The films

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Raw

A vegetarian vet student develops an appetite. Julia Ducournau's debut and a genuine coming-of-age film.

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Re-Animator

The funniest Lovecraft adaptation ever made, which is not what anybody expected.

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Scanners

Everybody remembers the head. The film underneath is about a pharmaceutical company and a custody dispute.

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The Curse of Frankenstein

The film that made Hammer, made in colour, with blood that looks like blood.

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Videodrome

Predicted most of what people now say about the internet, using a Betamax slot in a man's stomach.

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Eyes Without a Face

A surgeon steals faces for his disfigured daughter. Filmed with a tenderness that makes it far worse.

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Suspiria

Not a remake so much as an argument with the original. Colder, longer, and about postwar German guilt.

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Dead Ringers

Jeremy Irons plays twin gynaecologists who share everything, and Cronenberg's coldest, saddest film.

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Freaks

Tod Browning cast real sideshow performers, MGM cut a third of it, and it ended his career.

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Hellraiser

Clive Barker adapting his own novella, and the Cenobites are on screen for about eight minutes.

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Titane

Won the Palme d'Or. A film about a woman, a car and a grieving fireman, and it is not a comedy.

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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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Alien: Romulus

Fede Alvarez taking the franchise back to basics: young colonists, a derelict station, and one very bad idea.

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The Skin I Live In

Almodóvar's only horror film, and it is a revenge story disguised as a mad-scientist melodrama.

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The Fly

Under the effects it is a film about watching someone you love get a terminal illness, and Goldblum plays it that way.

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Eraserhead

Five years of weekend shooting, and it is about being a father and being terrified of it.

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Frankenstein

Karloff in Jack Pierce's makeup, and the flat head is a copyrighted design rather than anything from the novel.

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The Substance

Body horror about how the industry treats women over fifty, with Demi Moore doing the bravest work of her career.

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Alien

A haunted house film in space, and the crew are contractors arguing about bonuses.

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Get Out

Won the screenplay Oscar, which horror never does. The sunken place is the best new image in the genre this century.

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The Thing

Flopped, was called empty and disgusting, and is now the most imitated horror film of its decade.