Our horror movie reviews cover new releases, indie horror, festival premieres and the odd cult classic. From FrightFest reports to slow burn ghost stories and creature features, every review gives you an honest verdict on whether a horror film is worth your time.
Julia Kowalski’s Her Will Be Done is a French folk horror film about Naw, a young woman on her Polish migrant family’s farm who fears she carries her mother’s curse. Hope Madden finds a mystery held together by Maria Wróbel’s wordless performance, with Roxane Mesquida as the neighbour whose return turns everything into a backward fairy tale.
Joko Anwar locks a meek journalist in a brutal Indonesian prison, and the bodies soon start piling up. Hope Madden finds a prison horror film that is slow to turn scary but full of gory horror comedy, a likeable cast and a surprisingly good heart. Our Ghost in the Cell review weighs the carnage against the camaraderie.
Nikias Chryssos turns an elite tennis academy into a gory, darkly funny sports horror in Bloody Tennis, now on Shudder. Hope Madden finds a strong lead in Sandra Guldberg Kampp and a gleefully committed Elina Löwensohn. This Suspiria-inspired horror has plenty of blood, but not quite enough mystery to linger.
Hope Madden reviews Never After Dark, Dave Boyle’s Japanese ghost story about a travelling medium sent to a remote inn. Moeka Hoshi leads a slow burn horror that borrows the look of early 90s J-horror without feeling borrowed. It takes its time as a supernatural thriller, then gets nasty when it counts.
Hope Madden reviews Raymond Creamer’s Goody Goody, a pregnancy horror feature debut built around two performances that do the heavy lifting. Samantha Robinson and Colleen Foy anchor a slow burn shift from cabin set dread into full blown creature feature, with results that mostly earn their transformation.
Ginger Nuts of Horror’s FrightFest 2026 reviews take in the full run of this year’s FrightFest 2026 lineup, from Tony Todd’s final performance in The Pitchfork Retreat to Yeon Sang-ho’s Colony and the spider infested chaos of Spider Island. Across five days at the Odeon Luxe, David Court and Tara Court rate the highlights, the disappointments and everything in between.
