CARA
DISCOVERY SCREEN 2
SUNDAY 25 AUGUST - 3.45 PM
Director: Hayden Hewitt.
With: Elle O’Hara, Michaela Longden, Donna Louise Bryan, Johnny Vivash.
UK 2024. 96 mins.
WORLD PREMIERE - A history of abuse, a roommate coming apart at the mental health seams, a failed career in online sex work with dismissive viewers, a father incapable of communication and a well-meaning mother who reaches out but does nothing. Determined that she will not be sent back to an institution where she believes she was assaulted, Cara has a plan. One to ensure the doctors and her mother can’t put her back in the Sunnyside hospital. Enlisting the help of a subservient punter and a therapist, Cara sets the wheels in motion for her escape strategy with brutal and horrific consequences.
FrightFest features horror, fantasy, science fiction and thriller films with an overall 18 rating. Therefore, all films will feature an assortment of the following: supernatural/alien threats, strong language, upsetting scenes, violence, gore, blood, suicide, monstrous menace, tobacco products, creature mayhem, psychological intimidation, sexual imagery, death, child endangerment, maiming, religious profanity, abusive behaviour, bullying, nudity, drug use, strobe lighting and racial stereotyping.