A Banquet is a feast for fans of horror, especially the psychological kind. Scottish filmmaker Ruth Paxton’s directorial debut, making its world premiere at TIFF, revolves around a mother and her t…
Scottish filmmaker Ruth Paxton’s directorial debut, making its world premiere at TIFF, revolves around a mother and her two teenage daughters who dwell in an expensive but austere house in Britain. The mom tries to maintain a veneer of order in the home after her husband commits suicide, but any pretense of normalcy is shattered when the eldest child, Betsey , undergoes a mystical experience while staring into a blood-red moon.
The idea of consuming food becomes odious to Betsey, yet despite refusing sustenance, she doesn’t drop an ounce. Paxton describes the film as a “modern” take on the horror genre because it doesn’t rely on standard techniques to unsettle an audience, like jump scares.“Most horror, if you kind of unpick it, is rooted in things that we are afraid of as human beings,” Paxton noted.
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