Dina Silva as Frankie Exploring an inherently misogynistic society’s negative attitudes towards fat bodies and pretty privilege, Dina Silva and Pierre Tsigaridis’ eighties grime inspired slasher Frankie, Maniac Woman delivers its message to audiences with buckets of violence and blood.  Frankie (Dina Silva) is an aspiring musician who is constantly hindered at every turn by society’s treatment of her based on her looks, to the point that she is driven mad by the impossible standards set by...

There was a brief period during the dreaded Covid-19 worldwide lockdown where film festivals and their respective programmers seemed to understand the need for accessibility. With film festival audiences unable to attend in-person screenings and events, many festivals took to the internet, providing the cinema experience to people in their home. However, with the re-opening of the world, and social outings being allowed again, many online editions of film festivals became nothing but a...

Stills from The Texas Chainsaw (1974) With a festival run kicked off with its world premiere at last year’s Venice Film Festival, Chain Reactions directed by Alexandre O. Philippe is an in-depth exploration of one of the greatest and most influential horror films of all time – Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974).  When the cult classic hit the screens, the trajectory of horror changed forever, with the revelation that monsters are not always supernatural, sometimes they are in...