FILMS

THREE WAYS TO DINE WELL (2021)
Short documentary
21 mins
Digital, Colour / B&W
UK
This essay film explores horror's relationship to eating, in over seventy horror films made by women, from the 1920s - 2020s.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
I had three aims for this film. First, I wanted the audience to discover that women worked in major creative roles on horror classics including The Shining, The Evil Dead and Rosemary’s Baby. Second, I wanted to illuminate little known horror films helmed by women, such as Nettie Peña's Home Sweet Home, Tracey Moffatt's Bedevil and Jackie Kong's Blood Diner. Third, I wanted to showcase the work of the women filmmakers who are now - finally - being written about in horror scholarship: Daria Nicolodi, Mary Lambert, Karen Arthur, Stephanie Rothman (and many more). To achieve this, I've created an essay film composed of film extracts from narrative and experimental shorts and features, and grant-supported, no/lo budget and commercial film. And the remit is global: this film contains women-made horror cinema from South Korea, Australia, USA, UK, Poland, France, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, Sweden, Taiwan, Laos, India, Italy, Iran, Finland and Czechoslovakia. Sit back, enjoy, and prepare to stack up a TON of new viewing recs.
FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
Official Selection, Nightmares Film Festival, USA
Official Selection, SLASH TV, Slash FilmFestival, Austria
Official Selection, Austin After Dark Film Festival, USA
Documentary Official Selection, GALACTICAT: Mostra de Cinema Fantàstic i de Terror de Ponent, Catalonia, Spain
Official Selection, Ax Wound Film Festival, USA
Official Selection, Chattanooga Film Festival, USA
Semi Finalist, Renegade Film Festival, USA
Official Selection, Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, Germany
Official Selection, Haunted House Fear Fest, UK
Screening, Department of Cinema & Media Arts, York University, Canada
Screening, BAFTSS Annual Conference, University of Southampton, UK
Screening, Department of Music, Theatre & Film, Saint Joseph's University, USA
FESTIVAL REVIEWS & AWARDS
Semi Finalist, Best Film Under 60 Minutes, Haunted House Fear Fest 2022
Best Documentary Film, Austin After Dark Film Festival Spring 2022
"incredibly well-researched and laced with witty humour" Ghouls Mag, February 2022
CREDITS
Written, Directed & Narrated by Alison Peirse
Edited by Chris Peirse
Original Music by _HEAVYLEG
Re-Recording Mixing by John Moore
Poster by Sophie Mo
Graphic Design by The Archipelago
ASSETS
You can download a press kit, including still images, here.