Home Owners (Para entrar a vivir) screens at HÕFF – Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival Home Owners (Para entrar a vivir) begins with a montage of Ana (Bárbara Goenaga) and Maxi (Gorka Otxoa) unpacking items from boxes in their new home – literal ‘moving’ images that serve as a programmatic statement of influence and…
The Advent Calendar had its UK première at FrightFest 2021 Writer/director Patrick Ridremont’s The Advent Calendar (Le Calendrier) comes frontloaded with a sense of doom. It is not just the direct-to-webcam address made by paraplegic protagonist Eva Roussel (Eugénie Derouand) at the start – but also clearly near the chronological end – of the film,…