Grimmfest’s Grim Tidings from Patrick R Young & Powell Robinson Co-Directors of Threshold

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 Patrick R Young & Powell Robinson Co-Directors of Threshold

1. Tell us why you are at Grimmfest?
Patrick R Young & Powell Robinson (Co-Directors THRESHOLD): We’re at Grimmfest to share our movie Threshold with the biggest genre lovers in the world! The community has always been incredibly welcoming to us and every opportunity we get to expand to a new part of the world with new people is a blessing. Especially for a movie that, with the help of Arrow Video, is already outrunning our expectations.

2. How did you get into horror?Powell: It started when the first Brendan Fraser Mummy film released when I was a really young kid. I couldn’t get enough of it – but what drove it home was waiting til my parents had passed out and watching the original Evil Dead in the middle of the night and scaring the crap out of myself.

Patrick: My mother cultivated my love for cinema through genre franchises. Amityville, Poltergeist, Jaws, Highlander. I ate it all up. But what really kicked it into high gear was when my grandmother solemnly announced she could no longer finish a book. It was too scary. Being the dumb 3rd grader I was, I said I was up to the challenge. She handed my Stephen King’s The Shining.

3. What scares you the most?
Patrick: Unfulfilled potential. And toe nails being ripped off.

Powell: I think what always gets under my skin the most is anything to do with someone losing their face or facial features, and sometimes on a broader scale their identity in general.

4. Who or what is your favourite horror character?
Powell: Close tie between Freddy and Pinhead. You’ll never get me to pick so don’t try.

Patrick: The Xenomorph by far. I mean, come on: It’s the perfect killing machine.

5. What is the grimmest thing you ever saw?
Patrick: If we’re talking GRIMM then you can’t beat The Company of Wolves. A beautifully gnarly fairy tale movie that I recommend everywhere. If we’re talking about real life, that’s the real stuff I don’t have a stomach for. True crime or real violence, and sharing/revelling in it, just isn’t for me. I’m a strictly corn syrup kinda guy.

Powell: In college Patrick and I, and a few other friends, did a double feature of Salo 120 Days of Sodom & A Serbian Film.

Patrick: I even wrote a class essay on ASF and its cinematic and moralistic merits, or lack thereof. We live and breathe this world and are so happy to share that love with everyone.

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