Once again, GRIMMFEST is the place to be this October. As the festival grows ever closer, the guest list has been announced and its great! I’ve been a fan of Grimmfest for years and whilst I haven’t been able to attend every year (due to circumstances outside my control) I have always loved attending when I can. I’ve met some great filmmakers over the years and had the chance to chat with them as well as see their films on the big screen.

Grimmfest offers a unique opportunity to see all-new movie premieres on the big screen, long before they go on general release; to see films you might never get another chance to see in a cinema. And it’s a chance to get up close and personal with the actors and the film makers themselves; to ask them questions, discuss their creative decisions and even record those chats for your social media channels. Such a great time!  At Grimmfest, there is no “Them and Us”. Filmmakers and performers mingle, socialise, often sharing a drink at the bar with audience members. You can get your posters signed (I have lots of those) , certainly, you can take photographs, but this isn’t a convention; this isn’t about charging silly fees for photo opportunities or autographs. This is a ‘money can’t buy’ experience where you get to chat and connect with incredible talent in a relaxed and sociable environment. 

So lets see who is on the guest list for this Octobers event.

Jeremy Piven

Tim McInnerny

Aneurin Barnard

The Grimmfest Gala Opening Night sees the World Premiere of PAST LIFE (which is a film I’m so excited about), a twisted tale of regression therapy, repressed memory and mental manipulation from the Grimmfest’s very own Simeon Halligan (White Settlers) and Rachel Richardson-Jones. And in attendance will be three of the film’s stars Jeremy Piven (ENTOURAGE, MR. SELFRIDGE, SMOKIN’ ACES, HEAT), Aneurin Barnard (DUNKIRK, TIME STALKER), and Tim McInnerny (BLACKADDER, GLADIATOR II).

For the International Premiere of deadpan dudebro absurdist apocalyptic horror comedy WEEKEND AT THE END OF THE WORLD, Grimmfest welcomes director Gille Klabin (THE WAVE) and lead actors Cameron Fife (The Bigfoot Project) and Clay Elliot (Go For Broke)

On Friday (October 10th)  Grimmfest welcomes director Remington Smith for the International Premiere of his stunning sociopolitical reimagination of vampire lore LANDLORD.

The International Premiere of head spinning psychological tour de force I SEE THE DEMON will be presented by director Jacob Lees Johnson and lead actress Alexis Zollicoffer.

Director Dan Asma and actress Justina Biosah will be in attendance for the international premiere of TRIBE, a dazzling, disorientating mix of found footage, folklore and paranoid conspiracy theory.

FRANKIE MANIAC WOMAN sees the welcome return to Grimmfest of director Pierre Tsigaridis (TWO WITCHES, TRAUMATIKA) along with lead actress Dina Silva to present this confrontational and cathartic tale of ferocious female empowerment.

Prolific Japanese director Kenichi Ugana (LOVE WILL TEAR US APART) will be there for on Saturday (October 11th) the UK Premiere of his unhinged splatter satire of careerism, consumerism, and creative megalomania, INCOMPLETE CHAIRS.

Writer-Director Tim Connery will be joining Grimmfest for the World Premiere of the anthology, THE DRIFTLESS, an unsettling, atmospheric, surprisingly lyrical dark hymn to the American MidWest.

The final day of 2025’s Grimmfest (Sunday the 12th of October) sees Director Manu Herrera, along with lead actresses Maggie Garcia, Patricia Penalver, Eve Ryan, and Elena Gallardo, prosthetics/makeup designer Pedro De Diego, and composer Joan Martorell in attendance for the World Premiere of LILY’S RITUAL – an unapologetically old school shocker, which delights in taking tried and tested genre tropes and tweaking and twisting them in unexpected and haunting fashion.

Director Jake Myers will be there for the North West Premiere of the drily comic, slyly satiric workplace body horror KOMBUCHA, the pitch for which was “David Cronenberg’s OFFICE SPACE, a description it’s damn near impossible to better 

And Grimmfest will be welcoming director Sergio Pinheiro, director of photography Roy Rossovich and producers Andy Myers and Aaron Mack for the International Premiere of WORMTOWN, which melds Southern Gothic with sociopolitical satire and gross-out body horror into an understated but unnervingly on-point allegorical shocker.

For full details on Grimmfest 2025 just go HERE!