GRIMMFEST is a truly independent genre film festival, dedicated and committed to showcasing great movies by both new and established filmmakers from the world of genre cinema. We pride ourselves on premiering the very best in new horror, cult, extreme fantasy and sci-fi movies.
Now well into its second decade, GRIMMFEST continues to draw a huge community of genre film fans, press and guests to Manchester (UK) and was recently named as one of the best genre film festivals in the world by MOVIE MAKER MAGAZINE and by website DREAD CENTRAL Grimmfest is also a member of the prestigious Melies International festival federation.
The main festival traditionally takes place across the first weekend in October each year, and for the last number of years it has been hosted at the Odeon Great Northern in Manchester.
Grimmfest started way back in 2009. Film makers Rachel Richardson Jones and Simeon Halligan connected with Steve Balshaw, at the time Manager of Salford Film Festival, looking to explore ways to showcase their own horror movie (SPLINTERED) alongside other film makers’ work. The idea of a Halloween night of films developed, one which would highlight new horror movies. The concept quickly spiralled into a full blown three day event, encompassing brand new features and short films alongside a handful of classic screenings.
We needed a name. We liked the catch phrase ‘Its Grim up North’ but also liked the idea of a connection with the stories of the Brothers Grimm, so we styled ourselves GRIMM UP NORTH. The name stuck for a couple of years until fans started shortening it to GRIMMFEST and so that eventually became our mantle.
Over the years the main festival has been hosted at a number of different venues, including Vue Printworks, The Dancehouse theatre, and the Odeon Great Northern. On the way, weve hosted screenings at Stockport Plaza, Gorilla, The Lass O’ Gowrie, Albert Hall, John Rylands Library, MOSI, MMU, Manchester Cathedral and many more venues.
We have screened literally hundreds of movie premieres since 2009. Previous World, UK and regional premières have included: PIGGY, FINAL CUT, MEGALOMANIAC, THE COFFEE TABLE, THE SACRIFICE GAME, THE HARBINGER, SHE WILL, VESPER, THE SADNESS, THE DEEP HOUSE, THE WRETCHED, LITTLE MONSTERS, 1BR, WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, THE BABADOOK, THE DESCENT 2, SINISTER, DEAD SNOW 2, VHS, COHERENCE, THE WOMAN, AMERICAN MARY, CURSE OF CHUCKY, BIG BAD WOLVES, JOHN DIES AT THE END, THE HALLOW, EXCISION, THE MACHINE, COCKNEYS VS ZOMBIES, THE DEAD, LET US PREY, VHS, THE ABCs OF DEATH, WHITE SETTLERS and many more.
Previous Remastered classic screenings include: THE THING, THE WICKER MAN, PSYCHO, NIGHTBREED: THE CABAL CUT, CAT PEOPLE, DON’T LOOK NOW, THE DESCENT, AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, HELLRAISER, HALLOWEEN, THE SHINING, THE DEADZONE, THE FLY, THE EXORCIST, THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, THE HAUNTING, RE-ANIMATOR, THE HOWLING, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, LA BELLE ET LA BETE, THE INNOCENTS, DAWN OF THE DEAD, SCREAM, SLEEPWALKERS, E.T. and many more.
Previous guests have included: Reece Shearsmith (Inside No.9), Mick Garris (Sleepwalkers, The Stand), Alice Krige (Startrek: First contact, She Will), Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers), AJ Bowen (The Signal), Ramsey Campbell (Author), Charlotte Kirk (The Reckoning), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), Dee Wallace (E.T.), Mick Garris (Stephen King’s The Stand), Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones), Johnny Vegas (Tales from the lodge), Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, Steve Oram (Sightseers), Ross Noble (Stiches, QI), Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet), Patrick Mower (The Devil Rides out), Dominic Brunt (Before Dawn, Emmerdale), Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man), Pollyanna McIntosh (The Woman), Matthew Holness (Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace), Alice Lowe (Sightseers), Shaun Evans (Endeavour), The cast of Clive Barker’s HELLRAISER, Myanna Buring (Ripper Street, The Decent), Kier-la Janisse (House of Psychotic Women) and many many more.
