Tubi FrightFest Halloween 2026 takes place Fri 30th to Sat 31st October Although FrightFest is perhaps most associated with the August Bank Holiday when its main annual event takes place, there is no date in the calendar better suited to its preoccupations than Halloween – the night when the barrier between the material and the…
10 German Horror Films first published by BFI, 18 Sept 2025, occasioned by the release of Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) on UHD, Blu-ray and digital via BFI Includes capsules of: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, M, Vampyr, Jonathan, The Fan, Nekromantik, Antibodies, We Are The Night, Der Samurai, Sleep The history of German…
Na Hong-jin’s latest feature Hope takes its title from the name of the village in and around which its action is set. Hope is a relatively small coastal community whose population is disproportionately made up of retirees and the elderly, and whose location is near the Demilitarised Zone between a South and North Korea still…
A young American woman comes to Europe for a place in an exclusive academy, at about the same time as her predecessor is brutally murdered, and discovers that there is something sinister, even supernatural, afoot in these hallowed halls. This is essentially the plot of Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977), and of his Phenomena (1985) too…
By Yourself world première at Fantastic Fest 2026, paired with Nikias Chryssos’ Bloody Tennis “So none of it’s real, nothing’s real with you anymore,” Elliot (Tessa Jean) tells her girlfriend Syl (Zelda Adams), “You just don’t want to be alone.” This apparent overture to a breakup is in fact a flashback, as Syl now really…
Full Phil at Fantastic Fest, 22 Sept 2026 Full Phil begins in black and white, with a diptych of scenes. First we see mad scientists Chad (Tim Heidecker) and Andy (Eric Wareheim) taking a break from their laboratory work by heading out for a recreational hunt, and then we see a young screaming woman (Emma…
Little Doors US première at Fantastic Fest, 21st Sept 2026 “While we continue to see cities erupt in chaos, violence escalate, the fabric of society break down,” intones the crackly distorted voice of a radio host (Frank Mosley) at the beginning of writer/director/editor Anthony Oberbeck’s Little Doors, “what we have to ask ourselves is, do…
Sean O. McGuiness’ She Listens Alone opens by introducing us to the life of its protagonist Sabrina Nolan (Alivia Levie). It is a life which comprises other people’s lives, seen and heard remotely on screen – and a life which is not turning out as expected, planned or desired, and which leaves her feeling unfulfilled…
Family Go to the Bad House is available as a free download if you e-mail familygotothebadhouse@gmail.com (from 1st October 2026) By their very name and nature, genre films are generic. Horror cinema is built from an expansive but nonetheless finite set of tropes that adapt themselves to the times and fashions that they also mediate, but that…
Littermates sneak peek at Fantastic Fest, 20th Sept 2026 The prologue to writer/co-director Scott Tinkham and cinematographer/editor/co-director Michael Woloson’s Littermates is taken from its chronological centre, but here stripped of all context, so that its surreal details serve both to muddle and to mystify. A woman (Kayless McGregor) wearing headphones and a gas mask sits…
No Rest for the Wicked US première at Fantastic Fest, 20th Sept 2026 The stormy waters that are a mere metaphor in the Biblical passage from which No Rest for the Wicked dynamically takes its title come literalised within the film. For it begins with a brooding ocean that, in the early dawn light, buffets…