Chattanooga Film Festival 2022: Ghosts of the Past Haunt Atmospheric Gateway

Horror Obsessive
by Sean Parker

Tormented by his past, Mike (Timmy Creed) lays awake in his bed at night, tripping through the events of a day that ended with the death of his sister Hannah (Fiona Hardy). As part of an outlying gang involved with a criminal organization, Mike is no stranger to doling out violence, but having it hit home carries an insurmountable weight of guilt and blame. Mike is trying to overcome his demons. Pensively staring off into the distance, he remembers finding Hannah in the bushes of a narrow corridor by their home. Re-examining the scene in his mind’s eye, he desperately searches for any hint of a clue as to who did it and possibly hopes to somehow change the outcome. Sometimes the thing that haunts us the most lies in the regrets of our past, and that’s the sentiment that Niall Owens brings to life in his first feature-length film, Gateway. 

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