Grimmfest, Manchester’s International Festival of Fantastic Film, are delighted to announce their full feature film lineup for 2023. The festival will be returning to regular venue the Odeon Great Northern in Manchester on 6th – 8th October to showcase the best in genre cinema.
Never screened outside of Japan, and believed lost for nearly 30 years, Banmei Takahashi’s 1988 classic, Door, combines deadpan domestic comedy, chilling stalker thriller and baroquely bloody home invasion horror. It finally had its international premiere at Bifan in South Korea in July, and Grimmfest are delighted to be hosting the first UK screening.
Kenichi Ugana’s Love Will Tear US Apart encompasses dark and deadly romance, satiric slasher movie, psychological thriller and even some martial arts mayhem. Grimmfest is delighted to be hosting the UK premiere in Manchester, birthplace of Joy Division, whose music inspired the film’s title.
Mikhail Red’s Filipino psychological thriller Deleter (UK premiere) follows an overworked,...
Never screened outside of Japan, and believed lost for nearly 30 years, Banmei Takahashi’s 1988 classic, Door, combines deadpan domestic comedy, chilling stalker thriller and baroquely bloody home invasion horror. It finally had its international premiere at Bifan in South Korea in July, and Grimmfest are delighted to be hosting the first UK screening.
Kenichi Ugana’s Love Will Tear US Apart encompasses dark and deadly romance, satiric slasher movie, psychological thriller and even some martial arts mayhem. Grimmfest is delighted to be hosting the UK premiere in Manchester, birthplace of Joy Division, whose music inspired the film’s title.
Mikhail Red’s Filipino psychological thriller Deleter (UK premiere) follows an overworked,...
- 9/2/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
"You may find something more meaningful than the past here..." Black Mandala has revealed a trailer for an indie horror thriller film titled Mother Superior, made by Austrian filmmaker Marie Alice Wolfszahn. In the vein of Suspiria, The Witch, and Hereditary, the film features a story where the remnants of fascism are present to investigate esotericism, cruel experiments on humans, so that in the midst of this darkness a woman discovers her identity. This premiered at genre festivals last year and this year and will be released later in 2023. A nurse – in search of identity – gets entangled in the occult cabal of her aristocratic patient, the Baroness Heidenreich who resides with her devoted groundskeeper, Otto... their dark secrets will soon be revealed. The young woman's life force holds the key to the future for the Baroness. Starring Isabella Händler, Inge Maux as Baroness Heidenreich, Jochen Nickel, and Tim Werths. This...
- 7/14/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stars: Isabella Händler, Inga Maux, Jochen Nickel | Written and Directed by Marie Alice Wolfszahn
Sigrun Fink, desperate for information about her biological family, starts a new position as nurse to the aging, ill and eccentric Baroness Heidenreich. For a shared longing binds them together: the old lady’s memory contains the secret to Sigrun’s true identity; the nurse’s lifeforce holds the key to the future for the Baroness. On the path to self-discovery, Sigrun is confronted with the sinister world of folklore occultism, carried out by the Baroness and her sinister groundskeeper Otto. One opening an unearthly, pagan abyss in which every moral and principle will be tested.
Aryan ideology and the notion of Nazi experimentation meets feminism and the supernatural in a film that feels like a retread of numerous ideas seen a myriad of other similarly themed films but from a female perspective. The mad scientist is no longer man,...
Sigrun Fink, desperate for information about her biological family, starts a new position as nurse to the aging, ill and eccentric Baroness Heidenreich. For a shared longing binds them together: the old lady’s memory contains the secret to Sigrun’s true identity; the nurse’s lifeforce holds the key to the future for the Baroness. On the path to self-discovery, Sigrun is confronted with the sinister world of folklore occultism, carried out by the Baroness and her sinister groundskeeper Otto. One opening an unearthly, pagan abyss in which every moral and principle will be tested.
Aryan ideology and the notion of Nazi experimentation meets feminism and the supernatural in a film that feels like a retread of numerous ideas seen a myriad of other similarly themed films but from a female perspective. The mad scientist is no longer man,...
- 3/17/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Mother Superior
A visually spectacular delve into the Gothic, Marie Alice Wolfszahn’s Forties-set horror tale Mother Superior follows a young nurse, Sigrun (Isabella Händler), as she enters the service of the physically fragile but otherwise formidable Baroness Heidenreich (Inge Maux). Sigrun is keen to explore the Baroness’ remote stately home in search of documents which might reveal the secrets of her own past in an orphanage. The Baroness also has an ulterior motive, and a not very secret Nazi past. The two women’s complicated relationship plays out against a richly detailed backdrop of the antique and the arcane.
It’s a film which knows how to take its time, and so it’s a surprise to meet the director, who bubbles over with enthusiasm and does not give the impression of somebody who usually takes life slowly. She’s just back from a trip to Finland, excited about...
A visually spectacular delve into the Gothic, Marie Alice Wolfszahn’s Forties-set horror tale Mother Superior follows a young nurse, Sigrun (Isabella Händler), as she enters the service of the physically fragile but otherwise formidable Baroness Heidenreich (Inge Maux). Sigrun is keen to explore the Baroness’ remote stately home in search of documents which might reveal the secrets of her own past in an orphanage. The Baroness also has an ulterior motive, and a not very secret Nazi past. The two women’s complicated relationship plays out against a richly detailed backdrop of the antique and the arcane.
It’s a film which knows how to take its time, and so it’s a surprise to meet the director, who bubbles over with enthusiasm and does not give the impression of somebody who usually takes life slowly. She’s just back from a trip to Finland, excited about...
- 3/11/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ahead of the UK premiere of her stylishly brooding occult chiller, Mother Superior, at FrightFest Glasgow 2023, director Marie Alice Wolfszahn talks about being drawn to making a period horror film, multimedia influences and why returning to Scotland will be a homecoming.
Marie Alice Wolfszahn
Mother Superior is your debut feature. How did you decide that this was the film you wanted to make?
To be honest, I didn’t know Mother Superior was to become my feature debut when I first started the project – we were planning for a long short film. Over the course of the production the scenes grew bigger, the characters developed, everyone added their magic; and finally, in the editing suite, we realised we had made a short feature film.
I was drawn to making a period horror film dealing with a cult. I’ve been curious about faith and ideology for ages. The power of imagination fascinates me.
Marie Alice Wolfszahn
Mother Superior is your debut feature. How did you decide that this was the film you wanted to make?
To be honest, I didn’t know Mother Superior was to become my feature debut when I first started the project – we were planning for a long short film. Over the course of the production the scenes grew bigger, the characters developed, everyone added their magic; and finally, in the editing suite, we realised we had made a short feature film.
I was drawn to making a period horror film dealing with a cult. I’ve been curious about faith and ideology for ages. The power of imagination fascinates me.
- 3/8/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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