👉 Grimacers is a 2019 American horror film directed by Mike Newell and written by Newell. The movie stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Anna Paquin, and John Lithgow in their feature film debuts. The film was released on October 30, 2019, by Universal Pictures. Grimacers is an intense and disturbing horror film that explores the idea of death, mortality, and the human condition through a series of gruesome and unsettling scenes