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Fantastic Fest · 2026

Fantastic Fest 2026

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71 films · 27 reviews

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3 Weeks After (3 nedelje posle))

When a school trip leaves a group of teenagers stranded far from home, the recent suicide of a classmate begins to expose the fractures, loyalties and secrets holding them together.

(Country: Serbia, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Italy, Croatia; Year: 2026; Director: Miroslav Terzić; Writer: Vladimir Arsenijević, Bojan Vuletić, Miroslav Terzić; Stars: Jovan Ginić, Klara Hrvanović, Andjela Alavirevic, Tihana Lazović, Branislav Trifunović, Andrija Marković)

5 More Minutes

Review preview for 5 More Minutes

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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Adult Supervision

Review preview for Adult Supervision

There’s an astute understanding of trauma underlying the comedy here, and it informs every aspect of the larger narrative.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
When three fathers volunteer to chaperone their teenage daughters’ school trip, the initially idyllic getaway quickly reveals brutal social dynamics that have them in over their heads.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2026; Director: Alex Schulman; Writer: Alex Schulman; Stars: Gustaf Skarsgård, Fares Fares, Linus Wahlgren, Olof Olingdahl, Elsa Öhrn, Nonni Ardal Hammarström)

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Attack On Paradise

Review preview for Attack On Paradise

Director Bob Colaers shows us the strain in the way that Boumazoughe fights, which is its own kind of impressive.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Newly released after seven years in prison, Suleyman only wishes to return to Antwerp’s Paradise apartment complex and spend time with his ailing mother, but to protect her, he's going to need to fight cops and criminals alike.

(Country: Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Bob Colaers; Stars: Saïd Boumazoughe, Achmed Akkabi)

Full review See: Interview with Saïd Boumazoughe and Bob Colaers about Attack On Paradise

Beware Boiúna

Deep in the Amazon, a medical mission spirals into a fight for survival when Boiúna, a colossal ancient predator, awakens to reclaim her domain. In the jungle where nature holds absolute power, she decides who lives and who dies.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Mike P Nelson)

The Birthday Party

Nora is turning 40, and for her birthday she’ll be getting three uninvited guests who claim she isn’t who she says she is, plus the unraveling of her carefully constructed life

(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Léa Mysius)

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)

The Blood Countess

Elizabeth Báthory, a recently reawakened vampire, pursues an ancient artifact that could destroy her family in present-day Austria.

(Country: Austria, Germany, Luxembourg; Year: 2026; Director: Ulrike Ottinger)

Blood Feast

A caterer kills young women and collects their body parts in an attempt to resurrect the goddess Ishtar.

(Country: US; Year: 1963; Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis; Writer: Allison Louise Downe; Stars: William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason, Lyn Bolton, Scott H Hall)

Compliance

Review preview for Compliance

Mangione-Smith...is particularly successful at telling the story dynamically without compromising the found footage approach.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A found footage horror film about the modern surveillance state, dark web crime, and political conspiracy.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Kyle Mangione Smith; Writer: Kyle Mangione Smith; Stars: Megan Wilcox, Lindsey Normington, Charlie Wood, Neil Wachs)

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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)

Full review See: Interview with Corrin Evans, Lily Cowles, Jeff Wahlberg and Michael Vlamis about Corpus

The Cycle

When the body of a man missing for 36 years is discovered at the scene of a horrific crime, it’s up to his estranged daughter to unravel his dark past.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Jordan Downey)

Death Has No Master (La Muerte No Tiene Dueño)

Review preview for Death Has No Master

That sense of human frailty – in mind as well as body – which haunts much of European colonial literature is strongly in evidence here.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
In Venezuela, the heiress of a colonial cacao plantation and its entrenched guardians enter a duel for the land, where the only harvest left is violence.

