On the Big Screen
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Clayface
Out now
James Watkins, who made the tense American remake of Speak No Evil, takes DC’s shape-shifting actor-turned-monster and runs it as body horror, from a Mike Flanagan script. A wide studio release that’s betting a comic-book property can be genuinely unsettling rather than another origin story.
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Wicker
Out now
The team behind Save Yourself! returns with Wicker, a folk-horror-adjacent swing starring Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård and Elizabeth Debicki. Black Bear’s backing and a Halloween-weekend date suggest confidence. The cast alone justifies the ticket; whether the film earns them is the October question.
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You Can See Everything
Out now
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim on Elizabeth Holmes. Fielder made The Rehearsal and Nathan For You; Oppenheim made Ren Faire, the best documentary series of 2024. Two filmmakers who treat self-delusion as a formal problem, pointed at the most documented fraud of the century.
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