Kori (Emily Browning) and Nick (Jai Courtney) have just got engaged: nothing says ‘You’re my world’ quite like pushing an engagement ring into view whilst someone is eating a pub lasagne. Kori says yes, but you you get the impression that’s because she can’t quite fathom how to say ‘no’; this is one of those […]
Perhaps ‘enjoyable’ isn’t a perfect word for this, but it’ll have to do – because it’s genuinely enjoyable to find a piece of unsettling supernatural horror like Never After Dark (2026), even if the film pulls away somewhat from pure supernatural horror in its final act. Nonetheless, it clearly knows how to scare, and director […]
By contributor Adam Page I’ll start at the service station, as that’s where everything starts and everything ends, and because there’s no more honest place in the Western world than a motorway rest stop in high summer. You know the kind; somewhere in the south of France, which sounds romantic until you’re there: a big […]
Pathetic Fallacy (2026) – the new feature from Daniel Isn’t Real director Adam Egypt Mortimer – is a designedly oddball proposition. It establishes an achingly real bedrock of love and loss, before using that verisimilitude to launch unreservedly into something completely different – trippy, oblique and meandering. However, given the myriad ways in which it […]
Crawlers (2026) is an all-too-tempting proposition for a review. You know you needn’t dwell too long on a synopsis: it’s pretty clear what the film is about. But filmmaker Ángel Gómez Hernández understands that we understand what the film is all about, so we can quickly get beyond any distracting complexities and ponder how entertaining […]
Ligia (Greta Marti) and Mayte (Macarena Oz) are both best friends and outcasts in the ever-brutal world of teenage friendships and rivalries. As they each prepare to celebrate their Quinceañera – the traditional Latin American celebration of a girl’s fifteenth birthday – they on one hand get closer, but on the other, begin to grow […]
What if the end of the world came not with a bang, but a whimper? We’re primed for bombs, or zombies, or plagues – or maybe all three – but maybe, just maybe, it won’t be like that. That’s the opening premise of the Adams Family’s most recent feature film, The Glorious Dead: in many […]
Boyd Grayson (Chris Colfer) is the sole heir of the ancient ancestral pile of Grayson Manor: it’s a splendid, if largely deserted old house which (unfortunately for him) comes pre-installed with a domineering matriarch (Alice Krige) who is by this time more than ready for her son to beget a grandson, securing the family line. […]
We meet a group of friends at a (genuinely loud, messy and confusing) nightclub where the time-honoured consumption of lines of coke followed by shots is cut short by a fistfight: ah, the holy triumvirate of a night out. The group retreats to a nearby takeaway to plan their next move: Zack (Nikita Chronis), who […]
We begin Mountain King (2025) somewhere in the snowy Swedish countryside: the unequivocally wholesome activity of pressing flowers may seem like an unorthodox start for a horror film, but it soon starts to make more sense, especially from the perspective of what this seems to be – a folk horror. We have, as already mentioned, […]
For many film fans, director Karim Ouelhaj probably established his style and vision with the staggering, stark Megalomaniac (2022) – and Heat of Madness (2026) is his first feature since that break-out title, which perhaps invites a certain level of comparison. The first thing to note is – despite some similarities in aesthetics and a […]