(Country: Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela; Year: 2026; Director: Jorge Thielen Armand; Writer: Jorge Thielen Armand; Stars: Asia Argento, Dogreika Tovar, Jorge Thielen Hedderich, Arturo Rodríguez, Yermain Sequera)

Full review See: Interview with Jorge Thielen Armand about Death Has No Master

Death Of A Yellow Bird

Review preview for Death Of A Yellow Bird

Though the film is laden with tragedy, it speaks to the growing awareness of the self as part of a larger whole.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A dying man returns to his childhood home to film messages for his son when he discovers a supernatural presence haunting the isolated cabin in this emotional ghost movie.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Cody Calahan; Writer: Cody Calahan; Stars: Ari Millen, Peter Outerbridge, Kassandra Santos)

Full review See: Interview with Ari Millen, Cody Calahan, Chad Archibald and Jeff Maher about Death Of A Yellow Bird

Dog God

A gleefully anarchic critique of blind faith.

(Country: Thailand; Year: 1997; Director: Ing K)

Extreme Prejudice

A Texas Ranger is engaged in a showdown against his former childhood friend turned drug kingpin.

(Country: US; Year: 1997; Director: Walter Hill; Stars: Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe)

The Face Of Horror

A vain knight, an inconvenient wife, and a marriage built on murder. Anna Biller’s gloriously lurid ghost story proves that killing your wife may only be the beginning of your problems.

(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Anna Biller; Writer: Anna Biller; Stars: Jonah Hauer-King, Kristine Frøseth, Ellie Bamber, Leo Suter, Ben Radcliffe, Bella Heathcote)

Flapjax

Review preview for Flapjax

The latter part of the film rapidly devolves into a no-holds-barred celebration of gluttony and mutation, in all the best ways.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A fast food restaurant manager is tasked with relaunching the long-dormant product, Flapjax, and no amount of mysterious warnings or disappearances are going to get in his way.

(Country: US, Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Rocko Zevenbergen; Writer: Estevan Muñoz, Rocko Zevenbergen; Stars: Gabriel Cagan, Georgia Kate Haege, Madeline Barbush, Estevan Muñoz, Daniel Martin Berkey, Takumi Mitobe)

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Frisk

Tired of merely fantasising about murdering young, attractive men, Dennis decides to take the plunge and do the deed.

(Country: US; Year: 1995; Director: Todd Verow)

Full Phil

Review preview for Full Phil

As with many Dupieux films, beneath the laughter there’s a fair bit of insight into the absurdity of human relationships.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Absurdist comedy centring on a wealthy American industrialist trying to reconnect with his daughter on a luxury trip.

(Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg; Year: 2026; Director: Quentin Dupieux; Writer: Quentin Dupieux; Stars: Woody Harrelson, Kristen Stewart, Charlotte Le Bon, Eric Wareheim, Tim Heidecker, Emma Mackey, Nassim Lyes, Étienne Beydon, Nicolas Raffy)

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Future Tense

In a dystopian future, a young couple clash during their time-travelling vacation.

(Country: South Africa, Australia; Year: 2026; Director: Jenna Cato Bass)

Frankenstein

Review preview for Frankenstein

There's still lots to appreciate here beyond its status as a historical artefact.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
An early reimagining of the Mary Shelley classic in which an ambitious scientist gets more than he bargained for.

(Country: US; Year: 1910; Director: J Searle Dawley; Writer: Based on the book by Mary Shelley; Stars: Augustus Phillips, Charles Ogle, Mary Fuller)

Full review See: Column on books about film looking at Edison's Frankenstein by Frederick C Wiebel Jr

Game Master

A jouirney into the world of live-action role-playing.

(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Éric Judor)

Ghost In The Cell

A high-security prison run by a tyrannical warden is rocked by a spate of gruesome murders with bodies put on morbidly spectacular display.

(Country: Indonesia; Year: 2026; Director: Joko Anwar; Stars: Abimana Aryasatya, Endy Arfian, Bront Palarae, Morgan Oey)

Gimme Truth

Review preview for Gimme Truth

Does a good job of carrying the general viewer from laughter to sympathy and concern – maintaining a healthy awareness of how ludicrous many of these ideas are, yet reminding us of the vulnerability of many believers.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Delve deep into the world of conspiracy theories in North America in this documentary.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Brad Abrahams, Simon Ennis; Writer: Brad Abrahams, Simon Ennis, Nick Taylor; Stars: Arcturus Ra, Jon Ronson, Mikki Willis)

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Girl In The Night

Review preview for Girl In The Night

Meticulously styled, Girl in The Night uses a blend of absurdity and deadpan humour to charm and delight its audience.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A lonesome guy desperate for human connection decides to steal the bicycle of the town’s self-appointed vigilante; as the 'sole witness' of the crime, he is inducted into joining her nightly escapades.

