then use the ‘scan it’ option to find and buy Spanish Paul Naschy, and the Universal horror ORDER NOW Prosthetic FX Guru Shaune Harrison Demo 16 movies that inspired him, has been a huge hit in Spain. DVD Blu-Ray MorenoFilm has Schedule fun playing with audience expectations, as17 the filmSpecial builds Guests to a truly outrageous climax. Director Juan15 Available for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone Find out More: www.amazon.co.uk/shopmobile MartinezTickets Moreno and will venues be joining us for a Q&A after the 15 5055201 827548 > 5055201 827609 > screening.Grimmfest 2014 Afterparty 29 © 2014 WOLF COP PRODUCTIONS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Free Super Saver Delivery and Unlimited One-Day Delivery with Amazon Prime are available on eligible orders. Distributed by STUDIOCANAL LIMITED Terms and Conditions apply. See Amazon.co.uk for details. 3 Cover Tuesday 30th September Odeon Printworks, Manchester Preview night tickets available now from: Odeon Printworks

Booking line: 0871 224 4007 preview night Web: http://www.odeon.co.uk

TASHA AND FRIENDS [SHORT] A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Canada; 2013; 14 mins; Odeon Printworks USA; 1984; 91 mins; Odeon Printworks Directed by: Greg Kovacs Directed by: Status: UK Premiere Starring: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Screening: 7.00pm- 7.14pm Status: 30th Anniversary Screening Cert: 15 TBC Screening: 7.14pm- 8.45pm Local children’s TV host Tasha decides to shut the Cert: 18 show down, her puppet co-stars however have other ’s original adventure in scream- ideas. queen suburbia returns to the big screen for this very special 30th Anniversary screening.

GRIMM’S EYE VIEW: If the Muppets and Andre Toulon’s A group of teenagers are terrorized by “Freddy killer puppets ever got it on, their offspring may look Krueger”, an evil being from another world who gets something like this... to his victims by entering their dreams and killing them with gloves that have knife blades attached to each finger.

“What makes Freddy truly terrifying, and an inspired invention on Wes Craven’s part, is that he exists not in the real world but in the shadowy realm of dreams.” Empire Magazine 5

Tuesday 30th September Odeon Printworks, Manchester preview night

LET GOD SORT THEM OUT [SHORT] THE BABADOOK France; 2013, 13 mins; Australian; 2014, 93 mins; Director: Cédric Le Men Director: Jennifer Kent Starring: Claire Guione, David Doukhan, Maximilien Starring: Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall, Tiffany Lyndall- Poullein Knight Status: Manchester Premiere Status: Premiere Screening: 9.00pm - 9.13pm Screening: 9.13pm - 10.43pm Cert: 15 TBC Cert: 15

French countryside, 1975. A family is about to sit down A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her for dinner, unaware that the Great Purge has begun. husband, battles with her son’s fear of a lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister GRIMM’S EYE VIEW: presence all around her. Allusive, atmospheric subversion of the living dead “the effectiveness of the tension built by Kent along . with the terrific performances by Davis and Wiseman is chilling, heartbreaking and utterly terrifying. The Babadook is edge of your seat stuff and it will keep on you on that edge until the final credits roll. Not just one of the best horror movies of 2014, but one of the best movies of the year period.” Flickeringmyth

GRIMM’S EYE VIEW: Bleak, gloomy horror that nods to the psychological canniness of Nightmare on Elm Street

6 7 THE THAT FUELLED THE SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE DEBATE Cover Thursday 2nd October Gorilla Manchester grimmfest fringe celebrates women in Horror

HOUSE AT THE END OF TIME TRUTH OR DARE Venezuela; 2013 : 101 min; Gorilla USA; 2013, 89 mins; Gorilla

Director: Alejandro Hidalgo Director: Jessica Cameron

Starring: Ruddy Rodriguez, Gonzalo Cubero, Starring: Jessica Cameron, Ryan Kiser, Heather Dorff, Guillermo Garcia Shelby Stehlin, Devanny Pinn Status: Northern Premiere Status: Northern Premiere Screening: 10:30AM – 12:10PM Screening: 12.20PM – 1.49PM Cert: 15 TBC Cert: 18

This film successfully combines full-blooded Latin Six college kids become internet celebrities when American Gothic , old-school haunted their “Truth or Dare” video, purporting to show a real house chills and an emotionally and psychologically shooting goes viral. Milking their notoriety on a talk detailed study of maternal instinct and courage, in a show, they find themselves confronted with their biggest complex, intricately-constructed time slip narrative fan - who is less than impressed by the fact that the which is as much about personal trauma, the various video was faked, and soon turns up at the location for “ghosts” of memory, and the need for closure, as it is their next stunt, with disturbing ideas about what they about the supernatural. can do to take their project to a whole new level…

