From The Editors
KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS Review: One of 2026's Best Films Was Released 55 Years Ago
[Uncensored, restored, and rereleased, Ken Russell’s The Devils, a controversy-courting masterpiece of religious horror, repression, and persecution, returns for a limited theatrical run under the auspices of Warner Bros. and its Clockwork specialty film division.] Condemned in 1971 for its...
Chicago 2026 Interview: THE SPIRAL Writer/Director Paolo Strippoli on the Nobility of Horror and Cinema's Need for Excess
In his review of Paolo Strippoli's new film The Spiral, Martin Tsai writes about how the film presents a "recognizable family drama" that is ruptured by "horror [that] feel[s] like a violation of the film's carefully cultivated normality." In fact,...
Now Playing: WICKER, WILDWOOD, CLAYFACE, POSSIBLE LOVE
Plus: 'A Talent for Murder' and 'Klara and the Sun.'
A TALENT FOR MURDER Review: Mirren and Ehrenreich Elevate an Otherwise Middling Psychological Thriller
Over five decades, Patricia Highsmith wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories. Of those singular works, seven stand out in the popular imagination: the five Ripley-centered novels, Strangers on a Train (published in 1950 and adapted by Alfred Hitchcock...
Friday One Sheet: THE PRESTIGE @ 20
Arguably Christopher Nolan's best film, The Prestige returns to the biggest of screens, blown up from its gorgeous 35mm photography to screen via 70mm and IMAX presentations, just over twenty years after its original release in 2006. The film has...
Chicago 2026 Review: NO REST FOR THE WICKED, Beautiful Genre Mashup Queer Romance
For almost the first half of No Rest for the Wicked, the only thing marking it as a genre movie is its score, full of ominous electronic drones and sharp strings. The look, with foreboding aerial shots of the Faroe...
SNAPSHOT: Dark Star Pictures Picks up Unique Victorian Era Found-Footage Horror
Dark Star Pictures just picked up North American rights for Snapshot, a unique Victorian found-footage horror movie from British director Joseph Archer that lands in theatres spring 2027 before hitting digital. Set during the 1888 Jack the Ripper murders,...
Grimmfest 2026: NEVER AFTER DARK, CRAWLERS, and STRONGER THAN THE DEVIL Lead the Grimm Reaper Award Winners
Grimmfest just wrapped its 18th anniversary run at the Odeon Great Northern in Manchester, and the team handed out this year's Grimm Reaper Awards. From October 8–11, the four-day fest loaded its screens with a massive block of world, international,...
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 4K Review: Nerve Jangling, To Say the Least
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins star in Jonathan Demme's chilling adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel.
WILDWOOD Review: Often Breathless, Usually Reckless, Always Enchanting
Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, and Cary Mulligan star in the animated action-adventure from director Travis Knight and LAIKA Studios.
CLAYFACE Review: Newly Revived DCU Saves Its Best for Third
Ranked by one supposedly well-respected site as only the 73rd “best” Batman villain, Clayface’s journey from the comic book panel to the big screen has taken a long, not quite circuitous route. Thanks to horror auteur Mike Flanagan (The Fall...
KLARA AND THE SUN Review: Uneven, Unwieldy Adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Bestselling Novel
Taika Waititi's new film stars Jenna Ortega, with Amy Adams and Natasha Lyonne.
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: POSTHUMOUS, Tapes from the Darkside
Throughout the years, such films as Wolf Creek, The Babadook, The Loved Ones, Lake Mungo, Talk to Me, and many others collectively contributed to turning the audience into a proverbial Pavlov’s dog: A new Australian horror movie is always a...
Chicago 2026 Review: THE SPIRAL Turns a Family Story Into a Faustian Nightmare
In the Italian Oscar entry, the family that makes a deal with the devil stays together.
London 2026 Review: CLUB KID, Jordan Firstman's Warm and Tragic Bad Dad Dramedy
A stealth rebuild of a middling Adam Sandler film proves to be one of the year's best and most affecting films.
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: ERIE, Debut Found Footage Horror Overcomplicates Its Own Style
In the late 1990s, the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, experiences an epidemic of inexplicable deaths. One of the victims is Iris Scott (Aimee Paxton), whose strange death in the woods is eventually ruled a suicide, like most of the other...
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: SLAY, Witty Tribute to Classic Slashers
While AI obviously (and rightfully) suppressed pretty much all other dangers to humanity as the villain of our times, the rabbit hole that is social media and influencer culture is still too great a fodder for filmmakers to pass up....
WICKER Review: Witty Modern Fairy Tale Hits the Spot
Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki, and Peter Dinklage star in prickly yet delightful film.
Brooklyn Horror 2026 Review: PATHETIC FALLACY, True Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Every film festival program, no matter how expansive and diverse, usually has a bunch of movies that objectively aren’t bad, but aren’t particularly great either. When thinking about such films and what might be weighing them down, the conclusion you...
SLAYGROUND Official Teaser: Jeremy Saulnier Invites You to The Slayground in New Teaser
Scare-actor "Metal Mike" Graves wakes up in a haunted attraction surrounded by the dead bodies of his co-workers with no memory of how they got there. As a state-wide manhunt closes in, he races to uncover the truth - even if the trail leads straight back to him.
