by Anton Bitel
A shape-shifting killer stalks two closeted teenagers in Adrian Chiarella’s gripping debut, though the real terror lies in the bigotry of the small town around them.
Suburbia meets the Jurassic in David Robert Mitchell’s new genre-bending family drama, where dinosaurs prove less dangerous than the cracks of the American Dream.
The English-language debut from Kirill Sokolov is a confident and feisty action-horror flick about the gory destruction of the family ideal.
Sofia Alaoui’s feature debut explores coming-of-age through gender, class and spirituality against the backdrop of an alien invasion.
Jorma Tommila reprises his role as “the man who refuses to die” in this vengeance-fuelled sequel to 2022 sleeper hit, Sisu.
Lucile Hadžihalilović’s mesmerising riff on the famous Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale is a true triumph of imagination.
Scott Derrickson and his co-writer C Robert Cargill bring Ethan Hawke’s ‘The Grabber’ back to life for a classic slasher sequel.
Macon Blair’s remake of Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman’s 1984 outlandish superhero cult film is a colossal misfire.
Predators and prey share the same terrain in this psychologically twisted shark thriller from genre filmmaker Sean Byrne.
Karan Kandhari’s film about a misanthropic newlywed giving into her feral impulses is an unpredictable, genre-bending delight.
A mother and her teenage daughter come face to face with death in the form of a strange talking bird in Daina Oniunas-Pusic’s feature debut.
A young man sets out to save his true love and ends up caught in a bloody battle aboard a train in Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s riotous actioner.
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