Horror

I Saw the TV Glow review – an instant queer classic

By Esther Rosenfield

Jane Schoenbrun's sophomore feature is an unnerving take on loneliness, isolation, and the enduring mysteries of children's media.

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Sleep review – Jason Yu has the juice

By Josh Slater-Williams

A newlywed couple are haunted by sleepless nights in Jason Yu’s confident, darkly humorous debut feature.

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Longlegs review – a harrowing serial killer thriller

By Hannah Strong

A rookie FBI agent with psychic abilities hunts down a ruthless serial killer in Osgood Perkins' thoroughly unnerving, fantastically odd horror.

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In A Violent Nature review – great premise, poor execution

By Hannah Strong

Chris Nash's innovative spin on a horror staple boasts an excellent set-up, but falls flat in its final act.

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MaXXXine review – it kinda suxxx

By David Jenkins

Mia Goth’s porn starlet cleans up her CV with a bloody vengeance in this underwhelming and overreaching horror threequel.

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Sorcery – A witch trial movie with a magical-realist twist

By Anton Bitel

Christopher Murray directs and stars in this intriguing and original drama about an 1880s Chilean trial for witchcraft.

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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 review – witless nonsense

By David Jenkins

Another unwatchable slasher dirge from the IP graverobbers behind 2023’s unlikely cause celebre.

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Abigail – avoid the trailer for maximum, bloody pleasure

By Anton Bitel

A pack of hired goons get more than they bargained for in this inventive and nasty evil kid romp.

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All You Need Is Death review – a memorable fiction debut

By David Jenkins

A young couple get more than they bargained for when they translate a rare folk ballad in this effective Irish horror.

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Immaculate review – get thee to a different nunnery

By Hannah Strong

Sydney Sweeney plays a pious young nun who finds herself unexpectedly expecting in Michael Mohan's slightly underwhelming take on the nunspoiltation movie.

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Raging Grace review – combines righteous anger with well-executed chills

By David Jenkins

An undocumented Filipina immigrant secures a care job to provide a better life for her young daughter, but it turns out to be something more sinister in Paris Zarcilla's horror.

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Five Nights at Freddy’s – nonsensical robo-slasher trash

By David Jenkins

What appears as a fun robotic slasher lark turns out to be a deathly dull rip-off of various trauma-based horror yarns which fails to deliver in either the serious or silly stakes.

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Doctor Jekyll review – gives Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing a run for their money

By Lillian Crawford

Hammer Horror returns with a genderflipped take on Robert Louis Stevenson's iconic novel, starring Eddie Izzard as a leading figure of the pharmaceutical industry with a dark secret.

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The Exorcist: Believer – a trashy, overstuffed requel

By Anton Bitel

David Gordon Green returns in his role of classic horror reboot guy to exhume and retool William Friedkin’s The Exorcist for new audiences. The results are not pretty at all.

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Saw X review – America’s most blood-thirsty civil engineer is back

By Hannah Strong

Tobin Bell returns as the twisted killer Jigsaw in this back-to-basics sequel, which sees him exact revenge on a group of medical scammers preying on the terminally ill.

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The Blackening review – a novel take on the horror parody

By Cheyenne Bunsie

A group of friends head for a cabin in the woods only to face off with a killer in this fresh horror spoof, from the writer of Girls Trip.

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Talk to Me review – visually and emotionally brutal horror

By Katherine McLaughlin

YouTube duo Michael and Danny Philippou make the ambitious leap to feature filmmaking with a thoroughly disturbing, uncompromising horror.

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