Grimmfest’s Grim Tidings from Josh Wallace and Devin Das from Keeping Company

Grimmfest returns this Easter to but a spring in every horror fans step with five nights of fantastic films. Especially or the event we created a brand new interview feature entitled Grim Tidings which will give you the low down on some of the amazing movies they are showing.

Easter is traditionally a time for rebirth, renewal, resurrection. But as the Pandemic continues to rage, and the world remains on lockdown for the foreseeable future, it is also a time for rethinking. Thus, while the Grimmfest team had hoped to be hosting a ‘live’ Easter event, the Grimmfest Easter Edition will now be taking place online and will build on the success of the Grimmfest 2020 online experience.

Originally set for eight feature films over four nights, the event has drawn so much interest from film makers and distributors alike, that they decided to expand the scope to incorporate six more feature films, turning their Easter Horror Nights into a full on festival in its own right!

Grimmfest’s first Easter Edition kicks off on the evening of Thur April 1st, 2021 with our preview night, and then continues across the evenings of 2-5 April, with a series of feature film premiere double bills with supporting shorts and Q&As with the cast & crew of each feature. In addition, there’ll be an exclusive pass holder double bill and an ARROW double bill both of which can be accessed any time across the weekend.

Below we get some Grim Tidings from Josh Wallace and Devin Das from Keeping Company

1. Tell us why you are at Grimmfest?
We’re playing at Grimmfest because our film centers around our dark, cynical, yet realistic perspective on the worst in our social, political, and economic structures. With a heightened sense of reality, we wanted to create a grim, gruesome, and comical look at how the exploitative nature of humankind can force us to devour one another…

2. How did you get into horror?
Josh: I’ve always been a huge fan of horror and someone that enjoys being scared. As a kid, M. Night was my favorite filmmaker (The Sixth Sense and Signs blew me away). As I got older, I started to really dive deep into the genre and discovered French New Wave Extremism in the mid 00s… which will really desensitize you to most of the horror films today lol but I’m constantly looking for new horror films to check out.

Devin: I started watching horror and thrillers from a young age mainly because my family loved to watch genre films when I was growing up. I fell in love with the thrill you get from edge-of-your-seat suspense and scares, especially when they serve for social com- mentary or psychological character study.

3. What scares you the most?
Josh: Needles. Too invasive for me.

Devin: The feeling someone is watching me. Especially at night.

4. Who or what is your favourite horror character?
Josh: The Thing from The Thing (that sounds not specific at all lol). It’s one of the best horror films ever with some of the best SFX put to screen. The creature can be the nas- tiest thing you’ve ever seen or another human or animal and I think that is beautifully terrifying.

Devin: The Babadook. From the character design to the voice, The Babadook is one of the best modern horror characters that makes me feel like a child again with how horri- fying it is.

5. What is the grimmest thing you ever saw?
Josh: Almost every truly grim thing I have ever seen has come from the internet and it’s really hard to give any one specific thing the top spot. So let’s just say “the internet in general”.

Devin: Homelessness in general. Homeless encampments next to empty “luxury” apart- ments is especially grim.

Grimmfest Easter Edition runs from the 1st to the 5th of April and you can find out more and book your ticket HERE.