In suburban New Zealand, a directionless millennial becomes unwillingly pregnant with something decidedly inhuman. Deadpan Kiwi humour meets sexual fetishism, surreal sci-fi and revolting practical effects in a riotous body horror-comedy about parenthood and the dubious promise that having a baby will make you grow up.

A South Australian urban legend comes terrifyingly to life in this atmospheric horror from Ursula Dabrowsky. When two friends awaken the spirit of Ruby Bland in a remote cemetery, they find themselves trapped between a supernatural curse and a very real human predator.

If bodies fall in the misty English countryside, do they make a sound? The answer is a blood-curdling YES in Zachary Wigon’s hilariously wicked, Un Certain Regard-nominated horror starring Maika Monroe. Adapting the Virginia Feito novel, it pits her governess against a creepy family ensconced in a spooky Gothic mansion.

In 2022 Russia, marital suspicion spirals into violence as corporate expediency and state coercion close in. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s darkly majestic modern noir finds the same dehumanising logic at work in marriage, business and government.