Robert Eggers’s The Northman doesn’t lack for blood and guts, but it doesn’t play enough in the well of the weird.
The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a deeply miscalculated mix of incoherent social commentary and over-the-top gore.
Writer-director Neasa Hardiman’s film is undone by earnestness.
Director Panos Cosmatos’s Mandy is a profoundly violent and weirdly moving poem of male alienation.
The film comes to life in moments where it suggests the blurred distinctions between freedom and imprisonment.