Sachin Hingoo

Marion Le Corroller's 'Species (Sanguine)' medical body horror feature debut is easily one of my favourite horrors of 2026.

The Swallow slaps the old ‘teens in the woods’ template together with some highly-intelligent and bloodthirsty mud.

With his newest film, Fantasia selection 'The Mouths', Takashi Shimizu uses the Rashomon technique of multiple perspectives to tell the story of a group of university students who visit a cursed tree in the middle of a graveyard and the horrific fates that befall them.

Sachin Hingoo runs down the selections from this year's Midnight Madness programme at the Toronto International Film Festival! Could the next Curry Barker and 'Obsession' be in this bunch? Find out here!

In Métis director Tim Riedel's debut feature 'Ancestral Beasts', trauma takes on a physical, malevolent form.

Set against the eve of the apocalypse, Brett and Jason Butler’s The Last Anniversary brings together a group of toxic people to revisit a long-buried trauma from a decade earlier.

With 'Ready or Not 2: Here I Come', Radio Silence has brought back several elements of the first film while expanding the scope. For fans of the original, it's worth hunting down.

Ian Tuason's undertone wields an expert command of mood and a killer performance from its lead, Nina Kiri to produce some of 2026's best scares.

Madeline Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s ‘Honey Bunch’ reminds us of the lengths we’ll go to in order to save and preserve our loved ones.

Sachin Hingoo looks back on the 2025 films that brought him joy, the ones that didn’t, and the 2026 films that promise to do so!

Osgood Perkins' latest, 'Keeper' feels like a couple of decent performances, mostly-cheap scares, and decent but confusing VFX in search of a story.

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's 'Reflection in a Dead Diamond' favours style over substance. But it might be better for it.

Lucky McKee's 'May' (2002) is one of my perennial favourites and a Spooky Season mainstay.

'Scream 7' takes the franchise back to its roots with a returning Kevin Williamson, Neve Campbell, and Courteney Cox!

Izzy Lee’s feature debut piles misery upon tragedy upon various flavours of oppression to create one of the most timely, disturbingly prescient, and deeply affecting horror films I’ve seen in some time.

Lucky McKee’s ‘May’ (2002) is one of my perennial favourites and a Spooky Season mainstay.

Rod Blackhurst's 'Dolly' treads familiar French Extremity ground on the way to delivering a dark and depraved tale that'll stick to your disembodied ribs.

Sachin Hingoo saw a couple of pretty filthy movies at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival and is better for it!

Mickey Reece's 'Every Heavy Thing'' is a both a retro noir thriller and a prescient black comedy that feels extremely of the moment.

Morihito Inoue’s 'Onsen Shark/Hot Spring Shark Attack' is a gleeful, many-toothed tribute to 'Jaws'