The films

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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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Frontier(s)

New French Extremity meets Texas Chain Saw, against the backdrop of a real French election.

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Host

Shot over lockdown on Zoom in twelve weeks, runs 56 minutes, and is better than it has any right to be.

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In Fabric

A haunted red dress moves from customer to customer through a nightmarish department store.

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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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Save the Green Planet!

A man convinced aliens are infiltrating Earth kidnaps a CEO to torture the truth out of him. Nothing prepares you for where it goes.

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Shutter

A photographer starts finding a figure in his negatives. The reveal about the neck pain is the best in Asian horror.

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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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The House by the Cemetery

Fulci's dream logic at its least coherent and most atmospheric. The dubbing of the child is a war crime.

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Them

A French couple terrorised in a house at night, 77 minutes, and it claims to be true.

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The New York Ripper

Fulci's most repellent film, and it is truly designed to make you feel bad for watching it.

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Torso

The giallo at its most slasher-like, and the last act is a genuine masterclass in silent suspense.

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Verónica

A Madrid teenager holds a séance during a solar eclipse and brings something home. Loosely based on a real police file.

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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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Cure

A detective investigating identical murders committed by unconnected people who cannot say why.

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Kairo

The best J-horror film and the least seen. About loneliness and the internet, and genuinely despairing.

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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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Night of the Demon

The runic parchment, the smoke on the railway line, and a monster the producer added against the director's wishes.

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Possessor

Brandon Cronenberg working the family seam without embarrassment. The practical effects are appalling in the right way.

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Santa Sangre

Jodorowsky's most coherent film, which is a comparative statement. A circus, an armless mother and a son who lends her his hands.

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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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The Curse of the Werewolf

Hammer's only werewolf film, Oliver Reed's first lead, and the transformation is largely his face.

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The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Bava's proto-giallo, the film that invented the template, shot in gorgeous black and white in Rome.

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Under the Shadow

Tehran during the War of the Cities, a djinn, and a mother the state has already stripped of options.

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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

A Czech surrealist film about a thirteen-year-old girl, vampires and menstruation, and it is not what that sounds like.

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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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Bacurau

A remote Brazilian village disappears from the map and finds itself hunted for sport. Weird, angry and unclassifiable.

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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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Dead of Night

The British portmanteau that every anthology since has copied, and the ventriloquist episode has never been bettered.

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Don't Torture a Duckling

Fulci's best film, and it is about a village killing the wrong person.

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Exhuma

Two shamans and two geomancers exhume a cursed grave in Korea, and what is under it is worse than the curse.