Saint Maria's Way
2026 · 6m · United Kingdom
Directed by Chris Turner
Genres: experimental, horror, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
Britain's six million CCTV cameras capture a ghost story about being watched by the indifferent eye of surveillance.
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Finally—someone weaponizing CCTV footage against the genre itself, turning the panopticon into a séance. This is the kind of premise that makes you actually *want* to sit through a ghost story because the real haunting is the system watching back.
Turner positions himself in a lineage of surveillance cinema and folk horror that runs from De Palma through contemporary British unease, executing the formal constraint with the kind of deliberate pacing that demands repeat viewings to unlock its visual grammar.
The decision to let the CCTV's cold, indifferent timestamp become the film's emotional anchor—treating the camera as witness rather than judge—is what separates this from every other haunted-footage experiment floating around.
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Does this technological omnipresence ensure our safety? Or just indiscriminately observe us, coldly documenting the present and creating flickering ghosts of the past?