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If you don’t like films that leave you sitting there wondering what the fuck is actually going on, The Stranger probably isn’t for you. Co-directors Paul Gerrard and Mike Clarke clearly aren’t interested in making things easy. Their feature debut drops us into the familiar territory of the rural British thriller, then starts quietly pulling…
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Okay, I’m not gonna lie. I am rather looking forward to this. YouTube sketch creator Steven He is swapping short-form comedy for full-throttle martial arts chaos, taking his first lead feature role in Kung Fu Deadly. The supernatural action-comedy lands its world premiere on September 18 at Fantastic Fest in Austin. Directed by BAFTA winner…
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Access:Horror has officially dropped its 2026 program, kicking off with an opening night showcase at the Alamo Drafthouse Winchester on September 25 before moving to a month-long virtual run from October 4 through November 1. Founded by filmmaker and activist Ariel Baska, the festival uses genre cinema to push disability advocacy to the front, delivering…
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There is a very specific brand of medical ethics in 1950s cinema that begins and ends with intravenous injections. When a young woman suffering from severe amnesia sits in a psychiatric ward, the doctors don’t bother with therapy, gentle questioning, or basic patient consent. They simply pull out a syringe filled with an experimental cocktail…
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There is something wonderfully strange about watching the opening credits of The Fly from 1958 and seeing Vincent Price sitting there behind David Hedison and Patricia Owens. Third billing. Vincent fucking Price. This is before Price became the Vincent Price we all know and love: the towering presence of gothic horror, the sinister voice, the…
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Lizzy Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done… … ITN Distribution moved the whole thing to England and gave her a movie where she goes crazy ape bonkers with a hatchet. While Ryan Murphy’s glossy prestige machine prepares to drop Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story…
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If you’ve seen Red White & Blue or The Living and the Dead, you already know Simon Rumley doesn’t do light entertainment. He makes films that leave you wanting to scrub yourself down with wire wool, and his latest feature isn’t breaking that streak. Crushed lands on UK digital platforms on 5 October via GrimmVision,…
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There are a lot of people currently online gnashing their teeth and wailing about how the new Slipknot single, Arsenal, isn’t as good as their older material. How it doesn’t sound like Slipknot. How Corey Taylor’s simplistic chant of “Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go” is a terrible chorus. I am not one of these…
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Professional wrestling is full of blokes telling you they’re the saviour of the business, but right now there’s only one guy actually backing it up: Will Ospreay. Look past the internet hot takes. It’s easy for armchair critics to write Ospreay off as a human highlight reel, a gravity-defying acrobat with zero psychology. You know…
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Carnival of Souls is one of my favorite horror movies of all time. It is spooky, unsettling, and so fucking weird that you’ll wonder if that last beer you had wasn’t laced with LSD. Made for $33,000 by Herk Harvey, a bloke who spent his day job directing educational safety films in Kansas, it has…