As spooky season nears, the chills and thrills are ramping up for this week’s new releases.
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil adaptation has been one of our most highly anticipated horror movies of the year, and from the trailer alone looks to be full of hand-over-eyes tension (those spidery looking limbs on the door frame — ahhh!)
Of course, if gore and jump scares aren’t your thing, Aardman Animations (the genius studio behind Wallace and Gromit) have a much cosier and baaaa-rmier approach to cinematic scares with Shaun the Sheep: the Beast of Mossy Bottom.
For pure inspiration, head to London’s Design Festival, where venues all across the city (including the V&A, as mentioned below) are taking part with perspective-altering installations that question the impact of technology on design and craft.
Or just hit the dance floor with Tove Lo’s new album; a feverish and feisty vibe ideal for expelling the doom of impending darker evenings.
Keep scrolling to find out more.
Exhibitions
Andy Warhol: Line and Image
When: 16 September – 10 January 2027
Where: Musée du Luxembourg (Paris, France)
After becoming bedridden as a child, Andy Warhol took to drawing as a form of escape. Sketching everything from movie stars to butterflies, it became a way for him to bring his passions, curiosities and imagined worlds to life — the simplicity of a pencil and paper leaving room for endless experimentation. It would also continue to underpin and inspire the rest of his career. From portraits, to caricatures, to self-promotional portfolios, the Musée du Luxembourg displays approximately 150 of these drawings from throughout his career. It’s a tender and more intimate insight into an iconic artist who’s usually defined by his more bombastic qualities and output; a must for Warhol fans and creative dreamers alike. Find out more here.
V&A x LDF: Awakenings
When: Until 18 October 2026
Where: Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK)
In collaboration with London’s Design Festival, the V&A have launched a series of mind-bending installations that investigate the intersections between design, craft and technology. From Eunjo Lee’s dizzying ‘When the Void Gazes Back’, which uses 3D-printed clay sculptures to capture non-human consciousness, to Andre Williams’ colourful, analogue-inspired works that seem to still time — there’s an abundance of diverse events here that will tickle every type of curiosity. Find out more.
Bonus highlight: The Fondazione Magnani Rocca is hosting the largest ever Italian retrospective for Man Ray, a pioneer within the Dada and Surrealism movements, from 12 September until 13 December 2026.
Movies
Resident Evil
Where: Cinemas
When: 18 September
Movie adaptations of video game franchises are notoriously… terrible. This has been especially true for Resident Evil, the eerie ’90s series that has players navigate a world of bioweapons, pharmaceutical corruption, and zombie-like monsters. While the first big screen adaptation in 2002 still has some loyal fans, the sequels that followed — and last live-action reboot in 2021 — seemed to rally the cry “Stop! Don’t, open, that, door!” to anymore attempts. But if anyone is up to the challenge, it’s Zach Cregger, the director behind horror hits Barbarian and Weapons. A master at subverting expectations and instilling a sense of sustained doom, his version focuses on the claustrophobia of the original games’ atmosphere, as a young medical courier finds himself trapped in a nightmare filled Racoon City.
Bonus highlight: As Aardman Animations celebrate their 50th anniversary, one of their most beloved creations — Shaun the Sheep — ambles back onto the big screen in The Beast of Mossy Bottom, out on 18 September.
TV series
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
Where: Netflix
When: 17 September
In 1892, an American man and his second wife were found bludgeoned to death by a hatchet. The only other person at the time was their daughter, 32-year-old Lizzie Borden, who was ultimately acquitted due to a lack of physical evidence. Still, the crime remains one of the most shocking and sensationalised in history; its ongoing mystery (and, at the time, the suspected involvement of a white middle class woman) driving continued intrigue. This story is the latest subject of ‘Monster’, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s autobiographical series about high-profile American homicide cases. Starring Ella Beatty as Lizzie, Rebecca Hall as her stepmother, and Vicky Krieps as her family’s maid, it’s got a top tier cast and will have true crime enthusiasts glued to their screens.
Bonus highlight: The all-smoking, all-swearing loveable shambles that is Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) is back for the sixth season of Apple TV+’s Emmy award winning Slow Horses. Stream it from 16 September.
Music
Tove Lo: Estrus
When: 18 September
Swedish singer-songwriter Tove Lo returns with her sixth album, a pulsating and primal urge-fuelled homage to female desire. Similar to Robyn’s ‘Sexistential’ released earlier this year, it grapples with the tensions between identity and biology; instinct and thought. ‘You’re drunk and horny in the crowd / You need attention, let your tears come down,’ Lo sings in the opening of track DNH, setting the tone for an electro-charged catharsis; one that delves into both her past and present with a feral kind of energy. No easy answers are promised — but a sweaty release on the dance floor is absolute.
Bonus highlights: It’s a big week for new music releases, with other notable new albums including Echo and the Bunnymen’s ‘Apples for Isaac’, Ezra Collective’s ‘Here Because of Hope’ and Agnes Obel’s ‘The Meaning of Flowers’.