With all the jokes circulating online about the fact Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is called Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, it’s really important it was called this in order to distinguish it from The Mummy franchise starring Brendan Fraser, a new instalment of which is due in 2028. Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, however, is something else…
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Overlook Film Festival 2026 Review: The Restoration at Grayson Manor
Bratty piano prodigy Boyd Grayson (Chris Colfer) delights in bringing men back to his opulent family mansion for sex, mainly to taunt his strict, legacy-obsessed mother Jacqueline (Alice Krige) who disapproves of his gay lifestyle. He calls her a “homophobic cunt,” but it’s perhaps more that Jacqueline doesn’t mind his gayness per se, it’s just…
Overlook Film Festival 2026 Review: Affection
Affection opens to a woman lying in the middle of the road as her car beeps behind her. Is she dead? All of a sudden, she breathes in and starts coughing. She stands up slowly and looks ahead into the night. Then she has a violent seizure and falls back to the ground. Later, she…
Review: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come picks up right where the first film ends: Grace (Samara Weaving) lights a cigarette as she sits in a blood-soaked wedding dress on the steps of the Le Domas Estate while it burns behind her. After marrying Alex (Mark O’Brien), Grace was invited to take part in their…
Review: Vampires of the Velvet Lounge
If you’re into vampires as much as I am, you’ll already know the legend of Countess Elizabeth Báthory. If not, Vampires of the Velvet Lounge gets you up to speed with some heavy text exposition: Born in 1560 Hungary, Báthory was a noblewoman whose behaviour became increasingly bizarre following the death of her husband, Count…
Review: Scream 7
Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has built a quiet life for herself in Pine Grove, running a coffee shop and raising three children with her husband, police chief Mark Evans (Joel McHale). With the two youngest staying with Mark’s parents, it’s teenage Tatum (Isabel May)—named for Sidney’s late friend—who takes centre stage. Timid and struggling to…
Review: I Live Here Now
Julie Pacino’s debut feature, I Live Here Now, follows actress Rose (Lucy Fry), who spends her time auditioning for roles and hanging out with her TikToker boyfriend, Travis (Matt Rife). As she hasn’t been bookable for years, Rose is happy when she lands the opportunity to meet top agent Cindy Abrams (Cara Seymour), who abrasively…
Review: Cold Storage
Cold Storage begins with a prologue introducing us to Skylab, a space station which fell out of orbit in 1979. “Pay attention,” a title card reads. “This shit is real.” And it is. Host to countless scientific experiments, it was important to recover all the pieces that weren’t destroyed during atmospheric reentry—but an oxygen tank…
Review: Blood Barn
Set in the summer of 1985, Blood Barn follows Josie (Lena Redford), a camp counsellor who gathers her friends (played by Chloe Cherry, Andrea Bambina, Simon Paris, Samuel Lanier, Felipe Di Poi, and Pierce Campion) for a final weekend at her family’s secluded barn before they part ways for college. However, their fun and nostalgic…
Review: Forgive Us All
Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a biotech virus has transformed humans into violent cannibals, Rory (Lily Sullivan, Evil Dead Rise) hides in an isolated cabin in the New Zealand wilderness with her father-in-law, Otto (Richard Roxburgh, Van Helsing). Two years earlier, Rory lost her husband and daughter to the virus, moments that still haunt…