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.
Cinema Broken Bird review: Exploring life, love and loss
Joanne Mitchell’s mortuary psychodrama disinters madness from mourning and poetry from perversion.
Cinema You’re Next film review: A guaranteed crowd-pleaser
Bloodsoaked and savagely funny home invasion horror, here’s our review for You’re Next.
Cinema Alien: Romulus Review: Exciting, atmospheric and inventive
Oppressed young folk try to escape a grim colony planet by raiding a derelict space station which is the site of disastrous experiments with the xenomorph life form.
Cinema Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Review: Sweat, dust and roaring engines!
George Miller is once again firing on all cylinders with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Our review…
Cinema Borderlands review: Not even Jack Black and Cate Blanchett can save this
We review the big screen videogame adaptation of Borderlands…
I Saw The TV Glow Review: A TV Nightmare
Prepare to be disturbed with I Saw The TV Glow. Our review from the Sundance London film festival…
Cinema The First Omen Review: Meet Damien’s Mum
With a summer of sequels, prequels and re-boots approaching, could The First Omen be one of the best? Our review…
TV Batman: Caped Crusader review – J.J. Abrams, Matt Reeves, and Bruce Timm redefine the Dark Knight for a new era
Batman’s back in a brand new animated series that beautifully blends the nostalgia of the 90s with an updated more serious tone.
Books The Book Of Elsewhere review: Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s novel is an intriguing and trippy ride
Based on the BRZRKR comic books, we review Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s The Book Of Elsewhere.
Hell Hole review for Fantasia 2024: A hybridised evolution for the Poser/Adams family
The Poser/Adams family’s latest excursion mines gonzo depths to unearth monstrousness and maternity within the male members of a fracking crew.
Cinema The Dead Thing review: A unique merger of online dating and the supernatural
In Elric Kane’s erotic ghost(ing) story, an alienated young woman finds her kindred spirit in a promiscuous lost soul.
Cinema Deadpool and Wolverine review: A dynamic duo for the ages
Get ready for some meta fun that pulls plenty of punches with Deadpool and Wolverine. Our review…
