Mutter Cradles a Monster
Hazar Ergüçlü gives one of the festival's most committed performances in Alphan Eşeli's maternal horror, a film that asks whether a mother's love can outlast the knowledge that what she has birthed is monstrous, and answers with a tenderness that wrecked me.
Breeder Earns Its Pedigree
Dot-Marie Jones is a gleeful menace in Alex Goyette's nasty little horror-comedy about dog shows and human eugenics, a film far funnier, and far more uncomfortable, than it has any business being.