November 09 2026, 20:23

Shades of autumn

My #ShadesofAutumn film project started as a way to help me curate some “arthouse low budget weird” films after a summer of blockbusters. I was missing offbeat, stranger stories. I didn’t want to commit to the rigours of another #31DaysofHorror, even starting as far back as the first of August. It was too hot, I was pining for the colder nights leading up to Halloween, and #ShadesofAutumn became a set of soothing stepping stones.

Twenty films over three months, ranging from late-eighties fantasy slasher I, Madman, to meta melodrama about creativity Bitter Christmas, to adapted play about Einstein meeting Marilyn Monroe Insignificance, to South Korean creature feature Hope. If there are themes, perhaps varieties of the apocalypse, stalking monsters (as many human as not), tortured artists, and of course there’s a lot of 2026 films in the list. I’m pleased. It was a worthwhile project.

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