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Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2025

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2025

Midnight Madness

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6 films · 6 reviews

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Bulk

Review preview for Bulk

It's not a map, it's a blueprint, a means of telling fortunes and a handsome puzzle to boot.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
Sci-fi nightmare fusing head scrambling multiverse and a conspiracy of global proportions that might mean the end of the world as we know it.

(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Ben Wheatley; Stars: Alexandra Maria Lara, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor, Mark Monero)

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Midnight Madness opening film

Dead Lover

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The expressionist feeling of early 20th century cinema is further enhanced by the specific colour scheme, resembling a very early version of Technicolor, while the sound recalls that of the early sound films.

Marko Stojiljkovic · 3.5 out of 5
A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Grace Glowicki; Writer: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie; Stars: Grace Glowicki, Leah Doz, Ben Petrie, Lowen Morrow)

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I Live Here Now

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While the film's ambition should be saluted it falls short in ways that frustrate.

Andrew Robertson · 2 out of 5
A woman finds herself trapped in a remote hotel where the violent echoes of her past come alive, blurring the lines between her darkest nightmares and the waking world.

(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Julie Pacino; Writer: Julie Pacino; Stars: Madeline Brewer, Lucy Fry, Sheryl Lee, Matt Rife, Cara Seymour, Alex Gaumond, Sarah Rich)

Full review See: Interview with Julie Pacino and Lucy Fry about I Live Here now

Odyssey

Review preview for Odyssey

Maberly herself is unforgettable in a gem of a role.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A ruthless estate agent finds herself in debt to some vicious gangsters.

(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Gerard Johnson; Writer: Austin Collings, Gerard Johnson; Stars: Polly Maberly, Mikael Persbrandt, Jasmine Blackborrow)

Full review See: Interview with Gerard Johnson and Polly Maberly about Odyssey

Redux Redux

Review preview for Redux Redux

It’s refreshing to encounter a multiverse film that doesn’t mess about.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, repeatedly killing her daughter's murderer. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity hangs in the balance.

(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus; Writer: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus; Stars: Derick Alexander, Raphael Chestang, Debra Christofferson, Jim Cummings, Minita Gandhi, London Garcia, Jeremy Holm)

Full review See: Interview with Matthew McManus and Kevin McManus about Redux Redux

The Toxic Avenger

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Even in the cheapest of zombie films, human bodies have never come apart so easily, nor contained such an abundance of blood. It explodes across the screen at frequent intervals, each one more spectacular than the last.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A reimagining of the Eighties franchise in which a janitor is transformed by radioactive slime and becomes an unlikely hero.

(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Macon Blair; Writer: Macon Blair, Lloyd Kaufman; Stars: Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wood, Julia Davis, Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, David Yow, Annette Badland)

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Midnight Madness closing film