Scared To Death had its international première 8 March at the Glasgow Film Festival for FrightFest Writer/director Paul Boyd’s Scared To Death unfolds amid layers of deep, echoing need. It is not just because its principal setting is an old three-storey house on Potter’s Lane in Altadena, Los Angeles County, which was built on a…
“Don’t worry, I’m method.” With these words, young, entitled starlet Gia Fontaine (Alexa Maris) justifies her insistence upon improvising a scene (about a meeting between a long-estranged mother and daughter) before she has even finished reading the script pages. “Oh,” says Lena O’Neil (Barbara Crampton), rolling her eyes, “Got it.”. Middle-aged Lena – old enough…