Beth Bennett

Words: Elliott Bennett Sex, Death & the Slasher was a workshop presented by LMF in August, led by Em J Gilbertson and Elliott Bennett, hosted before our exclusive preview of Jane Schoenbrun’s new film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, starring Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder. Following the American slasher film from its early beginnings to the blood-soaked films of the 1990s, before turning towards queer and trans horror. Through watching clips, discussing themes, sex, punishment,...

Our Hero, Balthazar is the riotous debut feature from writer-director Oscar Boyson. It takes a macabre premise—a lonely, attention-starved Manhattan rich kid who becomes obsessed with stopping a school shooter in Texas—and gleefully subverts it.

A meditation on the consequences of grief, All Of Us Strangers is a time-slipping, supernatural drama like you’ve never seen before. Words: Beth Bennett Adapted from the 1987 Japanese novel by Taichi Yamada, Andrew Haigh transposes the Tokyo-set story into contemporary London, using the concept to explore the sanctity of childhood love, loss, and desperation over the more dark excavations that the novel takes. In All Of Us Strangers, we meet Adam (Andrew Scott), a gay man on the precipice of...