

[Review}: Hungry
Courtesy of AURA Entertainment Photo credit: Courtesy of AURA Entertainment For a mammal that kills more people per year than sharks, lions, tigers, and what most people would consider dangerous animals, the hippo has been a criminally under utilized antagonist in the cinematic genre of feral nature gone wrong. Here’s where James Nunn’s Hungry enters the chat. When holiday makers go on a day trip to the bayou in Louisiana to see some crocodiles, what they don’t expect is to b

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
9 hours ago2 min read


[Review]: The Troll
Killa B (Brianna Lee) and her Troll The rapid development and ever changing landscape of social media has truly birthed some monsters, ranging from horrifically entitled social media influencers, to online faceless bullies who are relentless in attempting to tear down anyone in the public eye. These online terrors have provided the horror genre with plenty of subject fodder, producing movies such as Influencer (2022) and its sequel Influencers (2025), Sissy (2022), and Unfrie

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
3 days ago2 min read


[Review]: Our Effed Up World
Finn, Poppy and Hank One of the most prolific indie horror filmmakers, Alice Maio Mackay, is back, with Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw The TV Glow, Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma) in the producer chair, with Our Effed Up World. Having had its world premiere at this year’s Frameline Film Festival, Our Effed Up World is an emotive sci-fi depicting an intergalactic battle against an entity which is intent on eating earth and its resources. Sheri (Sara Thompson) is a young woman, r

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jun 232 min read


[Review]: The Voices of Our Mother
Family can be pure hell, and no one knows this better than the estranged children of Harriet Scaflan, who have been brought together by the death of their grandmother in Mark O’Brien’s demonic horror The Voices of Our Mother. Starring Sheila McCarthy, Georgina Reilly, and the writer and director himself, The Voices of Our Mother seeks to explore familial trauma through the lens of a family curse of biblical proportions. When family matriarch Johanna (Anna Ferguson) falls ill

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jun 152 min read


[Review]: Mutter: The Diary of A Mother
Gül (Hazar Ergüçlü) All aspects of motherhood are a play-by-play real life enactment of a body horror, and from its explosively bloody opening sequence, Mutter: The Diary of a Mother goes forth with the intention of showing just how horrific an affair being a mother can be. Written and directed by Alphan Eşeli, Mutter: The Diary of a Mother centres itself on a single mother living desperately on the bread line as she attempts to keep the birth of her alien baby hidden. The f

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
Jun 82 min read


[Review]: Passenger
Andre Øvredal burst onto the horror directorial scene with his dark fantasy found footage Trollhunter (2010) and then continued to scare audiences cold with the haunting The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), followed by the luke warmly received Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) and The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2026). Three years on from his last release, he’s moved on from vampires hunting on the high seas, and turned his attention to ghostly hauntings on the highways wit

Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana
May 242 min read

