Horror films

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Nope

Peele's best-looking film. About spectacle, and about what happens to the people who handle the animals.

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Smile

A curse that passes by witnessing. Cheap scares, but the mechanism is sound and the ending commits.

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Titane

Won the Palme d'Or. A film about a woman, a car and a grieving fireman, and it is not a comedy.

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Nosferatu

Eggers going back to Murnau rather than to Stoker. Filthy, plague-ridden, and Orlok has a moustache.

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The Invisible Man

Reworks Universal's monster into a film about being disbelieved. The empty corners of the frame do the work.

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Weapons

Seventeen children leave their houses at 2.17am. Cregger structures it as overlapping chapters and it pays off.

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28 Years Later

Boyle and Garland back together, shot largely on iPhones rigged in arrays. Stranger than the sequel anybody expected.

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Alien: Romulus

Fede Alvarez taking the franchise back to basics: young colonists, a derelict station, and one very bad idea.

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Sinners

Coogler in 1932 Mississippi with twin Michael B. Jordans and a juke joint. Shot on 65mm and it shows.

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The Substance

Body horror about how the industry treats women over fifty, with Demi Moore doing the bravest work of her career.