film festival Archives - Desperate Living

M.J. Simpson’s experience making the short film Waiting for Gorgo – and the unexpected connection to Guillermo del Toro’s movie.

An extravagant revival of the all-night movie show feels a bit too civilised and unadventurous for our tastes.

A documentary exploring the hidden world of epilepsy and the campaign for access to medication.

A collection of Bangladeshi folk horror stories that is impressively creepy and original.

A London-based study of the creeping malaise of influencer culture and social alienation is nowhere near as profound as it thinks it is.

A look at the books contained in Hitler’s library offers little information that we didn’t already know about the genocidal Nazi leader.

A remarkable documentary about Canada’s ‘potty-mouthed Grandma’ and leading sex educator.

Family disintegration, rural machismo and the search for Golden Viagra in this charming coming-of-age movie.

Continuing our festival previews with a look at Sean Hogan’s relentlessly creepy slice of Folk Horror.

Continuing our guide to the Nottingham festival’s highlights with a look at the most charming piece of time slip sci-fi that you’ll ever see.

As FrightFest 2023 gets underway, we look back and recreate the first annual Shock Around the Clock film festival, the place where it all started.

An arrestingly minimalist and slow-paced look at architecture, nature and the nature of the outsider.