Grimmfest Christmas Horror Nights

Tom Grieve, Cinema Editor
Grimmfest Christmas Horror Nights
Rose

11 — 12 December 2020 Tickets from £10

Grimmfest have sorted the seasonal cheer and merriment this December with two evenings stuffed with wintery horror for you to enjoy from home. New for this year, Christmas Horror Nights is a series of horror movie premieres, including both short and feature films curated especially for the holiday season.

The madness commences on Friday 11 December with For the Sake of Viciousness, a siege movie which tips its hat to Assault on Precinct 13 and Green Room as Lora Burke’s nurse returns home from work to find a hostage situation that’s complicated by the arrival of a group of vengeful bikers. Instead of saving lives, she has to start ending them… The film is followed by Rose, a slow-burn, contemporary riff on the vampire legend which sees a couple holed up in the Lake District. Starring real-life couple — and co-writers — Sophie Rundle and Matt Stokoe, this grim tale will make your lockdown look like a walk in the park.

Saturday 12 December starts with the sublimely titled Deathcember, a gruesome anthology made up of 24 shorts that take a look at the darker side of festivities. We’re promised everything from splattery satire, to deliberate schlock and confrontational shock. Joining Deathcember is Red Screening (Al Morir La Matinee), a wry Uruguayan slasher in which a violent maniac sets to work on cinemagoers as they sit to watch an old horror movie — you’ll be glad to be watching from home.

As with Grimmfest’s Halloween streaming event, the features scheduled for Christmas Horror Nights will be accompanied by selected Q&As as well as scary shorts from around the world, helping to generate that real festival feel in your own home.

Where to go near Grimmfest Christmas Horror Nights

Leeds
Restaurant
White Cloth Hall

White Cloth Hall is a new food and drink project, based in a Grade II listed venue in Leeds city centre.

Manchester
Restaurant
MUSU Restaurant & Bar

Musu is a modern Japanese restaurant and bar in Manchester City Centre, specialising in awe-inspiring food. We take an advance look at their festive menu. 

Manchester
Restaurant
House of Fu Manchester

First Leeds, now Manchester. Expect picture perfect ramen, gyoza and cocktails at the upcoming restaurant and cocktail bar.

City Centre
Restaurant
Allpress
at NOMA

Allpress at NOMA is a home to all things coffee, with a café and seasonal menu incorporating locally sourced ingredients.

Manchester
Hotel
Forty-Seven

Forty-Seven is a luxury boutique hotel on Peter Street in Manchester city centre, above the high-end Indian restaurant Asha’s.

Leeds
Event venue
The Bookish Type

An independent bookshop specialising in literature across the LGBTIQA+ spectrum
From novels to children’s books, YA to memoirs, non-fiction to graphic novels… there’s a whole range of specialist queer literature to be found at The Bookish Type.

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