The Sitges Fantasy Film Festival has grown to become the most important and - you might say - summative festival for the year. Most of the major films displayed at the Festival have been shown elsewhere but it is at Sitges that everyone focuses on producing what might be called the Oscars of the Fantasy Film world.
Best picture this year was Austro-German The Devil's Bath / Des Teufels Bad.
The cinematography is breath-taking though the story bleak beyond measure. Set in Austria in the 18th century, a woman is sentenced to death after her baby dies - nobody will support her. Slowly, inexorably, the horror of her ostracised existence mounts. Horror with a thinking cap.
John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush shared the Best Actor award for The Rule of Jenny Pen. What's it like to be immobile after a stroke, trapped in a nursing home, terrorised by a fellow resident who is mad and vicious, aided by a glove puppet? This is psychological horror at its best:
Kristine Froseth won Best Actress for her role in time travel drama Desert Road
The popular People's Choice Award, voted on by cinemagoers, went to Strange Darling in which a one-night stand turns into something much more sinister.
Best picture this year was Austro-German The Devil's Bath / Des Teufels Bad.
The cinematography is breath-taking though the story bleak beyond measure. Set in Austria in the 18th century, a woman is sentenced to death after her baby dies - nobody will support her. Slowly, inexorably, the horror of her ostracised existence mounts. Horror with a thinking cap.
John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush shared the Best Actor award for The Rule of Jenny Pen. What's it like to be immobile after a stroke, trapped in a nursing home, terrorised by a fellow resident who is mad and vicious, aided by a glove puppet? This is psychological horror at its best:
Kristine Froseth won Best Actress for her role in time travel drama Desert Road
The popular People's Choice Award, voted on by cinemagoers, went to Strange Darling in which a one-night stand turns into something much more sinister.
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