#Grimmfest opens with Hammer’s uncensored 4K ‘Dracula’ and, 30 hours later, screens ‘Ithaqua,’ the studio’s first film under new owners, a test of #HorrorCinema heritage against #FantasticFilm made now. Manchester, October 8th–11th.

The 59th #SitgesFilmFestival hands its Nosferatu Award to Bárbara Rey, routing a vampire's name to a 1974 Blind Dead film whose Templars act out the charges their real counterparts were tortured into confessing. #HorrorCinema history, #FantasticFilm archive. October 8th–18th.

Óscar Martín's 'Upiro' world-premieres at #FantasticFest's 21st edition, five years after winning three prizes at Ventana Sur's Blood Window Lab, proof that #HorrorCinema's quietest premieres are often its most workshopped. #FantasticFilm

St. George's #HorrorFestInternational closes its 24th year the way it closes every year: hosting films after their premieres, not before. This time it's a Fantasia-restored Sam short beside two already-acquired closers. Sept 16th–19th. #HorrorCinema #FantasticFilm

#FantasticFest's 21st edition tests its FIAPF specialized-competitive standing against a Berlinale-premiered Wisconsin plague drama's North American premiere, Sept 17th-24th in Austin, a #HorrorCinema story about validation, not discovery, and very much #FantasticFilm.