In A Cold Vein first published by SciFiNow for its world première at FrightFest, 8.15pm Friday 22nd August In A Cold Vein opens, not unlike Brock Bodell’s Hellcat (2025), in medias res, with its protagonist, as disoriented as the viewer, regaining consciousness in the back of a moving vehicle. Even though Dean O’Reilly (Evan Gamble)…
Crooks world première at Tribeca, 7 June 2026 As Faye (Angela Trimbur), on stage in a spangly dress, sings Dream A Little Dream of Me, a man (Sanjay Choudrey) crudely heckles her from his table on the night club’s floor, suggesting that she should start stripping, and asking: “What decade does she even think it…
Like Father, Like Son? (Sådan Far, Sådan Son?) is streaming in Online Short Showcase 1 at Panic Fest 2026 Like Father, Like Son? (Sådan Far, Sådan Son?) opens with an arresting dream, premonition or memory. As a distorted song plays on the radio of a car parked in the middle of nowhere, Simon (Ludvig Deltin)…
About Schmidt first published by Daily Info, 27 January, 2003 A man sits alone at a desk in an empty office, watching with a look of anxiety and resignation as the seconds tick by on the wall clock. The man is sixty-six year old actuary Warren Schmidt, and he is waiting for the clock to…
EXIT MEDEA screened at Cine-Excess, 23rd Oct 2025 Medea holds a contradictory position in myth. A dangerous, powerful woman within a male-dominated, patriarchal culture, she is both terrifying witch and pioneering feminist. She dared to complain about the unfair treatment of women in Ancient Greek society, but also, when cruelly abandoned by her heroic husband…
Cover had its UK première at FrightFest, 8.50pm Saturday 23rd August Writer/director/editor/actor Cameron Francis’ Cover begins with an impressionistic nightmare, as an image of the full moon in space getting ominously closer and closer is accompanied by muted muttering and intercut with jarring stills of a smiling teenaged girl. The sequence ends with a male…
He Kills At Night had its world première at FrightFest, 8.45pm Saturday 23rd August in the First Blood strand In keeping with its title, Thomas Pickering’s He Kills At Night opens, on 22nd November, as a classic slasher. Alone in a multi-level car park, a woman (Madeline Percival) changes her driving shoes for party heels,…
Babak Anvari’s latest feature opens in a dark, empty kitchen/dining room where we can see the tell-tale signs of a family dinner gone wrong – a plate of stew untouched on the table, a sherd from a broken wine glass on the floor. This sequence establishes the themes of dysfunction, absence and left-behind mess that…
Drive Back had its UK première at FrightFest 2024, 23 August At the beginning of Cody Ashford’s feature debut Drive Back, the boy Reid (Zoltan Torok) sees a buck get shot only feet away from where he is doodling in a sketchbook on the woodland floor, and is then horrified when his father (Robert Lewis…
The Road first published by EyeforFilm, 17 Oct 2009 About a third of the way through Cormac McCarthy‘s 2006 novel The Road, the two main characters cautiously watch a passing caravan, with colourfully decorated warriors in the front, then harnessed slaves pulling carts piled with the material spoils of war, then the women, and lastly…
The Funeral (Cenaze) had its Scottish première at the Glasgow FrightFest 2024. The Funeral (Cenaze) opens with a shot looking out from inside a car as it travels along a rainy country road to a grim gathering of people waiting under umbrellas outside a building. This sequence explains the title – for the car’s driver…