One dark knight… Following last year’s adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel Abraham’s Boys , Natasha Kermani has continued to carve out a space for delving into psychological period pieces. With her latest film, The Dreadful , she continues to explore fear not as spectacle alone, but as something deeply embedded in identity, power, and perspective. Kermani’s work resists easy categorization — melding arthouse sensibilities with visceral suspense — and invites audiences to sit with