Bogieville had its world première at FrightFest 2024, 25 August Bogieville opens with a woman on the rag. Stopped to fill up her car at night, and realising that she is bleeding, she goes to a cubicle in the gas station’s toilet to put in a tampon, and comes under vicious attack from a vampire…
As a church bell tolls in the night at the beginning of The Petting Zoo, a figure dressed in creepy wicker mask strides past a graveyard in an otherwise empty village lane – and then enters the Cornewall Arms Free House in Clodock, Herefordshire. There the figure reveals herself to be not some ghostly creature…
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe; it gives back life to those who no longer exist,” goes the text quote (from Guy de Maupassant) which opens Wyvern Hill (aka Hollow). Memory plays a key rôle in Jonathan Zaurin’s feature. The first words uttered by its sixty-something heroine Beth (the excellent Pat…