(Country: Slovenia; Year: 2026; Director: Luka Marčetić; Writer: Luka Marčetić; Stars: Urban Kuntaric, Lara Wolf, Rok Roudi, Nejc Jezernik, Doroteja Nadrah, Maja Sever, Marko Mandic)

Full review See: Interview with Luka Marcetic, Lara Wolf and Urban Kuntaric about Girl In The Night

The Glorious Dead

A small-town sheriff and her deputy awaken to a changed world where blood drips from taps, people vanish, creatures roam the woods, and the dead rise as the town descends into chaos.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: John Adams, Toby Poser; Writer: John Adams, Toby Poser; Stars: John Adams, Lulu Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, Judith Roberts)

Godmother

A meticulously planned desert couples' vacation spirals into chaos when family tensions and a pair of mysterious hosts with devilish intentions transform a romantic getaway into a nightmare.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: John Veron)

Half

Two half-human, half-vampire siblings are run off the road and left for dead by a gang of scavengers—and they're coming back for bloody revenge.

(Country: India; Year: 2026; Director: Samjad)

Hell House

Each Halloween, youth members of Trinity Church, Texas construct a 'Hell House'; a modern-day fire-and-brimstone sermon, presented in the form of a haunted house, seen by over 10,000 visitors each year.

(Country: US; Year: 2001; Director: George Ratliff; Stars: Jim Henessy, Ashley Adloo, Amy Allred, Jennifer Hillman)

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Based on the true life serial killer, Henry Lee Lucas.

(Year: 1986; Director: John McNaughton; Writer: Richard Fire, John McNaughton; Stars: Mary Demas, Michael Rooker, Anne Bartoletti, Elizabeth Kaden, Ted Kaden, Denise Sullivan, Anita Ores, Megan Ores, Cheri Jones, Monica Anne O'Malley, Bruce Quist, Erzsebet Sziky, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles, David Katz)

The Heretiks

Review preview for The Heretiks

Overall the film is finished to a very high standard.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A disaffected teenage girl must team up with a renegade witch to protect her little sister from a murderous coven determined to use her as a human sacrifice in an apocalyptic ritual on Halloween night.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Gregg Bishop; Writer: Ben Collins, Luke Piotrowski; Stars: Ava Mae Seidensticker, Luke Speakman, Josie Juliette Wert, Kimberly Epstein, Tess Williams, Spencer Brabham)

Full review See: Interview with Gregg Bishop about The Heretiks

Into The Sky

A man’s efforts to win back his estranged wife are derailed by a mysterious extraterrestrial force that keeps snatching him from Earth.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Evan Wolf Buxbaum, Drew Mylrea)

I Have Proof

Review preview for I Have Proof

I Have Proof asks how we can navigate in a world in which less and less of what we are surrounded with can be considered reliable.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
Alex has proof, and he wants you to see it.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Alex Cullen Bressack; Writer: Alex Cullen Bressack; Stars: Larsen Deane, Lilly Van Der Meer, James Cullen Bressack, Augie Duke, Kelly Lynn Reiter)

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Janur Ireng: Sewu Dino The Prequel

A pair of desperate siblings stumble unwittingly upon a centuries-old satanic ritual orchestrated by their wealthy relatives.

(Country: Indonesia; Year: 2026; Director: Kimo Stamboel)

Jim Queen

When a virus that turns gay men straight sweeps through Paris, gym queen Jim has to race against time to find a cure before the community who worship him are wiped out.

