WATCHcultIt Lives Inside
2023 · USA/Canada · 99m
An Indian-American teenager unleashes a demon from Hindu folklore while trying to assimilate.
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Wolf Creek
2005 · Greg McLean
Three backpackers in the Australian outback. The first hour is a holiday film and it is not padding.
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The DPP 72
In 1983 the Director of Public Prosecutions circulated a list of films that could put a video dealer in prison. 39 of them were successfully prosecuted. The other 33 were not, and the difference is mostly an accident of which town the jury sat in.
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- 72
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WATCHcanonRenfield
2023 · USA · 93m
Nicolas Cage plays Dracula as a toxic boss, and his familiar wants to leave the relationship. A horror comedy about codependency.
WATCHcanonCocaine Bear
2023 · USA · 95m
A black bear ingests a fortune in dropped cocaine and goes on a rampage. Loosely, very loosely, based on a true event.
WATCHcultNo One Will Save You
2023 · USA · 93m
A woman alone in a farmhouse fends off an alien home invasion, with almost no dialogue in the entire film.
WATCHcanonM3GAN
2022 · USA · 102m
A robotics engineer builds an AI doll to parent her orphaned niece, and the doll takes the job seriously.
WATCHcultDeadstream
2022 · USA · 87m
A disgraced livestreamer broadcasts himself alone in a haunted house for the clout, and gets exactly what he deserves.
WATCHobscureHell House LLC
2015 · USA · 93m
A team building a Halloween haunted attraction in a real abandoned hotel, and the footage is all that is left.
WATCHcultThe Untamed
2016 · Mexico · 100m
A Mexican film in which a creature from a crashed meteorite provides pleasure and death in equal measure.
WATCHcultIncantation
2022 · TW · 111m
A Taiwanese found-footage film built around a curse the film itself tries to pass to you.
WATCHknownBacurau
2019 · BR/France · 131m
A remote Brazilian village disappears from the map and finds itself hunted for sport. Weird, angry and unclassifiable.
WATCHknownLa Llorona
2019 · GT/France · 97m
A Guatemalan dictator on trial for genocide is haunted in his own home. The weeping woman as historical reckoning.
WATCHcultHatchet for the Honeymoon
1970 · Italy/Spain · 93m
Bava's first-person portrait of a killer who murders brides to recover a childhood memory. Genuinely strange.
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Carol Clover named her in 1992. These are the ones the films actually earn.
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Six of the DPP 72 that are worth your evening on their own merits, not as historical curiosities.
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Films that work as films first. Nothing here will punish somebody for being talked into it.
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Latex, foam, air bladders and karo syrup. The argument is not nostalgia, it is that the light falls on it correctly.