NO ONE WILL EVER BELIEVE YOU **** Canada 2018 Dir: Frederic Chalte. 6 mins A clever, creepy twist on one of the recurring tropes of 1980’s mainstream American horror: the intense childhood fear of a monster in the closet. Writer-director Frederic Chalte, who made the excellent THE BABYSITTER (2016) knows…
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FOYER (a.k.a. Hearth) **** Canada 2019 Dir: Sophie B Jacques. 11 mins Writer-director Sophie B Jacques’ latest short film offers a droll, cleverly constructed inversion of home invasion tropes with which we are all too familiar. It unfolds in a luxurious neighbourhood and revolves around Emilie (Marilyn Castonguay), who returns…
ALASKA **** Canada 2019 Dir: Gwynne Phillips, Briana Templeton, Chris Wilson. 13 mins Written and directed by three of its stars, this darkly funny class satire has man of modest means (and “in between jobs”) Tom (Chris Wilson) running late with wife Paige (Gwynne Phillips) for the dinner party hosted…
SHE NEVER DIED **** Canada 2019 Dir: Audrey Cummings. 89 mins A companion piece to the Henry Rollins movie HE NEVER DIED (2015), from the same writer (Jason Krawczyk) and directed by the rising filmmaker behind DARKEN. It has a remarkable central performance from Olunike Adeliyi (recently seen as Shadow’s…
IMAGINE A WORLD **** Canada 2019 Dir: Joanna Tsanis. 15 mins We’ve all been stuck with some variation of that annoyingly persistent dead-eyed internet salesman (here portrayed with horrible conviction by Rob Notman), one of the interchangeably awful white men clad in white shirt and red tie, promising speeds of…