GENRE | Anne Hathaway Hails 'Mother Mary' – A Pop Nightmare

"Catch me by surprise with your sincerity."

A24 / VVS Films

Eclectic filmmaker David Lowery writes and directs the gothic pop-horror music psychodrama, Mother Mary, starring Anne Hathaway as an iconic singer (think Lady Gaga meets Taylor Swift) in search of a new stage costume from her estranged former collaborator (Michaela Coel). It's an all-female, two-hander chamber piece of ghostly confrontation that doubles for the complications of artistic and creative partnerships.

GENRE | 'Ready or Not 2: Here I Come' Doubles Down x SXSW 2026

"It didn't work out."

SXSW Film & TV Festival

Radio Silence filmmaking duo, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, reunite for their horror-comedy, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. Six years after the first Ready or Not, the "eat the rich" sequel picks up directly following the memorable end of the original, with Samara Weaving's blood-soaked bride Grace, having just defeated her ne'er-do-well in-laws, when a new cabal of rich, soul-sacrificing oligarchs, the Danforths, kidnap her and her estranged younger sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) before forcing them both to play a new deadly game of hide-and-seek for their sick and twisted amusement.

GENRE | Jessie Buckley Reinvigorates the Motherf—king 'The Bride!'

"There is a whole garden of pleasures I have not had."

Warner Bros. Pictures

Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal directs the wildly audacious, gothic reimagining, The Bride! (note the exclamation point), starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as the monstrous couple, inspired by the iconic 1935 sequel, Bride of Frankenstein. Her messy gangster crime take on Mary Shelley's original 1818 literary tale relocates the action to 1936 Chicago, as Frankenstein's monster (called just "Frank" here) begs for a suitable female companion be created for him by reviving a recent murder victim.

GENRE | Rachel McAdams Saves Dylan O'Brien's Bacon – 'Send Help'

"Don't ever mistake my kindness for weakness."

20th Century Studios

Master of horror-comedy Sam Raimi directs the twisted desert island survival thriller, Send Help, starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien as our mismatched but stranded co-workers. Essentially a Cast Away-type two-hander with shades of Triangle of Sadness that aims to reverse common but sexist gender roles in the workplace, Raimi's gnarly film mines so many wildly fun genre thrills by slyly toying with our expectations.

GENRE | Daisy Ridley Survives 'We Bury the Dead'

"Why do only some of them come back?"

Vertical / Game Theory Films

English actress Daisy Ridley stars in Australian writer/director Zak Hilditch's haunting yet unconventional zombie horror drama, We Bury the Dead. Set in Tasmania in the aftermath of a catastrophic nuclear experiment gone wrong, her Ava joins a "body retrieval unit," desperate to find her husband. She gets derailed when some of the corpses her team is tasked to bury awaken and become the living undead.

GENRE | Noémie Merlant Meets 'The Balconettes' – French Heat

"Only together we can really be ourselves."

The Forge / Nord-Ouest Films

French actress turned filmmaker Noémie Merlant (donning her best Marilyn Monroe garb) tackles rape-revenge horror-comedy in her second feature, The Balconettes (aka Les Femmes au balcon), about three women stuck in a Marseille apartment during a 46° C heatwave when an encounter with their sexy male neighbour sets off a series of unfortunate incidents.

CABLE | 'Alien: Earth' Arrives in the Future Past on FX

"It’s like a zoo, but the animals got out."

FX Productions / Scott Free Productions

FX and Fargo show creator Noah Hawley reteam for their engrossing new science-fiction horror prequel television series, Alien: Earth. Set two years before the classic 1979 Ridley Scott (also an executive producer) directed original Alien film, the dense show takes its colonial deep space mythology to new depths, but this time on our home planet (a first for the franchise), as you might have guessed from its subtitle.

GENRE | Josh Brolin and Julia Garner Control 'Weapons'

"Today, none of her kids were there."

New Line Cinema

Sketch comedian turned Barbarian writer/director Zach Cregger sticks to the twisty horror genre by levelling up his sophomore solo feature, Weapons. Told in a series of seven interconnected chapters from different character viewpoints—imagine Prisoners meets Hereditary—the unnerving mystery of what happened to seventeen students from the same third-grade class, who all left their homes and disappeared at exactly 2:17am without a trace, slowly unfolds.

GENRE | Dave Franco and Alison Brie Move 'Together' x Fantasia 2025

"Well, it sounds to me like you complete each other."

Fantasia International Film Festival

Frequent marital collaborators, Dave Franco and Alison Brie (also producers), team up with Australian writer/director Michael Shanks to craft a supremely effective supernatural body horror thriller. Together builds a bizarre but intriguing metaphor for romantic codependency through its strong genre film elements.

GENRE | From the South Till 'Sinners' – Michael B. Jordan Feels the Blues

"Y'all ready to sweat till y'all stink?"

Warner Bros. Pictures / Proximity Media

Frequent Scorsese/De Niro-style collaborators, writer/director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan, reteam in their ultra-sexy period vampire saga, Sinners. Set over the course of a single day and night in 1932 Clarksdale, Mississippi in the thick of the Jim Crow-era Deep South, the supernatural gothic horror fantasia harkens back to the influences of the period's Black culture of jazzy blues music (later appropriated by white musicians) in the aftermath of the First World War.

GENRE | Pedro Pascal Slashes Four 'Freaky Tales' in 1980s Oakland

"Oakland in '87 was hella wild."

Lionsgate / Cineplex Pictures

Freaky Tales, a neon-soaked throwback action-comedy from indie writing and directing team Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, stars Pedro Pascal as the centrepiece of the third of four interlocking stories set before, during, and immediately after game four of the second round of the NBA playoffs between the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Lakers in Oakland in 1987. It's a stylishly violent tribute to the East Bay's diverse neighbourhood charm and sense of community, but reminiscent of something like The Warriors.

GENRE | Theo James Kills 'The Monkey' Off His Back

"The monkey that likes killing our family… It's back."

Neon / Elevation Pictures

From Longlegs writer/director Osgood Perkins (son of famed Psycho actor Anthony Perkins) and producer James Wan comes another Stephen King adaptation based on the 1980 horror yarn of the same name from the short story collection, Skeleton Crew. Revolving around the titular cursed drumming toy animal, The Monkey is a complete turn from Perkins' previous film as he wastes the central premise's jokey conceit for a broadly comical, gory '90s-inspired genre adaptation in the tradition of the Final Destination franchise.

GENRE | Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy Protect 'The Gorge'

"You bury enough secrets, the graveyard runs out of room."

Apple Original Films / Skydance

The Gorge stars Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy as hired guns tasked with protecting the undisclosed titular narrow land passage from unnatural creatures beneath while being stationed alone at opposing ends of the mysterious outpost. Genre filmmaker Scott Derrickson directs the remote action horror romance with just barely enough stylish verve to maintain our limited streaming-dominated attention spans, but not much else.

GENRE | Sophie Thatcher Finds Romantic 'Companion'–ship

"The days of you controlling me are over."

New Line Cinema

Veteran television writer Drew Hancock makes an impressive feature horror screenwriting and directing debut in his inventive romantic horror-comedy. Companion carefully employs the tech-savvy culture of our digital age as a contemporary breakup metaphor for unhealthy romantic relationships.

GENRE | Rachel Zegler Relives the Year 2000 – 'Y2K' Glitches Out

"Ride the information super-die-way, bitch!"

A24 / VVS Films

What if the year 2000 computer glitch actually happened? That's the premise of former Saturday Night Live cast member Kyle Mooney's directorial debut. His turn-of-the-millennium disaster slasher comedy, appropriately titled Y2K, strikes a strong late-'90s nostalgic chord for middle-aged millennials who grew up with desktop computers, dial-up internet, burned CDs, and the popularity of nu-metal rap rock music.

GENRE | Demi Moore Ages Gracefully – 'The Substance' x TIFF 2024

"Pretty girls should always smile!"

Toronto International Film Festival

It's hard to imagine a more violent or gnarly encapsulation of Hollywood female self-loathing than French filmmaker and Revenge writer/director Coralie Fargeat's bonkers skewering of our youth-obsessed glam culture in her sophomore feature film, the body horror satire The Substance.

GENRE | Don't 'Blink Twice' – Zoë Kravitz Seduces An Island Getaway

"Blink twice if I'm in danger."

Amazon MGM Studios / Warner Bros. Pictures

Talented actress Zoë Kravitz, daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, makes her ambitious directorial debut in the sinister psychological thriller, Blink Twice (originally titled Pussy Island), doubling as a disorienting contemporary "eat the rich" critique of abusive power in the vein of recent genre films like The Menu or Get Out meets Glass Onion. Exploring issues of sexual violence against women and the performative nature of cancel culture, her mostly single-location film wraps itself in atmospheric horror genre conventions to express some dark material about the casual evil of men.

GENRE | Nesting Horror – Hunter Schafer Goes 'Cuckoo' x Fantasia 2024

"I expect her to come for you again."

Fantasia International Film Festival

Euphoria actress Hunter Schafer stars in German filmmaker Tilman Singer's stylish sophomore body horror thriller, Cuckoo. She stars as a knife-wielding teenage brat of a final girl, Gretchen, stranded somewhere in rural Germany. Its experimental nature at first toys with unknown supernatural killer tendencies before heading down a more conventional slasher genre path to its thrills.

GENRE | Satanic Possession – 'Longlegs' Decodes the Devil

"Is it scary being a lady FBI agent?"

Neon / Elevation Pictures

Longlegs, writer/director Osgood "Oz" Perkins' (son of Psycho actor Anthony Perkins) mid-'90s set serial killer thriller, produced by and co-starring a heavily made-up and nearly unrecognizable Nicolas Cage, dials up the creepy religious horror imagery for a gripping, satanic-tinged experience.

GENRE | The 'MaXXXine' Factor – Mia Goth Slashes 1980s Sleaze

"[It's] a B-movie with A-movie ideas."

A24 / VVS Films

British scream queen Mia Goth and indie filmmaker Ti West reteam for the disappointing third entry in their X horror trilogy. Set in both the adult and mainstream film world of 1980s Hollywood excess, MaXXXine follows up Pearl's origin as a direct sequel to the "Texas Porn-Shoot Massacre" murders from the first film. Goth reprises her eponymous role as the fame-hungry starlet on the verge of her big break while trying to evade the paranoia of the Night Stalker and a possible copycat killer in 1985 Los Angeles.