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Woken (2024) is a dystopian sci-fi thriller arriving on UK digital on 25 May via 101 Films. Written by Alan Friel (Cake) and Rebecca Pollock (Stolen Girl), and directed by Friel in his feature-length directorial debut, the film follows Anna (Erin Kellyman), a pregnant woman who wakes on a remote island with complete amnesia, surrounded by strangers claiming to be her loved ones. As she struggles to piece together her fractured memories, she discovers a horrifying truth: humanity is on the brink of extinction, and nothing on this island is what it seems.
51926 is an example of eerie, atmospheric, and low-key industrial-toned walled noise from Wisconsin’s Vacant Align. This is a single forty-five-minute track release.
XXX severs up two tautly textured walls from this Czech project. Each runs around the ten-minute mark, and each is as tense/ airless as the other.
Tribe is a sci-fi/horror found footage film regarding a retired professor clawing back his sanity, when he finds himself stuck in the California mountains, unable to drive with his body altered & his mind frazzled. The 2025 film blends elements of unfolding mystery, body horror, and cosmic horror- with moments of glitching dark surrealism. Here from GrimmVision is a VOD release of the film.
Brazilian filmmaker Paulo Nascimento, best known for the dramas A Oeste do Fim do Mundo and Em Teu Nome, makes his English-language debut in 2026 with the supernatural horror film 13 Souls. Dripping in heavy-handed atmosphere, it joins the legacy of young-girl-possessed films. But while it adds a mighty mythological twist, it’s let down by an overearnest approach and an underworked script.
Here from the BFI here is the 6th in their CFF bumper boxset series, which collects together British children's films from between the 50’s and the 80’s. All the films here were produced by The Children's Film Foundation (CFF)- a non-profit organisation that, between the late 1940s & 1980s, made one hundred and seventy-plus films, each running just under the hour mark. This three-DVD set brings together nine films & five shorts, and once again it’s an entertaining & fun set
From the early 2000’s, Fungicide is a huge dose of bad cinema- the acting shifts dead-eyed or OTT, there are 90’s PC grade special effects, overload sound effects, cheap in-camera effects, cheap puppets ‘n’ gore, etc. We are very much in the same territory as that classic of so-bad-it’s great of Birdemic: Shock and Terror(2008), but instead of birds, the terror here is, as its title suggests, mushrooms, which are either portrayed by either bad PC graphics, teethy puppets, or someone dressed up in a mushroom suit. Here from Visual Vengeance is a Blu-ray- featuring new & archive commentary tracks, a RIFFTRAX version of the film, and a few more things.
The Shroud is a 2022 Italian horror movie written and directed by Fabrizio Spurio (Vanity, Instinct and Innesti) and starring Francesco Lonigro (Instinct, Gazzelle: Polynesia and Put Grandma in the Freezer), Chiara Pavoni (Employee’s Mystery, Corona Days and Blue Sunset), Monica Rondino (Thanatos - Impulsi di Morte) and Andrea Pacilli (who also scored the movie).
Carving their own path through the juicy flesh of the death metal world, Japan's Defiled have continued to shred and thrash, unabated and influential, for nearly three and a half decades. Two thirds of that time have been with Season of Mist, and the label has provided the band with an outlet for their ever evolving brand of death metal. Impossible to pin down, Defiled have utilized all forms of extreme metal and hardcore to deliver their message, and their latest, Altered State, is no exception. While their style may change and evolve from one album to the next, one thing is a given: their ability to deliver a frenetic, fun, headbanging frenzy.
Here’s the third volume in the Twilight Of Perception series. Each three-CD set in this series serves up a selection of rare and unreleased tracks from between the mid 1990’s and early 2000’s by Euro ambient pioneer Vidna Obmana, aka Dirk Serries. The set features eighteen tracks in all, with a good variation in both the tone and atmosphere, moving from lulling n’drifting ambience, all the way through upbeat / rhythmic-edged ethnic ambient works.
Atonauer is the most recent project from Finnish polymath, Lauri Wuolio, and the first offering, Ocean in A, is a minimalist triumph that stands out among electronic drone works of late. The title of the release — combining an earth element with a particular note — recalls Terry Riley’s seminal In C (1964) and A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969), though Atonauer’s really makes use of the water motif. The work as a whole feels submerged in a dark expanse, absent any native light source. The sea is also transit, marking the transatlantic journey between Finland and New York, where the bulk of Ocean in A was recorded.
