She Listens Alone opens with online counsellor Sabrina (Alivia Levie) appearing in the bottom right-hand corner of a laptop screen, mutely listening as a gamut of strangers talk her through their life issues – kids, divorce, loneliness, anxiety. Then we zoom in on one session in particular, which stands out because it’s a woman fantasising […]
Heresy (2024) begins – in a non-specified, but very much rural, pre-industrial setting – with a young woman, Frieda (Anneke Sluiters) dismayed by the arrival of her period. Although her husband seems, at least initially, kind, it’s clear that her continued lack of a pregnancy is a big problem in this harsh, impoverished community, one […]
When the father of Mick Courtney (Richard Glover) and Drew Courtney (Jonathan Broke) passes away, these two estranged brothers are brought together in order to scatter their father’s ashes in a place he held dear – the Lake District. Forced to endure each other’s company on a weekend trip there, will they manage to put […]
A lone hiker (Tara Perry) is distracted by her phone and gets ambushed by a knife-wielding stranger in the woods – that’s it, that’s the chosen opening to Where Darkness Falls (2025), but it seems Trish, the hiker, survives her ordeal, racking up a slew of therapy appointments and meditation recordings in the year which […]
Veteran cop Teddy Sharpe (Lou Diamond Phillips) attempts to keep law and order as the senior officer representing the Tribal Force of the Thunderstone reservation. His methods are not always convention and he’s often at odds with local Sheriff Darius Humphrey (Nick Stahl) because Teddy understands the social and economic issues which plague the generally […]
Unlucky in love Drew (Drew Sinclair) wanders into a pub and finds the gaff empty except for Johnny (Nathan Geering), who announces that the place is closed and that Drew should find an alternative establishment to enjoy his refreshment. However, it turns out that Drew is meeting someone there for a first date and attempts […]
The love affair with analogue tech is alive and well in Game Over (2026); add to that a few clear nods to a fair few pre-existing films (Ring and Evilspeak in particular), and you’ll get a sense of what to expect here. Is it groundbreaking? No it isn’t. Is it affectionate? Yes it is. We […]
In a remote Shetland cottage – one where you’d think there’d be a vested interest in repairing gaping holes to the wilds outside – a couple in bed are being spied on through said gaping hole by a blue-eyed Peeping Tom, something which gives way to a montage of pagan-ish nightmares and images before we […]
Evil Thread (2026) tries to do a great deal during its ninety-minute runtime, so we begin a little bit meta – with a couple, Alice and Archie, both appearing in a horror film and watching a horror film, in an opening scene replete with silliness, like Archie cowering from the screen behind a blanket; this […]
What starts out as a quiet Saturday for Sandra (Nerea Barros), her husband Liam (Willam Miller) and their children Emma (Alma Bruno) and Lucía (Claudia Lilley) slowly turns into a nightmare, as the worldwide outbreak of a virulent disease reaches their sleepy, suburban neighbourhood… We’re in infected/undead territory once again, which is not necessarily a […]
A camera whirls through an unkempt indoor food market in Madrid; it’s soon equally swirling with racist stereotypes about the Chinese vendors working here which – at least briefly, in the world of Buffet Libre (2025) – turn out to be true. The Chinese, represented here by wife Xian (Yan Huang) really are catching and […]