“A patient, reflective work that’s less concerned with GRIMM’S EYE VIEW: Perhaps it is an appetite cultivated ghosts than with how we haunt ourselves...” - Fangora by the internet, or perhaps it stems from somewhere darker; from a desire to experience the extreme, GRIMM’S EYE VIEW: Think of it as Philippa Pearce’s something forbidden - that ultimate cinematic eerie children’s classic TOM’S MIDNIGHT GARDEN taboo, that shadowy rumour. Or maybe, as this film re-imagined for an adult audience by the director of disturbingly suggests, that one thing leads almost THE OTHERS. invariably to the other...

9 Thursday 2nd October Gorilla Manchester Thursday 2nd October Gorilla & The Dancehouse Theatre grimmfest fringe grimmfest fringe & Gala Night celebrates Women in Horror

SHE JULIA THE WELL THE HERD +Q&A [SHORT] UK ; 2014; 14min; Gorilla USA; 2014 95 min; Gorilla USA; 2014; 95 min; Gorilla UK; 2014; 60min; The Dancehouse Theatre

Director: Chelsea Burdon & Mark Vessey Director: Matthew A. Brown Director: Thomas S. Hammock Director: Melanie Light Starring: Fiona Dourif and Phillip James Starring: Ashley C. Williams, Jack Noseworthy, Starring: Hailey Lu Richardson, Jon Gries, Booboo Starring: Pollyanna McIntosh, Victoria Broom, Dylan Tahyna Tozzi-MacManus, Brad Koed, Joel Stewart, Michael Welch, Barbara Crampton Barnes, Jon Campling, Sarah Jane Honeywell Status: Northern Premiere de la Fuente Status: UK Premiere Status: World Premiere Screening: 1.50PM – 2.04PM Status: Northern Premiere Screening: 4.30PM – 6.05PM Screening: 7.00PM – 8.00PM (Including Q&A afterwards) Cert: 18 Screening: 2.30PM – 4.05PM Cert: 15 Cert: 18 SHE and HE were once lovers but are now trapped in a Marking the writing and directing debut of Numerous women locked away in inhuman squalor; all stale and silent relationship. Physically locked indoors Following a brutal gang rape, timid clinician Julia production designer Thomas S. Hammock, best known with no comfort or conversation, SHE has increasingly of them enslaved, abused, continually impregnated - Shames undergoes a radical new form of therapy to for his work with Adam Wingard on YOU’RE NEXT, THE become little more than a plaything and slave, but Paula has been reduced to a mere resource; a provider attempt to overcome her overpowering sense of trauma GUEST, and the V/H/S movies, this visually-striking things are about to change drastically. Plotting a final of milk... and to rebuild her life. But the therapy unleashes a post-apocalyptic , is a far cry from the lo-fi, anniversary dinner, SHE finally takes revenge on her selfish and demanding partner with a gruesome act repressed side of her personality: one which refuses -influenced aesthetic of such films. THE HERD has clear-eyed and confrontational purpose that will leave just as many scars on her as it does on to be a victim, one which encourages her to fight back Drawing on the infamous Johnson County War for in its extremity. By inflicting the life of the average dairy him. remorselessly against those who have abused her... its narrative of struggling tenant farmers fending off cow on to a group of human women; stripping them Company thugs, it combines an emotive coming-of-age of the most basic rights, it calls into question both the A neon-saturated, -tinged, neo-noir feminist GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: It’s always the quiet ones you have drama with a stark and stripped-down tale of bloody fragile nature of those rights and the assumptions that vigilante thriller which harks back to classic genre to watch. A slow-burn paen to brutalised partners revenge. go with them, and, most damningly of all, the ways in exploiters of the seventies; but with a cool, elegant style, everywhere, which is best enjoyed with legs firmly which we regard other sentient creatures as lesser than and a sense of genre self-awareness all its own. “Apocalyptic nightmare The Well doesn’t need a crossed and lunch plans indefinitely cancelled. ourselves, and thus as having no rights at all... gimmick - It’s as brutal and beautiful as genre flicks GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: It’s MS. 45 ANGEL OF VENGEANCE get...” - Amy Nicholson, LAWEEKLY GRIMM’s EYE VIEW:It’s the Vegan Feminist HOSTEL! meets the original I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: Think A BOY AND HIS DOG meets HEAVEN’S GATE; a near-future version of TRUE GRIT in which Mattie Ross actually has to become Rooster 10 11 Thursday 2nd October The Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester Friday 3rd October Odeon Printworks, Manchester grimmfest Gala Night grimmfest fringe Head f**k day films that make you think

