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3: I SAW THE TV GLOW dir: Jane Schoenbrun
A gorgeous, haunting and moving film about being true to yourself and the perils of not doing so, along with pitfalls of nostalgia. Pretty much unlike anything else and a massive step up from Schoenbrun's last film. Great soundtrack too.
3: I SAW THE TV GLOW dir: Jane Schoenbrun
A gorgeous, haunting and moving film about being true to yourself and the perils of not doing so, along with pitfalls of nostalgia. Pretty much unlike anything else and a massive step up from Schoenbrun's last film. Great soundtrack too.
All based on UK release dates or festival viewings.
#FilmsOf2024
All based on UK release dates or festival viewings.
#FilmsOf2024
10: KINDS OF KINDNESS dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
Evil Yorgos returns with the bleakest, darkest comedy possible. An anthology showing the lengths we will go to in order to please other people, brilliantly performed by his ensemble cast.
10: KINDS OF KINDNESS dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
Evil Yorgos returns with the bleakest, darkest comedy possible. An anthology showing the lengths we will go to in order to please other people, brilliantly performed by his ensemble cast.
12: LOVE LIES BLEEDING dir: Rose Glass
Glass follows up one of the most upsetting horror films of recent years with a 80s set LGBTQIA+ romantic bodybuilding noir thriller. Brilliant performances abound, there's bags of style and the tone is perfectly pitched.
12: LOVE LIES BLEEDING dir: Rose Glass
Glass follows up one of the most upsetting horror films of recent years with a 80s set LGBTQIA+ romantic bodybuilding noir thriller. Brilliant performances abound, there's bags of style and the tone is perfectly pitched.
4: POOR THINGS dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
A surrealist steampunk fantasy with a (probably) career defining performance from Emma Stone. Darkly comedic, visually stunning and packing an emotional punch without being as bleak as Lanthimos's other work.
4: POOR THINGS dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
A surrealist steampunk fantasy with a (probably) career defining performance from Emma Stone. Darkly comedic, visually stunning and packing an emotional punch without being as bleak as Lanthimos's other work.
9: TIMESTALKER dir: Alice Lowe
Hilarious time-skipping anti-romantic comedy. Surreal touches and laugh out loud moments abound. Unlike anything else I've every seen.
9: TIMESTALKER dir: Alice Lowe
Hilarious time-skipping anti-romantic comedy. Surreal touches and laugh out loud moments abound. Unlike anything else I've every seen.
15: CHIME dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japanese horror genius Kurosawa returns with a dread inducing short. A slow burn despite the 45-minute runtime, but genuinely terrifying because of it. Shame about the stupid NFT-style release it had though
15: CHIME dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japanese horror genius Kurosawa returns with a dread inducing short. A slow burn despite the 45-minute runtime, but genuinely terrifying because of it. Shame about the stupid NFT-style release it had though
17: THE FIRST OMEN dir: Arkasha Stevenson
Unexpectedly great prequel with a fully committed performance by Nell Tiger Free. Has some great creepy moments and plenty to say about bodily autonomy and religion too.
17: THE FIRST OMEN dir: Arkasha Stevenson
Unexpectedly great prequel with a fully committed performance by Nell Tiger Free. Has some great creepy moments and plenty to say about bodily autonomy and religion too.
2: ODDITY dir: Damian McCarthy
Lots of (great) 2024 horror films had a lot of very important things to say, but my favourite horror film of the year was content with just making you shit yourself repeatedly. Coming after CAVEAT, this proves that McCarthy is a real horror talent.
2: ODDITY dir: Damian McCarthy
Lots of (great) 2024 horror films had a lot of very important things to say, but my favourite horror film of the year was content with just making you shit yourself repeatedly. Coming after CAVEAT, this proves that McCarthy is a real horror talent.
18: MAXXXINE dir: Ti West
The third-best film of the trilogy, but still a fun time. It certainly has the best soundtrack of the year (that "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" scene though), bags of giallo style and references to 80s horror and thrillers.
18: MAXXXINE dir: Ti West
The third-best film of the trilogy, but still a fun time. It certainly has the best soundtrack of the year (that "Welcome To The Pleasuredome" scene though), bags of giallo style and references to 80s horror and thrillers.
13: PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT dir: @smashism.bsky.social
Trippy, gory and hilarious hippiesploitation grindhouse throwback about the lengths some of us will go to in order to obtain obscure records. Made for the price of a second-hand car, doesn't feel or look like it.
13: PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT dir: @smashism.bsky.social
Trippy, gory and hilarious hippiesploitation grindhouse throwback about the lengths some of us will go to in order to obtain obscure records. Made for the price of a second-hand car, doesn't feel or look like it.
16: HERETIC dir: Scott Beck/Bryan Woods
Sharply written and full of genuine tension, with three great central performances. Hugh Grant is the MVP though, fully leaning into his new villain era.
16: HERETIC dir: Scott Beck/Bryan Woods
Sharply written and full of genuine tension, with three great central performances. Hugh Grant is the MVP though, fully leaning into his new villain era.
8: IN A VIOLENT NATURE dir: Chris Nash
Slashers have been around for at least 50 years, so making an original one now is difficult, but Nash manages it with his (mostly) POV splatter-fest that sticks with the supernatural killer at the film's core.
8: IN A VIOLENT NATURE dir: Chris Nash
Slashers have been around for at least 50 years, so making an original one now is difficult, but Nash manages it with his (mostly) POV splatter-fest that sticks with the supernatural killer at the film's core.
20: THE LONELY MAN WITH THE GHOST MACHINE dir: @grahamskipper.bsky.social
Bleak and existential, it may be set after the apocalypse but is really about a break-up (which can feel like the end of the world sometimes anyway). Skipper is great in front of and behind the camera.
20: THE LONELY MAN WITH THE GHOST MACHINE dir: @grahamskipper.bsky.social
Bleak and existential, it may be set after the apocalypse but is really about a break-up (which can feel like the end of the world sometimes anyway). Skipper is great in front of and behind the camera.
1: THE ZONE OF INTEREST dir: Jonathan Glazer
Explores the old cliché about the banality of evil with chilling efficiency. The horrors of the Holocaust are never seen, only heard in some of the best sound design I've experienced.
1: THE ZONE OF INTEREST dir: Jonathan Glazer
Explores the old cliché about the banality of evil with chilling efficiency. The horrors of the Holocaust are never seen, only heard in some of the best sound design I've experienced.
“You see, history is not simply the study of the past. It is an explanation of the present”
“You see, history is not simply the study of the past. It is an explanation of the present”
6: THE WAILING dir: Pedro Martín-Calero
A Spanish language horror film about a viral curse with background scares, it may as well have been made for me. It's also about violence against women and how they aren't believed when they report it. Terrifying and horribly timely.
6: THE WAILING dir: Pedro Martín-Calero
A Spanish language horror film about a viral curse with background scares, it may as well have been made for me. It's also about violence against women and how they aren't believed when they report it. Terrifying and horribly timely.