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You are the Film marks the debut of prolific Japanese writer Makoto Ueda, perhaps best known for writing the delightful time loop duo of Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020) and River (2023). And what a debut it is. A brain-scrambling, deeply inventive delight that makes the two timey-wimey works seem positively straightforward by comparison, more magical realist than sci-fi fantasy. At the film’s core are a pair of struggling creatives, playwright Maoka (a delightful Mari

Ana Thu Nguyen as Grace Dead Eyes is an audacious watch – a completely first-person horror that bounces around subgenres (part ghost story, part drug-fuelled descent, part sci-fi tinged curio) – as it takes a wander round a slice of the Australian outback, marking director Richard Williams as a talent to watch, even as his technical prowess outstrips narrative cohesion. We view the world from Sean’s perspective who has ventured out to the locale of the passing of his younger

The latest from Cameron Francis (who directs, writes, co-produces and edits), Blood Secret, has ambitions to be a John Carptenter-esque work of claustrophobia and paranoia. Set in and around a single apartment, the film follows a woman visiting a friend who becomes confronted by her past and present in a series of events that may well be supernatural. But it sadly feels like it shares more DNA with the latter years of Carpenter’s work then the terrific run he had in the late

Jersey Anderson as Eileen Starsuckers has big ambitions as a satire of our relationship with fame. The narrative follows two couples and how fame brings them together. Bjorg and Sasha are a celebrity power couple who invite the more ordinary pair of Chuck and Eileen, for a weekend of sex, violence and power plays. Regrettably Starsuckers proves a chore, neither satisfying as a comedy-tinged horror nor as a takedown of modern celebrity culture. There is a lack of tension here

Christoper Smith is a fascinating figure in British horror. Arriving on the scene as part of the nastier hues of 2000s British horror, he directed a trio of fascinating works that, in 5 years, demonstrated his prowess. From the seedy London Underground-set Creep (2004) – not that one– to the delightfully nasty Severance (2006) –not that one– to the genuinely unique Triangle (2009), Smith showed he was a dab hand at different horror subgenres. It means that even as his career

Kate Miner as Melissa It’s arguable that every possible item has been the source of a haunting or a curse. And so, it is the turn of a karaoke machine in Chris Lightbody and Robert J Steinmiller Jr’s horror comedy. Bad Karaoke follows a cover band who come into possession of the central machine and find their lives on the line as it takes control of their weekend, forcing performances that could very well prove deadly. The tone is established early on here with an opening sce