Nicolas Winding Refn makes his long awaited return to cinema with the dreamlike sci-slasher HER PRIVATE HELL. Sophie Thatcher stars as an actress who crosses paths with a leather clad serial killer and Charles Melton’s GI stalking the streets looking for his missing daughter. Iain MacLeod reviews what should have been an enticing return to form but instead turns out to be an empty, vapid experience in self-indulgence.

Jane Schonebrun’s fun, meta take on the slasher genre arrives onscreen, exploring a young queer director’s obsession with the titular franchise and its reclusive Final Girl played to great effect by Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. Our review of a film that attempts to marry an academic approach to the genre with its more base elements to mixed effect.