Evy (Nina Kira) and Justin (Adam DiMarco) are co-hosts of The Undertone, a podcast dedicated to all things unsettling and unexplained. As they live in different parts of the world, they record their sessions remotely, usually in what is for Evy the witching hour. Undertone is also the name of writer/director Ian Tuason’s impressive debut…
Carnage for Christmas had its Montreal première at Fantasia 2024, 19 July; first published by SciFiNow With her friend Riley (Olivia Deeble), Lola (Jeremy Moineau) runs a successful murder podcast known as Nancy Crew – a name which alludes to a popular fictive amateur sleuth while punning on the programme’s queer constituency. Like Alice Maio…
The Last Podcast had its world première at FrightFest 2024, 23 August An aerial shot looks down upon a woman walking along a sidewalk at night, absorbed by her cellphone – so absorbed, in fact, that she steps out into the road without looking and is hit head-on by a car whose driver stops, glances…
Low Life first published by Dirty Movies “Is your name Benny Jansen? We went to high school together.” For his Youtube channel Creep Dunk, Benny (Wes Dunlap) is a calculating catfish, posing online as underage girls to lure, entrap and expose local would-be paedophiles, and posting footage of the final, revelatory meeting online. Yet in…
Monolith had its international première at SXSW 2023 The Interviewer (Lily Sullivan) has undermined herself. Unnamed but ever-present in Matt Vesely’s feature debut Monolith, she is a journalist whose latest exposé has put her under a cloud, and led to her losing her job with the Evening Journal. Maybe her subject David Langley was guilty…
Final girls revisited, maternity messed up, madness mediated, misogynies exploded, confinement framed and social realism genre-fied: Virginie Sélavy, Kim Newman and I face the horror and cast pod on FrightFest 2015 here for Sight & Sound.