LET US PREY + Q&A SURBURBAN GOTHIC DEVILS MILE LFO UK / Ireland; 2014; 88 min; The Dancehouse USA; 2014; 90 min; The Dancehouse USA / Canada; 2014; 88 min; Odeon Printworks Sweden / Denmark; 2013, 95 min; Odeon Printworks

Director: Brian O’Malley Directors: Richard Bates Jr. Director: Joseph O’Brien Director: Antonio Tublén Starring: Liam Cunningham, Pollyanna McIntosh, Hanna Starring: Matthew Gray Gubler, Kat Dennings, Ray Starring: David Hayter, Maria del Mar, Casey Hudecki, Starring: Patrik Karlson, Izabella Jo Tschig, Per Stanbridge Wise, Jack Plotnick , Sally Kirkland, John Frank Moore Lofberg, Ahnna Rasch Waters, Jeffrey Combs Status: English Premiere Status: UK Premiere Status: Northern Premiere Status: UK Premiere Screening: 8.00PM – 9.30PM Screening: 10.30am - 11.58am Screening: 12.15pm - 1.49pm Screening: 10.10PM - 11.40PM Cert: 18 Cert: 15 Cert: 15 Cert: 15 Rookie cop Rachel Heggie begins her first night shift in Starting out as a sweaty, seedy, mean-spirited desert Robert is a man who realizes he can hypnotize with a near-deserted police station in a dead-end Scottish The title tells you all you need to know: Richard Bates, road noir, the film quickly veers off into increasingly sound; he begins to abuse his power, manipulating backwater town. She’s expecting a quiet time of it. But Jr’s eagerly-awaited follow-up to the brutal and blackly supernatural and existential territory, as the Devil’s and controling the minds of others.Eventually, the the arrival of a mysterious stranger who seems to know comic EXCISION, sees him again splicing sarcastic Mile turns out to be just that. A smart, sharply written consequences for mankind prove too severe. way too much about the building’s inhabitants, and none suburban satire with shocks and splatter, in grim(m) take on The Road To Hell scenario, this boasts some ly hilarious fashion. Again making great use of an all- genuinely unexpected and downright nasty plot twists This mordantly funny, pitch-black comedy offers a sharp of it good, proves the catalyst for a night of confrontation and surprisingly moving exploration of the unintentional and carnage... (cult) star cast, and even finding space for a brief cameo before a punch line that is both brutal and darkly from Bates’ fellow horror mavericks, the Soska Twins. satisfying. It’s a film the Dimestore Dostoevsky himself, rise to power of a petty control freak, whose only real Some narrative scenarios are simply infallible. A deserted This is, perhaps, less twisted than its predecessor with Jim Thompson, would have been proud of. desire is to turn back the clock on his own life. amplification of the humour over horror - yet it shows police station, the sudden intrusion of a stranger and GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: It’s Lars Von Trier’s film of Milo GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: It’s THE GETAWAY meets LOST all hell following after. Howard Hawks liked the set up the same dark wit and panache. Manara’s CLICK. so much, he used it several times, in RIO BRAVO, EL HIGHWAY. DORADO and RIO LOBO. Now here it is again, with a new GRIMM’s EYE VIEW:If BEETLEJUICE had been directed spin from debut director Brian O’Malley, who knows his by a tag-team of , John Hughes and David horror tropes and archetypes well; he plays with them, Lynch, it might have played something like this. and the viewers, like a cat with a mouse.

GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: It’s Pollyanna McIntosh as John 12 13

Ticket prices Day passes and individual tickets are available from the Dancehouse box office and Ticketline Full festival Passes available from See Tickets for £75.00 plus booking fee and optional postage charge.

Odeon Printworks The Dancehouse Theatre Gorilla The Printworks, 10 Oxford Rd, Manchester, m1 5qa 54-56 Whitworth St W, 27 Withy Grove, Phone: 0161 237 9753 Manchester M1 5WW Manchester M4 2BS Fax: 0161 237 1408 Phone: 0161 407 0301 Web: http://www.thisisgorilla.com/ Booking line: 0871 224 4007 [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.odeon.co.uk/

Ticket Prices and booking details Price Available From Online Bookings Thurs 2nd October from £20. Full Festival Passes The Dancehouse Gala Opening Night (full evening ticket) available from See Tickets www.seetickets.com Sat 4th October from £30 (full day ticket) The Dancehouse

