The Legend of Ochi starring Helena Zengel, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, and Finn Wolfhard crept into theaters in April and made an impact on critics who gave it a Certified Fresh rating of 77% on ...

The Gist: The fictional Black Sea island of Carpathia is populated by two key species: Humans and the Ochi. You know the former – mostly pale in this portion of the world, and mostly judgmental ...

The world depicted in The Legend of Ochi is exactly the sort of place you’d expect to find Willem Dafoe – somewhere beautiful and strange that lets him clatter around in a suit of Slavic armour and ...

In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. However, when she discovers a baby ochi left behind by its pack, ...

As genre enthusiasts continue to heal from the proliferation of the label “elevated horror” over the last decade, A24, which defined the made-up prestige subgenre with films like Hereditary and The ...

“The Legend of Ochi,” a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on and loved as a kid. Something ...

To make “The Legend of Ochi,” writer-director Isaiah Saxon borrowed a little piece of “E.T.,” some of “The Neverending Story” and “Gremlins,” and used his music video experience to inject an attention ...

The Halloween season is still a couple months away, but some of the year’s buzziest horror movies of 2025 aren’t waiting to make their streaming debuts. “Final Destination Bloodlines,” which became ...