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UK Film Review
- Oct 10, 2018
- 3 min
Office Uprising film review
★★★★
Directed by: Lin Oeding
Starring: Brenton Thwaites, Jane Levy, Karan Soni, Zachary Levi, Kurt Fuller
Grimmfest Film Festival Review by: Darren Tilby An action-packed ‘zombie’ flick bursting with satire: Office Uprising tears apart American culture; taking swings at office politics, the arms trade, and US gun laws, to name but a few. Desmond works in accounting at AmmoTech, the largest manufacturer and seller of “weapons of mass protection” in the US, which is going throu
UK Film Review
- Oct 9, 2018
- 3 min
I'll Take Your Dead film review
★★★★
Directed by: Chad Archibald
Starring: Aidan Devine, Ava Preston, Jess Salgueiro
Grimmfest Film Festival Review by: Darren Tilby William (Aidan Devine) is a simple man with a less than ordinary job: he ‘takes care’ of the corollary of inner-city gang violence — basically, he makes dead bodies disappear. This isn’t something he wants to do, but something he must do for the safety of his young daughter, Gloria (a stunning performance here from Ava Preston). But when one of
UK Film Review
- Oct 9, 2018
- 2 min
Alive indie film
★★★★
Directed by: Rob Grant
Written by: Chuck McCue, Jules Vincent
Starring: Thomas Cocquerel, Camille Stopps, Angus Macfadyen
Grimmfest Film Review by: Chris Olson A thrilling story from writers Chuck McCue and Jules Vincent, Alive was a pulse-racing entry into the Grimmfest Film Festival 2018 lineup. Combining a captivity plot with a psychological thriller atmosphere and elements of torture horror, director Rob Grant delivers a bold and intriguing genre movie. Thomas Cocqu
UK Film Review
- Oct 8, 2018
- 3 min
Dead Night indie film
★★★
Directed by: Bradford Baruh
Starring: Brea Grant, AJ Bowen, Barbara Crampton, Sophie Dalah, Elise Luthman, Joshua Hoffman
Grimmfest Film Festival Review by: Darren Tilby An enjoyable and bloody cabin in the woods romp, with decent SFX and 80s slasher movie type killings, that's let down by poor production design and a disjointed, nonsensical plot. Casey Pollack, a caring mother of two and devoted wife loses her grip on sanity during, what was supposed to be, a relaxing v
UK Film Review
- Oct 8, 2018
- 2 min
Girls With Balls film review
★★★★
Directed by: Olivier Afonso
Starring: Denis Lavant, Dany Verissimo-Petit, Manon Azem, Camille Razat, Anne-Solenne Hatte, Tiphaine Daviot, Margot Dufrene, Louise Blachère
Grimmfest Film Festival Review by: Darren Tilby A wonderfully over-the-top action-revenge film that had me laughing far more than I ever expected. Unapologetic in its bawdy and brash sentiment, Girls With Balls is a riotous, manic and bloody exploration of what it means to be a team player and embracing
UK Film Review
- Oct 8, 2018
- 2 min
Pledge indie film
★★★★★
Directed by: Daniel Robbins
Written by: Zach Weiner
Starring: Zachary Byrd, Phillip Andre Botello, Zach Weiner, Aaron Dalla Villa, Cameron Cowperthwaite, Erica Boozer, Joe Gallagher, Jean-Louis Droulers, Jesse Pimentel
Grimmfest Film Festival Review by: Chris Olson Animal House gets sadistic in this 2018 horror Pledge, written by and starring Zach Weiner and directed by Daniel Robbins. Featuring at this year's Grimmfest Film Festival, this is arguably the best indie hor
UK Film Review
- Oct 7, 2018
- 2 min
Satan's Slaves indie film
★★★★ Directed by: Joko Anwar
Starring: Tara Basro, Dimas Aditya, Nasar Annuz, M. Adhiyat, Arswendi Nasution, Bront Palarae, Ayu Laksmi
Grimmfest Film Festival Review by: Chris Olson A remake of the seventies original, filmmaker Joko Anwar's Satan's Slaves is a hearty horror where familial bonds play an equal part against the terror trappings. The result is a far from faultless affair that offered plenty to offer fans at the 2018 Grimmfest Film Festival. After a bedridden moth
UK Film Review
- Oct 5, 2018
- 2 min
Await Further Instructions film review
★★★★
Directed by: Johnny Kevorkian
