CLUB IMAGINE

A summer camp, a killer on the loose, and a plan to reboot the nation’s favourite slasher series.

When a ‘serious’ director is handed the keys to a dormant slasher franchise, she promptly tracks down the original film’s final girl, now a recluse living in the abandoned camp where the franchise was shot. What follows is a descent into desire and obsession – and the strange power of movies.

The follow-up to I Saw the TV Glow confirms director Jane Schoenbrun as one of the most singular voices of today. Dripping with the grindhouse spirit of the golden age of camp horror and cranked up to fever pitch, Camp Miasma is a thing of multitudes. Hannah Einbinder is bold and disarming, Gillian Anderson nothing short of bewitching. It’s queer, horny, formally audacious, and genuinely entertaining. Schoenbrun’s reclamation of the slasher as a vehicle for sexual identity must be the new midnight movie for the next generation of film-lovers. Time for an appointment with Little Death.

• Director: Jane Schoenbrun
• Country: US
• Year: 2026
• Runtime: 112 min
• With: Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Patrick Fischler

Part Taken, part The Raid. Veteran Kenji Tanikagi delivers a thrill ride with a heart.

Wang Wei is a mute handyman, whose life is turned upside down when criminals abduct his daughter. Facing police corruption and indifference, he embarks on a relentless journey through Southeast Asia’s brutal underworld, forming an unlikely alliance with Nevin, a journalist searching for his missing wife.

The Furious is Hong Kong veteran Kenji Tanikagi’s showcase of incredible stunt and fight choreography, driven by a tale of two underdogs fighting organised crime. Part Taken, part The Raid, this film manages to balance adrenaline with pathos. Wang Wei’s fury is fuelled by his daughter’s kidnapping, while Nevin is kind of an everyman who gets pulled into the darkness whilst searching for his missing wife. The violence comes in fast and precise choreographies, each sequence bringing something new and exciting. An absolute thrill ride.

• Director: Kenji Tanikagi
• Country: Hong Kong, China
• Year: 2025
• Runtime: 113 min
• With: Miao Xie, Joe Taslim, Yang Enyou

Hilarious adult animation about a gay influencer looking to connect queer subcultures.

Jim Perfect belongs to the fit gym queens and is the hottest influencer in Paris. He’s the king of the world, until one day, his rock-hard abs start disappearing. Jim’s got ‘Heterosis’, a virus that’s slowly turning him straight. Oh no! Help arrives in the shape of Lucien, an inexperienced twink.

French-Belgian adult animation Jim Queen is a loving, entertaining and surprising satire of queer culture, filled with nods to drugs of all kinds, sneaker fetishes, bears, otters, The Little Mermaid an RuPaul’s Drag Race. The film only just made waves at Cannes 2026, where it was part of the Midnight Screening section. Without being overly sentimental – but with colourful characters and a pulsating techno soundtrack – Jim Queen focuses on important themes such as lhbtqi+ infighting, chauvinism and our appearance-obsessed society. A liberating celebration of love, in all its shapes and sizes.

• Director: Nicolas Athane, Marco Nguyen
  
• Countries: France, Belgium
• Year: 2026
• Runtime: 80 min
• Voices of: Alex Ramirès, Jérémy Gillet, Philippe Katerine

What if the world ends over eggs and coffee? A group of strangers are about to find out.

A bomb-strapped man walks into a Los Angeles diner. He announces that he’s from the future and needs the precise combination of people in that room to save humanity. What follows is Gore Verbinski’s wildest gamble yet — a genre-defying race against an apocalypse that’s already closer than we’d like to admit.

Verbinski has made his most energetic film ever in a filmography of crackling hits, and it literally sings. Sam Rockwell is magnetic — loose, funny, dangerous in the way only he can be — and the ensemble cast around him earns every scene they share. But Matthew Robinson’s script is the real secret weapon: it knows exactly when to land a joke and when to twist the knife, and its targets — social media stupefaction, AI anxiety, our collective failure to look up from our phones — are hit with uncomfortable accuracy. A rare studio-adjacent comedy that actually has something to say, and the craft to sell it.

• Director: Gore Verbinski
• Country: US
• Year: 2026
• Runtime: 134 min
• With: Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Zazie Beetz, Juno Temple, Michael Peña, Asim Chaudhry, Tom Taylor

A Christian summer camp takes a supernatural, girl horror turn.

When traumatised Emily decided to work as a camp counselor for the summer, she didn’t quite realise it was a Christian camp. After sundown, however, things become rather unholy: everyone’s smoking, drinking and partying like there’s no tomorrow, and Emily’s new friends turn out to have magic powers and bad intentions.

Twentysomething Avalon Fast – frequent collaborator of Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) and Alice Mayo Mackey (The Serpent’s Skin) – makes what she calls girl horror. Camp definitely fits the bill: this mix of The Craft and Picnic at Hanging Rock is a wonderfully dreamy ode to sisterhood and girl culture, putting magic and witchcraft front and center in a psychedelic community of feminine energy. Camp (only Fast’s second film after her Sofia Coppola-inspired horror debut Honeycomb, 2022) is an intimate, queer coming-of-age story that feels like a hot summer’s night. A night that may just be disturbed by a murder or two…

• Director: Avalon Fast
• Countries: US
• Year: 2025
• Runtime: 111 min
• With: Zola Grimmer, Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Ella Reece

The audio-driven sleeper horror hit of the year, now at Club Imagine!

Evy is a skeptic, but she co-hosts a paranormal podcast with her best friend Justin, the believer. One day they receive an anonymous email containing ten audio files. What Evy discovers when she listens will not leave her alone.

Shot in the director’s actual childhood home with just one actress on screen, micro-budget hit Undertone strips horror down to its most primal element and its greatest resource: sound. Besides Evy, the characters exist only as voices. Whispers. Nursery rhymes at unsettling speeds. Something ancient that announces itself through hiss and static and corrupted audio. Ian Tuason’s debut won the Audience Award at Fantasia last year and became A24’s sleeper hit of 2026 for good reason. This is a film that understands closing your eyes won’t save you. It might even make things worse.

• Director: Ian Tuason
• Country: Canada
• Year: 2026
• Runtime: 94 min
• With: Nina Kiri, Adam DiMarco, Michèle Duquet, Keana Lyn Bastidas, Jeff Yung