Kicking off this year’s FrightFest in London for its 26th year was Abner Pastoll’s Nervous that takes a unique look at the voicelessness many women feel in relationships, as well as the wider world.

From Raw to In My Skin, Alpha, Titane, and Swallow, French body horror has long captivated genre fans thanks to its unflinching, visceral extremes, its unique blend of high art and exploitation, and ...

More than 10 years since the release of his first short film, Disquiet, Nicholas Pineda is back in the directing chair with eerie found footage flick Infirmary, which enjoys its UK premiere at this ...

Binding Eva’s Saturday evening slot at this year’s FrightFest is a vote of confidence in writer-director Conscian Morgan’s impressive debut, and it’s easy to see why it’s earned it. His psychological ...

A hoarder’s house can reveal many things in its piles. Newspapers from eras past, old food containers lost in the depths of dirty clothes, or even people clearly being held against their will by an ...

From its opening moments, Fresh Meat leaves no doubt about the kind of film it wants to be. Director Daniel Turres wastes little time plunging audiences into a grisly opening sequence, bathed in ...

The main character in Ponderosa, a quirky satire on American life, is the streets. Or, on trend, the liminal space between them. Rob Rice’s stylish Ponderosa will occasionally inspire flashes of ...

As part of his “Great Movies” series, Roger Ebert described Hayao Mitazaki’s My Neighbour Totoro as a film “based on experience, situation and exploration, not on conflict and threat.” Of all Miyazaki ...

What happens when drag queens, a runaway train and a disaster movie collide? That’s how you get the gloriously chaotic STOP! THAT! TRAIN! It’s a riotous, campy ride that embraces the absurdity of its ...

Who doesn’t love a cryptid? The spooky monsters that may or may not exist all over the world and that have a healthy place in global folklore are the stuff of legend, maybe literally. It’s that ...

Earlier this summer, Britain’s greatest living filmmaker, Mike Leigh, announced that his next film was likely to be his last. Amidst yet another heatwave, what better time to look back at his ode to ...

If you’ve attended a film festival before, then you know there is nothing more exciting than a world premiere. In a time when it is rare to go into a film with zero expectations, there is no better ...