Grimmfest has quickly become one of the most prestigious fantastic film festivals in Europe. The festival takes place every October in Manchester, UK, with additional screening events taking place throughout the year. Want to dig deep into our Grimm past?
Click on a year to explore the various features, shorts, guests and other screenings we hosted.
18 features
Suitable Flesh, The Hunger, Cat People, Pandemonium, Mother Superior, The Sacrifice Game, Faceless After Dark, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Keratyna, The Coffee Table, Give Me An A, What You Wish For, Deleter, Mal De Ojo, Auxilio, Door, 8 Found Dead, Abruptio
22 shorts
Bug, Sam & Doug, Variations On A Theme, There Are No Ghosts, Caterpillar, Find You Here, Ringing Rocks, Memories of the Moon, The Spirit Became Flesh, Family Night, Tradition, No Caller ID, Mantra, Janelle’s Baby, The Heritage, FCK’N Nuts, Trapped, Starr, Scratch, The Perfect Place To Cry, Bookworm, Oddities
Guests
Raymond Wood (Faceless After Dark), Travis Greene & Jonathan Buchanan (8 Found Dead), Miguel Azurmendi, Antonio Rosa Lobo and Pablo Lapastora (Keratyna), Quarxx (Pandemonium), Patrick Savage (Abruptio)
Additional screenings
FEB – The Fly & Misery, Shaun of the Dead & Bride of Chucky (Mini Cini)
MAR – The Craft & Jennifer’s Body, Carrie & Rosemary’s Baby (Mini Cini)
NOV – 50 Years of Fear: The Wicker Man, Don’t Look Now & Theatre of Blood (Mini Cini)
21 features
The Loneliest Boy in the World, The Passenger, Piggy, Megalomaniac, Pussycake, Final Cut, House of Darkness, Candy Land, Holy Shit, Moon Garden, The Goldsmith, Night Sky The Price We Pay, Cult Hero, Malibu Horror Story, The Harbinger, Feed Me, Vesper, Do Not Disturb, Dark Nature, The Lake
11 shorts
The Evil Inside, Who Goes There, Some Visitors, Oldtimers, The Baby Next Door, Enough Sleep, Yummy Mummy, Ringworms, Unheimlich, Tranvia, Baby Fever
Guests
Ben Miller, Max Harwood and Martin Owen (The Loneliest Boy In The World), Fernando Gonzalez Gomez (The Passenger), Karim Ouelhaj (Megalomaniac), John Elfers and Ryan Stevens Harris (Moon Garden), Vincenzo Ricchiuto and Gianluca Vannucci (The Goldsmith), Adam Leader, Richard Oakes, Christopher Mulvin and Neal Ward (Feed Me), AJ Bowen (Night Sky), Hannah May Cumming (Baby Fever)
Monsters and Movies (Odeon Great Northern)
8 features
Wolf Manor, The Hallow, Sleepwalkers, The Thing, An American Werewolf in London, She Will, The Descent, The Lair
Guests
Mick Garris, Alice Krige, Corin Hardy, Charlotte Kirk, Neil Marshall, Reece Shearsmith, Charlotte Colbert, Dominic Brunt, Shaune Harrison, Paula Anne Booker, Ashley Thorpe, Ramsey Campbell
Additional screenings
MAY – Friday the 13th Part 2 & 3, Psycho & Psycho II (Mini Cini)
JUNE – Fright Night & The Lost Boys, The Exorcist & The Exorcist III (Mini Cini)
JULY – Bram Stoker’s Dracula & 30 Days Of Night, Alien All-Dayer (Mini Cini)
NOVEMBER – The Haunting with Kier La Janisse (Mini Cini)
34 features
