VIDI SPACE SUMMONS HALLOWEEN SPIRITS ALL MONTH LONG WITH FIRST ANNUAL FEAR/TOBER VIDI SPACE welcomes the arrival of the scariest month of all with FEAR/TOBER, highlighted by the first ever Shocktober virtual haunted house benefitting the Virginia based non-profit, The Arc of Loudon, and Nick Groff’s highly anticipated, brand new…

TURBO KILLER (a.k.a. Carpenter Brut: Turbo Killer) ***** 2016 Dir: “Seth Ickerman” (a.k.a. Raphael Hernandez, Savitri Joly-Gonfard. 4 mins Three years before the 2019 festival hit BLOOD MACHINES, directors Raphael Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard made this music video with musician Carpenter Brut. It’s a visually extraordinary (shot by Philip Lozano),…

12 HOUR SHIFT **** USA 2020 Dir: Brea Grant. 83 mins Drug addicted nurse Mandy (Angela Bettis) and work colleague Karen (Nikea Gamby-Turner) have a small business on the side providing organs for trafficking on the black market. Mandy’s cousin (by marriage) Regina is the person that picks up the…

TRIGGERED **** South Africa 2020 Dir: Alastair Orr. 90 mins South African filmmaker Alastair Orr, whose earlier genre films – notably FROM A HOUSE ON WILLOW STREET (2016) – never quite hung together, nails it with TRIGGERED, a sharp-witted, intense riff on THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME retooled with an ensemble…

GILTRUDE’S DWELLING **** Canada 2019 Dir: Jeremy Lutter. 15 mins Teenage orphan Giltrude (the excellent Kennedi Clements) lives in a house on a mountain from which she has never left. Her parents (Jesse Hutch, Priscilla Faia) go out at night on mysterious missions while reminding her that the house itself…