Grimmfest & Greenacre Films Set to Collab on Fear Machine

The U.K. horror movie festival Grimmfest has joined forces with Greenacre Films to develop and produce a new U.K.-centric horror anthology series, Fear Machine.

Showcasing contemporary British tales of horror, the show will target a broad audience, as well as the modern horror fan. The producers aim to showcase the best of U.K. talent in the genre by presenting a series of hour-long films that will encompass suspense, horror, mystery and the supernatural.

The series will be distributed by Banijay Rights, with whom Greenacre Films has a first-look development deal.

Grimmfest Director Simeon Halligan said: “Horror is more popular than ever, with plenty of film and TV content coming from North America, but in the sixties and seventies, it was the U.K. who dominated the horror scene—we feel it’s time British horror was back in the limelight.”

Nadine Marsh-Edwards, who co-founded of Greenacre Films alongside Amanda Jenks, sees this as “a unique opportunity to explore new ways to comment on the human condition while being entertaining and downright scary.”