The films

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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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Ju-On: The Grudge

No plot to speak of, structured as loops. Either its weakness or the reason it works.

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Prisoner of the Cannibal God

Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach in New Guinea. Real animal deaths, which is why it stays notorious.

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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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Suicide Club

Fifty-four schoolgirls hold hands and step in front of a train in the first three minutes.

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Tetsuo: The Iron Man

67 minutes of black and white industrial noise made over eighteen months by a crew that mostly quit.

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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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What Have You Done to Solange?

The most upsetting giallo, and the one with an actual moral centre.

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Black Sabbath

Three Bava stories introduced by Boris Karloff, and the middle one is the most frightening thing Bava shot.

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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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Dark Water

Nakata again, and the saddest of the cycle. A custody battle with a damp patch on the ceiling.

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Demons

Lamberto Bava, produced by Argento, and it is a film about a cinema audience being turned into monsters inside the cinema.

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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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Inside

The most extreme film on this site. A pregnant woman, her house, and a woman with scissors.

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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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Men

Alex Garland being about as subtle as a church door. The final sequence is remarkable regardless.

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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 Chaser

A former detective running an escort agency works out that his missing women all went to the same client.

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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 Lodge

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

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Cannibal Ferox

Sold as the most violent film ever made. Lenzi chasing Deodato and killing more animals to do it.

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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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City of the Living Dead

A priest hangs himself and opens a gate. Fulci at his least coherent and most upsetting.

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Dagon

Stuart Gordon adapting The Shadow over Innsmouth, relocated to a rotting Spanish fishing town.

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Four Flies on Grey Velvet

The third of Argento's Animal Trilogy, and the least seen because it was legally locked away for decades.

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Ichi the Killer

Miike at his most gleefully unpleasant, and the sickbag handed out at Toronto was a marketing stunt that worked.

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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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Shivers

Publicly funded, debated in the Canadian parliament, and filmed with complete clinical calm.

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Speak No Evil

Danish. About politeness, and the ending is the bleakest thing in this decade of horror.

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The Brood

Cronenberg's divorce, filmed. The angriest thing he ever made and he has said so.

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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.