Creature feature

Guillermo del Toro’s version of Mary Shelley’s myth

IN A DYSTOPIAN NEAR-FUTURE, SEES GAME SHOW CONTESTANTS PURSUED AND KILLED AS THEY CHASE A LIFE-CHANGING JACKPOT. SFX HUNTS DOWN DIRECTOR EDGAR WRIGHT AND STAR GLEN POWELL TO DISCUSS HOW TODAY’S WORLD HAS CAUGHT UP WITH STEPHEN KING’S ’80S NOVEL

A war of nerves

Piecing together the inspirations and evolution of Mary Shelley’s famous monster

Dir Dean Puckett, UK 2025 On digital platforms Folk horror has been a thing for a long time, but it’s an over-used term these days. In film terms it appears to mean something heavily influenced by Wit