Chris Sadowsky (Steven Strait) used to be a rock star, but now he’s a loser who earns money by making personalised songs for children’s birthdays via Fiverr. A recovering alcoholic, Chris is struggling to make a new song, all while his pregnant wife Vicki (María Gabriela González) works as a waitress. The couple are three…
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Raindance Film Festival 2026: The Horror Line-Up
Raindance Film Festival, the UK’s biggest indie film festival, returns with its 34th edition this month, 17-26 June, and festival passes are still available. Ranging from £45 for a day pass to £225 for a full festival pass, Raindance also offers a horror features pass for £115, allowing you to access to every horror film…
Book Review: Write a Horror Novel by Erik Patterson
Write a Horror Novel: 99 Writing Prompts to Craft a Tale of Terror and Darkness is Erik Patterson’s third entry into his Writing Prompts series, following Write a Romantasy and Write a Dystopian Novel. Patterson has been making a name for himself on TikTok under @yourdailywritingprompt with 317k followers, but he’s also the screenwriter (with…
Review: Obsession
Bear (Michael Johnston) is a nice guy. He works at Cassell’s Music alongside his friends Ian (Cooper Tomlinson), Nikki (Inde Navarrette), and Sarah (Megan Lawless), whose dad owns the store. But Bear is lonely. He lives in his grandmother’s house, his parents are absent, and one day he comes home to find his cat, Sandy,…
Review: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
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…
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…