BACKROOMS - Liminal horror goes mainstream as Kane Parsons mysterious and dangerous world makes the jump from YouTube to cinema screens. Iain MacLeod reviews a striking and eerie debut that more than delivers on the promise of its web series and suggests a new direction for horror cinema.

EXIT 8 - The Japanese video game adaptation arrives on cinema screens to kick off the new wave of liminal horror. Iain MacLeod reviews this eerily effective tale of a commuter getting lost in an subterranean infinite loop and finds much to be entertained and unnerved by despite an unfamiliarity with the source material.