Horror

... Or, well, the very nice human actor and magician attached to Thing, Christopher Hart, who, across three Addams Family movies in the ’90s, had the best hand job in Hollywood.

“What better way to cap off a horrorshow of a year for UK politics than an issue packed with all manner of strange and haunting things?” asks Editor Matthew Whitehouse.

Jenna Ortega is the star of Wednesday, Netflix’s Addams Family reboot. Olivia Rodrigo is… well, you know who she is. The old Disney pals chat about fame, Tim Burton doing plaits and being asked for autographs while peeing. Individually they’re scarily talented. Together? So cool it’s frightening.

Get it right this spooky season.

Following the release of a viral trailer for M3GAN, a film about a robot doll gone rogue, a Twitter spat erupted between horror’s most notorious toys – and Chucky’s taking no prisoners. Behold, our ranking of the all-time scariest miniature killers…

London Film Festival: director Nikyatu Jusu on her Sundance-winning horror and the secret to making a proper scary film.