Starring: Sam Gittins, Grant Masters, David Bradley, Holly Weston, Abigail Cruttenden, Neerja Naik, Kris Saddler
Grimmfest Film Festival Review by: Darren Tilby An intelligent, thorough and frighteningly true to life examination of post-Brexit British society, and the media’s influence in our increasingly paranoid and divided nation: Await Further Instructions simmers gently; slowly and skilfully building tension until exploding in spectacu
UK Film Review
- Oct 5, 2018
- 2 min
Framed indie film
★★★★
Directed by: Marc Martínez Jordán
Written by: Jaume Cuspinera, Marc Martínez Jordán
Starring: Joe Manjón, Júlia Molins, Daniel Horvath, Biel Montoro, Mercè Montalà, Clàudia Pons, Àlex Maruny, Jóse García Ruiz
Grimmest Film Festival Review by: Chris Olson The Circle meets The Purge in this twisted viral horror from filmmaker Marc Martínez Jordán. Framed is a brutal exploration of the current social climate where the appetite for increasingly vitriolic content comes at t
UK Film Review
- Sep 3, 2018
- 4 min
Grimmfest Film Festival Line-up 2018
Press Releases > Film Festivals > Grimmfest Film Festival “I WANT MY CAKE!”
This year, GRIMMFEST, Manchester's Festival of Horror, Cult and Fantastic Film, celebrates its 10th anniversary. Get ready for decimation, with the darkest, deadliest line-up yet of wild, weird, witty, thrilling, chilling, blood-spilling movies, every one of them a premiere or cult classic of one kind or another, many with cast and crew in attendance.
But Grimmfest will also be looking back, a
UK Film Review
- Aug 21, 2018
- 3 min
Grimmfest Film Festival 2018 Programme and Awards Prizes
Press Releases > Film Festivals > Grimmfest Film Festival GENRE FILM FESTIVAL GRIMMFEST REVEALS FIRST LOOK AT 2018 PROGRAMME AND AWARDS PRIZES Manchester-based genre film festival GRIMMFEST is delighted to announce the first 3 of many UK premieres lined up for this year’s 10th anniversary edition. The festival can also now reveal details of some very special awards prizes on offer for films in the official selection. Simeon Halligan, festival director and founder of Grimmfest
UK Film Review
- Jun 4, 2018
- 1 min
Grimmfest Releases First Batch of Festival Passes and Announces Special Guest Barbara Crampton for t
Press Releases > Film Festivals > Grimmfest Film Festival “The UK is lucky indeed to have such a great festival in its own back yard!” – Dread Central "One of the most prominent genre festivals in the UK, attracting premieres, special guests and plenty of media attention” – Bloody Disgusting UK genre film festival Grimmfest is delighted to announced that this year’s 10th Anniversary festival will take place at the ODEON Manchester Great Northern, 4th-7th October. Their specia
UK Film Review
- May 9, 2018
- 2 min
Discount Codes for Film Festivals in the UK
Film Festivals > Features Part of our love of indie films at UK Film Review, we like to showcase some of the best UK Film Festivals and promote their upcoming events. One of the ways we do this is to partner with the organisers and offer to promote their film festival to our audience of film lovers and filmmakers. This is great content for our readers anyway and we like to work with the industry to help them out. Often, we offer to promote their submissions page to our list o
UK Film Review
- Apr 30, 2018
- 2 min
GRIMMFEST ANNOUNCES AWARDS
AHEAD OF ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL
Film Festivals > Press Releases To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of GRIMMFEST, the Manchester based genre festival is
pleased to announce the first GRIMMFEST AWARDS, a new scheme to celebrate the very
best genre titles selected for the annual festival and the creative teams behind them. This year’s GRIMMFEST film festival takes place in Manchester UK from the 4 th –7 th October
and the award winners will be announced at the end of the festival. “We are launching the award
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