Grimmfest 2025 Returns Online With Bold New Horror Premieres

Grimmfest 2025’s Online Edition unleashes international horror debuts and cult favorites to global audiences.

GRIMMFEST 2025 PART II: ONLINE EDITION BRINGS THE DARKNESS HOME

A New Wave of Indie Horror Hits Screens with International Premieres and Cult Madness

Following a packed in-person edition earlier this month, Grimmfest 2025 returns with Part II: The Online Edition — an on-demand showcase of fresh nightmares, raw creativity, and international debuts from some of the boldest voices in genre cinema today.

Streaming now for a limited time, this digital lineup gives horror fans worldwide the chance to experience everything they might’ve missed in Manchester — from killer barbers and meta bloodbaths to digital deception and psychological collapse.

THE FILMS (AT A GLANCE)

BAD HAIRCUT

Director: Kyle Misak | International Premiere

A young man’s pursuit of a stylish new look spirals into lunacy when he encounters a flamboyantly psychopathic barber.

WHERE DARKNESS DWELLS

Director: Michael May | International Premiere

A reporter’s search for a missing girl unearths horrors deep beneath the surface — and within herself.

CONTENT

Director: Adam Meilech | International Premiere

A deranged wannabe filmmaker manipulates would-be actors into starring in his twisted “real life” production.

SHADOWS OF WILLOW CABIN

Director: Joe Fria | International Premiere

Two damaged souls searching for love find themselves trapped in a haunting emotional purgatory.

THE HAVEN

Director: Riccardo Cannella | International Premiere

A secluded refuge from a pandemic faces an invasion — not only from outsiders but from something far more mysterious.

DON’T HANG UP

Director: Alex Herron | UK Premiere

Modern social media, supernatural hauntings, and past trauma collide in this nerve-wracking techno-horror.

ADORABLE HUMANS

Directors: Anders Jon, Michael Kunov, Kasper Juhl, Michael Panduro | UK Premiere

Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales are reimagined for adults — brutal, surreal, and unapologetically modern.

THE TREEHOUSE

Director: Luis Calderón | UK Premiere

A tragic accident leads to a truth-shattering confrontation in this provocative psychological thriller.

DEATH CYCLE

Director: Gabriel Carrer | Northern UK Premiere

A woman’s grief transforms into vengeance in this neon-drenched, giallo-inspired revenge ride.

IT NEEDS EYES

Directors: Zack Ogle, Aaron Pagniano | Northern UK Premiere

A traumatized girl becomes obsessed with violent internet videos — and the disappearance of a woman called Fish Tooth.

HUMAN

Director: Matt Stuertz | Northern UK Premiere

It’s Final Girl vs. Deus Ex Machina in this outrageous meta-gore showdown. (Special shout-out to Jackie Kelly, the film’s fearless star and HMU favorite!)

THE DRIFTLESS

Director: Tim Connery | International Premiere

A haunting Midwestern anthology that plays like an EC Comics fever dream.

FRANKIE MANIAC WOMAN

Director: Pierre Tsigaridis | International Premiere

Dina Silva delivers another fearless performance in this brutal satire of fame, madness, and the entertainment machine.

WHY YOU CAN’T MISS IT

If you were at Grimmfest’s main event, you already know: this festival doesn’t play safe.

From boundary-pushing debuts like Human to unfiltered chaos like Frankie Maniac Woman, Grimmfest Online continues the festival’s mission to champion independent horror that bites, bleeds, and burns itself into your memory.

For fans craving the raw, the weird, and the experimental, this digital encore is your ticket back into the darkness.

Watch the full Grimmfest 2025 Online Edition now at grimmfest.com.