The films

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Prophecy

Mercury poisoning produces a mutant bear in the Maine woods, and it is angrier about logging than most activists.

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Ravenous

A Sierra Nevada fort in 1847, cannibalism as manifest destiny, and a score unlike any other.

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Session 9

Shot in a real abandoned asylum, and the building does most of the work.

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Society

A Beverly Hills teenager suspects his family are not human. The last twenty minutes prove it, wetly.

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The Driller Killer

Ferrara's debut, and mostly a film about being broke in New York. The sleeve got it prosecuted.

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The Vast of Night

A radio DJ and a switchboard operator in 1950s New Mexico chase a signal across one night. Shot for almost nothing.

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Faces of Death

A mondo compilation whose most famous scenes are staged. Sold as real and marketed on being banned.

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Flesh for Frankenstein

Shot in 3D with Udo Kier and a spleen. Warhol's name on it, Paul Morrissey's film.

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Ms .45

Abel Ferrara's second film. A mute seamstress, a .45, and a nun's habit at the end.

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Relic

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

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Strange Darling

Told out of order in six chapters, shot on 35mm by Giovanni Ribisi. The structure is the whole trick.

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The Endless

Two brothers return to the UFO death cult they escaped, and time is looping in the hills.

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Watcher

An American in Bucharest who cannot speak the language and is not being believed. Quietly excellent.

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Maniac

Joe Spinell wrote himself the lead and Tom Savini blew his own head off on camera.

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May

A lonely young woman decides that if she cannot find a whole person to love, she will assemble one.

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Woman of the Hour

Anna Kendrick's directorial debut, about the serial killer who appeared on The Dating Game mid-spree.

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

An Iranian vampire western shot in California, in Farsi, in black and white. Nothing else looks like it.

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Basket Case

A young man carries his surgically-separated deformed twin in a wicker basket, and they are taking revenge.

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Creep

Two actors, a cabin and a camera. Mark Duplass is the most unsettling thing in modern horror.

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His House

A South Sudanese couple in British asylum housing. The haunting and the bureaucracy are the same thing.

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Rabid

Cronenberg's second feature, with an experimental skin graft, a stinger in an armpit, and a plague across Montreal.

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Sleepaway Camp

A cheap, badly acted summer camp slasher with an ending that has been argued about for forty years.

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The Entity

A woman is repeatedly assaulted by an invisible entity, and the film sides with her against the psychiatrists.

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Color Out of Space

Nicolas Cage, alpacas, and a colour that does not exist. More faithful than most attempts.

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Cuckoo

A German alpine resort, Hunter Schafer, and Dan Stevens doing an accent. Deeply strange.

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From Beyond

Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs reunite after Re-Animator for a Lovecraft story about a machine that reveals what is always there.

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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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Opera

Argento's last great film, and the needles taped under the eyes are the image of his career.

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The Bay

Barry Levinson made a found-footage eco-horror about a Chesapeake town and parasitic isopods.

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The Burning

The best film on the prosecuted list. Savini's raft scene is why it was on it.

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The Lodge

Two children snowed in with their father's new partner, who has a history with a cult.

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Carnival of Souls

Made for 33,000 dollars by an industrial film-maker in Kansas, and it looks like a dream somebody had.

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I Saw the TV Glow

Barely a horror film and one of the most upsetting things on this site. About a life not lived.

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The Masque of the Red Death

The best of Corman's Poe cycle, shot by Nicolas Roeg on sets left over from Becket.

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Alligator

A baby alligator flushed down a toilet grows huge on discarded lab animals in the sewers. John Sayles wrote it and it is a delight.

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Fresh

The title card arrives 33 minutes in, which tells you what kind of film it intends to be.