Alone With You, Blast, Critters, E.T., Faceless, Father of Flies, For Roger, Forgiveness, Happy Times, Hotel Poseidon, King Knight, Midnight, Motherly, Night At The Eagle Inn, Night Drive, On The 3rd Day, Seagull, Shot In The Dark, Slapface, Tarumama, The Beta Test, The Deep House, The Free Fall, The Guest Room, The Howling, The Night Belongs To Monsters, The Pizzagate Massacre, The Righteous, The Sadness, The Spore, Two Witches, Val, We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, When The Screaming Starts
33 shorts
#MeowToo, #NoFilter, Aftertaste, All Of You, Anniversary, Body Of The Mined, Cry Baby, Don’t Go Outside, Echtharr, Faces, Flip, Ghost Dogs, Guts, Habitat, Hannya, Honeymoon, Inferno, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Mask of the Evil Apparition, Memento Mori, Movin Day, Out of Body, Posted No Hunting, Rancour, Red String of Fate, Return of the Beast from Outer Space, Salmon Pink, Smiles, The Fuzzies, The Purple Iris, The Recycling Man, They’re Here, While We Stayed Home
Guests
A.J. Bowen (Night Drive, You’re Next, House of the Devil, The Signal, The Sacrament, The Guest), PJ McCabe (The Beta Test. The Wolf of Snow Hollow, The Block Island Sound), Vanya Peirani-Vignes (Blast, The Cab-Ride), Pierre Tsigaridis and Maxime Rancon (Two Witches), Conor Boru, Dom Lenoir, Ed Hartland, Octavia Gilmore, Yasen Atour (When The Screaming Starts), Paul O’Flanagan (Memento Mori, Beauty Now), August Maturo and Mirabelle Lee (Slapface), Taylor Turner and Amelia Dudley (Night At The Eagle Inn)
Additional screenings
APR: EASTER HORROR NIGHTS – The Night, The Barcelona Vampress,Threshold, Clapboard Jungle, Sleepless Beauty, Rendez Vous, Final Days, Sweet river, The other side, Mara, Trans, Red river road, Keeping company, Paradise Cove, You’re dead Helen, Minimally Invasive, Move, Strayed Hey, it’s me, She cries at night Koreantown Ghost story, The Fox, Ecdysis, Strip, Ad Lip, Thrall, Weirdo, The Bed (online)
MAY: MAY MADNESS – Lapsis, A perfect Enemy, To your last death, Vicious fun, The Nest, Max Reload and the Nether Blasters (online)
AUG: JOHN CARPENTER DAY – Prince of Darkness, Big trouble in little china, In the mouth of madness, They live (Stockport Plaza)
AUG: WES CRAVEN DAY – The Hills have eyes, Scream, The people under the stairs, A nightmare on Elm street (Stockport Plaza)
OCT: J – HORROR DAY – Audition, One cut of the dead, Dark water, Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Stockport Plaza)
DEC: XMAS HORROR NIGHTS – Laguna Avenue, Black Friday, Dark cloud, See for me, The house of snails, She.picked.me, Myosotis, The house that bleeds, The naughty list, last chance, (online)
23 features
Alone, 12 Hour Shift, Stray, The Horror Crowd, Anonymous Animals, The Special, Unearth, They Reach, Ropes, The Oak Room, H.P. Lovecraft’s The Deep Ones, The Unhealer, An Ideal Host, I am Ten, Rent-a-Pal, Monstrous, Triggered, It Cuts Deep, Death Ranch, Urubu, Fried Barry, Ten Minutes to Midnight, Revenge Ride.
28 shorts
Blue and Malone, Hungry Joe, Patrick is Outside, The Altruist, Fear of The Woods, Frank and Mary, Jeff Drives You, Overkill, An Uninvited Guest, Moment, Slice, Beauty Juice, Every Corner, Honour thy Mother, I Love Eve, Ouzo and Blackcurrent, Shared Document, You will never be back, The Lonely Host, Antique, Coil, Dead End, Facelift, Peter The Penguin, Platform, The Chrysalis, Witches in the Window, Zealandia.
