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Horror films

486 entries, from 1922 to 2025. Curated, not exhaustive: a short shelf of things worth knowing about beats a long one nobody can navigate. Browse every title A to Z, or see editorial ratings by decade.

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Rabid

1977 · Canada/USA · 87m

Cronenberg's second feature, with an experimental skin graft, a stinger in an armpit, and a plague across Montreal.

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Shivers

1975 · Canada · 87m

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

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The Brood

1979 · Canada · 92m

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

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Scanners

1981 · Canada · 103m

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

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Videodrome

1983 · Canada/USA · 89m

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

Goreledger 9/10
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Dead Ringers

1988 · Canada · 115m

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

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The Dead Zone

1983 · USA · 100m

Cronenberg's most restrained film, and Christopher Walken plays a man who can see how it ends.

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The Fly

1986 · USA/Canada · 92m

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

Goreledger 9/10