Matador is a darkly comic erotic thriller from director Pedro Almodovar (The Skin I Live In, Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down and Volver). Released in 1986 the film stars Almodovar favourite Antonio Banderas (The Mask of Zorro, Desperado and Interview with the Vampire), Assumpta Serna (The Craft, Wild Orchid and The Shooter), Nacho Martinez ( famous for his voice actor work on the Spanish dubs of 1984, Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein), Eva Cobo (Armour of God II, The Legend of Wisely and Pasos) and Julieta Serrano (Women on the verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down and Dark Habits)
Ard Bit is the project of Norwegian Ard Janssen. The new album is called Juxtaposed, forty two minutes of intentional electronic soundscape, with muted pastel colors, nine tracks ranging from two to seven minutes.
Tinokuknoi Arevulopapo is the new project from Lea Cummings (King Futile, Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc) and Sarah Glass, who has collaborated with Lea on a few projects. The project takes its name from a character in a Philip K. Dick short story, and Irata is a single-track affair. The forty-seven-minute instrumental track shifts between droned-out moodiness, ritual alien sound-scaping, tolling ambient industrial, and beyond
Zen As Fuck is release number three from the lo-fi/outsider folk project King Futile. Behind it is Lea Cummings (Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc.). The album takes in eight tracks, featuring basic strummed-yet-enduring structures, with the lyrics being decidedly sweary, morosely comic, and sarcastic.
Paranormal Awakening is a moody & often seared blend of blues-tinged psych rock freakouts, off-kilter to cinematic soundtracking, and atmospheric noise. This project brings together Mitsuru Tabata (The Boredoms) and Tungu, a Ukrainian experimental electronica project.
From the mid-80’s, The Protector was Jackie Chan’s second attempt at breaking into the US market. It’s a speeding bullet-paced buddy cop action movie- with some neat daredevil stunts, more than a few bloody shoot-outs, and towards its end some great martial arts action. The film regards a Hong Kong-born New York-based cop (Chan) returning to his homeland with his NYC partner to track down the kidnapped daughter of a gangster. Here from 88 Films is a deluxe four-disc set- two UHDs & two Blu- Rays- release of the film- it takes in three different cuts of the picture, two commentary tracks, a few extras, and an eighty-page book.
Originally released in 2009, Capri features the prolific act when it was a duo, before Danielle Baquet-Long tragically passed later that year. Light drones create ambient vignettes of nature's ephemeral moments, what we take in daily, not realizing that their impermanence forms the solid foundations of our being. Much of the original material was left off of the 2009 CD release, but Two Acorns and Stephan Mathiew have remastered and released the entirety of the original tapes, expanding this to its complete 2xLP/2CD glory. On the surface, the thirty-six tracks may seem daunting, but their brevity and transience linger on in the background of one's mind, subtly processing subconsciously, getting the body and soul ready for Capri's inevitable next playthrough.
Appearing two years after the first film, Decadent Evil 2 is another slice of vamps ‘n’ pole dancer-focused horror from Charles Band. It sees the return of Marvin, the randy Homunculus. Trying to be a good vamp, Sugar, and her DJ boyfriend Dex- hunting down a king vampire. Once again, it’s a fleshy/ bloody affair- though the latter is calmed down somewhat, with a more mystery/ who is the king vamp vibe going on. Here from Full Moon Features is a Blu-ray release of the film.
When I first heard about this collaboration between The Melvins and Napalm Death, I thought I had a good idea how this was going to sound- but aside from a few tracks, this album sounds nothing like I was expecting. And I think it’s fair to say that for the most part, Savage Imperial Death March is very much a dive into the odd, off-kilter, and downright weird.
After spending the last decade and a half or so trying to expand upon, cross-genre pollinate, and generally do something different with their monolithic sound. This tenth studio album from prime doom droners Sunn O))))))- finds them very much returning to their roots, but with way more layers of guitars and pure crushing weightiness about it.
Ossabaw Island Hog is a twenty-minute slice of choppy and bass-pummelling walling from this Old Town, Maine-based project. Throughout the track has an oddly soothing quality about it, and I could have easily played this for another twenty, thirty, or even forty minutes.
Bruit De Fond is an example of churning walled noise nihilism from Bordeaux’s Raté. It’s a single thirty-four-minute track, which remains terminal hope-battering & unbreakable over its full length.
Here’s seventy-eight minutes’ worth of barrenly searing ‘n’ crudely whizzing HNW from this Hungarian project. Necrotik Fissure has been active since the early 2010’s- been both prolific and unflinchingly extreme in its releasing of the walled noise form.