Guests
Mick Garris (The Stand, Nightmare Cinema), Pollyanna MacIntosh (Revenge Ride, The Walking Dead), Brea Grant (12 Hour shift, Lucky), Lance Henriksen (Aliens, The Unhealer), Caroline Williams (TCM2, TMTM), Melanie Aitkenhead (Revenge Ride), Cody Calahan and Chad Archibald (The Oak Room, I’ll take your dead), Natasha Halevi (Give me an A), Kelli Maroney (Night of the Comet), Dave Sherdian (The Special)
Additional screenings
FEB: TOBE HOOPER DAY – Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist, TCM2, Salem’s Lot (Stockport Plaza)
MAR: CRONENBERG ALL DAYER – Rabid, Videodrome, The Fly, Crash (Stockport Plaza)
OCT: HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS (Online) Beastmode, Homewrecker, Bad Candy, Spare parts
DEC: XMAS HORROR NIGHTS (Online) – For the sake of Vicious, Rose, Deathcember, Red Screening
21 features
Tales From The Lodge, Satanic Panic, She Never Died, Quiet Comes The Dawn, Every Time I Die, A Serial Killer’s Guide To Life, Darlin’, Blood Vessel, 4×4, Tone-Deaf, Why Don’t You Just Die, Artik, Extra Ordinary, The Shed, The Wretched, Dead Dicks, 1BR, I See You, Harpoon, Rabid, Little Monsters.
19 shorts
Road Trash, The Party, Pepper, The Lost Films Of Bloody Nora, The Ebbing, Boo, Stray, How To Be Alone, Stop, Changeling, Bedtime Story, The Third Hand, The Glowing, Feed Me Death, Turn, Limbo, Asparagus Tips, The Cabinet, Loom.
Guests
The Soska Sisters (Rabid, American Mary), Johnny Vegas, Abigail Blackmore & Kelly Wenham (Tales From The Lodge), Pollyanna McIntosh (Darlin’), Justin Dix (Blood Vessel), Lauren Ashley Carter & Tom Botchii Skowronski (Artik), Mike Ahern & Terri Chandler (Extra Ordinary), Chris Bavota, Lee Paula Springer & Matt Keyes (Dead Dicks), Staten Cousins Roe (A Serial Killer’s Guide To Life), Frank Sabatella (The Shed), David Marmor & Alok Mishra (1BR), Rob Grant (Harpoon).
Additional screenings
JAN: The Cabin In The Woods + Drag Me To Hell (Stockport Plaza)
FEB: Shaun Of The Dead + Zombieland (Stockport Plaza)
MAR: Ringu & Battle Royale (Stockport Plaza)
APR: The Faculty + Attack The Block (Stockport Plaza)
MAY: Psycho + American Psycho (Stockport Plaza)
JUN: The Devil Rides Out + Plague Of The Zombies (Stockport Plaza)
JUL: The Blair Witch Project [20th Anniversary] (Stockport Plaza)
OCT: The Nightingale (Cultureplex); Hellraiser + Candyman (Number 70 Oxford Street)
DEC: Scrooged (Central Library)
22 features
Await Further Instructions, Girls With Balls, Life Changer, Framed, Office Uprising, Dead Night, Summer of ’84, Brother’s Nest, Piercing, Nightmare Cinema, The Witch In The Window, Satan’s Slaves, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, Splintered [2008], The Cleaning Lady, Pledge, Alive, The Devil’s Doorway, I’ll Take Your Dead, Anna And The Apocalypse, Tigers Are Not Afraid, Re-Animator [1985].
19 shorts
God’s Kingdom, Ends Meat, Once Bitten…, Mystery Box, Rflktr, The Dollmaker, Instinct, A Death Story Called Girl, We Summoned A Demon, Dead Cool, Afterparty, Neckface, Marta, The Dark Room, The Whistler, The Old Woman Who Hid Her Fear Under The Stairs, Round Trip, Sybil, Conductor.
