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Natalie Erika James, Bella Heathcote, Robin Nevin RELIC TEN BURNING QUESTIONS: talking about horror with purpose beyond scares

NATALIE: Yes, I was obsessed with Asian horror growing up and gothic horror literature, as well. That certainly played a part in influencing my work as a whole. When I came up with the idea for RELIC, I was staying at my grandma’s house, which is has been knocked down since, but at the time it was a 150-year-old Japanese house and it always freaked me the hell out as a kid. So, being back there – the combination of being in a creepy old house and the Alzheimer’s was the seed for RELIC.

TRIBECA 2018 REVIEWS: Bill Oliver's feature debut JONATHAN is a sci-fi mind game that scores and shows real promise for the new director's next projects

Bill Oliver’s first feature film Jonathan arrives into a sort of renaissance moment for sci-fi anthology tales. Employing near-future brain science tropes reminiscent in some ways of last year’s Get Out, fans of the British Netflix series Black Mirror will be able to jump right into this literal mind game of a movie.