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Overlook Film Festival — A–Z of films

2025

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  • 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.
  • Cloud
    Review preview for Cloud

    Even though we’re essentially talking about a basic shot-reverse shot exchange, framed in creeping wide angles, juxtaposed with close-ups, the feeling is comparable to watching a getaway heist.

    Nikola Jovic · 4 out of 5
    An online scammer, reselling faulty products at preposterously high rates, is on the run after some of his customers decide to hit back.
  • 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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  • 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.
  • Death Becomes Her
    Review preview for Death Becomes Her

    Both female stars are on fine form here, relishing the chance to let go and unleash the full force of their personalities.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    The rivalry between two ageing actresses only becomes more bitter when they acquire the gift of eternal youth.
  • The Descent
    Review preview for The Descent

    Effective and brilliantly crafted...

    Scott Macdonald · 5 out of 5
    Six girls on a caving expedition find they are not alone in the dark.
  • Fréwaka
    Review preview for Fréwaka

    Clarke’s utilisation of eerie Irish lore and the supernatural to explore very real horror, and the lifelong lingering aftermath of a single, damning moment, is a potent and unsettling brew.

    James Gracey · 4.5 out of 5
    A troubled home carer finds her grip on reality starts to slip after she goes to help an elderly agoraphobic.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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  • Lost Highway
    Review preview for Lost Highway

    Lynch is a master of space and sound and the world of Lost Highway is at once beautiful and downright evil.

    Gator MacReady · 5 out of 5
    A mysterious murder is only the beginning of the strangest story ever told.

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  • Re-Animator
    Review preview for Re-Animator

    If Re-Animator doesn't get your blood pumping, you're already dead.

    David Graham · 4.5 out of 5
    Students decide to resurrect the dead in this much-loved comedic take on the work of HP Lovecraft.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Touch Me
    Review preview for Touch Me

    It’s the situation that delivers the strangeness – and charm – mediated by Dudley’s performance as a woman who is self-deprecating and messy but lively enough to root for.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.
  • 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.

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  • 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.