Guests
Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), Andy Mitton (The Witch in the Window), Alex Draper (The witch in the window), Aislinn Clarke (The devil’s doorway), John McPhail (Anna and the apocalypse)
Screenings
JAN: A Nightmare On Elm Street + Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (Stockport Plaza)
FEB: WEREWOLVES MOVIE MARATHON – The Howling, Dog Soldiers, An American Werewolf In London, Another Wolfcop (ODEON Manchester Great Northern)
APR: EVIL DEAD MARATHON – The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Army Of Darkness, Evil Dead [2013] (Stockport Plaza)
MAY: CLASS OF ’82 – The Thing, Friday The 13th Part III 3D, Creepshow, Xtro(Stockport Plaza)
JUN: NO MORE ROOM IN HELL, A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE A. ROMERO – Night Of The Living Dead, Dawn Of The Dead, Day Of The Dead, Land Of The Dead(Stockport Plaza)
OCT: MANCHESTER SCIENCE FESTIVAL – The Prestige (Stockport Plaza)
DEC: Krampus (Central Library)
Features
Leatherface, Mohawk, Habit, Borley Rectory, Fake Blood, Poor Agnes, M.F.A, Dave Made A Maze, Better Watch Out, Replace, Game Of Death, Killing Ground, Still/Born, 68 Kill, Ruin Me, Freehold, Double Date, Attack Of The Adult Babies, Trench 11, Tag, The Bride, Rabbit.
Shorts
Run Runner Run, Fissure, Real Gods Require Blood, Birthday, 2AM, Liz Drives, Born Again, They Make You Grow A Beard, Creeper, A Peculiar Thud, Sound From The Deep, Fierce, Call Of Charlie, Nimmer.
Guests
Zach Galligan (Gremlins), Dominic Brunt (Attack Of The Adult Babies, Before Dawn, Emmerdale), Joanne Mitchell (Attack Of The Adult Babies, Bait), Kate Coogan (Attack Of The Adult Babies, Emmerdale, Northern Soul), Danny Morgan (Double Date), Elliot James Langridge (Habit, Northern Soul), Andrew Ellis (Habit, This is England), Roxanne Pallett (Habit, Emmerdale, Wrong Turn 6), Sally Carmen (Habit, Shameless), Robert Beck (Habit), Louis Emerick (Habit, Layer Cake, Brookside, Zapped), Jane Danson (Habit, Coronation Street), Charlie Carrick (Trench 11, The Borgias, Reign)
Additional screenings
FEB-MAR: DAVID CRONENBERG SEASON – The Fly, Scanners, Videodrome, Crash (ODEON Manchester Printworks)
APR: SUPERNOVA FESTIVAL – Total Recall, Westworld, Reign Of Fire, The Thing, Event Horizon, Lifeforce (ODEON Manchester Printworks); Jugface (Central Library)
JUN: CLASS OF ’97 – Starship Troopers, Austin Powers, Grosse Point Blank, Boogie Nights (Gorilla)
JUL: GUILLERMO DEL TORO ALL DAYER – Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone, Blade 2, Pan’s Labyrinth (Stockport Plaza)
AUG: JOHN CARPENTER SEASON 2 ALL DAYER – Christine, Prince Of Darkness, The Fog, Assault On Precinct 13 (Stockport Plaza)
OCT: Robocop (Gorilla)
DEC: Black Christmas (Central Library); Gremlins w/ Zach Galligan (The Light Cinema Stockport)
22 Features
Darling, Pet, Trash Fire, The Rezort, Beyond The Gates, The Chamber, Tonight She Comes, Let Me Make You A Martyr, Another Evil, My Father Die, 31, Broken, The Unseen, What We Become, Director’s Cut, Train To Busan, Observance, The Tag-Along, Villmark Asylum, The Rift, The Corpse Series, The Hills Have Eyes [1977].
9 shorts
Hada, Quenottes (Pearlies), The Disappearance of Willie Bingham, Adam Peiper, Under The Apple Tree, Little Boy Blue, The Sunken Convent, A Father’s Day, NSFW.