Sun 5th October from £25 (full day ticket) The Dancehouse Day passes and tickets can be purchased Fringe Events online through from £5 ** Gorilla & Odeon @ Gorilla & ODEON* TicketLine www.ticketline.co.uk Special Preview Night from £6.50 Odeon Printworks

Individual Films from £6.50 The Dancehouse @ The Dancehouse

Full Festival Pass from £75.00 See Tickets

FULL FESTIVAL PASS HOLDER BENEFITS Access to everything at The Dancehouse (Including Goblin & the Opening Gala) ** Half Price tickets to all fringe events A VIP Festival bag featuring a Lionsgate DVD, the latest Starburst Magazine, Free Rentals fromTheHorrorShow.TV

Pollyanna McIntosh Douglas Russell Oliver Frampton White Settlers, Let us Prey Director of The Let us Prey, Lonely Place to Die, Forgotten The Woman Valhalla Rising

Brian O Malley Liam Cunningham Shaune Harrison Director of Let us Let us Prey SFX professional Prey Game of Thrones, The Avengers: Age of Clash of the Titans Ultron, Star Wars

Claudio Simmonetti Elarica Gallacher GOBLIN The Forgotten, The Canal, Harry Potter and , The Half Blood Prince

Hanna Stanbridge Clem Tibber Colin McCracken Let us Prey, Outcast The Forgotten, Guest Presenter Doctor Who

14 *Guest attendance subject to change 15 Cover Special Preview Night Tuesday 30th September Shaune Harrison at GRIMMFEST Odeon Printworks, Manchester 7.00pm- 7.14pm Tasha and Friends

7.14pm- 8.45pm A Nightmare on Elm Street We are excited to announce that 9.00pm - 9.14pm Let God Sort Them Out Hollywood Prosthetics and Make Up FX artist SHAUNE HARRISON will be 9.13pm - 10.43pm The Babadook returning to this years Grimmfest! Thursday 2nd October

GrimmFest Fringe @ Gorilla The Dancehouse Shaune Harrison will be appearing at 10.30am – 12.10am The House at the End of Time 7.00pm - 7.30pm – The Herd () + Q&A The Dancehouse during Grimmfest to talk about his eclectic career and also 7.30pm - 8.00pm Let Us Prey signings provide our audiences the chance to 12.20pm – 1.49pm Truth or Dare 8.00pm - 9.30pm Let Us Prey see him working his magic during 1.50pm – 2.04pm She (Short Film) 9.30pm - 10.00pm Let Us Prey Q&A some exclusive live demonstrations on 2.30pm – 4.05pm Julia Saturday 4th October & Sunday 5th 4.30pm – 6.05pm The Well 10.10pm - 11.40pm Suburban Gothic October. 11.20pm Onwards Drinks @ Gorilla

Friday 3rd October The Dancehouse Shaune will be joining us just after working on the sequel to the 3rd biggest film of all time GrimmFest Fringe @ Odeon Printworks, Manchester THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON & TV’s juggernaut fantasy hit GAME OF THRONES. Shaune’s 10.30am - 11.58am Devil’s Mile 8.00pm - 9.38pm GOBLIN play live to Suspiria career is prolific and full of legendary credits such as HARRY POTTER, STAR WARS, WORLD 12.15pm - 1.49pm LFO 9.38pm - 10.00pm GOBLIN play short selection WAR Z & . In addition to working on these pop culture giants Shaune has now 2.00pm - 3.38pm The Reconstruction of William 10.00pm - 11.56pm Argento’s cut of Dawn of the also opened the his own Academy of Prosthetic and Make Up Training in Manchester which is 3.50pm - 5.26pm Sororal Dead dedicated to training and bringing up the next generation of prosthetic and make up artists to 11:30 Onwards Drinks @ Gorilla create iconic characters on the big screen. Saturday 4th October The Dancehouse 11.00am – 12.24am Short Film Showcase: 11.20pm - 12.45pm Zombeavers vENUES The Visitant, Split, Vomica, Dont Play With the Food, The Stomach, Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester Gorilla Odeon Printworks All I know is Nothing, Autumn 54-56 Whitworth St W, The Printworks, 10 Oxford Rd, Manchester, m1 5qa 12.40pm – 2.25pm The Forgotten 11.30pm Onwards Drinks @ Gorilla Manchester M1 5WW 27 Withy Grove, Phone: 0161 237 9753 2.50pm – 5.00pm House Bound Phone: 0161 407 0301 Manchester M4 2BS & Solitudo (Short Film) Fax: 0161 237 1408 Web: www.thisisgorilla.com Booking line: 0871 224 4007 E-mail: [email protected] 5.40pm – 7.10pm Coherence 7.30am – 9.00pm What We Do in The Shadows 9.20pm – 11.00pm Starry Eyes

