Frightfest 2023

30.08.2023

Departing Seniors (review) – Frightfest 2023

Departing Seniors is awaiting a UK and International release date. High school, or secondary school, sucks! While we may often look back on this time with rose-tinted specs, airbrushing away the shit in favour of those brief moments of joy, the truth is unavoidable; high school is the equivalent of The Hunger Games. It’s a dog-eat-dog world where individuality is often stamped on, conformity is welcomed, and difference is seen as a weakness rather than a strength. Let’s be honest: none of us walk away completely unscathed. It’s the horror of the high school that sits centre stage in Clare

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28.08.2023

T Blockers (review) – Frightfest 2023

T Blockers is awaiting a UK and International release date. This year, Frighfest brought us films from two exciting new talents. Eighteen-year-old George Baron introduced the world to The Blue Rose, while Alice Maio Mackay, also eighteen, brought us her third feature film, T Blockers, following hot on the heels of Bad Girl Boogey and So Vam. Once again, T Blockers places the trans and queer experience centre stage in a film demonstrating how Mackay’s craft, storytelling and cinematic vision are growing with each new film released into the world. While T Blockers remains rough around the edges, the resulting picture is impressive as it combines defiant messages on

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28.08.2023

The Blue Rose (review) – Frightfest 2023

The Blue Rose is awaiting a UK and international release date. The blue rose has long been prominent in literature, film and TV, from Pan’s Labyrinth, where it offered immortality to those who could find and pluck it, to a royal gift in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and a symbol of supernatural mystery, intrigue and investigation in Twin Peaks. Culturally, the blue rose also has significance in many countries, religions and ancient cultures. In Judaism, it symbolises the impossible, while in Chinese folklore, it represents the story of a powerful Emporer who had a beautiful but unmarried

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