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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival · 2026

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2026

Midnight Shivers

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10 films · 4 reviews

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5 More Minutes

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The five-minute nature of the loop is perfect for escalating humour.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A husband and wife in an ailing marriage discover that actions really do have consequences in this twist on the time loop motif.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Javier Ruiz Caldera; Writer: Javier Ruiz Caldera; Stars: Berto Romero, Belén Cuesta, Javier Cámara, Carlos Bernardino, Marc Soler, Cláudia Mello, Puchi Lagarde, Tian Tosas, Nia Tosas)

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Bloody Tennis

Sophie joins a prestigious tennis academy, where the brutality of competitive sports is taken to its extreme.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Nikias Chryssos; Writer: Nikias Chryssos; Stars: Sandra Guldberg Kampp, Elina Löwensohn, Tracy Gotoas, Lily Taïeb, Juliana Vieira-Guerra, Helena Zengel, Lucie Zhang, Vincent Romeo, Zlatko Burić)

Breeder

An eccentric poodle breeder lures a broke college student to her remote ranch with a promise of research funding. But, as he soon learns, there’s a catch.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Alex Goyette; Writer: Alex Goyette; Stars: Daniel Doheny, Dot-Marie Jones, Maddie Phillips, Tanaya Beatty, Paige McGarvin, Carmen Moore, Lillian Doucet-Roche, Rochelle Greenwood, Charlotte Kavanagh, John Murphy, Isla Spencer, Guy Christie, jen araki-playfair, Tegan Bradlee Arychuk)

Corpus

Review preview for Corpus

Much more tightly structured than its style might suggest, and much, much darker.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Three young men travel to a remote house on the promise of a party, to find just three women who have a secret and sinister agenda.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Corrin Evans; Writer: Lily Cowles, Corrin Evans; Stars: Jeff Wahlberg, Brodie Townsend, Michael Vlamis, Lily Cowles, Nuha Jes Izman, Ching Valdes-Aran)

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The Daughters

A psychological thriller with a gothic atmosphere about a girl whose fate is to be an obedient daughter to her captor.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Daniel Romero; Writer: Asier Gerricoecehbarria, Daniel Romero; Stars: Yune Moguerias, Edurne Azkarate, Jone Laspiur, Karra Elejalde)

The Leader

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Here, ideas do not flow hierarchically: they are conceived in the space between two individuals; they emerge from conversation and are endlessly recycled, coming to seem more like the obvious truth every time.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
In 1997, 39 members of the American cult known as Heaven's Gate committed the largest mass suicide to ever take place on American soil. This is their story.

(Country: US, Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Michael J Gallagher; Writer: Michael J Gallagher; Stars: Tim Blake Nelson, Vera Farmiga, Jim Parsons, Grace Caroline Currey, Simon Rex, Kaitlyn Kemp, JB Yowell)

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Nervous

Sarah and her husband Sungsoo move to the Korean countryside in the hope of saving their crumbling marriage. But their new home hides a strange secret - an unmarked vinyl record that plays nothing but silence. After listening to it, Sarah slowly begins to lose the ability to hear men’s voices.

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2026; Director: Abner Pastoll; Stars: Sarah Bolger, Ko Asung, Sungsoo Yune)

Red Snow

A vampire posing as Santa Claus invades the home of a family whose rebellious teenage daughter wants only one thing: to become a vampire herself and escape her miserable life.

(Country: Finland, Estonia, Sweden; Year: 2026; Director: Ilja Rautsi)

River

When three estranged siblings reunite in their hometown after the death of their father, they set out to scatter his ashes at his favourite spot on a remote river. But when their boat breaks down, the trip devolves into a waking nightmare.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Joshua Giuliano; Stars: Jane Levy, Jessica Rothe, Max Mattern, Dane DiLiegro)

Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma

Review preview for Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma

Anderson and Einbinder are a terrific pairing.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
When the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed to a new director, she visits the original movie's star only to fall into a blood-soaked world of desire and delirium.

(Country: UK, US; Year: 2026; Director: Jane Schoenbrun; Writer: Jane Schoenbrun; Stars: Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Kevin McDonald, Quintessa Swindell, Jack Haven, Jess McLeod, Louise Weard)

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