Infested (Vermines) released on Shudder, 26 April, 2024 Sébastien Vanicek’s Infested (Vermines) opens with the image of a snake slithering over a rock, and a vehicle passing in the background. This is somewhere in North Africa, where bearded men wearing keffiyeh drive a pickup truck through the desert along what is less a road than…
Hemet is a real place – a smallish city whose location in the San Jacinto Valley is shown on a map at the beginning of Hemet, Or The Landlady Don’t Drink Tea. Yet in Tony Olmos’ mannered feature, Hemet is also a dystopia and an allegorical space, where the horrifying divisions of today’s America are…
Laguna Ave has its world première at FrightFest 2021 In the opening scene of David Buchanan’s Laguna Ave., a man in a balaclava sneaks into a building at night, and steals a hard drive and a mug with the name Russell on it from one of the offices inside, before very carefully and deliberately taking…