Zach Cregger’s Weapons is a new kind of cinema
Turns out adults are still interested in more than the usual banal superhero slop
Horror
Tuesday
The Hunt and conservative cancel culture
The wrong kind of bipartisan consensus
Thursday
This month in culture: January 2025
What to watch this month
Monday
Stephen King’s You Like it Darker shows a master at his peak
You Like It Darker inevitably harks back to Carrie, King’s debut novel, published fifty years ago this spring
Wednesday
The lamentable rise of VFX in horror films
CGI is no substitute for glue, tape and ketchup
Emily Carroll’s new graphic novel plays on our deepest fears
A Guest in the House is a beautifully plotted study of the madness of isolation, steeped in the tropes of fairy tale and horror
Wednesday
Why What We Do in the Shadows works
A vampire sitcom that doesn’t suck
Tuesday
The Pope’s Exorcist isn’t scary enough
Father Amorth’s fascinating career deserves a better cinematic outing than this one
Thursday
Knock at the Cabin is a better-than-average Shyamalan film
It packs an emotional wallop, though its religious motifs leave something to be desired
Wednesday
M3GAN is a biting satire of screen-obsessed parenting
This one deserved better than the January chopping block
Tuesday
M3gan is a tale of millennial mothering
The latest ‘killer doll’ defies genre tropes with a complex moral
Wednesday
Halloween Ends succeeds because it’s barely a horror film
The third in the trilogy trades a high body count for a sophisticated reckoning with evil
Friday
Long live the New England horror story
America’s most haunted place makes for great storytelling
Monday
Wanted this Halloween: terror films, not horror
No more joyless Michael Myers slogs!
Tuesday
Stitch-up: why will no one touch The Human Centipede director’s new film?
‘Audiences worldwide want to be challenged, not dumbed down and patronized,’ says Tom Six
Friday
The haunting of Russell Kirk
The founding father of 20th-century American conservatism was also a connoisseur of the supernatural and a bestselling novelist
Thursday
The genius of Stephen King
Stephen King, 69, has sold more than 350 million books, and tries not to apologise for being working-class, or imaginative, or rich. The snobbery has ebbed a little, though; in 2003 he won the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and now the BFI is screening a series of adaptations of his novels, which show how versatile he is. Why can’t you write stories like Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, a woman asked him once. I did write it, he told her, but she did not believe him. King has published 59 novels, but he is a recovering addict and can’t remember writing them all. Most
Is Darren Aronofsky taking the piss? Mother! reviewed
The film-maker Darren Aronofsky says he wrote Mother! in five days as if in a ‘fever dream’ and, as a general rule, what happens in a fever dream should stay in the fever dream, as the content will be plainly nuts. This is plainly nuts. This is even plainly nuts with an exclamation mark. Plainly nuts! However, it’s never plainly dull, so it does have that going for it. I think. Described as a psychological horror thriller, the set-up has a poet and his younger wife living in a magnificent, isolated house in the countryside that she is doing up. She is Mother (Jennifer Lawrence) and he is Him (Javier