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3/5
Yakin Jiken: The Convenience Store (2026) Joel Harley Those with more than a passing familiarity with the haunted house subgenre and J-horror history will find little here that’s not been done before, but The Convenience Store makes light work of old genre tropes.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Red Riding (2026) Joel Harley Its central mystery is engaging, but there’s little here which will surprise horror fans. Still, it’s a well-made, if slightly dog-eared work of homespun gothic horror.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Karmadonna (2025) Joel Harley A surrealist action thriller with a meaty performance from its leading lady, Karmadonna is an unexpected delight.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
CAMP (2025) Vicky Lawrence Camp is an incredibly intimate film and feels like a window to the soul.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Ghost Killer (2024) James Perkins What really elevates Ghost Killer, though, is the unexpected humanity underneath the chaos.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Queens of the Dead (2025) Vicky Lawrence Queens of the Dead boasts some great performances, and gives the stage to queer actors like Katy O’Brian and Jaquel Spivey. Though we believe they could’ve gone a bit further with it, it showcases some great kills and gore.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Benefactress (an Exposure of Cinematic Freedom) (2025) Jon Towlson The Benefactress is not designed to entertain in the traditional sense. Instead, it functions as a provocative statement about cinematic freedom and the limits of artistic expression.
Posted Mar 07, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Restoration at Grayson Manor (2025) Martin Unsworth McQuaid has delivered a superb satire on self-obsessed, privileged life and heritage mixed with old-school mad scientist horror. It’s one destined to gain a cult following.
Posted Mar 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Curse (2025) Joel Harley The Curse might spend more time buffering around than it does delivering the actual goods, but it’s a fun modernisation of J-horror tropes.
Posted Mar 07, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop (1987) Iain Robertson Besides being a great action movie, it’s a hilariously funny, none-more-black satire of American values, skewering everything from its love of guns and violence to religion.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
We Bury the Dead (2024) Paul Mount We Bury the Dead is a powerful and engrossing character study of a woman who just wants closure, and Daisy Ridley delivers a career-best performance full of steely resolve and cool determination.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Else (2024) Paul Mount It’s a haunting, effecting and entirely disorientating experience that offers a typically European and far less sensationalist depiction of a lethal virus than the rather more typically gung ho Hollywood studio efforts.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Scream 7 (2026) Joel Harley Scream 7 could be the worst film in the franchise. At least we could see what was going on in Scream 3, which is more than we can say for the ugly, miserable cinematography here.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Operation Taco Gary's (2024) Martin Unsworth While Operation Taco Gary’s revels in its zaniness, its heart’s in the right place. There are real consequences, however, making for some poignant scenes later on.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Cold Storage (2026) Paul Mount Cold Storage is great tongue-in-cheek fun that never takes itself too seriously, even as it delivers moments of gross-out gore and some remarkably well-developed characters for a film that’s done and dusted in under 100 minutes.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Dreadful (2026) John Townsend It’s a little superficial, and the film withers away to a dull and unsatisfactory ending.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Mortuary Assistant (2026) Rebecca Sayce While the bare bones of The Mortuary Assistant were apparent, this movie adaptation of the game is largely left cold on the slab, never getting the chance to rise from the dead and reach the same horrifying heights its source material did.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Bride of Re-Animator (1990) Joel Harley As is the tradition with horror sequels, Bride of Re-Animator is essentially just a bigger, bloodier version of the first film. But it possesses enough invention and innovation that it’s more than just a re-tread.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Grizzly Night (2026) John Townsend There’s much to admire about the bears, but it’s the humans who let the film down.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Whistle (2025) Martin Unsworth The script, by Owen Egerton, ticks all the boxes for a teen-based horror, and Björn Charpentier’s cinematography is impressively atmospheric and evocative. The story embraces the genre’s clichés and Hardy has plenty of fun with the concept along the way.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Send Help (2026) Joel Harley To call it a return to form would suggest that Raimi ever lost it, but Send Help is the director at his most fierce.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Redux Redux (2025) Rich Cross Unpredictable, explosive, and touching, this is powerful, affecting female-driven genre storytelling.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Primate (2025) Jacob Walker The film does a good job of making us care about Ben, so it’s almost upsetting to see him taken over by the rabies virus and attack the girls.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Inhabitants (2025) Luke Spafford Director Matt McClung clearly knows his stuff and guides a confident production to a satisfying conclusion, but it’s the two leads that deserve all the props.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Mercy (2026) Paul Mount It’s almost designed to be totally forgotten within in a month, but it’s brisk and action-packed and, despite the fact that its hero is strapped to a chair for much of its runtime, the film itself never sits still.