Past Life had its world première at Grimmest, 9th Oct 2025 “Syria, six years ago,” reads the text that opens Simeon Halligan’s Past Life, as we are shown a harrowing sequence in which journalist Jason Frey (Aneurin Barnard), abducted by Islamic State, sees his own left hand being crushed with a mallet before he is…
Don’t Let The Cat Out had its UK première at FrightFest, 3.15pm Friday 22nd August “Oh the wifi is ‘catpeople’ – all one word, lower case,” says Rodney Davis (Jordan James Smith) near the beginning of Tim Cruz’s Don’t Let The Cat Out, as he heads out with his wife Evelyn (Cerina Vincent), leaving their…
Timestalker has its world première at SXSW 2024; first published by SciFiNow, 8 March 2024 “What time is it?” asks Agnes (Alice Lowe) near the beginning of Timestalker – and her question is immediately, if somewhat vaguely, answered by an intertitle that appears on screen, to the accompaniment of portentous music, stating that it is…
Waking Karma opens with two text quotes that set out its stall. The first is from Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, a tragedy of incest and parenticide, and of fate that cannot be avoided no matter how hard it is resisted. The second cites the instructions given by Charles Manson to his cultish hippie ‘family’ as they…