Guests
Ken Foree (The Rift, Dawn of the Dead), Craig Conway (Broken, Dog Soldiers), Lauren Ashley Carter (Darling, The Woman), Charlotte Salt (The Chamber, Casualty, The Tudors), Matt Stuertz (Tonight she comes),
Additional screenings
MAY: SUPERNOVA FESTIVAL – Moonwalkers, Andron: The Black Labyrinth, Alien 3, Kill Command, Aliens, Interstellar, 400 Days, Project-M, 2001: A Space Odyssey(ODEON Manchester Printworks)
SEP: The Silence Of The Lambs (Central Library); CAGEFEST VOL. II – Wild At Heart, Vampire’s Kiss, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, The Rock (Gorilla)
OCT: MANCHESTER SCIENCE FESTIVAL – Star Trek: First Contact, Interstellar, Twister (ODEON Manchester Printworks + Gorilla)
NOV: Night Of The Creeps + Monster Squad (Gorilla)
DEC: I Am Not A Serial Killer (ODEON Manchester Printworks)
21 Features
The Hallow, Blood Sucking Bastards, He Never Died, Howl, The Nightmare, DXM, Antisocial 2, Excess Flesh, Synchronicity, The Hive, German Angst, Cherry Tree, Turbo Kid, We Are Still Here, Deathgasm, Landmine Goes Click, Hellions, A Christmas Horror Story, Hellraiser [1987], Scream [1996].
11 shorts
The Box, Snatchers, Driven, Process, dark_net, Whisper, A Stranger Kind, Judith, Willa, Cowboy Ben, [shut-in].
Guests
Corin Hardy (The Hallow, The Nun), Joseph Mawle (The Hallow, Game of Thrones), Dominique Tipper (DXM, The Expanse), Oliver Stark (DXM, Into the Badlands), Turlough Convery (DXM, Poldark, Black Mirror), Rosie Day (Howl, Outlander), Paul Hyett (Howl, The Descent), Holly Weston (Howl, Hollyoaks), Nicholas Vince (Hellraiser)
Additional screenings
JAN-FEB: TIM BURTON SEASON – The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Batman (The Dancehouse);
GERRY ANDERSON MARATHON – Filmed In Supermarionation, Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlett, Fireball XL-5, Four Feather Falls, Joe 90, Supercar, The Secret Service (Gorilla)
FEB-APR: STEPHEN KING SEASON – Carrie, Salem’s Lot, Creepshow, Pet Sematary(The Dancehouse)
FEB: AMERICAN PSYCHO (Central Library)
MAR: Friday The 13th + Prom Night (Gorilla); Fight Club (Central Library)
MAY: Trainspotting (Central Library); Lord Of The Rings Marathon (Z Film Studios); Serenity (ODEON Manchester Printworks)
JUN: Interview With A Vampire (The Dancehouse); Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Central Library), American Beauty (Central Library)
JUL: Donnie Darko (Central Library); Blue Velvet (Central Library)
AUG: CAGEFEST VOL I – Raising Arizona, Con Air, Face-Off, The Wicker Man [2006] (Gorilla)
SEP: The Addams Family, The Burbs (Gorilla);
Re-Animator + From Beyond [Brian Yuzna] (MMU);
ZOMBIE ALL NIGHTER – Shaun Of The Dead, Nightmare City, Night Of The Creeps, Dawn Of The Dead [2004], The Living Dead Of Manchester Morgue, Day Of The Dead, 28 Days Later (Z Film Studios)
OCT: MANCHESTER SCIENCE FESTIVAL – The Fifth Element + The Matrix; E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial + Back To The Future, Red Dwarf Special Event (Manchester Cathedral)
NOV: BFI LOVE SEASON – Vertigo; Fatal Attraction, A Matter Of Life And Death, Rebecca (Central Library
DEC: Scrooged + Ghostbusters (Ordshall Hall)
Guests
Brian Yuzna (Re-Animator, From Beyond)
26 features
The Babadook, A Nightmare On Elm Street [1984], Goblin play live to Suspiria, Dawn Of The Dead [Argento Cut], Let Us Prey, Suburban Gothic, Devil’s Mile, LFO, The Reconstruction Of William Zero, Sororal, The Forgotten, Housebound, Coherence, What We Do In The Shadows, Starry Eyes, Zombeavers, Open Grave, Life After Beth, The Samurai, Wolfcop, The Canal, White Settlers, The House At The End Of Time, The Well, Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead, Truth Or Dare.
