Strange Darling review: A twisted romance that upends expectations
There are no safe words to describe JT Mollner’s twisted hookup of dating etiquette and serial killer thrill-seeking
Cinema The Substance: A Dazzlingly Daring Body Horror
Coralie Fargeat once again reworks film history with rageful indignation with The Substance.
Cinema BFI London Film Festival 2024: Genre highlights
From near-future romances and post-apocalyptic stories, through to generational horrors and, erm, Amy Adams turning into a dog, check out the genre picks for this year’s London Film Festival.
Cinema Starve Acre Review: A chilling and atmospheric folk horror
Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark star in Daniel Kokotajlo’s atmospheric Yorkshire-set folk horror. Read our review for Starve Acre…
Saint Clare review: Psychodrama, coming-of-age narrative and rape revenger
Mitzi Peirone’s serial-killing psychodrama pits a damaged Catholic schoolgirl against small-town male toxicity
Azrael: Angel of Death review: Violent, vicious and visceral
E.L. Katz’s post-apocalyptic survival thriller pits a determined young woman against a cult community of believers
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee review: A bittersweet reflection
Jon Spira’s documentary feature, The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee brings back to life an actor who would happily have seen his horror past stay buried.
Members Club Frightfest review: A dark horror-comedy that twists masculinity and witchcraft
Marc Coleman’s horror comedy pits four ageing male strippers against an even older witch who wants their manhood.
7 Keys Frightfest review: A taut, violent thriller
Joy Wilkinson’s impressive feature debut is all at once city symphony, mobile romance and tense urban psychothriller
The Last Voyage of the Demeter review: Rewriting the script
André Øvredal’s fatalistic oceanic horror revamps Stoker’s seafaring slaughter for a multiracial future.
Touchdown Frightfest review: Chilling sci-fi debut exploring humanity’s first contact with alien life
Josephine Rose’s mediated sci-fi feature debut shows an online network of friends struggling to comprehend alien contact from the ground up
Hauntology review: Spooky narratives of injustice and discrimination
Parker Brennon’s LGBTQ ghost story collection allegorises a young black queer woman’s embrace of the difference running in her family
Cinema Cursed in Baja Frightfest review: Crossing genres and borders
Jeff Daniel Phillips noirish monster movie smuggles recurring destinies and recidivist tendencies across the border.
Cinema Mutilator 2 review: A comic satire and a slice-and-dice shocker
Hooked on killing: Buddy Cooper’s belated self-referential slasher requel satirises its own remaking, while taking out its own cast and crew
The Bunker review: Isolation, alienation and bunkered-down insanity
In Brian Hanson’s science fiction feature, an alien invasion resonates with the Covid lockdown while intersecting with feminism.
Shelby Oaks review: Ambitious, unnerving and atmospheric
Chris Stuckmann’s occult horror finds missing persons, maternal anxieties and madness between its multi-mediated textures.
An Taibhse (The Ghost) review: Enigmatic, equivocal and deeply unsettling
John Farrelly’s Irish-language ghost story is an incestuous merger of gothic psychodrama and perverted coming of age.
“I just love things that you haven’t seen before.” 7 Keys director Joy Wilkinson on her new thriller
Ahead of its UK Premiere at FrightFest, we speak to 7 Keys writer and director Joy Wilkinson about her London-based thriller.
“It’s quite salacious and naughty.” 7 Keys star Emma McDonald on her new thriller
Ahead of its UK Premiere at FrightFest, we speak to 7 Keys star Emma McDonald about working on the toxic London-based thriller…
Cinema Broken Bird review: Exploring life, love and loss
Joanne Mitchell’s mortuary psychodrama disinters madness from mourning and poetry from perversion.