(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Nicolas Athané, Marco Nguyen; Writer: Brice Chevillard, Simon Balteaux; Stars: Alex Ramirès, Jéremy Gillet, Shirley Souagnon, François Sagat, Elisabeth Wiener, Harald Marlot, Alex Brik)

Jollyface

A white woman launches her own investigation into her Black fiancé’s violent murder only to find herself hunted in her apartment complex by a killer determined to keep the truth silent.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Justin Floyd)

Kick On

Four friends trying to keep their late-night bender going end up at the apartment of a reckless mobster; what starts as a casual substance-fueled afterparty quickly escalates into a violence-filled rager.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2026; Director: Nick Kozakis; Writer: Phil Klimek; Stars: Markella Kavenagh, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Ras-Samuel, Jacek Koman)

Kung Fu Deadly

Review preview for Kung Fu Deadly

Although the film is pretty formulaic, it’s warm-hearted, it has enough different things going on to remain entertaining, and it rattles along at a fair old pace.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A late-to-launch young man and his even less responsible friend realise they may be the last line of defense between humanity and an ancient Chinese evil. Martial arts and supernatural horror collide in this romp of a buddy comedy.

(Country: Ireland, Australia; Year: 2026; Director: Fergal Costello; Writer: Paul Markey, Paddy McDonald; Stars: Steven He, Michael Tient, Gemma Chua-Tran, Jason Tobin, Max Huang)

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Kylgor In The Grisly Abyss

Review preview for Kylgor In The Grisly Abyss

When you see that term ‘grisly abyss’, you’d better believe it.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Grimdark fantasy, an epic quest, buckets of blood… all puppets.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Mason Jeffrey Newton-DeRushie; Writer: Mason Jeffrey Newton-DeRushie; Stars: Timothy Paul McCarthy, Ry Barrett, Jason David Brown, Jessica Vano)

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Littermates

Review preview for Littermates

Littermates is a film full of kindness, blending real sweetness with the unutterably bleak, equally at ease with the comic and the tragic.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Amidst the chaos of a mysterious war, two victims of an attack take refuge at a cottage in the English countryside, where an enigmatic caretaker insists they must stick together.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Scott Tinkham, Michael Woloson; Writer: Scott Tinkham; Stars: Oliver Woolf, Joey BaderJason, Kaylee McGregor, Jack Redmayne, J Greenwood, Honor Koe)

Full review See: Interview with Michael Woloson and Scott Tinkham about Littermates

Little Doors

Review preview for Little Doors

Answers are as thin on the ground as they are beside the point.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Two socially awkward people find love and then define it for themselves in a barren, post-apocalyptic world before they discover a small, wooden door in the side of her body and decide whether or not to open it.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Anthony Oberbeck; Stars: Megan Koester, Anthony Oberbeck, Eleanore Pienta, Ikechukwu Ufomadu, Connor Kizer, Frank Mosley)

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Magic Mtn.

A rock n' roll fairytale set deep in Laurel Canyon using instruments of the occult to dig beneath the soil of a hillside marked by tragedy and death.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Hana Mae Lee, Hal Satin)

Mr. Creamjeans' Hidey Hole

A raunchy series of vignettes.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Heath Benfield)

No Rest For The Wicked

Review preview for No Rest For The Wicked

Jacob Møller’s cinematography brings out the mystery and danger of fog; the bright urgency of summer days, green grass and sparkling water on pale bodies; and the weight of darkness with equal surety.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A fisherman falls in love with a rugged whaler on the isolated Faroe Islands in this unconventional vampire story.

(Country: Denmark, Iceland, Faroe Islands; Year: 2026; Director: Kasper Kalle; Writer: Rasmus Birch, Kasper Kalle, Karl Heinreich Ulrichs; Stars: Egor Venned, Pilou Asbæk, Sofia Nolsøe Mikkelsen, Kjarten Hansen, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Brimheim)

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No Way Down

Fresh out of prison, Idriss enters the derelict Kraken apartment complex to find his ex-girlfriend's brother, only to be dragged back into violence by a ruthless squatter tied to the past Idriss is fighting to leave behind.

(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Mohamed Chabane, Théo Jourdain)

Ogroff

A masked lumberjack stalks anyone who enters his woods. Throughout the film we get a variety of people who come in contact with the killer and they don't live to regret it.

