Pig Hill first published by SciFiNow for its world première at FrightFest, 1.30pm Saturday 23rd August There is a contradiction at the beginning of Kevin Lewis’ Pig Hill, adapted by Jarrod Burris from Nancy Williams’ novel Pig (2019). “It’s just crazy that he wanted to meet you here,” Emily (Emma Kotos) tells her beau…
Theater is Dead had its world première at Fantastic Fest 2025, 23rd Sept “This is all I ever wanted,” says Paula (Stephanie Suganami) alone backstage in the dressing room (and in full costume) as she signs a contract. What follows, in this prologue to Theater is Dead, utterly confounds any sense of what is real…
Sue Parker (Willa Holland) tends bar in a small college town in North Louisiana. Here class divisions are demarcated by the river running through the town centre, with massive shoreline mansions on one side and trailers on the other. As Sue states in the voiceover which opens The Dirty South, this Bible Belt community is…
Sonja O’Hara’s Mid-Century opens in the era of its title – 1963, to be precise – with a montage of well-dressed housewives cleaning in their homes. The setting is the suburbia of (fictional) Mandarin, California, whose houses, designed by local architect Frederick Banner (Stephen Lang) in the late Fifties, are the aspirational envy of the…
Much as cinema’s zombies have evolved from creatures of voodoo to patients of infection, and from slow shufflers to fast ragers, zombie films themselves have adopted many forms – and while, in one way or another, this most sociopolitical of subgenres has always been about us, those that focus on the psychology of survival (and…