Sunday 5th October Grimmfest’s legendary Afterparty GrimmFest Fringe @ Gorilla The Dancehouse 10.20am - 12.00pm Open Grave 12.20pm - 2.00pm Dead Snow 2 That just about wraps it up for another year. We really hope you’ve enjoyed the movies, the 2.00pm - 2.16pm Get Some guests and the buzz that makes Grimmfest so special. It only remains for us to invite you all 2.30pm - 4.00pm Life After Beth along to our closing night shindig at Fab cafe, Manchester for a final knees up to celebrate 4.20pm - 5.40pm The Samurai the end of the festival. They’ll be drinks deals and the inevitable drunken discussions about what everyone’s festival favourites were. You never know there may even be dancing!!! 6.20pm - 7.40pm Wolfcop See you all next year for more amazing cinematic treats... 8.00pm - 9.32pm The Canal 9.32pm - 9.50pm The Canal Q & A

9.50pm onwards After party @ Fab Cafe Friday 3rd October Odeon Printworks, Manchester grimmfest fringe Head f**k day films that make you think

RECONSTRUCTION OF WILLIAM ZERO SORORAL USA; 2014, 98 min; Odeon Printworks Australia; 2014; 116 mins; Odeon Printworks

Directors: Dan Bush Director: Sam Barrett Starring: Conal Byrne, Amy Siemetz, Lake Starring: Amanda Woodhams & Austin Castiglione Roberts, AJ Bowen Status: UK Premiere Status: UK Premiere Screening: 3.50pm - 5.26pm Screening: 2.00pm - 3.38pm Cert: 15 Cert: 15 Cassie i s tormented by visions of murder. Terrifying This film is less about cloning than it is about identity images flood her dreams and attack her waking hours. and what makes us human, and more about the Her dreams are her curse and keep her isolated from psychopathology that grief can sometimes trigger. the everyday world. Cassie’s life is thrown into disarray Powerfully acted and emotionally engaging; trusting when a mysterious detective comes to her with a the intelligence of the viewer by not always spelling bombshell: He tells her that her visions are depictions things out, it offers a gripping thriller narrative full of of real murders, murders that she couldn’t possibly logical, yet entirely unexpected plot twists, and delves have seen. Cassie’s pain now has a face, and she must into some dark places. stop the killing at all costs. The twisted, childlike killer targets Cassie’s loved ones, and the race is on to stop GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: It’s a Cronenbergian approach to her. Cassie is thrown together with her former lover as grief counselling! they scramble towards a shocking revelation that will change everything.

GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: This is Austrailia’s first Giallo film,

19 Saturday 6th October Friday 3rd October The Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester grimmfestMain Theatre main screen Italian 70s progressive rock legends CLAUDIO SIMONETTI’S GOBLIN performing a LIVE score to Dario previewArgento’s horror classic SUSPIRIA. night This truly unique event will take place at The Dancehouse, in Man- chester, on Friday 3rd October. ‘we are delighted to be hosting this immersive screening of SUSPIRIA, at this truely apt venue’. The live scored GOBLIN event will be followed by a screening of Dario Argento’s cut of DAWN OF THE DEAD, which is also soundtracked by GOBLIN.

. HELLRAISERATTACK OF THE WEREWOLVES SFXATTACK SESSION OF THE WEREWOLVES [SPECIAL[LOBOS DE EVENT] ARGA] [WITH[LOBOS SHAUNE DE ARGA] HARRISON] SUSPIRIA DAWN OF THE DEAD The Argento Cut Spain; 2012; 98 min Spain; 2012; 98 min The Dancehouse The Dancehouse Italy; 1977; 98 min: The Dancehouse USA; 1978; 119 min: The Dancehouse Screening:Director: Juan7.00PM Martinez – 8.37PM Moreno Workshop:Director: Juan9.20 PMMartinez – 10.20 MorenoPM Director: Dario Argento Director: George Romero Starring: Gorka Otxoa, Carlos Areces, Secun de la Rosa Starring: Gorka Otxoa, Carlos Areces, Secun de la Rosa Starring: Ken Foree, David Emge, Gaylen Ross, Scott H. Starring:Something specialJessica for Harper Clive ,Barker Alida Valli, fans Joan at this Bennett, year’s Udo Shaune Harrison, who has worked on such Hollywood Status: English Premiere Status: EnglishReiniger Premiere GRIMMFEST.Kier. 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Other than it’s not to be missed. the film builds to a truly outrageous climax. Director Juan theDAWN film OF builds THE DEAD,to a truly for outrageous which Goblin climax. provided Director the classicJuan Martinez Moreno will be joining us for a Q&A after the Martinezsoundtrack. Moreno will be joining us for a Q&A after the screening. screening. GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: Romero’s seminal zombie epic needs no introduction. Journey beneath the bland strip-lights of a 20 21 shopping mall and discover a microcosm of humanity in all its folly and all its ingenuity Saturday 4th October The Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester Saturday 4th October The Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester

