The films

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Sissy

An Australian wellness influencer at a hen weekend. Much sharper and much nastier than the premise suggests.

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You'll Never Find Me

A stranger knocks during a storm at a caravan-park trailer, and neither of the two people is quite what they seem.

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Long Weekend

A couple with a failing marriage treat a beach with contempt. Nothing supernatural happens.

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Lake Mungo

Barely a horror film for an hour. Then there is a shot on a mobile phone people do not forget.

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Hounds of Love

A Perth couple abduct a teenage girl, and the film is about the fracture between the two of them.

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Sting

A girl raises a spider that fell from space in a New York apartment block, and it grows.

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Tales from the Crypt

Amicus adapting the EC Comics, with Joan Collins menaced by a killer Santa and Peter Cushing as a wronged dustman.

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You Won't Be Alone

A Macedonian witch story told as a Malick film, and it is about what it is to be a person.

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The Loved Ones

An Australian teenager says no to a girl for the school dance, and she holds her own dance instead.

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Relic

Dementia as a house that grows corridors. The last ten minutes are unexpectedly tender.

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The Abominable Dr. Phibes

Vincent Price murders the surgeons who let his wife die, each death based on the plagues of Egypt. A gorgeous, deranged art deco comedy.

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Late Night with the Devil

A 1977 Halloween talk show broadcast, live, going wrong. David Dastmalchian finally gets a lead.

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Lifeforce

Tobe Hooper's space-vampire epic, adapted from Colin Wilson, and it is completely insane in the best way.

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The Company of Wolves

Angela Carter adapting herself. Nested fairy tales about what adults tell girls about men.

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The Ruins

Tourists, a Mayan pyramid and a plant with intent. Nastier than its reputation.

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Bring Her Back

The Philippou brothers' second, and considerably harder to sit through than the first. Sally Hawkins is the reason.

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Triangle

A yacht, a storm, an ocean liner, and a loop that keeps folding back on a single mother.

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Wolf Creek

Three backpackers in the Australian outback. The first hour is a holiday film and it is not padding.

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The Babadook

A film about a widowed mother who resents her son, wearing a monster as a coat.

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Talk to Me

An embalmed hand, a ninety-second rule, and teenagers filming it. The Philippou brothers' first feature.

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The Invisible Man

Reworks Universal's monster into a film about being disbelieved. The empty corners of the frame do the work.

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An American Werewolf in London

Rick Baker won the first ever Academy Award for makeup for a transformation that hurts to watch.