Film
Women in Horror 2018
- Director
- Various
- Certificate
- 18
- Running Time
- 120 mins
Melanie Light, local director of the splendid The Herd, curates the second annual selection of terrifying shorts by women from around the world for Women in Horror Month. Here’s the programme so far:
Cracks (Molly Coffee – USA)
16mm short film dedicated to the boy that didn’t believe her. UK premiere.
Nothing a Little Soap and Water Can’t Fix (Jennifer Proctor – USA)
A found footage film exploring the representation of women in bathtubs across cinema.
Voyeur (Charlotte Lam & Claire Stradwick – Canada)
The private spaces of women are unnervingly encroached upon by an masculine other in this confrontational work which shifts cinemas scopophilic gaze back on the audience.
Cerulia (Sofia Carrillo – Mexico)
Cerulia returns to her childhood home to find it is haunted by her memories
El Gigante (Gigi Saul Guerrero – Canada)
After attempting to cross the US/Mexico border in search of a better life, Armando awakens in an unknown room, his body broken down and a Lucha Libre mask sewn into his neck.
2043 (Eugenie Muggleton – Australia)
Thirty years after a plague has ravaged by the earth, Jack, disillusioned by the dystopian society he lives in, struggles with his own desires and the ultimate truce made by society – to never touch again.
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