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Overlook Film Festival

3 April – 8 April 2025

There's no shortage of spooky cinema at this year's Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans, where a great set of genre classics competes with the best of this year's horror offerings. A partnership with MUBI makes this a great chance for US fans to catch up with chillers and thrillers from around the world.

The festival runs from 3 to 8 April.

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  • Good Boy
    Review preview for Good Boy

    In Good Boy, Indy the dog delivers not only a great animal performance, but one of the best performances by anyone this year.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Indy is a good boy; a faithful dog, he is always by his human Todd’s side. When Todd seeks quiet in an empty family home in the countryside, Indy finds there is a strange, malevolent presence lurking in the shadows — an evil that only he can sense.
  • Dead Lover
    Review preview for Dead Lover

    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.
  • The Home
    Review preview for The Home

    The real candy is the omnipresent densely uncomfortable atmosphere that comes on top of the richly detailed observations and conclusions in the film's lower layers.

    Marko Stojiljkovic · 4 out of 5
    Many years after leaving, Joel returns home to move his mother Monika to a care facility for the elderly struggling with dementia. But as she starts to have terrifying visions, he begins to suspect something supernatural is at work.
  • Rosario
    Review preview for Rosario

    A lot can happen in one night in a place like this, and most of it does.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    When the grief-stricken young Rosario is forced to wait overnight with the body of her deceased grandmother until an ambulance can get to her through a severe snowfall, she falls prey to ghoulish attacks from supernatural possessors determined to wreak havoc on her.
  • The Ugly Stepsister
    Review preview for The Ugly Stepsister

    There’s a good deal of depth and nuance to these relationships as Blichfeldt uses them to illustrate how a society which makes women dependent on men magnifies every petty disagreement and sets them at odds with one another.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.
  • Ash
    Review preview for Ash

    Lotus may love pretty things, but he doesn’t hold back on the gore.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. Her investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events.
  • Zodiac Killer Project
    Review preview for Zodiac Killer Project

    A surprisingly droll deconstruction of crime reconstruction.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.
  • 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.
  • Hallow Road
    Review preview for Hallow Road

    Hallow Road is an Irish co-production, and it shows both in theme and in quality.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Two parents enter a race against time when they receive a distressing late-night phone call from their daughter after she caused a tragic car accident.
  • Clown In A Cornfield
    Review preview for Clown In A Cornfield

    Clown in A Cornfield has a lot of heart, and not just of the bloody variety.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A teenager and her father move to a fading midwestern town in which Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying scourge.

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