Stacie Passon’s We Have Always Lived In The Castle premiered on the festival circuit before the Netflix launch of Mike Flanagan’s series based on Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting Of Hill House, but it’s certainly set to benefit from a resurgence of interest in adapting Jackson’s fiction for the screen. A feature-length take on Jackson’s short
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There’s a mystery to be solved in horror I See You starring Helen Hunt By Josh Slater-Williams 05-07-19 1 Released: TBA Director: Adam Randall Cast: Helen Hunt, Jon Tenney, Judah Lewis, Owen Teague, Libe Barer, Sam Trammell, Gregory Alan Williams Distributor: Arrow Films If you like this, try… Don’t Breathe Fede Alvarez’s horror comes to
Tony D’Aquino’s The Furies is The Running Man meets Predators rolled into a slasher By Josh Slater-Williams 05-07-19 1 Released: 16 September Certificate: 18 Director: Tony D’Aquino Cast: Airlie Dodds, Linda Ngo, Taylor Ferguson, Ebony Vagulans, Danielle Horvat, Tom O’Sullivan Distributor: Signature Entertainment If you like this, try… Predators The Furies’ setup surprisingly has a lot in common with, of
Things get even more shit for Hawkins, Indiana, in the third season of 80s-inspired sci-fi mystery series Stranger Things. Will Byers may be back from both the Upside-Down and the clutches of the Mind Flayer, but there’s something even more sinister lurking in the shadows of the once-sleepy town. Everything is bright, shiny and covered
Does Ari Aster’s Midsommar wow (and scare) as much as Hereditary? Find out with our review… By Elena Lazic 01-07-19 1,433 Released: 5 July Certificate: 18 Director: Ari Aster Cast: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter Distributor: Entertainment If you like this, try… The Sacrament This mockumentary is scarier because it is
When we see Peter Parker at the outset of Spider-Man: Far From Home, he’s helping his aunt at a charity fundraiser by wearing the spider suit and saying a few words to the crowd. Aunt May gives a speech about how difficult it’s been for people like her to reappear after what they’re calling ‘the
It’s plants vs zombies in Ever After, a film adaptation of Olivia Vieweg’s comic Endzeit By Josh Slater-Williams 26-06-19 709 Released: TBC Director: Carolina Hellsgård Cast: Gro Swantje Kohlhof, Maja Lehrer, Trine Dyrholm, Barbara Philipp Distributor: Unannounced If you like this, try… The Girl With All The Gifts Another eco-orientated zombie-apocalypse road movie, this time
Chucky slashes his way into a high-tech new world in the Child’s Play remake By Elena Lazic 20-06-19 792 Released: 21 June 2019 Certificate: 15 Director: Lars Klevberg Writer: Tyler Burton Smith Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Hamill, Brian Tyree Henry, Gabriel Bateman, Tim Matheson If you like this, try… Silent Night, Deadly Night The traumatised
Between the red cape and the heat vision, Brightburn clearly has no pretences about what exactly it is drawing from. Intentionally hemming extremely close to the Superman mythos ingrained in the minds of most people on the planet, the film is set in the fictional rural town of Brightburn, Kansas (strongly resembling Smallville). It opens
In 1997 sci-fi hit Men In Black, Will Smith‘s energetic, wise-cracking rookie was the perfect foil for Tommy Lee Jones’ wearied, straight-talking veteran. In Men In Black: International, Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth’s characters are both glorified goofballs, making it hard for them to match the predecessor’s dynamic. Having infiltrated the organisation’s New York branch,
Jessica Jones is back for the third and final season. Here’s our review… By Abigail Chandler 10-06-19 1 Released: 14 June Certificate: 15 Creator: Melissa Rosenberg Cast: Krysten Ritter, Rachael Taylor, Eka Darville, Carrie-Anne Moss Distributor: Netflix If you like this, try… Daredevil Re-watch Season 3 of Daredevil and pretend that it was Marvel Netflix’s
Black Mirror is back, but is it better than ever? Here’s our review of Season 5… By Abigail Chandler 03-06-19 33 Released: 5 June 2019 Creator: Charlie Brooker Cast: Anthony Mackie, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Miley Cyrus, Andrew Scott Distributor: Netflix If you like this, try… Rick And Morty It might be funnier than Black Mirror,
Creep director Patrick Brice knows how to hit that mark where awkward laughs turn to real fear (and back again), and writer Sam Bain has explored a world of gut-wrenchingly awkward interactions from the domestic (Peep Show) to the horrifying (Four Lions). However, one of the most surprising things about workplace satire Corporate Animals is
The very things that have made Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s much-beloved Good Omens such a hit with readers for two decades are also, unfortunately, the things that make it so difficult to adapt, which explains why its taken this long to make it to screen, and why Gaiman is probably the only person
Octavia Spencer is having the best time in the title role of Tate Taylor’s twisted, twisty Ma By Jonathan Hatfull 31-05-19 5,106 Released: 31 May 2019 Certificate: 15 Director: Tate Taylor Writer: Scotty Landes Cast: Octavia Spencer, Diana Silvers, Juliette Lewis, McKayley Miller, Corey Fogelmanis, Luke Evans Distributor: Universal If you like this, try… The
