CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
Movies
Movies at Catastrophe Ballet covers European auteur cinema, intelligent genre film and underground works that share the site’s fascination with the dark and the strange. Coverage tracks reviews, festival news and releases drawn from a curated network of film press.
BRING ME THE BEAUTIES: A MODEL CULT Review: Deceptive Powers
MARRIED ALIVE: Studio Dome Releasing Father/Son Survival Thriller This Father’s Day (Exclusive)
Sound And Vision: Hiro Murai
Being Powerless but Ethical in Erdoğan’s New Turkey: İlker Çatak’s “Yellow Letters”
SPEED DEMON Review: THE EXORCIST on a BULLET TRAIN
STAR CITY Review: 50 Shades of Grey in the Space Race
COIN Trailer Premiere: Two Friends, One Scam, Zero Exit Strategy
Now Playing: BACKROOMS Creeps, PRESSURE Salutes, THE CURRENTS Respects and Rewards
KAYLA’S GOING-AWAY PARTY: Horror Icons Bill Moseley And Lynn Lowry Join Indie Horror Film
TERRIFIER’s Damien Leone to Make TORTURES OF THE DAMNED For Lionsgate
Friday One Sheet: THE FURIOUS
Primer | Veteran: The Action Films of Ryoo Seung-wan
THE CURRENTS Review: Better Than a Cold Plunge
BACKROOMS Review: The Monstrous Labyrinth of the Human Psyche
TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA Official Trailer & Poster: Little Death is Coming
Cannes Correspondences #3: Second Lives
WE’RE NOTHING AT ALL Review: Hong Kong Shockmeister Herman Yau Breaks Your Heart, Churns Your Stomach
Seven-Word Reviews | Cannes Film Festival 2026
PITFALL Review: FRIDAY THE 13TH Meets 127 HOURS, Yet Can’t Avoid Pitfalls
Shudder in June: FIND YOUR FRIENDS, FORBIDDEN FRUITS, THE VOICES OF OUR MOTHER and More
PSYCHO KILLER: Slasher to Stream May 29th on Hulu on Disney+
FORASTERA Review: Moving Slowly Into That Good Night
Cannes 2026 Interview: TITANIC OCEAN Director Konstantina Kotzamani on How Personal Experience Inspired Her Dreamlike Debut
Opening This Week: BACKROOMS Liminal Horror, PRESSURE Wartime Tension, THE CURRENTS Psychological Mystery
Cannes 2026 Review: THE ELECTRIC KISS (La Vénus Électrique), Gallic Comedy Parodying Spirit Possession
An Act Of Self-Defence: How To Blow Up A Pipeline Interview
Sound And Vision: Timur Bekmambetov
Royal Warriors: When Michelle Yeoh Was Her Best Self
The Last Of Us: Post-War Anxiety In The Birds At 60
Hide And Seek: Pakistan’s Remarkable Joyland
The “Latent Psychosis” Of Jimmy Stewart: The Naked Spur At 70
Bad Education: Tár And The Sadistic In The Artistic
Echoes Of A Horror To Come: The Exorcist At Fifty
How A Brian Eno Documentary Has The Power To Change Film Making For Good
This Is Ourselves: Music And Memory In Aftersun
Long Live The New Flesh: Videodrome At 40
A Man’s Job: Asif Kapadia And Akram Khan On Creature
Feel The Film: Mark Jenkin On Enys Men
Watch Dublin Elegy Down The Market by Dave Tynan
Still Turning Heads: The Exorcism reviewed
Donkey Power: The History Of Cinema’s Favourite Sidekick
The Missionary Imposition: Godland Reviewed
Making A Murderer: Black Trauma And The Media In Alice Diop’s Saint Omer
Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany
How Sheffield Film Tales From A Hard City set the Scene for Pulp’s Different Class
The Dreamed Adventure – first-look review
Some Shrine With Me: Holy Pop! at Somerset House
The End of It – first-look review
