This week’s cinema releases include a classic horror franchise with a new director, an orphaned young woman embarks on a search for her biological father, a ghostly warning about a fab diet, an exploration of a relationship with the neighbours, and there is a documentary about the artist Egon Schiele.
Refer to your favourite cinema for session times and dates.
New releases include the below.
Evil Dead Burn
Rated R18+
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Synopsis: After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites – turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell – she comes to discover that the vows she took in life live on… even in death.
Romería
Rated M15+
Distributor: Palace Films
Synopsis: 18-year-old Marina has arrived to meet her grandparents for the first time, seeking their signature on some documents that she needs for a scholarship application. Raised by her mother’s sister, Marina is unfamiliar with the numerous aunties, uncles and cousins on the other side of her family, and is immediately confronted with a past shaped by absence and long-buried emotions, hindering her ambition to reconstruct a coherent account of her father, the love story he had with her mother, and her place in the story.
Saccharine
Rated M15+
Distributor: Roche Entertainment
Synopsis: a first-year medical student who becomes fixated on losing weight after seeing the dramatic physical transformation of a friend taking a controversial new diet pill made from human ashes. Unable to afford the pills herself, Hana resorts to stealing bones from the cadaver she dissects in her anatomy class. As the weight falls away, she finds herself haunted by the restless ghost of the woman she is consuming. As the entity begins to overpower her, Hana must find a way to break free from it before losing control entirely.
The Invite
Rated M15+
Distributor: A24
Synopsis: A middle-aged couple who are feeling stagnant in their relationship invite the younger and livelier couple from the apartment upstairs for a get-together that takes an unexpected turn.
Read Heather Taylor-Johnson’s Glam Adelaide review here: Film Review: The Invite – Glam Adelaide
Taboo: Egon Schiele
Rated CTC
Distributor: Sharmill Films
Synopsis: Set in Český Krumlov, the hometown of Egon Schiele’s mother, Taboo. Egon Schiele offers a bold psychoanalytic reading of the artist’s deep connection to this Bohemian town—both as a physical place and a symbol of maternal longing, desire, and confinement.
Through Schiele’s paintings, writings, and poetry, the film explores his troubled relationship with women, his obsession with time and death, and his raw, modern vision that is still unsettling today.
Drawing parallels with Kafka and the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Taboo. Egon Schiele is a poetic journey into the mind and legacy of one of the most radical artists of the 20th century.