grimmfest mAIN sCREEN grimmfest main screen SHORT FILM SHOWCASE 11:00am - 12:24 pm

VOMICA UK; 2014; 15 min Director: Andy Green SPLIT In World War 2, a commando raid into UK; 2014; 18 min occupied territory uncovers a terrible Director: Andy Stewart secret. The sole survivor, his mind THE VISITANT A nameless Man awakens one shattered, remembers nothing. But day and is clearly in the depths the British government want to know USA; 2014; 7 min the truth, whatever the cost. Director: Nick Peterson of depression after having lost A tale of Demonic possession, his girlfriend. For reasons which featuring Amy Smart. are not immediately clear, it soon THE FORGOTTEN + Q&A HOUSEBOUND becomes apparent that he has been unfaithful and his guilt begins UK; 2014; 90 mins: The Dancehouse New Zealand; 2014; 109 mins; The Dancehouse to eat him away, literally! Director: Oliver Frampton Director: Gerard Johnstone Starring: Shaun Dingwall, Clem Tibber, Elarica Starring: Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen- Gallacher, Lyndsey Marshal, James Paul Waru, Cameron Rhodes, Millen Baird Doherty Status: Northern Premiere Status: Northern Premiere Screening: 2.50PM – 4.39PM Screening: 12.40PM – 2.25PM Cert: 15 TBC ALL I KNOW IS NOTHING Cert: 15 UK; 2014; 3 min Kylie Bucknell is forced to return to the house she Director: Matthew Barker Following his mother’s nervous breakdown, A possessive boyfriend finds the grew up in when the court places her on home DON’T PLAY WITH THE secret of love. teenager Tommy is sent to live with his estranged detention. However, when she too becomes privy to FOOD THE STOMACH father in a tower block squat on a run-down estate. unsettling whispers & strange bumps in the night, Spain; 2014; 9 min UK; 2014; 15 min But the father has serious problems of his own, she begins to wonder whether she’s inherited her Director: Daniel Muñoz Caniero Director: Ben Steiner and having to care for his alienated son only adds overactive imagination, or if the house is in fact During a family dinner, Antonio tries Frank’s had enough. A spirit me- to them. And then Tommy’s sleep starts to be possessed by a hostile spirit who’s less than happy to make his daughter reconsider fall- dium whose unique and grotesque disturbed by mysterious noises coming from the about the new living arrangement. method of channeling the dead ing in love with who she should not. boarded-up flat next-door. One morning, he awakes It’s for the sake of the family…. is putting his own life at risk, he Recalling the gleefully gory and riotously funny early wants out. But others, in this to find his bed moved right across the room. Is his world and the next, have plans of increasingly unstable father to blame, or is there films of fellow Kiwi , this outrageous their own. Part body-horror, part something else trying to communicate – something fusion of splatter, slapstick, salty dialogue and droll ghost-story, The Stomach is a supernatural? EC-Comic-style chills is a real winner. unique tale of Supernatural Noir. AUTUMN HARVEST GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: It’s Ken Loach’s THE HAUNTING. GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: It’s BRAINDEAD meets TALES FROM Norway; 2014; 17 min THE CRYPT. Director: Fredrik Hana Moody portrait of a serial killer as a grief-stricken sailor answers a mysterious call from the sea. 22 23 Saturday 4th October Saturday 4th October

