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Kat Hughes

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Biography:

Kat Hughes is a writer whose speciality lies within horror. A regular on the genre festival circuit Kat loves championing the freshest independent horror. Though her primary outlet is THN, Kat also has writing credits for Film Stories, Critical Popcorn, Filmhounds, The Companion and her personal blog Film Disclosure.

Reviews

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Primate (2025) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Primate is exactly the type of movie to watch with a late-night popcorn crowd for maximum enjoyment. Full of jawsome gore and deafening tension, Primate follows in The Bone Temple’s footsteps in kicking off 2026’s horror offerings with a bang. ” – THN Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant throws everything it can at the audience including, but not limited to, psychedelic bodily fluids, strange appendages, over invested parents, and lazy kids, to create a movie that is both humourful and heartfelt in equal measure. ” – THN Jan 24, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Exactly how you do the middle chapter of a trilogy, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple expands on what has come before, but never forgets to be its own property.” – THN Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% 2/5 EDIT “A muddled, lacklustre, and unfortunately it is a rather dull affair. ” – THN Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Pillion (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “With a near perfect balance of comedy, seduction, tension and drama, Pillion is an extraordinary feature debut, realised beautifully thanks to the erotically charged dynamic of Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård. ” – THN Nov 28, 2025 Full Review The Carpenter's Son (2025) 31% 3/5 EDIT “One for the Cage enthusiasts and those with an interest in folk horror, but The Carpenter’s Son never fully reaches its teased potential. ” – THN Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Adulthood (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “A film that doesn’t deviate too far from the familiar path, but great chemistry amongst all the cast make it a pleasurable watch. ” – THN Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Keeper (2025) 53% 4/5 EDIT “Tatiana Maslany shines in Osgood Perkins’ latest film, Keeper. A film best entered into blind, less is more when it comes to enjoying this one. ” – THN Nov 13, 2025 Full Review For God's Sake Wake Her Up (2024) 4/5 EDIT “Sarah Crawford and Mamie Kakimoto deliver some of the finest horror performances of the year so far in this atmospherically haunting tale that once more proves sleep paralysis to be a real world nightmare. ” – THN Nov 13, 2025 Full Review This Too Shall Pass (2024) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Grant infuses the film with an air of bittersweetness, mirroring life in its fusion of melancholy and laughter. Far more than just another 80s throwback, This Too Shall Pass is an elegantly charming coming-of-age teen comedy.” – THN Nov 13, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% 4/5 EDIT “Glen Powell continues to prove his aptitude for glossy blockbuster cinema. Opting to stick closer to the source material, Wright’s The Running Man is a great dystopian actioner for right now. ” – THN Nov 12, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 3/5 EDIT “A perhaps too beautiful rendering of a Gothic nightmare about the perils of playing God and absent fathers, del Toro’s Frankenstein is structurally sound, but fails to fully embrace the story’s dark beating heart. ” – THN Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Orion (2025) 4/5 EDIT “A contained sci-fi film where the onus is on the performance of its cast, Orion has a wealth of interesting ideas waiting to be explored. ” – THN Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 2/5 EDIT “Predator: Badlands takes one of sci-fi horrors most formidable warriors and neuters it entirely, pairs it with some child-baiting sidekicks, overloads it with CG, and creates a rather lacklustre movie that screams Disneyfication. ” – THN Nov 4, 2025 Full Review The Other People (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Inspired by real and genuinely unsettling phenomena, Chad McClarnon has created an intense haunted house movie that spins conventions on its head, bringing real world horror into the fray to ensure sleepless nights. ” – THN Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Descendent (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT “A slow burn atmospheric psychological thriller with a compelling lead character expertly performed by Ross Marquand, Descendent is proof that, in the right hands, the alien abduction story can be handled well. ” – THN Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Confession (2024) 3/5 EDIT “A solid and interesting opening and middle third are let down by a wacky and repetitive ending. ” – THN Oct 28, 2025 Full Review It Ends (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “From thoughts on the range of characters differing survival tactics, to musings as to what is actually happening to the core four means that It Ends is a film whose staying power lasts far beyond its conclusion. ” – THN Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Head Like a Hole (2024) 3/5 EDIT “Slow burn sci-fi at its most tedious or fascinating depending on your point of view, Head Like a Hole is set to divide audiences, frustrating some, but enthralling others. ” – THN Oct 25, 2025 Full Review Deathstalker (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “An excess of gore, nightmarish puppetry, and a strong lead performance confirm that there is still life in the sorcery and sword genre yet. ” – THN Oct 25, 2025 Full Review Queens of the Dead (2025) 83% 3/5 EDIT “A little lack of steam isn’t enough to prevent Queens of the Dead from being an infectiously entertaining new jaunt in the world of zombies. ” – THN Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Dead Giveaway (2025) 3/5 EDIT “Dude, Where’s My Car? gets a female and slightly horror treatment in Ian Kimble’s super fun debut. ” – THN Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Séance (2024) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Atmospheric and dialogue rich, Séance features some impressive sound design, an inviting story and some keen commentary about the plight of women and the relationships in which they can become trapped. ” – THN Oct 19, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% 3/5 EDIT “Canning Tatum’s easy charm is utilised perfectly in this oddly wholesome story of true-life insanity. ” – THN Oct 16, 2025 Full Review The Other (2025) 3/5 EDIT “Anchored by a quietly compelling performance from Dylan McTee, The Other is punctuated by moments of terror, balancing both the emotional and visceral elements of horror effectively. ” – THN Oct 12, 2025 Full Review
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