Piper review at FrightFest: An uncanny intersection of fantasy and reality
Anthony Waller’s Lower Saxony-set modern fairytale confounds the psychological and the supernatural while disinterring an old legend
Farang review at FrightFest: Revenge-fuelled rampage
In Xavier Gens’ Thai-set hyperviolent revenger, an eternal outsider must fight to escape his criminal past and recover a normal family life.
Transmission review at FrightFest: Seeking answers in the Void
Michael Hurst’s multimediated metamovie switches between different nighttime TV programmes all telling the same apocalyptic story.
Hostile Dimensions review at FrightFest: Scary, funny sci-fi on a budget
Graham Hughes’ found-footage multiverse mystery sends documentarians on a quest to find a missing woman and a better world
The J-Horror Virus review: Delving into a cultural phenomenon
Sarah Appleton and Jasper Sharp’s cross-cultural documentary traces the origins and influences of a Japanese horror genre.
Cinema The Dive Review: A deep dive story of survival in extremis
Maximilian Erlenwein’s breathless thriller traps an experienced diver under water, with her estranged sister her only lifeline.
Cinema Blue Beetle Review: Superheroes get their mojo back – but is it too late?
You’re in for a pleasant surprise with DC’s latest superhero flick. Our review of Blue Beetle…
New Life review at Fantasia: A tense, breathless chase movie
In John Rosman’s genre-inf(l)ected chase movie, the future of humanity may depend on an ordinary woman turned fugitive.
Cinema Haunted Mansion Review: Head back to Gracey Manor
Twenty years after our first trip to Gracey Manor, Haunted Mansion has another adaptation. Our review…
It Lives Inside review at Fantasia: Cross-cultural identity, assimilation and absorption
In Bishal Dutta’s horror hybrid, It Lives Inside, an adolescent Indian-American risks losing her own soul to cultural conformity
Pandemonium review at Fantasia: A dark and grotesque (divine) comedy
Quarxx’s eschatological epic confronts its sinful characters with the Hell waiting just on the other side of the door.
Eight Eyes review at Fantasia: A heady love letter to 70s exploitation cinema
Austin Jennings’ feature debut tells a contemporary tale – with retrospective stylings – of American tourists entrapped in local ritual
What You Wish For review: A generous serving of social allegory | Fantasia
With this taut culinary thriller, Nicholas Tomnay serves up a darkly comic allegory of the moral iniquities of global economics.
Cinema Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem review: Gleeful sewer-surfing action
New York City. Mutated by ooze, four sewer-dwelling martial-arts proficient teenage turtles decide to battle evil to win the approval of humans – but find the major threat to the city comes from Superfly, another mutant.
T Blockers review at Fantasia: Monstrous metamovie explores trans experience
Alice Maio Mackay’s monstrous metamovie explores trans experience through alien parasitic invasion plotting.
River review at Fantasia 2023: Looping sci-fi adventure
In Junta Yamaguchi’s second looping SF feature, an inn’s staff and residents, frozen in a recurring two minutes, desperately seek a future.
The Sacrifice Game review at Fantasia: A whole world of diabolical desire
Jenn Wexler’s Seventies-set school invasion horror lets Manson-esque cultists and abandoned pupils raise some hell together
Where The Devil Roams review at Fantasia: A grotesque carnivalesque tale
The Poser/Adams’ latest family outing is a carnivalesque tale of a clan sticking – and stitching – together in Depression-Era America.
TV Good Omens Season Two Review: Devilishly delightful
Neil Gaiman, David Tennant and Michael Sheen are back for more celestial chaos with Season Two of Good Omens. Our review…
Cinema Sympathy for the Devil Review: Joel Kinnaman and Nicolas Cage star in stylish backroads noir
In Yuval Adler’s noirish road movie, a father-to-be is taken for a wild night ride by a ghost from his past.
