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Grimmfest 2015: Manchester Macabre

We round up last weekend's scares, screams and shivers that took place at Grimmfest 2015.

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Film Festival, Live Action

This Weekend Darkness falls on Manchester at Grimmfest 2015

This weekend annual horror and cult film festival Grimmfest rises once again to send a wave of shocks and screams across Manchester. Here's a peek at what

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GrimmFest 2011: The Whisperer in Darkness

I was once again fortunate enough to attend some of the Grimm Up North horror film festival in Manchester, now in its third year. An unplanned change in venue

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Live Action

Potiche

The romantic comedy has had a comeback of sorts over the last few years. We say ‘of sorts’, because whilst every attractive person in Hollywood has

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Live Action

On Tour

Burlesque has become a strangely popular form of entertainment over the last few years. It’s no accident that the renaissance of this tasteful type of

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Live Action

We Are What We Are DVD

When Jonathan Swift asserted the logic of cannibalism in his satirical essay A Modest Proposal, he suggested that the poor sell their children to the rich for

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Documentary

In The Land Of The Free DVD

Vadim Jean’s documentary opens with one of the film’s subjects talking over a telephone line in an interview from prison, before the call is

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Live Action

The Fighter

In the genre of sport movies, the boxing movie is king, the undisputed champion. In fact nowhere are the recurring themes of sport movies more prevalent or

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Film Festival, Live Action

GrimmFest 2010: Amer

One of the best films DN caught at Manchester’s Grimm Up North horror film festival was barely a horror film at all, at least not in the modern sense,

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Film Festival, Live Action

GrimmFest 2010 – The Pack

The third film of our day at Manchester’s Grimm Up North Film Festival was Belgian-French horror hick-flick The Pack (La Meute). When the independent

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GrimmFest 2010: Evil: In the Time of Heroes

DN had the pleasure of a five film horror marathon at the Grimm Up North film festival in Manchester. The second film of the day was Yorgos Noussias’

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Live Action

The Walking Dead: Episode 1

Zombies, zombies, bloody zombies. We really should be sick of the sight of them. The most annoying thing about them is that regardless of how many zombie films

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