The films

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Birth/Rebirth

A morgue technician and a grieving mother reinventing Frankenstein without any of the theatrics.

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Who Can Kill a Child?

Opens with eight minutes of real famine footage, then asks its title question literally.

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Hatching

A Finnish girl raises a monster from an egg, and it is about a mother's Instagram-perfect lie.

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The Brood

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

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Confessions

A teacher calmly tells her class she knows two of them killed her daughter, and that she has already taken revenge.

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The Bad Seed

The Production Code would not let a child murderer go free, so it ends with a spanking. See it anyway.

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Village of the Damned

Blonde children with glowing eyes and no interest in you. Efficient, cold, 77 minutes.

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Ginger Snaps

The puberty metaphor made completely explicit, very funny, and unusually well acted.

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Goodnight Mommy

Austrian, cold, and it works out its own twist early enough that the dread is the point.

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The First Omen

A prequel nobody wanted that turned out to be the best-directed studio horror of its year.

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Abigail

A kidnapping that goes wrong in the most enjoyable way. Very wet, very fast, very funny.

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The Babadook

A film about a widowed mother who resents her son, wearing a monster as a coat.

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The Monkey

Osgood Perkins doing King as a gore comedy. The deaths are elaborate and the film is laughing.

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Vivarium

A young couple cannot leave a show home. Bleak, airless, and about mortgages.

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M3GAN

A robotics engineer builds an AI doll to parent her orphaned niece, and the doll takes the job seriously.

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The Omen

A film about a man realising his son is not his. Jerry Goldsmith won the Oscar and earned it.

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Carrie

De Palma's split screens, a bucket of blood, and the last thirty seconds that made an entire genre of ending.