Alicia Silverstone steals scenes in a horror movie that wavers between absurdity and gravity.

Berlin: Jennifer Reeder combines missing teenage girls and a secret familial blood pact into a melting pot of zany ideas that overshoots.

Jennifer Reeder has cemented her status as a horror doyenne with her fourth feature film, “Perpetrator,” premiering in Berlin.

Director Jennifer Reeder, also of 2019’s “Knives and Skin,” has a unique sensibility, marking her as an unconventional stylist who can brew a movie-wide dread.

Alicia Silverstone cameos in writer-director Jennifer Reeder's latest blood-soaked feature, premiering in Berlin’s Panorama sidebar.

This is a sly, poetically gory vision of predation, female rage, female survival and every kind of shape-shifting women learn, out of necessity, when they’re young.

Assuming the mask of a slasher/superhero film to critique a patriarchal system that feeds on the exploitation of women, Jennifer Reeder’s fifth feature is funny, freaky and full of feeling.

A teen uses newly awakened powers to solve a missing-girls mystery in Jennifer Reeder's pastichey horror 'Perpetrator,' starring Alicia Silverstone.

Bloody thriller, filmed in Chicago, makes some points about women in culture between the laughs and the shocks.

Just when you thought filmmakers and creators had exhausted everything worth saying in American high school-set comedies and thrillers, along comes Chicago-based independent Jennifer Reeder, who seems devoted to this subgenre as if by a monastic oath. The high school movie––with its classic, standby imagery of jocks, lockers, and losers––seems to have passed through three

A horror movie that keeps evolving alongside its heroine (Kiah McKirnan), the genre-blender is darkly compelling. Our Perpetrator review:

Pointedly investing its gothic staples with satirical wit, Jennifer Reeder’s best horror yet draws on the likes of Lynch, Argento and Peter Weir to strongly feminist effect.

Jennifer Reeder’s anarchic genre-blender stars Alicia Silverstone and emerging star Kiah McKirnan

A girl walking home alone is such a classic beginning for a horror film that it’s a trope (and title) in itself. This particular opening lends itself to endless continuations and explorations, and when you have a director like Jennifer Reeder, an old story can get retold like no other.