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Paul Mount The Bone Temple confounds and surpasses expectations.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Don't Trip (2025) Rich Cross There’s plenty of humour, and no little warmth, in what’s a promising calling-card for Kugelman, although the violent confrontation in the final act feels like the wrong choice.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy (2025) Rich Cross Many of the set-pieces are impressive, possessing an immersive sense of scale, but characterisation inevitably relies on ciphers and stereotypes.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Flights of Reverie (2025) John West Flights of Reverie is visually arresting and distinctively original. It richly rewards viewers who appreciate immersive atmosphere, layered storytelling, and philosophical depth over simple, action-driven spectacle.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Boogie Nights (1997) Kieron Moore It’s a meandering tale, but there’s so much going on at every point, and each scene is so meticulously crafted, that it never loses the attention
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Joel Harley Taking an approach which both modernises the source material and pays tribute to the grit of its ’80s predecessor, Silent Night, Deadly Night is a joyfully subversive take on the horror remake.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Christine (1983) John Brosnan Christine is definitely a Rolls Royce among horror movies.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Possession (1981) Kris Moyse Thematically rich and sensually devastating, Possession takes mundane elements of human relations and drags them, shrieking and caterwauling, into the metaphysical – made flesh through its bold, uncompromising performances.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Dracula (2025) Robert Martin It looks absolutely gorgeous – the sets, cinematography and costumes are stunning. There’s a fine Danny Elfman score to boot.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Kieron Moore What follows is, as we’ve come to expect from Knives Out movies, a cracking murder mystery that, despite the series’ longest running time yet at 144 minutes, keeps us on the edge of our seats trying to get one step ahead of the next twist.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
The Creeps (2025) Jorge Ignacio Castillo Listen, we can forgive the shoddy CGI and the faux Alan Silvestri score, but the plot is devoid of imagination and basic continuity, and the shoehorned Eighties references are painful to watch.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Scars of Dracula (1970) Martin Unsworth Roy Ward Baker’s direction is solid and keeps things moving.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Primitive War (2025) Martin Unsworth Sparke’s film manages to surpass expectations with what he delivers on screen.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Hayden Mears Wicked: For Good isn’t a masterpiece by any stretch, but it doesn’t need to be. Its aspirations start and stop at being fun, funny, touching, accessible, and musically engaging, and it achieves all of those things with ease.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Joel Harley Wicked: For Good struggles to recapture the magic of either the first half or the stage show it’s based on. It’s still a thoroughly enrapturing adaptation, but one can’t help but feel this return to Oz has come off the rails.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Running Man (2025) Laura Potier Edgar Wright takes... Stephen King’s The Running Man and runs with it – at full sprint, grinning, bleeding, and jabbing us in the ribs the whole way.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Predator: Badlands (2025) Joel Harley A bold action film with charm, grace and a strong emotional throughline, Badlands is perhaps the most human Predator yet. Not bad, considering there’s not a single one in the whole film.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Elixir (2025) Paul Mount Once it gets going, The Elixir never lets up the pace, powering along through a sea of guts and gore with some hugely imaginative and genuinely spectacular high octane sequences even as it rarely loses sight of the character beats set up in the first act.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Turkish Coffee Table (2025) Joel Harley It doesn’t always work (there’s one shot near the end where it really doesn’t work), but it’s a valid difference in approach which makes The Turkish Coffee Table stand out from the original edition.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
A Mother's Embrace (2024) Rich Cross The film is at its strongest when building an atmosphere of claustrophobic isolation and of entrapment, as the rain hammers down and the crew become separated–confronting their fates alone.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Deathgasm II: Goremageddon (2025) Joel Harley A beautifully bonkers encore performance.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Every Heavy Thing (2025) Joel Harley When not wallowing in its neo-noir trappings, Every Heavy Thing deftly blends black comedy with vivid 80s and early 90s-era surrealism, employing the grit and texture of a De Palma, Lynch or Cronenberg along with its more modern influences.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Dolly (2025) Joel Harley Dolly doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but nor does it seek to. Instead, it’ll tear that wheel straight off the truck and clobber you over the head with it, until you too have had your brain turned into mushy headcheese.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Mag Mag (2026) Joel Harley Led by a wonderfully off-the-wall performance from Minami, Mag Mag is a treat for fans of the subgenre and its tropes.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Bugonia (2025) Joel Harley While writer Will Tracy’s screenplay may be too conformist for the Lanthomos faithful, it’s also more challenging than the popcorn crowd might have expected, relishing in its moments of extreme gore and grim torture sequences.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
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