Submit your horror, sci-fi and cult films to a fast-growing grindhouse festival.
Grindhouse Planet is a home for the loud, unhinged, blood-soaked, brain-melting cinema that refuses to apologise.
We showcase the boldest new Horror, Sci-Fi, Action, Martial Arts, Exploitation, Sexploitation, Mobsploitation and every flavour of gleefully twisted genre filmmaking from around the world.
If it’s wild, outrageous, violent, ridiculous, or beautifully depraved — this is where it belongs.
No dramas. No rom-coms. No musicals… unless they’re completely deranged.
Now in our eighth year, Grindhouse Planet is a full-throttle in-person festival packed with filmmakers, fans, collectors, and cult cinema diehards.
Expect a packed screening room, a buzzing bar, and an atmosphere you won’t find anywhere else. We screen at 369 Film Studios in Leicester — gritty, intimate, and perfect for grindhouse cinema.
Every film is hand-selected by an international panel of grindhouse connoisseurs, curators who live and breathe exploitation cinema. Our programme is tight, high-energy, and built for maximum crowd reaction.
What filmmakers can expect:
• A dedicated grindhouse audience that actually shows up
• Real networking with directors, producers, actors and genre fans
• A wild, rowdy, high-spirit night celebrating your film
• A vendors’ area run by The Cult Movie Store + stalls selling rare grindhouse merch
• Q&A sessions with genre filmmakers
• Photos and award shots for your socials and press kits
If you want your film in front of a real audience who loves this kind of cinema, Grindhouse Planet is the festival.
Raw. Loud. Authentic. Exactly the way exploitation filmmaking should be.
Winners receive award trophies, invites to the screenings & awards ceremony and a place on the Grindhouse Planet wall of fame.
Where available, trailers for Official Selections are screened throughout the day.
