Varsity talks to student filmmaker Frankie Browne about filmmaking in lockdown, his love of horror movies, and his short film ‘Midnight Feast’ Visually impaired, Frankie uses meticulous storyboarding to guide the lens and communicate his vision to his DOPHeidi Atkins with permission for Varsity With both parents in the film industry, Caius fresher Frankie Browne is a self-confessed ‘nepo-baby’. As of late, this has become quite the insult online, but for Frankie, all that this status has given him is some pointers in editing, a (again self-professed) great taste in films, a signed Under the Skin poster, and an admirable drive to make movies. It’s safe to say that Frankie is no Lily-Rose Depp. “The best horror films have a vibrancy of emotion,” because without comedy, horror becomes “toneless” Starting with making sketches with his friends back in 2018, Frankie has been making films in whatever form he can for a long time. He then gradually progressed into making horror shorts, and his latest project, Midnight Feast, is a short film which is as funny as it is scary. We follow Rowan and her strange bear, Bunk, as she chats to her babysitter, who is far too old to deal
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