FrightFest 2023

Horror gets weird: six oddities from FrightFest 2023

Horror gets weird: six oddities from the Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2023 first published by BFI, 22 August 2023 Includes capsule reviews of: The Blue Rose, Transmission, Good Boy, Minore, My Mother’s Eyes, Where The Devil Roams Horror occupies an uncanny valley between real anxieties and their staging in fantasy form. It offers a nightmarish netherworld…

My Mother's Eyes

My Mother’s Eyes (2023)

My Mother’s Eyes had its international première on Mon 28th Aug at FrightFest My Mother’s Eyes opens with a close-up of a woman’s eyes, tearing, anguished, and then – after the sound of a newborn’s cry – flushed with relief and anxiety and a complicated kind of happiness, as the music of a cello fills…