(Country: France; Year: 1983; Director: Norbert Moutier; Writer: Norbert Moutier; Stars: Robert Alaux, Françoise Deniel, Pierre Pattin, Alain Petit, Jean-Pierre Putters, Christophe Lemaire)

The Ones Who Grieve (Les Âmes En Peine)

Review preview for The Ones Who Grieve

In an age of monstrous men, Frément’s creation stands out.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
At the end of the 19th century, as a mysterious plague spreads across the countryside, a young woman living under the tyranny of her deeply religious father fights to reclaim her freedom.

(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Quarxx; Writer: Quarxx, Frederic Soulier; Stars: Thierry Frémont, Zelie Rixhon, Isabelle Anciaux, Ophélia Kolb, Jean-Baptiste Maunier)

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Pathetic Fallacy

After suffering the devastating loss of his wife, a man embarks on a surreal journey to bring her back.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Adam Egypt Mortimer)

Phreaker

A blind lonely teen becomes the latest breed of telecom criminal in this crackling dial-up thriller.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Adam Yorke)

Platypus

Kimberly's recurring dreams of a masked killer murdering young people around town progressively close in on her.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Joshua Gratton)

Play House

While renovating a dilapidated house to win back his ex, Elliot discovers VHS tapes of an unaired children’s TV show. The show's dark history seeps into his life, threatening his last chance at reconciliation

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Nicolas Jon Curcio)

Posthumous

Review preview for Posthumous

The film is slow and its horror elements become less effective as more of the mystery is resolved, but the characters and the damage they carry feel real.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A young woman returns home to her estranged father, seeking comfort from a series of VHS birthday recordings left behind by her deceased mother, and uncovers an occult ritual that upends everything she was told about her mother's death.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2026; Director: Josh Tanner; Writer: Josh Tanner, Jade van der Lei, Gabriel Bergmoser; Stars: Sophie Lowe, David Roberts, Doris Younane, Remy Hii, Christopher James Baker, Kira-Che Heelan)

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A Prayer For The Dying

In a rural Wisconsin town in 1870, Sheriff Jacob Hansen—a man still haunted by the Civil War—is pushed to his psychological limits when a deadly plague sweeps through his community and encroaching wildfires close in.

(Country: Norway, Greece, UK, Sweden; Year: 2026; Director: Dara Van Dusen; Writer: Stewart O'Nan, Dara Van Dusen; Stars: Johnny Flynn, John C Reilly, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Gustav Lindh, Hilton Pelser, Andrew Whipp)

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)

Ürei

Review preview for Ürei

Holding all of this together is the tremendous atmosphere that Baizhan generates out of shadows, cramped locations and unsettling sounds.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
When a young girl is left with her aging grandmother in rural Kazakhstan, an ordinary act of familial care quickly turns into an unsettling descent into the unknown where loss can take monstrous forms.

(Country: Kazakhstan; Year: 2020; Director: Yerkezhan Baizhan; Writer: Yerkezhan Baizhan; Stars: Tynyshgul Sultanberdieva, Akerke Kozaiyr, Asset Eszhan, Gulbahram Baybosynova, Miyatuly Zangar)

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Resident Evil

Review preview for Resident Evil

The age rating with its warnings of gore and language doesn't quite cover the extent to which filth and fury are scattered.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
In an all-new story, a medical courier unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Zach Cregger; Writer: Zach Cregger, Shay Hatten; Stars: Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Paul Walter Hauser, Will Merrick, Andrea Miltner)

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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)

Roma Elastica

An actress heads to Rome in the 1980s to shoot a film.

(Country: France, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Bertrand Mandico; Writer: Bertrand Mandico; Stars: Marion Cotillard, Noémie Merlant, Alba Rohrwacher, Ornella Muti, Maurizio Lombardi, Martina Scrinzi, Franco Nero, Isabella Ferrari, Milutin Dapčević, Rose Harlean, Christophe Bier, Mathe Kabe, Agnese Claisse, Zlatko Burić, Josephine Thiesen)

Roy From Space

An evil space emperor plots to take over the Earth in this restoration of one of the first fully animated feature films from Mexico.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 1983; Director: Héctor López Carmona)

Screamplay

A detective investigating a series of murders discovers that they are similar to the slayings that occur in the new script of a Hollywood screenwriter.

