Horror films
Birdeater review – nightmarish buck’s party in the bush becomes faintly preposterous
Shabana Azeez and Mackenzie Fearnley are good as the husband and wife to be but this horror film feels indecisive and stretches too long
Luke Buckmaster
17, Jul, 2024 @3:00 PM
Sleep review – deviously twisty new parenthood-themed Korean thriller
Jason Yu’s enjoyably tense debut feature explores whether a sleep-deprived mother’s growing fear of her husband is justified
Wendy Ide
14, Jul, 2024 @2:00 PM
Longlegs review – Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage grip in brooding horror thriller
Monroe plays a dogged, antisocial FBI agent on the trail of Cage’s occult serial killer in the latest buzzy, atmospheric film from Osgood Perkins
Wendy Ide
14, Jul, 2024 @7:00 AM
Forget the tired franchises, a new wave of horror movies will make us jump out of our seats
Longlegs, released last week, is a beautiful and complex film that highlights how far the genre has evolved
Martha Gill
13, Jul, 2024 @5:30 PM
Inner demons: grappling with childhood trauma in horror movies
Longlegs, from writer-director Osgood Perkins and son of Psycho star Anthony, tells a story that gives us clues to its maker’s unusual upbringing
Charles Bramesco
13, Jul, 2024 @10:04 AM
Schlitter: Evil in the Woods review – tightly crafted horror turned DIY torture tutorial
Director Pierre Mouchet’s film is a showcase of economy, style and woodwork skills as three friends stay over at a lumberjack’s house and experience his ingenious ways to inflict pain
Phil Hoad
11, Jul, 2024 @6:00 AM
Longlegs review – Nicolas Cage is a miscast killer in misfiring hokum
A distractingly outsized performance is one of many unsuccessful elements in Osgood Perkins’ stylish yet progressively silly horror
Benjamin Lee
10, Jul, 2024 @5:53 PM
‘The catharsis was profound, but I’ll never watch it’: Alicia Witt on facing her demons on film
The actor and singer explains how starring alongside Nicolas Cage in the deeply unsettling new horror Longlegs helped her deal with a cancer diagnosis and the tragic death of her parents
Emine Saner
10, Jul, 2024 @1:33 PM
In a Violent Nature review – horror unplugged is quietly gruesome
Director Chris Nash departs from genre cliches to deliver a fascinatingly different slasher movie in which danger strikes amid the beauty of the great outdoors
Catherine Bray
10, Jul, 2024 @12:28 PM
Sleep review – marriage unravels in gleeful Korean somnambulist psycho-chiller
Lee Sun-kyun appears posthumously in one of his best performances as an actor struggling to control his night-time excursions in this elegant and intimate horror
Peter Bradshaw
10, Jul, 2024 @8:00 AM
‘If my babysitter’s evil, I’m screwed!’: horror director Ti West on outraging the moral majority
As his X trilogy concludes with MaXXXine – starring Mia Goth as a porn star pursued by a serial killer – the filmmaker explains how the demonisation of heavy metal fans ignited his youthful imagination
Shaad D'Souza
08, Jul, 2024 @4:00 AM
MaXXXine review – Mia Goth chills in grisly conclusion to Ti West’s horror trilogy
Goth excels as porn star and aspiring actor Maxine Minx, who makes the leap to horror movies as a killer stalks the Hollywood Hills in this predictable end to the X series
Wendy Ide
07, Jul, 2024 @2:00 PM
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