Horror’s female gaze: six features directed by women at the Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024 first published by BFI, 20 Aug 2024 Includes capsules of: Broken Bird, Agatha, 7 Keys, Saint Clare, Scarlet Blue, Charlotte The elegiac neo-noir A Desert begins as a portrait of Alex (Kai Lennox) trying to lose himself in the desert as…
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Scarlet Blue (2024)
Scarlet Blue had its UK première at FrightFest 2024, 23 August Scarlet Blue begins with a dream: a woman (Amélie Daure) lies on a metal medical bed, with a plastic oxygen mask over her face, and an IV drip feeding a blue liquid into her veins. As a male voice asks, “Can you hear her…