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SOLITUDO [SHORT] COHERENCE WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS STARRY EYES USA; 2014; 98 mins: The Dancehouse UK; 2014; 11 mins; The Dancehouse USA; 2013; 89 mins; The Dancehouse New Zealand; 2014; 87 min; The Dancehouse Director: Director: Kevin Kolsch Director: James Ward Byrkit Director: Taika Waititi, Jermaine Clement Starring: Alex Essoe, Noah Segan, Pat Healy, Starring: Alice Lowe, Tom Meeten Starring: Emily Baldoni, Nicolas Brendon & Starring: Taika Waititi, Jermaine Clement, Jonathan Amanda Fuller, Shane Coffey Status: Uk Premiere Maury Sterling Brugh, Ben Fransham Status: Northern Premiere Screening: 4.40PM – 4.51PM Status: Northern Premiere Status: Northern Premiere Screening: 9.10PM – 10.50PM Cert: 15 TBC Screening: 5.40PM - 7.10PM Screening: 7.30PM – 9.00PM Cert: 15 TBC Cert: 15 Cert: 15 The directorial debut of writer/actress Alice Lowe (SIGHTSEERS; GARTH MARENGHI’S DARKPLACE), Welcome to Hollywood, where every coffee shop On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight Viago, Vladislav and Deacon are three SOLITUDO is an austere tale of a nun in isolation at waitress is a budding star just waiting to be friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain currently based in the quiet suburb of Te Viago in a rural convent who is terrorized by an encroaching discovered. But youn g hopeful Sarah Walker is as of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part Wellington NZ. They are finding it difficult to adjust darkness… that may be coming from within. tired of waiting as she is of waitressing; all those relationship drama, COHERENCE is a tightly focused, to life in the 21st century, since their aversion to the endless, fruitless casting calls. And then, following intimately shot film that quickly ratchets up with sunny New Zealand weather pretty much confines GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: a series of increasingly bizarre auditions for the tension and mystery. them to their home. A fly on the wall documentary A moody and beautifully shot enigma that draws you shadowy Astraeous Pictures, she is offered what captures the trials and tribulations of their undead into its mist-shrouded arms and chills you to the seems to be a dream part. But as she discovers the full Coherence builds cosmic-scale ideas from small- existence... marrow. scale dramas and slowly opens its narrative door to let requirements of the role, that particular dream starts in all manner of puzzles and paradoxes that will have GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: It’s ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE to turn into a nightmare... viewers in knots for days, if not forever! meets THIS IS SPINAL TAP. GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: A dark and twisted tale of torrid Tinsel Town ambition, over-indulged actorly ego, GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: Think of it as Primer (2004) with and the seedy underbelly of success that plays like soul, or Triangle (2009) with dinner parties (and the darkest imaginings of legendary underground ketamine!) filmmaker, tireless chronic ler of silver screen sleaze - and practicising occultist – Kenneth Anger. 24 25 Saturday 4th October Sunday 5th October Sunday 5th October

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ZOMBEAVERS OPEN GRAVE DEAD SNOW 2: Red Vs. Dead GET SOME [SHORT] USA; 2014; 85 mins: The Dancehouse Theatre USA; 2013; 102 mins; Gorilla Norway; 2014; 100 mins; The Dancehouse Theatre UK; 2014; 16 mins; The Dancehouse

Director: Jordan Rubin Directors: Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego Director: Tommy Wirkola Director: Adam & Joe Horton Starring: Chad Anderson, Lexi Atkins, Brent Briscoe, Starring: Sharlto Copley, Thomas Kretschmann, Josie Starring: Vegar Hoel, Ørjan Gamst Starring: John Hannah, Warren Brown, Anna Bill Burr, Cortney Palm Ho, Joseph Morgan Status: Northern Premiere Skellern Status: Northern Premiere Status: UK Premiere Screening: 12.20AM – 2.00 PM Status: Northern Showcase Screening: 11.20PM – 12.45PM Screening: 10.20AM – 12.00AM Screening: 2.00PM – 2.16PM If the worst day of your life consisted of accidentally Cert: 15 TBC A man wakes up in the wilderness, in a pit full of dead killing your girlfriend with an axe, chain-sawing your After a viral pandemic takes its grip on the planet own arm off, and watching in horror as your closest turning humans into flesh craving mutants, TV Agroup of college kids staying at a riverside cabin are bodies, with no memory and must determine if the friends were devoured by a zombified Nazi battalion, adventurer Hunter Smith fights back by presenting menaced by a swarm of deadly zombie beavers. The murderer is one of the strangers who rescued him, or if you’d have to assume that things couldn’t get much Get Some, a show in which he tracks and kills the kids are soon fighting for their lives in a desperate he himself is the killer. worse. In Martin’s case, that was only the beginning infected for the entertainment of the surviving attempt to fend off the hoard of beavers that attack “With top-drawer production values, especially the population. them in and around their cabin. make-up effects, great sound design, music, and tight “I really had an absolute blast with DEAD SNOW: RED VS GRIMM’S EYE VIEW: Ready to GET SOME? Fasten The latest in a now rather long line of low-brow, high- editing. All contribute to building this eerie world, with DEAD and any zombie aficionado is going to have a field your seatbelts for this big, bad and bold post- concept, nudge-wink, “How can it possibly live up to that its carnage, cacophony of screams, and strong feeling day. I’d even go so far as to say it’s the best zom-com apocalyptic action-satire that expertly combines ludicrous poster?” movies, ZOMBEAVERS revels in its of foreboding. The added isolation of the wilderness since (which remains the champ). laughs and shocks. own ridiculousness. Relentlessly self-aware, gleefully location is perfect.“ Chad Shultz It’s pretty tough not to like a movie where there’s a gory, triumphantly trashy – and predictably filled to GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: it’s MEMENTO meets SURVIVORS human/zombie love scene set to Bonnie Tyler’s “Total bursting with fnur fnur “beaver” jokes – this is exactly Eclipse of the Heart”. This is definitely one to keep an eye what it says on the poster. And for once, it delivers on out for”. Arrow in the head its promise. GRIMM’S EYE VIEW: If you liked DEAD SNOW then you GRIMM’S EYE VIEW: It’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD will love DEAD SNOW 2, its bigger, gorier, funnier and meets TALES FROM THE RIVERBANK its even got dead Russians! We defy you not to enjoy this 26 movie. 27 Sunday 5th October

