The Cycle Review: A Grisly Mystery Gives Way to Spectacular Practical Creature Feature [Fantastic Fest 2026]

Patience is greatly rewarded in director Jordan Downeys The Cycle, a dour crime procedural that transforms into a thrilling practical effects-fueled horror movie. Downey, who co-writes with his cinematographer Kevin Stewart, dedicates quite a lot of its runtime to a methodical deduction of coincidences and the impossible, until only an improbable, exciting supernatural solution remains. [] The post The Cycle Review: A Grisly Mystery Gives Way to Spectacular Practical Creature Feature [Fantastic ...