In Charly Goitia’s Nightmare Radio: The Night Stalker, during the witching hour, disc jockey Candy Blue (Paula Brasca) spins some tracks and exchanges spooky stories with her callers, all for her show Nightmare Radio that she describes as the place “where horror stories never end…for insomniacs who want to stay insomniacs”. Yet as she smokes…
Nocebo first published by Sight and Sound, Winter 2022-2023 Synopsis: The UK, today. Filipino maid Diana arrives on the doorstop of fashion designer Christine, offering to help cure a mysterious affliction plaguing her mind as much as her body. Coming with her own history of trauma, Diana slowly sets about confronting her new mistress with…
Vivarium first published by VODzilla.co “That’s nature – that’s just the way things are,” says primary school teacher Gemma (Imogen Poots) to her young pupil Molly (Molly McCann), explaining the brood parasitism through which cuckoos take over the nests – and kill the young – of other birds. “I don’t like the way things are,…
LFF Cult 2016 Round-Up: woods morgues and madness first published by Sight & Sound See also In the Cu(l)t: More from LFF 2016’s Cult Programme Those seeking to be awed, alarmed and unnerved at the 60th London Film Festival should convert to the Cult strand. This year’s selection is disparate, although sylvan settings and psychological…