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Penny Dreadful

SIX OF THE FEST

ast year’s FrightFest Glasgow was one of the last live events before lockdown landed. showed there, as did and , so the new line-up’s arrival is a bittersweet reminder of what life used to look like. It consists of just six films, which you can watch on demand from 5-7 March. It might not have the same community feeling as is a high school siege movie which styles itself as with a schoolgirl protagonist; sees a journalist investigate Mexican folklore; hitman thriller comes from Canada; so does , which sees a horror critic contending with a serial killer self-help group. From France, the black and white sees a thief trapped in a strange house during a party; dark obsession study , also French, features a troubled Uber driver who meets a deaf dancer. Get your tickets here: .

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