SCOPOPHOBIA
DISCOVERY SCREEN 1
SATURDAY 24 AUGUST - 1.00 PM
Director: Aled Owen.
With: Catrin Jones, Emma Stacey, Ellen Jane-Thomas, Bethany Williams-Potter.
UK 2024. 102 mins.
FIRST BLOOD - WORLD PREMIERE - Scopophobia: The extreme, irrational fear of being looked at. Four girls return home to a ghost town but find themselves being followed. By someone who knows what they did. Or just their guilty conscience? However, there's more to each girl than meets the eye. From Melyn Pictures, inspired by the Giallo films of Italy. Giallo translates to Yellow, which in Welsh is Melyn. First-time director Aled Owen uses the titular fear of being stared at and relates it to the medium of film itself in an exciting genre crossbreed of slasher, horror and Hitchcockian thriller within a gore-fest trench coat.
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.