Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ No Rest for the Wicked (Fantasia Film Festival) review – hauntingly beautiful, Kalle’s adaptation of Ulrichs’ Manor is unmissable by Neil Baker 23rd July 2026
Film and Television Wuthering Heights (review) – Fennell captures the book’s emotional scale, but the lack of subtlety is a double-edged sword by Calum Cooper 10th February 2026
Editors' Choice·Theatre The Highgate Vampire (review) – a delightfully absurd real-life tale brought to life through meta-theatre, gothic horror and sketch comedy by Neil Baker 29th January 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television Frankenstein (BFI London Film Festival) review – Del Toro’s adaptation beats with a human heart that only he could create by Oscar Aitchison 16th October 2025
Film and Television Nosferatu (review) – Egger’s chilling film somewhat cowers in the presence of its predecessor by Calum Cooper 23rd December 2024
Editors' Choice·Film and Television The Vourdalak (review) – a tantalising, twisted and thrilling celebration of traditional gothic horror by Neil Baker 14th September 2024
Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television The Last Voyage of the Demeter (FrightFest Review) – Øvredal’s Dracula movie is entertaining but incomplete by Neil Baker 24th August 2024
Film and Television Doctor Jekyll (review) – a homage to Hammer’s past and a wildly entertaining vision of its future by Neil Baker 13th October 2023
Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Rewind Kings & Queens – a coronation-worthy collection of movies and shows by Neil Baker 6th May 2023
Film and Television What Josiah Saw (review) – an atmospheric and brutal Southern Gothic horror by Neil Baker 30th July 2022
1 Saturday Night Live UK announces Jeff Goldblum as the first host of the new series and the addition of Freddie Meredith to the cast
2 Tao of Glass (review) – music, puppetry and shadow play sit alongside fragments of thought about dreams, life and death
3 Her Worm (review) – a deliciously dark, lovingly crafted short film that asks us all to reflect on the real parasites in our midst
4 Blue Film: Elliot Tuttle on his provocative, nuanced, artistically ambitious exploration of trauma, memory, identity and guilt
6 Leviticus: The true horror of religious fundamentalism, conversion practices and community oppression
7 Berlinale Generation at 50: The Crystal Bears are to take centre stage at the Berlinale Palast in 2027
8 Bad Karaoke (FrightFest) review – Lightbody and Steinmiller Jr.’s fabulously fun popcorn horror hits all the right notes
9 Vleesdag (Meat Kills) FrightFest review – Smits’ slaughterhouse horror refuses to play by the established rules
10 Ithaqua (FrightFest) review – a rush to action shatters much of the tension and horror of the opening act in Walker’s movie
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