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Parasite 3D - [35mm Over/Under 3D] - Grindfest 2025

Running time: 90 mins

Dirt In The Gate Movies Presents GRINDFEST – PARASITE 3D (1982) - [35mm Over/Under 3D]

Directed by Charles Band
Starring Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici, James Davidson

1982 | 90m | USA | (15) | 35mm Over/Under 3D | Mono

“The first futuristic monster movie in 3D!”

We’re proud to have been able to recently resurrect the experience of projecting original 35mm over/under 3D prints, titles including AMITYVILLE 3D, JAWS 3D, FRIDAY THE 13th 3D, FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN 3D, SPACEHUNTER 3D and TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS 3D at last year’s GRINDFEST. Using modern chromatic filtered lenses and new Panavision 3D glasses, naturally we’re stoked to bring another of the 1970’s/80’s 3D revival era, PARASITE 3D to this year’s festival!

Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.

The DITG team are thrilled to screen this from an original 3D 35mm print in the UK!

(3D glasses will be loaned for the screening) Ticket Information Single ticket: £14.50 Included in Grindfest Festival Pass: Click here to purchase

Videodrome (1983) - [35mm] - Grindfest 2025

Running time: 90 mins

Dirt In The Gate Movies Presents GRINDFEST – VIDEODROME (1983) - [35mm]

Directed by David Cronenberg
Starring James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits

1983 | 90m | USA | (18) | 1.85:1 | Mono

“You'll forgive me if I don't stay around to watch. I just can't cope with the freaky stuff.”

Last year, David Cronenberg’s THE FLY wowed the GRINDFEST crowd, this year we’re delighted to bring another of his timeless classics to the festival.

Amoral TV station president Max Renn, on a constant quest to find boundary-pushing new content, is exposed to hyper-violent imagery via an illicit broadcast channel. Instantly enamoured by the footage, he becomes obsessed with finding its source. As he watches more and delves deeper into the underground world that controls the footage, his sense of reality begins to warp, and disturbing hallucinations manifest in the flesh. Is Renn losing his mind or experiencing the next step in human and technological evolution? Cronenberg’s graphic body-horror is on full display as he explores the melding of technology and human biology.

Introduction by Professor Stacey Abbott, Northumbria University. Ticket Information Single ticket: £14.50 Included in Grindfest Festival Pass: Click here to purchase

New York Ninja (1984/2021) - [DCP] - Grindfest 2025

Running time: 85 mins

Dirt In The Gate Movies Presents GRINDFEST – NEW YORK NINJA (1984/2021) - [DCP]

Directed by John Liu, Kurtis Spieler
Starring Don Wilson, Michael Berryman, Linnea Quigley

1984/2021 | 85m | USA | (18) | 1.85:1

“Why? Why is this happening? Why won't anyone do anything? I don't understand. Why? Why? Why?”

John is just an average man working as a sound technician for a New York City news station, until one day his pregnant wife is brutally murdered after witnessing the kidnapping of a young woman in broad daylight. Turning to the police for help, John soon learns that the city is overrun with crime and the police are too busy to help. Dressing as a white ninja, John takes to the streets as a sword wielding vigilante hell bent on cleaning up the streets of the city he once loved by ridding it of muggers, pickpockets, rapists, and gang members. However, in John’s quest for justice, he soon finds himself the target of every criminal in the city, including a mysterious villain known only as the Plutonium Killer. Will John survive to become the hero that New York City so desperately needs?

Originally directed by and starring martial arts actor John Liu (The Secret Rivals, Invincible Armor) in his only American production, New York Ninja was filmed entirely on 35mm in 1984, but the project was abandoned during production resulting in all original sound materials, scripts, and treatments going missing. 35 years later, Vinegar Syndrome acquired the original unedited camera negative and painstakingly constructed and completed the film. Enlisting the voice talents of genre favorites: Don “The Dragon” Wilson (Bloodfist, Whatever it Takes), Linnea Quigley (Return of the Living Dead, Nightmare Sisters), Michael Berryman (The Hills have Eyes, Auntie Lee’s Meat Pies), Vince Murdocco (Night Hunter, LA Wars), Matt Mitler (The Mutilator, Battle for the Lost Planet), Leon Isaac Kennedy (Lone Wolf McQuade, Penitentiary), Ginger Lynn Allen (The Devil’s Rejects, Vice Academy), and Cynthia Rothrock (China O’Brien, Martial Law) .

Restored from the original camera elements, New York Ninja is finally available in all its ridiculous over-the-top glory for the first time ever after spending four decades in film obscurity. Ticket Information Single ticket: £14.50 Included in Grindfest Festival Pass: Click here to purchase

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) - [35mm] - Grindfest 2025

Running time: 104 mins

Dirt In The Gate Movies Presents GRINDFEST – THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE (1990) - [35mm]

Directed by Renny Harlin
Starring Andrew Dice Clay, Wayne Newton, Priscilla Presley, Robert Englund

1990 | 104m | USA | (15) | 2.35:1 | Dolby Stereo

“Have a twinkie, snapperhead.”

The fast-paced and often seamy world of rock 'n' roll is his beat, but even detective Ford Fairlane is stunned when the king of shock-jocks, Johnny Crunch, is electrocuted live on air. After all, Crunch was his only paying client! Crunch had hired Ford to track down a mysterious teenage groupie named Zuzu Petals - a search which quickly finds Ford tangled up, and trading insults, with a ruthless record executive and merciless hitman.

The DITG team are thrilled to screen this from an original 35mm print in the UK!

Introduced by Rebecca Nicole Williams aka The Celluloid Sorceress. Ticket Information Single ticket: £14.50 Included in Grindfest Festival Pass: Click here to purchase

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) - [35mm] - Grindfest 2025

Running time: 137 mins

Dirt In The Gate Movies Presents GRINDFEST – TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991) - [35mm]

Directed by James Cameron
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick Earl Boen

1991 | 137m | USA | (15) | 2.35:1 | Dolby Stereo

“I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle”

GRINDFEST 2025 concludes with James Cameron’s all time classic sci-fi sequel, TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY. The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor is dead, and another T-101 must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced Terminator, the T-1000.

The DITG team are thrilled to screen this from an original 35mm print! Ticket Information Single ticket: £14.50 Included in Grindfest Festival Pass: Click here to purchase

Day Passes - Grindfest 2025

Running time: 60 mins

Can’t make the full weekend? No problem! For the first time ever, GRINDFEST is offering a limited number of Single Day Passes so you can still experience the madness, mayhem, and magic of our genre film celebration – one day at a time.

Saturday Pass – £45
Includes access to all Saturday screenings:
The Quiet Earth (40th Anniversary 35mm)
International Short Film Showcase
American Psycho + Women in Horror Round Table
Dead Birds (with video intro by Director Alex Turner)
Brainscan
Mystery Movie

Sunday Pass – £40
Includes access to all Sunday screenings:
Parasite 3D (35mm Over/Under 3D)
Videodrome
New York Ninja
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
Terminator 2: Judgment Day

All screenings included. No need to book individual tickets. Ticket Information Saturday Pass: £45 Sunday Pass: £40 Please note: you must be 18+ to purchase and use a Day Pass

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