The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster had its world première at SXSW 2023 “Death is a disease,” says Vicaria (Laya DeLeon Hayes) in voiceover at the beginning of The Angry Black Girl And Her Monster. Vicaria is a high-school teenager, in her prime and very much alive, making her experience of death, in keeping…
Here For Blood had its international première at the Glasgow FrightFest 2023. Here For Blood begins with young student Elise (Holly Jade Balmer) jogging to her suburban home, only to discover her girlfriend bleeding out in the shower, and a masked man waiting nearby who stabs her multiple times in the chest. This bloody prologue,…
The Night of the 12th (La nuit du 12) has its UK première at Glasgow Film Festival 2023 On the night of the 12th Oct, 2016, on the outskirts of Grenoble, 21-year-old Clara Royer (Lula Cotton-Frapier) leaves the house of her best friend Stéphanie ‘Nanie’ Béguin (Pauline Serieys) and, on her way home through the…
Molli and Max in the Future had its world première at SXSW 2023 Two strangers get to know one another on a journey to the Big City, and then intermittently reencounter one another over the course of twelve long years during which the circumstances of their separate lives evolve with the times even as their…
Little Bone Lodge had its world première at the Glasgow FrightFest 2023 “It’s said that mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children. She can be glorious, or terrible, benevolent, or filled with wrath. She’ll fight away the monsters with the fangs of a wolf and the teeth of…
Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls had its international première at the Glasgow FrightFest 2023. When a film comes with a title like Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, it is announcing its generic affiliations to the fantasy realm. Yet the title character Onyx the Fortuitous is in fact Marcus J….
Hunt Her, Kill Her had its international première at the Glasgow FrightFest 2023. A sign on an industrial machine is marked ‘Danger’, and drives its point home with an illustration of fingers severed from a hand. The camera pulls away and tracks backwards through the floor of a large furniture factory, passing machinery, work tables…
Pensive (Rupintojelis)had its UK première at the Glasgow FrightFest 2023. Pensive (Rupinotjelis) derives its title for the ‘Pensive Christ’, a stereotypical depiction taken from the iconography of sculpture. This shows Jesus with his body scourged and suffering, and his head usually in one or two of his upraised hands, as he rests on his way…
#chadgetstheaxe had its international première at the Glasgow FrightFest 2023. The title of Travis Bible’s #chadgetstheaxe both pinpoints and ambiguates what we are about to see. On the one hand, its lower-case, space-free hashtag formatting promises a film set in the online world of social media, YouTube influencers and vlogging – and sure enough, this…
“So Charlie, you going to school today?”, asks Mom (Mara Ashton) over breakfast near the beginning of Pelayo De Lario’s feature debut Jack, co-written with Elena Conte. “I’m in third year of university, Mom,” film student Charlie (Luke Rollason) replies. The truth is, though, that Charlie is somewhat arrested and puerile – not unlike the…
Country Gold had its international première at Glasgow Film Festival 2023 Country Gold begins with Troyal Brux (played by its director Mickey Reece, who also co-wrote with John Selvidge) being celebrated in an annual TV special of The Gail Williams Show for being “the number one singer in America, selling more records than Michael Jackson…