Once you figure out the mystery, it’s impossible to look at this movie the same way twice, ensuring repeat viewings once it hits Netflix.

A harsh, absorbing piece of work that unites pulp thrills and dark psychological powers in a way that recalls The Silence of the Lambs.

In this quiet psychological thriller set in rural Montana, Thandiwe Newton plays a college professor standing her ground against an entire community.

A thriller that starts off feeling like a classic gothic horror update and unexpectedly ends as a post-feminist revenge flick, with Alice Krige giving a master class performance.

Enter an insular, foreboding world, set largely in a Czechoslovakian seminary in the early 1980s.

Intricate and masterful, strange and heartbreaking, Only the Animals is a great new entry into the multilinear narrative canon. 

Whether you end up satisfied or disappointed depends on if you follow the advise of one of the movie’s narrators: pay attention to details.

One thing for sure, when watching the blood-splattered and blunt Titane, you never know where it’s heading. It plays by its own rules.

The award for the most intriguing one-off at the festival goes to this story of demonic possession and romance, mixed with devilishly dark satire.