Celluloid Screams 2026: Pathetic Fallacy

Pathetic Fallacy (2026) – the new feature from Daniel Isn’t Real director Adam Egypt Mortimer – is a designedly oddball proposition. It establishes an achingly real bedrock of love and loss, before using that verisimilitude to launch unreservedly into something completely different – trippy, oblique and meandering. However, given the myriad ways in which it […]

Mayhem Film Festival: Daniel Isn’t Real (2019)

Daniel Isn’t Real was introduced as ‘a cross between Drop Dead Fred and Hellraiser’; if you are immediately wondering how that could ever play out, then rest assured, this is as good an approximation as you are likely to get. This film is incredibly dark throughout, threaded through with ambiguities which grow the more you […]