Stanley Kubrick’s only horror film The Shining may famously have been disavowed by Stephen King for the liberties it took in adapting King’s bestselling 1977 novel, but those deviations are part of what makes the film so effective (leaving aside the shrill edge-of-madness performances, the exquisitely over-designed mise en scène, the unnervingly mobile camerawork, and…
January first published by Little White Lies, 25 Jan 2023 At the beginning of January, a Porter (Samuel Finzi) and an Old Man (Iossif Surchadziev) while away their time eating walnuts and doing a crossword as they await the return of their boss Petar Motorov. The clues of the crossword concern world literature, global geography…
Hanky Panky has its world première at the LA Comedy Film Festival, 2023. You can find details of where to stream it here. The first words heard in Hanky Panky set the tone. “Aw fuck!” says the man racing in panic across a field of snow, as he struggles both to escape and to get…
Cold Meat had its world première on Sun 27th Aug at FrightFest Cold Meat opens with visions of snow-swept wildernesses, and a voiceover. “When I was a child, my mother told me that humans are capable of the best and the worst,” a woman is heard saying, before relating a native legend, “as old as…
Polaris screened at the Imagine Film Festival 2022 “Frozen world, year 2144,” reads text that opens Kirsten Carthew’s Polaris. “Few survived the freezing. A child raised by a bear brings hope from the stars.” Apart from another brief caption (“10 years earlier”) that appears shortly afterwards leading into a flashback told, storybook-style, in hand-drawn pictures,…