Grimmfest Easter Announces Jury, Online Exclusive Screenings, and More

Dread Central’s Mary Beth McAndrews serves as part of the jury!

Grimmfest Easter launched in 2021 as an annual event, taking place over the Easter Weekend, and complimenting the long-established festival in October. This year the mini-festival will be a hybrid event that will take place at the Odeon Great Northern in Manchester and online and will incorporate exclusive feature film premieres, a short film showcase, and filmmaker Q&As. Dread Central is the festival’s media sponsor.

Grimmfest Easter’s Jury and Awards

Grimmfest Easter, like the October festival, will be a competitive festival, with a number of awards up for grabs. This year’s awards will include: BEST FEATURE, BEST SHORT, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST PERFORMANCE, BEST SCARE and BEST SFX. 

They’re also delighted to announce the Easter Jury. Deliberating and debating over the various films will be Actress and Producer Joanne Mitchell (Bait, Before Dawn); Grimmfest’s longtime visual guru, artist and graphic designer, Ilan Sheedy; Dread Central’s Editor-in-Cheif Mary Beth McAndrews; and Rosie Fletcher, UK editor at Den of Geek.

Online Feature and Short Exclusives

Grimmfest Easter will also have a packed lineup of online offerings. There will be two North West Feature Film Premieres: Alexis Bruchon’s mischievous and minmalist giallo-flavored neo-noir, The Woman With Leopard Shoes, which offers a tense, and claustrophobic tale of entrapment, betrayal, text messaging and fetishistic footwear. And Richard Waters’ chilling examination of a toxic relationship in crisis, in the eerie existential folk horror Bring Out The Fear. 

There will also be a selection of startling, shocking, surreal, and darkly comic shorts. Ted Raimi takes on the culture of the Online Influencer, in the UK premiere of Red Light. A nagging sound lures a man back to an all-too-chilling reality, in Chris Suchorsky’s nightmarish neo-noir, Cricket. 

There’s an EC comics style lesson in launderette etiquette in Craig Low’s mischievous and darkly funny Don’t Touch. The grief of bereavement summons monsters in Daniel Romero’s emotionally harrowing She And The Darkness. A suppressed suburban housewife receives an unexpected visit, in Gregory Nice and Jack Stanton’s subtly disquieting Domesticity.

Brian Krause stars as a concerned father who only wants the best for his daughter, in Nicole Ihasz’s Becky, a bloody and darkly comic broadside against bullying. An overly intense actress takes her method way too far in Kelsey Bollig’s sour and sulfurous satire The Fourth Wall. And Dietrich Polla offers a mordant and macabre meditation on capitalism, consumerism, workforce exploitation—and cars—in the truly horrifying Werkstatt.

Join us live at the Odeon in Manchester or at home online and enjoy some amazing movie premieres this Easter. All the details and tickets can be found at www.Grimmfest.com.

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