“Just because somebody leaves us, it doesn’t mean they don’t love us,” Natalie Paxton (Kestie Morassi) tells her nine-year-old daughter Rose (Taysha Farrugia) some way into Surrogate. Nat is consoling Anna for the unexpected death of their beloved dog Indy, but her words might apply equally to Rose’s father, who disappeared from the picture before…
Trim Season had its world première at the Overlook Film Festival 2023 “Murder. All kinds of sketchy illegal messed up shit happens up here. This place used to be a paradise, and now the energy’s all fucked up.” Hippy-dippy dope connoisseur Harriet (Ally Ioannides) is talking about Northern California’s Humboldt County in the Emerald Triangle,…
In horror, as in Freudian psychoanalysis, it is usually a young child who witnesses – and misunderstands – a primal scene (typically, sex between parents), engendering the perversion of that child’s psychosexual development. The Free Fall certainly opens with a primal scene, as Sara Wright (Andrea Londo) enters the upstairs bedroom of her parents, only…