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Bleak, moody, dark and disturbing epitomise the brand new horror film ‘Herman’, a frightful indie feature that teases the viewer with unexplainable forces as the fantastical horror slowly unravels.

It’s been over three years since the epic season 4 left us all wondering: What’s going to happen to Max? Did Vecna actually die? And seriously, what hair products is Steve Harrington using?

From the mind of the smash-hits, Longlegs’ and ‘The Monkey’, comes Osgood Perkins' latest horror, ‘Keeper’; a film that both terrifies and baffles on its dark descent into otherness.

The kids are back this week - with a twist. Matty, played by Miles Ekhardt, who was traumatised and supposedly killed by Pennywise in Episode One, returns.

We drop straight back in with the kids, who show the cops their photos - only to discover Pennywise, the massive joker, has wiped himself clean off them.

The town of Derry returns this week with another episode guaranteed to give horror fans the willies.

Coming from the 'land down under' is Pelverata, a brand new and indie-made elevated thriller that explores the dark past lurking beneath the Tasmanian wilds

From the macabre beauty of this woefully melodramatic tale to the meticulously crafted gothicness that is continually present, Frankenstein is a hyperbolised, theatrical experience in every sense of the word. 

The brand new thriller, Dragonfly, can only be described as integrally raw and honest in its depiction of the hidden awry within the kindest of others. Check out Dead Northern's review of this unmissable feature.

Thrown straight back into the chaos of last week’s episode, we’re immediately shown another harrowing view of the massacre before moving into the following week.

Who took Riley Brennan? That’s the question on everyone’s mind since the trailer dropped, a promise of answers wrapped in a thrilling scare-fest of tension and fear. “You’d be so proud of her,” said the promotional tagline, yet I left the theatre feeling less proud and more confused by what had unfolded on screen.

This Friday, 7 November, Cinema Mentiré and Category H join forces for the first time to bring a sexy and spooky Latin American horror double bill to London’s iconic Rio Cinema: nunsploitation shocker Satánico Pandemonium (1975) and Argentinian sexploitation fever dream Embrujada (1976), starring the legendary Isabel “Coca” Sarli.