The Tempohouse, Lorna Irvine

A whispering phantasmagoria, a creepy, provocative waking dream..

Her eerie voiceover warns of taking over the cities, of spreading disease and multiplying. It’s not difficult to see this film as an extended metaphor for the dangers of othering outsiders..of the propaganda of fear perpetuated by our ridiculous, right-wing government talking immigration and multiculturalism, with their recent hateful tirades against ‘swarms’ of foreigners coming into the UK..

Yet even on another level, as a simple chronicle of scurrying rats looking for somewhere cosy to set up home, it’s deeply unnerving..