CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2022: GATEWAY

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by Justin Lore

The concept of the supernatural using the past to haunt us, rather than manifesting itself as a distinct and separate entity, is a well-trod concept in the horror genre. Event Horizon jumps to mind, with the entity possessing the ill-fated spaceship appearing to the crew as representations of their worst memories. Even Stephen King’s It is at its most unsettling when the titular glamour is using a dead brother or an abusive father as It’s mask of choice. A mirror held up to show us what we want to forget can be brutally effective in the right hands, and it can haunt us long after the camera stops rolling. In the case of the Irish film Gateway, Niall Owens has those hands giving us such a mirror.

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