Cinema Tron: Ares Review – Blinded by the lights
A visual masterpiece with a killer NIN soundtrack, Tron: Ares’ sleek surface hides a hollow core. We review if spectacle can bring people back to the grid.
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Cinema HIM review: A stunning, beautiful misfire
Justin Tipping’s HIM arrives with no shortage of ambition, boasting striking visuals, a powerhouse turn from Marlon Wayans, and the backing of Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions. Yet for all its style and bold ideas, the film struggles to pull its many moving parts into a satisfying whole.
TV Alien: Earth review – The best Alien story since Aliens
Dark, whimsical and genuinely frightening, Alien: Earth proves there’s still life — and terror — left in the Alien universe.
Cinema The Long Walk review: One of the year’s very best
The Long Walk might just be the best Stephen King adaptation since The Green Mile…
Books The Transcendent Tide review: The perfect end to the Enceladons Trilogy
We review The Transcendent Tide, the conclusion to Doug Johnstone’s Enceladons Trilogy. A sci-fi eco-thriller that will break your heart and leave you breathless…
Borderline Review: Unhinged and unexpected
From the writer of Cocaine Bear comes a darkly funny stalker thriller that sings, screams, and sashays its way into your weekend watchlist.
DVD & Blu-Ray The Conjuring 4K review: Horror classic looks scarier than ever
James Wan’s The Conjuring returns in 4K Ultra HD, offering fans the ultimate way to revisit the horror classic that launched a universe of scares.
Cinema The Conjuring: Last Rites review – some fine self-contained shivers
Perhaps the final case for demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, as another ‘true story’ is spun into a busy spookshow.
Above the Knee (2024) Review | FrightFest
Viljar Bøe’s body (dysmorphia) horror tracks one man’s fetishistically fixated path to self-destructive happiness.
Cinema The Toxic Avenger review: Hard to see the point
Remake of the well-remembered 1984 trash comedy. An aspirant cult movie which may not attract many cultists.
213 Bones (2025) Review | FrightFest
Jeffrey Primm’s first (and last) feature has a masked figure slashing through a class of forensic anthropology students in the early Nineties
Bone Lake (2024) Review | FrightFest
Paradise lost: Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s erotic thriller, Bone Lake sees a fracturing couple forced to share shoreline vacation space with seductive, predatory strangers
Blockhead (2025) Review | FrightFest
Matt Harlock’s sophisticated poioumenon confounds the creativity, conscience and craziness of a blocked writer dying to confess.
Blood Shine (2025) Review | FrightFest
Here comes the sun: Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks’ reflexive folk horror turns suffering and sacrifice into a cult movie
Pig Hill (2025) Review | FrightFest
Kevin Lewis’ slippery metahorror entangles urban legends and unspeakable truths in a case of missing young women
The Red Mask (2025) Review | FrightFest
Ritesh Gupta’s self-reflexive slasher deconstructs and reconstructs the rewriting of an old-school home invasion movie for today’s atomised audience.
In A Cold Vein (2025) Review | FrightFest
Eric Owen’s Texan neo noir has a confused career criminal struggling in the dark to save his family
Your Host (2025) Review | FrightFest
In DW Medoff’s ‘torture porn’ revival, four chained captives have their guilt triggered and sorely tested by an unhinged game show host.
Appofeniacs (2025) Review | FrightFest
Chris Marrs Piliero’s deepfake debut feature is a rambunctious ensemble clusterfuck messing online with its characters’ identity and reality.
CognAItive (2025) Review | FrightFest
Terminally online: Tommy Savas’ technothriller suggests that we may be abused, gaslit, manipulated partners in our relationship with AI