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LIFE AFTER BETH THE SAMURAI USA; 2014; 90 mins. Germany; 2014; 79 mins; The Dancehouse

Director: Jeff Baena Directors: Till Kleinert Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly Starring: Michel Diercks, Pit Bukowski, Uwe Preuss, & Anna Kendrick Kaja Blachnik, Christopher Kane Status: North West Premiere Status: Northern Premiere Screening: 4.20PM – 5.40PM Screening: 2.30 PM - 4.00PM Cert: 15

Cert 15 A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated German village. Jakob the young local police officer is Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. girlfriend, Beth. But when she miraculously comes back to life, Zach takes full advantage of the opportu- What he finds is a man, it seems, wild eyed, of wiry build, nity to share and experience all the things he regretted in a dress. He carries a katana, a Samurai sword. When not doing with her before. However, the newly returned the Samurai invites Jakob to follow him on his crusade Beth isn’t quite how he remembered her and, before towards the village, it becomes Jakob’s mission to long, Zach’s whole world takes a turn for the worse. pursue the lunatic to end this wanton destruction. At the end of the night Jakob has experienced too much, is too “If you’ve always fantasized about having a sexy undead far from whom he once was. Something hidden has been girlfriend with super-strength, bad breath, and a love of smooth jazz then you’ll love Life After Beth...” unleashed to meet the first rays of daylight. ` Screenkicker GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: This twisted and deliriously blood GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: A Zom Rom Com with a strong study in male violence and repression will leave your beating heart and credible human warmth amid the jaw hanging on the floor. Alongside various other body decay and the deadpan slapstick. parts.

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WOLFCOP THE CANAL + Q&A USA; 2014; 79 mins; The Dancehouse Theatre Ireland; 2014; 92 mins; The Dancehouse, Theatre

Directors: Lowell Dean Director: Ivan Kavanagh Starring: Leo Fafard, Jonathan Cherry, Amy Matysio Starring: Rupert Evans, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Steve Oram, Hannah Hoekstra, Calum Status: Northern Premiere Heath Screening: 6.20PM – 7.40PM Status: Northern Premiere Cert 15 Screening: 8.00PM – 9.32PM As a series of strange and violent events start Q & A: 9.32PM - 9.50PM happening, an alcoholic policeman realizes that he has been turned into a werewolf as part of a larger plan, Film Archivist David Williams and his wife and son so he investigates with the help of his partner and his move into a beautiful old house by the side of a canal, friend. but the house has a dark history, as David discovers. While restoring some early film footage, he discovers “You will laugh out loud and see some cool werewolf that his new home was the site of a shocking murder. transformations and bloody battle scenes. This is a In 1902, a man named William Jackson killed his movie that knows exactly what it is and is basically wife and children because he believed his wife was winking at the audience the entire time. If you enjoy a unfaithful. And David has just started to suspect that horror-comedy that’s just out for a laugh and never his own wife is having an affair. Before long, he starts takes itself too seriously, you’ll enjoy WolfCop.“ to have disturbing visions, to suspect that something Dreadcentral is haunting the house. Something from the past, that is trying to influence the present... GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: Gloriously violent, cheerfully ridiculous, a Troma concept given a big budget and time GRIMM’s EYE VIEW: It’s DON’T LOOK NOW meets THE to develop, this is a guaranteed high-concept crowd- INNOCENTS. Cover