A horrifying incident involving a child reveals the malevolent presence of an ancient witch residing within the basement walls.
Actress Caroline Quigley and producer Paul Kim will present and Q&A
Grimmfest Says: Aaron Fradkin, director of the slyly satiric Satanic spin on SUNSET BOULEVARD, VAL, (Grimmfest 2021) makes a welcome return with the UK premiere of BEEZEL, which really could not be more different in tone and approach. An enigmatic and unsettling chronicle of the increasingly sinister legends and dark history surrounding a suburban New England house over a fifty-year period, it offers a portmanteau of narratively interlinked vignettes, exploring the influence of an ancient evil upon several generations of the same family.
Assembled from disparate types of “found footage”, the film presents its various and varied stories across multiple formats, from Super-8, to VHS, to the HD digital camera of a mobile phone, not simply to suggest the passage of time, but also the changes in how people record, interact with, and interrogate their own experiences down the years. The result is a study in slippery, ever-shifting subjectivity, a series of overlapping, sometimes contradictory personal narratives and slowly accumulating information, that gradually reveal something all the more terrifying because we only ever catch fleeting, frightful hints and glimpses of it through the eyes – and unreliable recording devices – of others.
Part of our IN CAMERA strand.