12 shorts
Tasha And Friends, Let God Sort Them Out, The Herd, The Visitant, Split, Vomica, Don’t Play With The Food, The Stomach, All I Know Is Nothing, Autumn Harvest, Solitudo, Get Some.
Guests
Goblin (Suspiria), Liam Cunningham (Let Us Prey, Game of Thrones, Dog Soldiers), Steve Oram (The Canal, The End of the F***ing World, Sightseers), Pollyanna McIntosh (The Walking Dead)
Additional screenings
JAN: BFI HORROR SEASON – Bride Of Frankenstein + La Belle et la Bête (The John Rylands Library)
MAR: Grindhouse [Tarantino + Rodriguez] (The Dancehouse); Robocop (Gorilla)
MAY: Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace (Gorilla)
MAY-JUL: JOHN CARPENTER SEASON – They Live, Big Trouble In Little China, Escape From New York, The Thing (The Dancehouse)
OCT: Beetlejuice + Hocus Pocus (Gorilla);
MANCHESTER SCIENCE FESTIVAL – Brazil + 12 Monkeys; Total Recall + Starship Troopers; Alien + Prometheus (Science and Industry Museum)
Guests
Matthew Holness & Alice Lowe (Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace)
25 features
Hansel And Gretel Get Baked, The Wicker Man [The Final Cut], Curse Of Chucky, To Jennifer, Home Sweet Home, The House With 100 Eyes, The Borderlands, On Air, My Amityville Horror, Smiley, Antisocial, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Found, The Human Race, Jug Face, Modus Anomali, Kiss Of The Damned, The Conspiracy, Big Bad Wolves, John Dies At The End, The Butterfly Room, Thanatamorphose, Wither, Stalled, The Machine.
10 shorts
The Body, Radio Silence, The Gloaming, Next Exit, Girl At The Door, Attack Of The Brainsucker, Angst Piss And Shit, Crazy For You, The Plan, The Guest.
Guests
Nicholas Vince (Hellraiser), Robin Hardy (The Wickerman).
Additional screenings
JAN: Mon Ami + Chop (Stockport Plaza); The Texas Chainsaw Massacre + The Last House On The Left (The Dancehouse); Repulsion + Chained (Stockport Plaza)
FEB: Martyrs + The Tall Man (Stockport Plaza)
FEB: Snowtown + Sleep Tight (Dancehouse)
MAR: Maniac [2012] + 247°F (Stockport Plaza); Slice & Dice + Intruder (Stockport Plaza); Entity + I Didn’t Come Here To Die (Stockport Plaza); The Whisperer In Darkness + From Beyond (Stockport Plaza)
APR: The ABCs Of Death + Shadow People (The Dancehouse)
MAY: The Lords Of Salem (The Dancehouse); Re-Animator + Bride Of Re-Animator(Stockport Plaza)
JUN: Sanitorium + Static (The Dancehouse)
JUL: Sawney: Flesh Of Man + Outpost (The Dancehouse)
OCT: Day Of The Dead + Zombie Flesh-Eaters (The Dancehouse)
NOV: BFI GOTHIC SEASON – Bram Stoker’s Dracula + Nosferatu (The Dancehouse)
DEC: BFI GOTHIC SEASON – The Others + The Innocents (Ordsall Hall)
24 features
Stitches, Attack Of The Werewolves, Below Zero, Before Dawn, Devoured, Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut, Basket Case, Crawlspace, Cursed Bastards, Wake Up & Die, Sinister, Grabbers, Comedown, American Mary, The Devil Rides Out, Rites Of Spring, Hate Crime, Some Guy Who Kills People, Cockneys vs Zombies, Twisted, The Wrong House, Gallowwalkers, The Eschatrilogy.
9 shorts
Dysmorphia, Him Indoors, My Brother’s Keeper, Yellow, Welcome To Leathermill, The Raven, The Cleaner, Zombies Run!, Sunday Best.
