The films

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Possum

A disgraced puppeteer returns to his childhood home carrying a bag he cannot get rid of.

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Hell House LLC

A team building a Halloween haunted attraction in a real abandoned hotel, and the footage is all that is left.

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Tigers Are Not Afraid

Children orphaned by the Mexican drug war, three wishes, and the dead following them through the streets.

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A Field in England

Deserters in the English Civil War eat mushrooms and dig for treasure while reality dissolves. Shot in black and white in twelve days.

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Impetigore

An Indonesian folk horror about a woman who returns to a village that has been waiting for her.

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Resolution

Two friends in a cabin while something rewrites the story around them. Benson and Moorhead's first film.

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We Are What We Are

A Mexico City family loses its father and has to work out who now does the hunting.

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A Dark Song

A grieving mother and an occultist doing a months-long ritual properly. The tedium is deliberate.

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Spring

A love story that happens to involve an immortal woman whose body is not stable. Benson and Moorhead again.

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Sightseers

A caravan holiday across the English Midlands turns into a killing spree, and it is a very bleak comedy about class and resentment.

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The Void

Practical effects made on Kickstarter money, doing an unembarrassed Carpenter impression.

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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

A web-streaming crew live-broadcast from a real abandoned Korean hospital for the views.

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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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The Perfection

Swerves three times and mostly earns them. Best watched knowing nothing at all.

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Terrified

Argentinian, and it front-loads three of the best scares of the decade in the first twenty minutes.

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The Untamed

A Mexican film in which a creature from a crashed meteorite provides pleasure and death in equal measure.

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Bedevilled

A Seoul bank worker visits the island she grew up on. Everybody there has been failing one woman for years.

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Cam

A camgirl finds an identical copy of herself has taken over her account and locked her out.

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Berberian Sound Studio

A meek British sound engineer comes apart while dubbing an Italian horror film he can hear but never see.

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Kill List

Starts as a kitchen-sink drama about money, ends somewhere else entirely. The turn is brutal.

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The Wretched

A teenager suspects the woman next door is a witch wearing the neighbours' skins. A word-of-mouth streaming hit.

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When Animals Dream

A Danish coming-of-age werewolf film, and the transformation is puberty in a fishing village that already knows.

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La Llorona

A Guatemalan dictator on trial for genocide is haunted in his own home. The weeping woman as historical reckoning.

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The Innkeepers

Ti West's other 1970s-feeling film, about two clerks working the last weekend of a haunted hotel.

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The Love Witch

Shot on 35mm to look exactly like 1969, written and designed by one person, and very funny.

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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

The real Santa Claus is a horned thing frozen in a Finnish mountain, and a drilling company has found it.

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Saint Maud

A palliative nurse decides she has been called. Morfydd Clark is terrifying and the last shot is a gut punch.

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The Blackcoat's Daughter

Oz Perkins' debut. Glacial, wintry, and the timeline is doing something you will only spot late.

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One Cut of the Dead

Sit through the rough first 37 minutes. That instruction is the whole review and it is worth obeying.

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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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Tumbbad

An Indian folk horror about greed, a hidden god, and a womb in the earth, spanning three generations.

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In Fabric

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

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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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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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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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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.