The films

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Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell

A plane crash, an alien blob, and the single most striking red sky in Japanese genre film. Tarantino borrowed it.

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Messiah of Evil

A California coastal town waiting for a blood moon, made by the writers of American Graffiti, and it looks like nothing else.

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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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Spring

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

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The Void

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

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Marebito

Takashi Shimizu, between Grudge films, shot this in eight days about a cameraman who brings something home from the underworld.

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Q: The Winged Serpent

An Aztec god nests atop the Chrysler Building and eats sunbathers, and Michael Moriarty is extraordinary.

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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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Uzumaki

A town becomes obsessed with spirals. Junji Ito adapted before his manga had finished.

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In the Earth

A scientist and a guide walk into a forest during a pandemic and find a man, and a spirit, that do not want them to leave.

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The Stuff

A white dessert oozing from the ground becomes a national craze, and it is eating the people who eat it.

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Quatermass and the Pit

A Martian spacecraft under a London tube station, and it explains the Devil.

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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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Save the Green Planet!

A man convinced aliens are infiltrating Earth kidnaps a CEO to torture the truth out of him. Nothing prepares you for where it goes.

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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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Kairo

The best J-horror film and the least seen. About loneliness and the internet, and genuinely despairing.

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Bacurau

A remote Brazilian village disappears from the map and finds itself hunted for sport. Weird, angry and unclassifiable.

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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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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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Lifeforce

Tobe Hooper's space-vampire epic, adapted from Colin Wilson, and it is completely insane in the best way.

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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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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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Inferno

The Suspiria sequel. Less coherent, more beautiful, and has the best underwater sequence Argento shot.

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The Empty Man

Dumped by the studio with no marketing, runs 137 minutes, and has a 20-minute prologue people rave about.

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The Beyond

Almost no coherent plot and that is the argument for it. One of the bleakest endings in the genre.

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As Above, So Below

A descent into the Paris catacombs that becomes a descent into hell, shot for real under the city.

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Coherence

A dinner party the night a comet passes, and reality starts to fork. Shot in one house in five nights.

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Godzilla Minus One

Seventy years on, the series returns to what it was for: the war, the guilt, and the cost.

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Mandy

Nicolas Cage, a chainsaw duel and Jóhann Jóhannsson's last score. Not for everyone and not trying to be.

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Phantasm

A tall undertaker, a flying silver sphere, and a film that runs entirely on dream logic. Don Coscarelli was 23.

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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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Re-Animator

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

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Prince of Darkness

The second of Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy, and it is quantum physics as a book of the dead.

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The Dead Zone

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

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In the Mouth of Madness

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