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  1. Company review – Casey Affleck entertains us with creepy campfire tales
    By Xan Brooks in Venice

    Venice film festival: Affleck’s third film as a director is a diverting gothic anthology about mysterious strangers, murder and – pointedly – wronged men

    theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/

    #Venicefilmfestival #Film #CaseyAffleck #NickNolte #Culture #BenMendelsohn #Dramafilms #Horrorfilms #TheGuardian #XanBrooksinVenice

  2. Company review – Casey Affleck entertains us with creepy campfire tales
    By Xan Brooks in Venice

    Venice film festival: Affleck’s third film as a director is a diverting gothic anthology about mysterious strangers, murder and – pointedly – wronged men

    theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/

    #Venicefilmfestival #Film #CaseyAffleck #NickNolte #Culture #BenMendelsohn #Dramafilms #Horrorfilms #TheGuardian #XanBrooksinVenice

  3. Company review – Casey Affleck entertains us with creepy campfire tales
    By Xan Brooks in Venice

    Venice film festival: Affleck’s third film as a director is a diverting gothic anthology about mysterious strangers, murder and – pointedly – wronged men

    theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/

    #Venicefilmfestival #Film #CaseyAffleck #NickNolte #Culture #BenMendelsohn #Dramafilms #Horrorfilms #TheGuardian #XanBrooksinVenice

  4. Company review – Casey Affleck entertains us with creepy campfire tales
    By Xan Brooks in Venice

    Venice film festival: Affleck’s third film as a director is a diverting gothic anthology about mysterious strangers, murder and – pointedly – wronged men

    theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/

    #Venicefilmfestival #Film #CaseyAffleck #NickNolte #Culture #BenMendelsohn #Dramafilms #Horrorfilms #TheGuardian #XanBrooksinVenice

  5. Memo to Ridley Scott: no one needs more Alien: Covenant movies – get the franchise back to stalk’n’slash
    By Ben Child

    News that Scott is working on a follow-up to his maligned 2017 film leaves me worried the franchise has run out of shocks

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Alien #RidleyScott #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Horrorfilms #Television #Culture #Televisionradio #MichaelFassbender #TheGuardian #BenChild

  6. ‘He could arch both eyebrows and curl his lips in every direction all at once’: Tim Curry’s five best screen roles
    By Laurence Phelan

    The actor fully embraced his physical talents and outsized personality with a line in theatrical baddies teetering deliciously on the edge of serious and silly

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #TimCurry #Culture #TheMuppets #Horrorfilms #Musicals #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Comedyfilms #Comedy #StephenKing #Books #TheGuardian #LaurencePhelan

  7. Colony review – zombies return to the mall with a fresh and frenzied range of scares
    By Laurence Phelan

    This time the ranks of the undead have acquired a hive mind, making them even more formidable adversaries. Can a maverick academic save the day?

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Horrorfilms #Film #Culture #SouthKorea #Zombies #Actionandadventurefilms #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #TheGuardian #LaurencePhelan

  8. ‘I’ve always been fond of hairy creatures!’ Visual effects maestro Rick Baker on a monstrously good career
    By Rory O'Connor

    Rick Baker helped define Hollywood’s creature features with his wild makeup effects skills. From Locarno, he talks Gremlins, his love of simians– and why AI will never replace expert design

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Filmindustry #Culture #TheExorcist #Horrorfilms #Awardsandprizes #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Business #KingKong #TheGuardian #RoryOConnor

  9. Chris Carter is mistaken if he thinks more gore will bring The X-Files: I Want to Believe back to life
    By Ben Child

    The director’s cut includes a host more body parts but no more insight into the villains’ personalities. What could be a gothic masterstroke is turned into a dreary procedural in the snow

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Film #Culture #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Horrorfilms #DavidDuchovny #GillianAnderson #TheGuardian #BenChild

  10. The Last House review – post-Covid apocalyptic lockdown thriller is a solid night in
    By Benjamin Lee

    Oscar nominee Wagner Moura and Greta Lee lead Netflix’s sci-fi tale of a family trapped in their house as something sinister arrives

    theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/

    #Sciencefictionandfantasyfilms #Netflix #Horrorfilms #Film #Culture #TheGuardian #BenjaminLee