After the exquisitely crafted The Witch, director Robert Eggers returns with an intense two-hander starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as two lighthouse keepers stuck in a perpetual nightmare of booze, hard graft and tall tales. Shot on 35mm and in black and white Eggers’ creates a claustrophobic sweatbox for the two men to go
Despite a colossal budget and a hefty 130-minute running time, it still feels like Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King Of The Monsters is stretched a little thin. We’re not just talking about the plot here, which sends the Titan-hunting Monarch team and always-at-11 angry dad Mark Russell (Kyle Chandler) racing around the globe to get his
Under The Shadow’s Babak Anvari plunges Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson into body horror hell in Wounds By Katherine McLaughlin 28-05-19 1 After the accomplished slow-burn horror of Under The Shadow, director Babak Anvari, claws his way through a grotesque body horror that pays disturbing homage to David Cronenberg, David Lynch and Nic Roeg. Armie
First love lives on in Alice Furtado’s sweaty and stylish teenage zombie film Sick Sick Sick By Katherine McLaughlin 28-05-19 1 Released: TBC Director: Alice Furtado Writer: Alice Furtado, Leonardo Levis Cast: Luiza Kosovski, Juan Paiva, Digao Ribeiro Distributor: TBC There are shades of Claire Denis’ charged eroticism in this Brazilian zombie film from debut
“It’s what’s expected of us,” is a fittingly tongue-in-cheek line repeated throughout Netflix’s The Perfection; a film that revels in upending assumptions. In it, Allison Williams play Charlotte, a gifted cellist who abandoned a promising career when her mother suffered a stroke and required constant care from thereon when she was just a teenager. Now
Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg are trapped in a Twilight Zone-esque domestic nightmare in Vivarium By Katherine McLaughlin 23-05-19 422 Released: TBC Certificate: TBC Director: Lorcan Finnegan Writer: Lorcan Finnegan, Garett Shanley Cast: Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg Distributor: TBC Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg star as a couple who get stuck in domestic hell after
Bertrand Bonello uses genre to explore the legacy of colonialism in moving teen drama Zombi Child By Katherine McLaughlin 21-05-19 2,151 Released: TBC Certificate: TBC Director: Bertrand Bonello Writer: Bertrand Bonello Cast: Louise Labeque, Wislanda Louimat, Mackenson Bijou Distributor: TBC Horror fans may already be familiar with the story of Clairvius Narcisse through Wes Craven’s
There was never a happy way to end Game Of Thrones – at least not for its millions of fans. One person’s happy ending is the next person’s complete disaster, and, in fact, a happy ending was the last thing most fans wanted. We’ve been weaned on beheadings and burnings, a happy ending in Westeros
It was only a matter of time before Jessica Hausner’s clinical visual style was applied to science-fiction. In Little Joe, the Austrian director’s first feature in the English-language, her deliberately artificial aesthetic (see Amour Fou) seeps into the very topics of the story. Emily Beecham plays Alice, a plant breeder at a corporation that is
Some kind of fever seems to have taken hold of arthouse directors the world over, as filmmakers of all nationalities rush en masse to feed on the flesh of genre cinema. French writer, director, and actor Mati Diop is only one of many touched by the phenomenon at the Cannes Film Festival, where zombies are
Polar fracking has thrown the Earth off its axis — a pretty big deal that most of the people of Centreville are barely taking in. In this small, peaceful town of 738 inhabitants, everyone sticks to their easy routine. Political differences and environmental disasters alike are easily set aside, not necessarily out of ignorance, but
Teenagers rebuild their infrastructure in Netflix’s gripping sci-fi drama The Society By Poppy-Jay Palmer 16-05-19 6,809 Released: Out now Certificate: 15 Creator: Christopher Keyser Cast: Kathryn Newton, Gideon Aldon, Sean Berdy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Olivia DeJonge, Alex Fitzalan, Jack Mulhern, Rachel Keller Distributor: Netflix If you like this, try… Lost A group of plane crash
Does Pokémon Detective Pikachu electrify? Find out with our review… By Josh Slater-Williams 03-05-19 5,577 Released: 10 May Certificate: PG Director: Rob Letterman Cast: Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, Rob Letterman, Derek Connolly
Cast: Justice Smith, Ryan Reynolds, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Chris Geere, Suki Waterhouse, Rita Ora Distributor: Warner Bros If you like
The Curse of La Llorona is a part of the Conjuring Universe, albeit in a tenuous way. In it, social worker Anna (Cardellini) becomes convinced that her children are being stalked by the vengeful spirit of a woman who murdered her children and seeks advice from Father Perez, a priest Annabelle fans should recognise. Much
Pedro Pascal stars in the beautifully designed SF frontier western Prospect By Jonathan Hatfull 24-04-19 1,646 Released: Out now Certificate: 15 Director: Christopher Caldwell, Zeek Earl Writer: Christopher Caldwell, Zeek Earl Cast: Sophie Thatcher, Jay Duplass, Pedro Pascal, Andre Royo, Sheila Vand, Anwan Glover Distributor: Signature Entertainment Buy on Amazon If you like this, try…
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