Grimmfest 2012
Manchesters International Festival of Horror and Cult Films
Grimmfest is the biggest UK festival for horror and cult films outside of London. Showing nearly 30 new or unique moves with a chance to meet the cast and crew afterwards, the event takes place in two different venues across Manchester.
Across the 4 nights there were such diverse films shown such as:
The World premiere of Comedown (expected on general release in 2013)
The Northern premiere of Cokneys vs Zombies
The remastered "Cabal Cut" of Clive Barker's Nightbreed
The UK premiere of Stitches featuring comedian Russ Noble
Plus over 25 different horror movies from torture porn through to comedy gore
Many of the films were accompanied by cast and crew Q&A sessions and a load of famous names turned up including:
Alan Ball
Reece Shearsmith
Comedian Russ Noble
Dr Who Screen writer James Moran
Emmerdale star Dominic Brunt
plus many others
The World premiere of Comedown (expected on general release in 2013)
The Northern premiere of Cokneys vs Zombies
The remastered "Cabal Cut" of Clive Barker's Nightbreed
The UK premiere of Stitches featuring comedian Russ Noble
Plus over 25 different horror movies from torture porn through to comedy gore
Many of the films were accompanied by cast and crew Q&A sessions and a load of famous names turned up including:
Alan Ball
Reece Shearsmith
Comedian Russ Noble
Dr Who Screen writer James Moran
Emmerdale star Dominic Brunt
plus many others
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We went along to the Opening Night Gala held at The Dancehouse Theatre in Manchester:
Comedown
Getting its World premier at Grimmfest, Comedown is a gritty UK take on glossy US Serial killer movies.
All the regular tropes are there, a wounded villain a preposterous but plausible logic, savage deaths and grave dark humour, all set in a dark and oppressive tower block in the East end of London. What makes this film so different is that the protagonists are so damn unlikeable that sometimes you are actually willing them to get offed! As they sit at the top of the flats taking a combination of drugs and alcohol, their "comedown" will end up being both physical and mental as they try to escape down to ground level. Slowly but surely, the teens get murdered in more and more grusome ways, and the deaths are in your face, gory and sometimes hard to watch. A particular nail gun incident had most of the audience squirming uncomfortably! As the end draws closer, we are never sure who will survive and how, and the ending cleverly follows the serial killer movie rules while providing a darker and more depressing spin appropriate to the rest of the film. All in all, a brilliant new UK horror movie that should be very popular when it is released in spring 2013 |
Cockneys vs Zombies
This hilarious movie has been the surprise hit of the year with a stellar British cast and some wicked humour combined with some amazing and gory special effects.
Starting with a bodged attempt to rob a bank, the film strangely ends up in an old peoples home besieged by zombies. Don't ask way - the plot is less important than the hilarious situations, but it does mean that the film-makers have been able to arm the lovely Honour Blackman with a machine gun and give her probably her first chance to say the F word on camera! The film is fast paced and snappy, unlike poor Richard Briars, in a scene memorable to anyone who has scene the trailer, as his disabled Hamish staggers away on his walking frame with a slow shuffling zombie behind him in hot pursuit! We found ourselves generally rooting for the main characters especially the two brothers and their cousin (EastEnders Michele Ryan) who as villains/bad guys are actually quite sympathetic characters. The whole film is preposterously daft (but then arent all zombie movies), hysterically funny and the sort of thing that will be played over and over as people cheer on the ingenious deaths and quote some of the very memorable dialogue. |
After each film were Q&A sessons with some of the cast and crew behin each movie which gave fans the chance to find out more about the behind the scenes process.
The director and cast of Comedown
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Film legend Alan Ball and writer James Moran from Cockneys vs Zombies
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On opening night, the after show party was appropriately held in a venue called Satan's Hollow. This goth/rock nightclub has been tricked out to look like something out of a scare attraction or a horror movie. With uneven stone flooring, graveyard fencing surrounding the dance floor and a giant statue of the devil overseeing proceedings, it was a very impressive venue, just a shame that the regular crowd were into the heavier side or rock and metal!
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If you love horror movies and want the chance to see them potentially months before general release, or if you want to meet the stars and crew OR if you just love watching good horror with a like minded audience then Grimmmfest is for you!
Official Grimmfest website: www.grimmfest.com
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