The Legend of Ochi, starring Helena Zengel, Willem Dafoe, and Finn Wolfhard, calls back to the likes of E.T., pleasing ...

“The Legend of Ochi” will take some viewers back to the past, while younger viewers probably will see a hopeful future in this science-fiction tale. The A24 studio has made made its mark on cinema in ...

In an age where AI-generated imagery and heavy CGI have become almost the norm, The Legend of Ochi, A24’s new fantasy film, feels like a breath of fresh air. Directed by Isaiah Saxon, short filmmaker ...

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 ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

“Style over substance” is a cliche usually associated with a negative connotation, but when the style is so fresh and distinct that it effectively masks the substance’s flaws, it’s not necessarily a ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Previously crafting music videos for the likes of Björk, director Isaiah Saxon has taken his fascination for fantasy worlds to the big screen with his feature film debut “The Legend of Ochi.” With the ...

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 ...