Tag: Grimmfest
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REVIEW: A Pure Place (2021)
dir. Nikias Chryssos On a remote, post-apocalyptic Greek island a cult run by enigmatic leader Fust (Sam Louwyck). This is a society where cleanliness is close to godliness and children are abducted, forced into slavery to produce soap emblazoned with the creepy boss’ name. In Fust’s world dirt – or the lack of – is […]
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REVIEW: The Family (2021)
dir. Dan Slater In a nondescript time and place, a family unit – headed by a pair of brutal parental figures – closely resembles a cult, complete with a religious belief system. As the children of this ‘family’ seek to please their ‘parents’ it begins to tear apart the very fabric of their clan. From […]
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REVIEW: Ego (2021)
dir. Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas What would you do if, whilst scrolling through a dating app, you found yourself? Would you report it, or try and deal with it alone? This is what Paloma (María Pedraza) does when met with her identical self, and whilst it seems like a fun coincidence at first things soon turn sinister […]
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REVIEW: Woodland Grey (2021)
dir. Adam Rider When lone forest dweller William (Ryan Blakely) discovers injured hiker Emily (Jenny Raven) the pair are forced to coexist. Tensions rise however when Emily discovers a terrible secret William has locked up in the shed next to his campervan, and she unknowingly unleashes a horror into the woods that neither of them […]
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REVIEW: Val (2021)
dir. Aaron Fradkin Taking a familiar set-up (an on-the-run criminal breaks into the home of a high-class escort) this latest work from director Aaron Fradkin (who co-writes with Victoria Fratz) skilfully manages to break free of predictability. For Val, both the character and film, is a breath of fresh air. Delightfully breezy without taking itself […]
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REVIEW: For Roger (2021)
dir. Aaron Bartuska Influenced by low budget hit The Blair Witch Project, Aaron Bartuska’s second feature follows the titular Roger (Michael Andrusiewicz) as he returns to his family’s remote cabin after the death of partner Clara (Jenna Gibilisco). Once there he reminisces over home videos, but as time goes by Roger realises that he and […]
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REVIEW: Father of Flies (2021)
dir. Ben Charles Edwards Flecked with tinges of the American gothic, director Ben Charles Edwards’ sophomore outing is a slowly creeping, dark and tragic insight into a family who are haunted by unimaginable trauma. Young Michael (Keaton Tetlow) and his teenage sister Donna (Page Ruth) attempt to come to terms with their absent mother and […]
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REVIEW: Blast a.k.a. Déflagrations (2021)
dir. Vanya Peirani-Vignes Sonia (Nora Arnezader) works for a private company that specializes in de-mining and de-rigging bombs, a line of work which comes home when she finds herself trapped in a car rigged with explosives, along with her son and her partner’s daughter. Now she and her colleagues must race against the clock before they […]
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REVIEW: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021)
dir. Jane Schoebrun Director Schoebrun‘s feature debut taps into something very primal in us all: a need to belong, and find our place in the world. But what happens when the world, in all its glory and horror, is merely a click away? Late one cold night teenager Casey (Anna Cobb) decides to take the […]
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REVIEW: The Righteous (2021)
dir. Mark O’Brien Following the death of their daughter, former priest Frederic (Henry Czerny) spends his days grieving with wife Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk), and – although both are bearing up stoically under the weight of their crushing loss – a dread claws at the edges of Frederic’s psyche: wracked with Catholic guilt, he can’t shake […]
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