-BLAST This year, GRIMMFEST, Manchester's Festival of Horror, Cult and Fantastic Film celebrated its thirteenth anniversary by evolving into hybrid form, running both a live event and then a virtual festival the week after. A welcome return to the cinema, after over a year of Pandemic-necessitated online only presentations, saw the festival running across two screens at regular venue, the Odeon Great Northern, Manchester, and offering a larger, wider variety of films than ev

After a year of “home invasions” in the form of virtual screenings and online events, this October sees Grimmfest returning to the cinema at last. From 7th to 10th October, the festival will be back at its regular venue, Odeon Great Northern, Manchester, with four whole days of movie premieres, Q&As and exclusive events. But that's not all. In response to the continued uncertainty surrounding the pandemic, and by popular demand, this year's festival will be a hybrid. The live