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The 50 biggest new movies arriving in 2022
Bookmark our monster list of the year’s most exciting releases: it’s gonna be a big one.
Netflix’s stop-motion triptych The House is like a Wes Anderson animation gone horrifyingly wrong
An early candidate for the weirdest film of the year is this trippy stop-motion animated feature.
Fantastical romance Wolf Like Me makes the most of a howlingly good cast
A broken family finds redemption, romance, and twisted secrets in this Adelaide-set dramedy.
Scream skewers new genre gags alongside genuinely disturbing knifeplay
This new entry is acutely aware of its positioning as a “requel”.
Win a double pass to see Scream
Surprise, Sidney: we’ve got double passes to hand out for this slasher sequel.
8 movies arriving in cinemas this January that we’re excited about
Ghostface! Ghostbusters! Guillermo Del Toro putting on a film noir freak show!
10 of the biggest Australian movies coming out in 2022
Stories about Elvis, Dolly, and women’s mid-life liberation will rule our local cinema scene next year.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife is an unwelcome spectral form of the original movie
Stop trying to make ghostbusting cool, or sentimental, or serious. It’s not going to happen, Jason Reitman.
Firebite’s creators on why vampires are arseholes – and an invasive European species
We speak to the Firebite creators about making their unique, punky, carnage-splotched vampire fever dream.
First Nations horror series Firebite is now streaming for Aussie audiences
Aussie audiences can finally check out Warwick Thornton’s genre-bending, vamp-slaying outback slasher.
The bloody great, bloody fun Firebite reimagines vampire lore through an Indigenous lens
Rob Collins and Shantae Barnes-Cowan rule the desert as slayers of colonising Eurotrash vamps.
Win a double pass to Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
We’ve got freebies to the new Resident Evil film, which zombie shuffles into cinemas on December 9.
Sink your teeth into Firebite: first look at Warwick Thornton’s vampire slayer series
The stakes are high for an all-star cast of First Nations talent, killing colonial vamps in the outback.
The demons and violence in Netflix’s new Korean sensation Hellbound will get under your skin
It’s still a novel luxury to get super violent Korean TV shows at the same time as the rest of the world.
Trailer and release date for outback zombie sequel Wyrmwood: Apocalypse
It’s Mad Max meets Dawn of the Dead, fresh off a big bloody win at the Sydney Film Festival.
Titane is just your average, everyday film about a woman impregnated by a car
This disgustingly weird French film will make you say “I can’t believe they went there.”
Edgar Wright’s time-skipping horror Last Night In Soho is now playing in cinemas
It’s a lovely feeling to have no solid idea of what Edgar Wright’s new movie is even about.
Last Night In Soho raucously rewinds giallo style and 60s glamour
Edgar Wright’s giallo-style horror can be overly stylised, despite moments of ‘cinematic wonder’.
The Night House is a wonderfully scary haunted house horror
Delivers the thrills and chills you’d expect while also subverting expectations.
Mayhem and musicophilia: a guide to Edgar Wright’s greatest needle drops
The British director dusts off his record collection for magical, musical moments in Baby Driver, Shaun of the Dead, and Last Night in Soho.
A guide to giallo, the horror genre inspiring Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho
Contains eye-popping colours, wobbly dubbing, nudity and leather-gloved killers.
Bringing back the homicidal moppet: we interview the stars of the Chucky TV series
We spoke with three of the most beloved stars in the Child’s Play horror franchise, about the killer experience of filming a new 9Now series.