A young nurse comes to a spooky house in the middle of nowhere to care for an old woman, with a crusty groundskeeper – the only other company for either of them. Within this house, strange things happen, and the nurse starts to wonder how much she is actually seeing, […]
From the Festivals
New Religion (Slamdance 2023) (Review)
Here we are, our concluding look at Slamdance 2023 with a movie that made a splash with the most adventurous viewers at last year’s Frightfest. Before that, though, the grand jury decided who is to be awarded the top honours. Narrative Feature: “Waiting for the Light to Change” (Dir. Linh […]
Punk Rock Vegan Movie (Slamdance 2023)
We return to Slamdance for our penultimate day of coverage. Kicking the week off with Mad Cats, then onto The Underbug, Starring Jerry as Himself, The Mad Writer and Stars in the Ordinary Universe, which brings us to one of the festival’s headline films, from Moby – the say what […]
Stars in the Ordinary Universe & The Mad Writer (Slamdance 2023)(Review)
Following Mad Cats, Starring Jerry as Himself and the Underbug, we return to Slamdance for more coverage of a film festival that celebrates new, emerging and alternative voices within the world of art, film and beyond. Thus far, I have been trying to theme my articles and failing miserably because […]
The Underbug & Starring Jerry as Himself (Slamdance 2023) (Review)
We are dropping in on the Slamdance film festival in Utah every day – yesterday we had Mad Cats, and today we have the Underbug & Starring Jerry as Himself. Starting with a punchy Indian horror movie from Shujaat Saudagar called the Underbug. Punchy as it’s only 68 minutes. On […]
MAD CATS (2023) Review (Slamdance Film Festival)
Sometimes things go unnoticed for years until someone draws attention to them. Case in point, in the press kit for Reiki Tsuno’s Mad Cats – he remarks that most Independent Japanese films are “so sad, serious, and depressing most of the time… Budgets for indie movies in Japan are actually […]
Frightfest 2022: Short Films & Everyone Forgot
We conclude our frightfest coverage for 2022 with a look at the short films that featured as part of the events discovery screen. For the full down of all the shorts that were featured, we have a handy article for your reading pleasure HERE. Besides being a nice palette cleanser, […]
Frightfest 2022: Incredible but true (Festival Review)
Quentin Dupieux is a fascinating multihyphenate. For my generation, he emerged with the puppet Flat Eric and his dance single, flat beat. Since then, he emerged as a filmmaker and his first notable cut-through came in 2010’s Rubber A.K.A. The killer tyre movie, and in the decade since he’s continued […]
Orchestrator of Storms (Frightfest 2022)(Review)
Many directors, namely European cult ones, have fallen by the wayside in the throes of time. Very few of them have had such a dramatic positive shift in public – albeit public in a cult horror way – opinion than that of French surrealist Jean Rollin. Very much a filmmaker […]
FrightFest 2022: The Leech (Festival Review)
A well-meaning Catholic priest, desperate to act out the pinnacle of good samaritan cheer and Christmas charity, inadvertently allows a drifter and his girlfriend to take refuge in his deceased mother’s house for the holidays. Father David soon realises, that taking in strangers may not have been his best plan, […]