(Country: US; Year: 1984; Director: Rufus Butler Seder; Writer: Ed Greenberg, Rufus Butler Seder; Stars: Rufus Butler Seder, Eugene Seder, Cheryl Hirshman, James McCann, Clif Sears, Johanna Wagner)

Sick

Review preview for Sick

Whilst it’s thematically concerned with the blurring of boundaries, its own shifting structure and blending of genres contributes to the underlying unease.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Things spiral out of control in more ways than one when two siblings are tasked with caring for their ailing grandma.

(Country: Poland; Year: 2026; Director: Agata Trzebuchowska; Writer: Agata Trzebuchowska; Stars: Konrad Kakol, Katarzyna Lubik, Monika Niemczyk)

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The Spiral (L'estrania)

Review preview for The Spiral

Up until the end laced with cheap pseudo-biblical references, this horror-drama serves as a fun and thrilling ride.

Marko Stojiljkovic · 3 out of 5
A woman unexpectedly shows up at her daughter’s home to reveal the truth about their family.

(Country: Belgium, France, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Paolo Strippoli; Writer: Paolo Strippoli, Salvatore de Chirico; Stars: Jasmine Trinca, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Matilda De Angelis, Adriano Giannini, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi)

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The Squirrel

In a sterile future devoid of nature where emotions are forbidden, a toy designer developing robotic companion dogs rescues an injured squirrel, setting him on a journey of self-discovery and societal rebellion.

(Country: Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden; Year: 2026; Director: Markus Lehmusruusu)

The Swallow

A sentient, quicksand-like sludge terrorises a group of young people in this brutally efficient, effects-forward creature feature.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer)

Too Many Beasts

Wild boars lead to a clash between farmers and the members of a hunting club and a disappearance... but when a police officer comes to investigate, he is pushed to the edge.

(Country: Germany, France; Year: 2026; Director: Sarah Arnold; Writer: Sarah Arnold, Olivier Séror, Jérémie Dubois; Stars: Alexis Manenti, Ella Rumpf, Vincent Dedienne, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Xavier de Guillebon, Pascal Rénéric, Bertrand Belin, Thierry Godard, Jacques Develay)

See: Interview with Alexis Manenti about Flesh And Fuel and Too Many Beasts

Upiro

In the Age of Enlightenment, Ana is sent to a remote monastery to atone for her sins. There, she finds a place plagued by a mysterious blood disease linked to a supernatural being: the upyr.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Óscar Martín)

Vertiginous (Le Vertige)

Jacques goes to his friend Bruno's house to tell him some big news: the entire human race is living in a simulation...

(Year: 2026; Director: Quentin Dupieux; Writer: Quentin Dupieux; Stars: Alain Chabat, Jonathan Cohen, Anaïs Demoustier, Jean-Marie Winling)

Victorian Psycho

Review preview for Victorian Psycho

Wigon’s film is arch as a proscenium from the start

Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
Trouble brews at a gothic manor after they hire a governess.

(Country: US, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Zachary Wigon; Writer: Virginia Feito; Stars: Maika Monroe, Thomasin McKenzie, Ruth Wilson, Jason Isaacs, Evie Templeton, Jacobi Jupe, Amy De Bhrún, Katherine Moran, Dagmar Döring, Kate Brady, Elishka Lane)

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Welcome To Dolly's House

A ghost-debunking influencer begins to question her own identity after entering the mansion of a famously reclusive dollmaker.

(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2026; Director: Seven Ych, Rady Fu, Tree Muta)

What Happened To Doris?

Review preview for What Happened To Doris?

Simon confidently marries the investigative and horrific aspects of the story, and very effectively combines sudden scares with the gruelling horror of a problem that won’t go away.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
In 1974 LA suburbs, a single mother faces violent attacks by an invisible entity. When no one believes her, she seeks help from paranormal investigators, sparking a notorious documented supernatural case.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Nick Simon; Writer: Thomas Fenton; Stars: Heather Graham, Candi Marie, Mimi Rogers, Island Austin, Marcus Coloma, Luke Baines, Kevin Keppy, Kayden Alexander Koshelev)

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