Rebel Ridge (September 6th, Netflix)
Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room) appears to be getting back to basics with Rebel Ridge, which reads on paper at
least like a good old-fashioned action thriller. The film stars Aaron Pierre as an ex-marine who finds himself in a war with a small town police
chief (Don Johnson) when his cousin is arrested.
Starve Acre (September 6th, cinemas)
Based on the novel of the same name by Andrew Michael Hurley, director Daniel Kokotajlo's (Apostasy) Starve Acre is a folk-horror set in 1970s Yorkshire. Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark play a grieving couple who
unleash dark forces when they summon the supernatural powers of an
ancient oak tree that once grew on their land.
Speak No Evil (September 12th, cinemas)
One of the most disturbing European horror movies of recent
years, Speak No Evil, now gets an English language remake courtesy of Blumhouse. Written
and directed by James Watkins, of the equally
disturbing Eden Lake, this version replaces the Danish and Dutch families of the original
with American and British families. Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy play an American couple who accept an invitation to stay at the
home of a British couple (James McAvoy and Aisling Franciosi). The initial awkward culture clash is soon replaced by suspicions of
something darker at play.
His Three Daughters (September 20th, Netflix)
Written and directed by Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers), His Three Daughters stars Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon as three very different sisters brought together by the impending
death of their father. The drama plays out over three fraught days as
the siblings bicker and bond.
Strange Darling (September 20th, cinemas)
Strange Darling stars Willa Fitzgerald as a young woman who finds
herself in a fight for survival when she's stalked by a gun-toting
stranger (Kyle Gallner) in the remote wilds of Oregon.
Writer/director JT Mollner cleverly deploys non-linear
storytelling to keep us guessing as to what's really at play here.
The Substance (September 20th, cinemas)
French writer/director Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) makes her US debut with The Substance, which scooped the Best Screenplay award at this year's Cannes Film
Festival. The film stars Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle, a TV aerobics host who is fired from her
position when she hits the age of 50. When a shady lab offers her a
solution to the aging process, things begin to take a dark turn for
Elisabeth.
The Goldman Case (September 20th, cinemas)
Director Cédric Kahn's The Goldman Case recreates the 1976 trial of political activist Pierre Goldman (Arieh Worthalter), who was accused of committing two murders
during a series of armed robberies. Kahn and co-writer Nathalie Hertzberg crafted their script from newspaper reports of the trial, which
gripped and divided the French nation.
Eight Eyes (September 23rd, Shudder)
With his shot on 16mm grindhouse throwback Eight Eyes, director Austin Jennings delivers a clever deconstruction of the
old "Americans preyed upon by nasty foreigners" horror trope. Things get
psychotronic when a young American couple are lured to a remote village in
Serbia.
Megalopolis (September 7th, cinemas)
Francis Ford Coppola's self-funded epic Megalopolis arrives amid divisive
reviews and a controversial trailer theta seemed to use AI to make up
critic's quotes, but who wouldn't be excited for a new Coppola film? Megalopolis is set in a fictional America modelled on
Ancient Rome. Adam Driver plays Cesar, an artist determined to usher in a new utopian
society, and Giancarlo Esposito as the regressive New York mayor standing in his way.
Azrael (September 30th, VOD)
Director EL Katz (Cheap Thrills) and writer Simon Barrett (The Guest) team up for Azrael, a real-time horror set in a world where nobody speaks. Samara Weaving plays a young woman who attempts to flee a religious community that
plans to sacrifice her to a mysterious evil in the nearby
wilderness.