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The manner in which mainstream Bengali cinema sidesteps serious horror, almost as though it were a contagious disease, is a phenomenon deserving scrutiny. Bengali culture, from its expansive literary canon and oral storytelling to its everyday chatter in the 21st century, has never lacked horror elements. It overflows with supernatural entities, some benevolent and absent-minded,
Meiruko-chan is a 2025 Japanese supernatural horror/slice of life film written and directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura. Beginning his career with the horror film series Honto ni Atta! Noroi no Video, Yoshihiro Nakamura would proceed to write and direct the first seven films in the series–later returning to the series to narrate films eleven through to
Bodycam is a 2025 Canadian found footage horror film written and directed by Brandon Christensen, with additional writing from Ryan Christensen. Brandon is best known as the writer/director behind films such as Still/Born (2017), Superhost (2021), as well as The Puppetman (2023), and Night of the Reaper (2025), with Ryan attached as a writer. Two
Imagine waking up one day to a bedroom unfamiliar to you, with a stranger lying on the bed beside you. Sounds like a normal Saturday morning? Well, what if that stranger claims to be your husband, yet you haven’t even met that person ever in your entire life until now? Jessica Rothe finds herself in such
We Put the World to Sleep is a 2025 found footage horror/faux documentary written and directed by AdrianȚofei, with additional writing by Duru Yücel. Filmed across 13 cities, villages, and remote locations in Romania, Turkey, and Ukraine, the film’s development began in 2015 and spanned over nine years of filming. Adrian and Duru captured approximately
Director Kenichi Ugana is profoundly interested in exploring societal outcasts and obsessives in his work, whilst maintaining a distinct punk and transgressive style. With titles such as Visitors: Complete Edition (2023), Extraneous Matter: Complete Edition (2021), and The Curse (2025), to name a few, the young director’s vast number of films feature elements from all
Equal parts camp and shlock horror, Brooke H. Cellars‘s The Cramps: A Period Piece (2025) takes the humour and queer authenticity of a John Waters film and merges it into a gory creature feature that’ll get a standing ‘ovulation’ from period-havers in the audience! Agnes (played by Lauren Kitchen) is a beautiful apple-cheeked young woman
Extraneous Matter: Complete Edition (Ibutsu – Kanzenhan) is a 2021 Japanese horror drama film written and directed by Kenichi Ugana. Renowned for directing bloody horror, Kenichi is recognised as the creator behind films such as Visitors: Complete Edition (2023), the Japanese-Taiwanese collaborative horror The Curse (2025), and the upcoming Incomplete Chairs (2025). The film compiles
Hugo Ruíz’s debut film, the brutal and unflinching One Night with Adela [Una noche con Adela] (2023), is far more than a simple revenge thriller; it is an indictment of Spain’s generational trauma stemming from the institutionalized sins of infant abduction. Following a single, wrath-fueled night, the film presents a gut-wrenching, 21st-century Taxi Driver–esque story, focusing on
Set during World War II, Kiah Roache-Turner’s Beast of War (2025) follows a battalion of young Australian soldiers as they prepare for their first deployment. Focusing primarily on Leo, played by Mark Coles Smith, an indigenous soldier with a troubled past who also earns the ire of fellow soldier, Des (Sam Delich), due to his