Guests
Ross Noble (Stitches, QI), Jacob Anderson (Comedown, Game of Thrones), Jessica Barden (The End Of the F***ing World, Habit), James Moran (Cockneys vs Zombies, Tower Block, Severance), Alan Ford (Cockneys vs Zombies, Snatch), Dominic Brunt (Before Dawn, Emmerdale, Attack Of The Adult Babies), Patrick Mower (The Devil Rides Out), Simon Bamford (Nightbreed, Hellraiser), Nicholas Vince (Hellraiser, Nightbreed) Christopher Fowler (Novelist)
Screenings
JAN: Four Flies On Grey Velvet + Dellamorte Dellamore [The Cemetery Man] (The Dancehouse); Dark Star + Let There Be Light: The Odyssey Of Dark Star (Anthony Burgess Institute)
FEB: Shogun Assassin + Baby Cart To Hades (Anthony Burgess Institute); A Horrible Way To Die + Amer (The Dancehouse)
MAR: Demons + Demons 2 (The Dancehouse); Corman’s World + Sharktopus (Anthony Burgess Institute)
APR: Grave Encounters + Seance: The Summoning (Anthony Burgess Institute);
ZOMBIE NIGHT – Juan Of The Dead + The Return Of The Living Dead + War Of The Dead (The Dancehouse)
MAY: The Innkeepers + The House Of The Devil (The Dancehouse)
JUN: Battle Royale + Tokyo Gore Police (The Dancehouse); VAMPIRE DAY – Dracula: Prince Of Darkness, Cronos, Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, God Of Vampires, Blood And Bone China, Lust For A Vampire, Vampire Lovers, The Harsh Light Of Day (The Dancehouse)
OCT: Excision + Suspiria (The Dancehouse); The Exorcist (Stockport Plaza)
NOV: The Shining + Room 237 (Stockport Plaza)
DEC: V/H/S + Christmas Evil (The Dancehouse); When The Lights Went Out + The Corridor (The Dancehouse)
18 features
Retreat, The Dead Zone, Urban Explorer, Stalker, Kidnapped, Adam Chaplin, By Day And By Night, Halloween III: Season Of The Witch, Some Guy Who Kills People, The Woman, Deadheads, The Reverend, Revenge: A Love Story, The Dead, The Divide, The Whisper In Darkness, The Theatre Bizarre, The Wicker Tree.
Guests
Robin Hardy (The Wicker Tree, The Wicker Man), Yvette Fielding (Retreat, Most Haunted), Billy Murray (Stalker, The Bill, Rise of the Footsoldier), Martin Kemp (Stalker, The Krays)
Screenings
OCT: The Howling Reborn + The Dead (The Dancehouse)
DEC: Rare Exports + Saint (Anthony Burgess institute)
24 Features
Last Man On Earth [Live Score], Outcast, Fragment, Evil In Time Of Heroes, Reel Zombies, Slice, Alien vs Ninja, Bedevilled, Amer, Chop, The Pack [La Meute], Deep Red, Dream Home, Finale, 13 Hrs, Primal, The Reeds, Chased By Satan, Macabre, Opstandelsen, Sweatshop, Dead Hooker In A Trunk, Altitude, We Are What We Are.
Guests
Gemma Atkinson (13 Hrs, Emmerdale), Hanna Stanbridge (Outcast, Let Us Prey, River City)
Features
Halloween, Dawn Of The Dead, Hellraiser, The Descent 2, Clive Barker’s Dread, Colin, The Ferryman, The Graves, I Sell The Dead, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, The Disappeared, Autumn, Splintered, Tony, The Horseman, The 7th Hunt, Gnaw, Credo, The Fallowfield, Someone’s Knocking At The Door, The Revenant, Strigoi, Sauna, The Beckoning, Must Love Death, Grace, Slaughtered.
Guests
Dexter Fletcher (Autumn, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Doug Bradley (Hellraiser), Shaun Evans (Dread, Endeavour), MyAnna Buring (The Descent 2, Kill List), Anna Skellern (The Descent 2, Outnumbered), Nicholas Vince (Hellraiser), Simon Bamford (Hellraiser, Nightbreed)