The films

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The Untold Story

A Macau restaurateur and the pork buns. Anthony Wong won Best Actor for it, which tells you about Hong Kong in 1993.

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Cemetery Man

The last great Italian horror film, and it is a romantic comedy about a man who shoots the dead for a living.

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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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Cronos

Del Toro's first film, and the vampire is a grandfather trying to stay with his granddaughter.

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Cure

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

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Man Bites Dog

A Belgian film crew follow a serial killer and gradually start holding the equipment for him.

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Jacob's Ladder

A Vietnam veteran in New York whose reality will not stay put, and the demons move wrong on purpose.

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Braindead

The bloodiest film ever made at the time, and it is a comedy about a man and his mother.

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Tremors

The monster has rules and the film obeys them. A perfectly built piece of engineering.

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Audition

Spends an hour as a gentle romantic comedy. That is not an accident.

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Perfect Blue

Satoshi Kon's animated thriller about a pop idol losing herself, and Aronofsky bought the remake rights just to reuse a shot.

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Candyman

Philip Glass wrote the score believing it was an art film. That mistake is why it sounds like nothing else.

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In the Mouth of Madness

The third of Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy and the most explicitly Lovecraftian thing he made.

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Ringu

A cursed videotape and seven days. Reset the entire international horror market.

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Event Horizon

A haunted house film in space, hated on release, and the studio destroyed roughly thirty minutes of it.

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Cube

Six strangers in a lethal maze of identical rooms, shot on one set for under 400,000 Canadian dollars.

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The Blair Witch Project

Cost about 60,000 dollars, took nearly 250 million, and shows you nothing at any point.

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Misery

Kathy Bates won the Academy Award, which is one of two horror performances ever to do it.

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Scream

Characters who know the rules. Worked exactly once and produced a decade of films that mistook referencing for wit.

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The Silence of the Lambs

The only horror film to win Best Picture, and it wins the argument about whether it is one.

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The Sixth Sense

The twist made it famous and the film does not need it. It is about a boy nobody believes and a marriage that ended.