Having been blown away by Vivarium when Mayhem Film Festival screened it in 2019, I just had to find my way to talk to director Lorcan Finnegan about his new film, Nocebo (2022). It wasn’t easy, with time zones and then technology working against us, but it happened; and I must say Nocebo is a film that really deserves the effort.

Sometimes when interviewing a film director, I could close my eyes and imagine we were giggling together about their work over a beer. It was pretty much like that when I met with Shawn Burkett recently to talk about Don’t Fuck in the Woods 2 (2022), which has recently been released onto VOD.

Horror films set in or near the arctic are rare. We have The Thing (1982), 30 Days of Night (2007), a handful of others… and now Slash/Back (2022), set and shot in Pangnirtung, Nunavut; and if you’re not familiar with geography, that’s the Canadian territory that’s basically next door to Greenland.