Mom had its world première at the Glasgow FrightFest 2024. Review first published by SciFiNow Mom opens with a zoom out from an abstract painting over a mantelpiece. The canvas is mostly white, but off-centre there is a streak of black splashed crudely from top to bottom – and from this vulva-like aperture in the…
Adalynn begins with its title character (Sydney Carvill, perfectly personifying anxiety) talking, in voiceover, about the strong bond between a polar bear and her two cubs, and how damaging any severance of that bond would be, even as we see three ursine figurines getting wet in a shower. This sequence introduces not only the film’s…
Still/Born first published by SciFiNow Still/Born begins with both a birth and a still birth, as young mother Mary (Christie Burke) delivers Adam, only to realise in horror that his identical twin Thomas is dead on arrival. Yet the mannered forward-slash punctuation that splits the film’s title (like in Marat/Sade, Face/Off and Frost/Nixon) also betokens other…