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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
One night. One cinema. Six movies. Are you ready for Freddy? That was the more than tempting carrot dangled in front of hungry horror fans by Sheffield horror festival Celluloid Screams, here breaking out of its extended weekend format to bring one of several events it will be holding this year outside of the main […]
Horror cinema teaches us many things including caution and recently, there have been more than a few lessons about the dangers of going up into the mountains – and not just for the usual reasons, such as (mainly) the risk of falling to your death from a great height. In Confession (2024) (aka Kokuhaku Confession), […]
Dre (Katy O’Brian) is an event organiser, DJ and general fixer at Bushwick’s Yum club, which is all set to bring in the punters with a drag show featuring top notch headliner Yasmine (Dominique Jackson). However, the draw of a more lucrative gig for Glitter Bitch Vodka has Yasmine heading for the hills – well, […]
Whilst director Julia Ducournau has made just three features to date (taking roughly a decade to do so), it’s a case of quality over quantity. Any minor quibbles with her work aside, the films she’s produced so far have offered intriguing takes on what could, in other hands, be quite simplistic body horrors. But in […]
Deathstalker (2025) is, by design, completely ridiculous. It’s also a film which, if it weren’t ridiculous, would be a disappointment. Both an amalgam and an homage to the original Deathstalker trilogy of the 1980s (produced by Roger Corman), it’s respectful to the original low-budget fantasy madness of the originals, whilst coming smack bang up to […]
Asher (Steve Kasan) is having a pretty bleak time. He’s out of work, struggling to pay even his phone bill and sleeping out of his car. In many respects, the art of super innovative indie flick Head Like a Hole is in how it takes and tweaks an economic situation which will be recognisable to […]
Australian apocalypse cinema has turned up some excellent examples over the past decade or so; that’s even without naming a certain franchise, itself named for a certain seminal character, which re-emerged in 2015. These Final Hours (2013) – which I now realise I reviewed a decade ago at the same festival – places modern Australia […]