Hereditary

Shot on an iPhone – though you would never guess it – Steven Soderbergh’s thriller is a reality-bending trip, and Foy is excellent. Sawyer Valentini (Claire Foy) has been the victim of a stalker. Having moved to a new city, she still thinks she sees him everywhere. It’s understandable, considering her trauma. But when she […]

Michael Pearce’s hugely impressive debut is an unsettling thriller that holds you in suspense until its final moments. Moll (Jessie Buckley) is 27 and still living at home, stifled by the small island community around her and too beholden to her family to break away. When she meets Pascal, a free-spirited stranger, a whole new […]

A runaway hit on the London stage, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman recreate their drama for the screen, replete with its unerring sense of dread. Phillip Goodman, professor of psychology and self-styled ‘belief buster’ has his rationality tested to the hilt when he receives a letter apparently from beyond the grave. His mentor Charles Cameron, the […]

If they hear you, they hunt you. Emily Blunt stars in modern horror thriller A Quiet Place, in which a family of four must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival.