Blood Secret world première at FrightFest, 27th August 2026 Blood Secret opens with a wide shot of a beach and the sea beyond – a littoral, liminal space between one element and another. The camera pans left across the sand to reveal a woman’s bloody body lying lifeless there. Then, although the camera keeps fluidly…
Lisa Belcher’s House of Abraham opens with a little, bespectacled girl (Aria Goodson) arriving home to an eerily empty house and finding a note pinned to her mother’s bedroom door warning her not to come in, instructing her to call her aunt, and begging for forgiveness. Inside she finds her mother (Kelsey Pribilski), lying dead…
The Ceremony Is About To Begin seen at Panic Fest 2024 Director/co-writer Sean Nichols Lynch’s The Ceremony Is About To Begin opens with a series of monochrome interviews, each captioned with both the subject’s forename and, in scare quotes, the adopted name of an Egyptian god. For these are all ex-members of the Osiris Collective, a…
Miami Blues first published by Little White Lies, as entry 170 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column “My problem is that I can have everything and anything that I want, but I don’t know what I want.” The speaker is Frederick J. Frenger Jr. (Alec Baldwin), one of the three main characters in George Armitage’s Miami…
Mister Organ has its European première at Glasgow Film Festival 2023 Mister Organ opens in 2021 with journalist David Farrier driving to an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Kingseat, Auckland, New Zealand – “which is funny,” he comments, “because I do feel like I’m losing my mind.” What has led Farrier to this place and to…
Influencer had its world première at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival 2022 Madison (Emily Tennant) has never felt so isolated. A popular influencer, she is staying for a fortnight at a luxurious resort in Thailand, packaging her every experience, indeed her every meal, into shots and videos which she posts on Instagram with cheery messages and…
Becky first published by Through The Trees After a prologue – in fact a scene from the chronological end of the film – in which 13-year-old Becky Hooper (the amazing Lulu Wilson) is being interviewed by a police detective and a psychologist about an incident which she claims only partly to remember involving some men…