The films

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You'll Never Find Me

A stranger knocks during a storm at a caravan-park trailer, and neither of the two people is quite what they seem.

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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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Long Weekend

A couple with a failing marriage treat a beach with contempt. Nothing supernatural happens.

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Azrael

A near-wordless survival film in a post-apocalypse where a cult has cut out their own tongues.

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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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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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Piggy

Spanish, a bullied teenager, and a moral problem she is left holding alone.

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The Dark and the Wicked

Bryan Bertino's bleakest film. Two siblings return to the family farm as their father dies and something takes the household apart.

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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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No One Will Save You

A woman alone in a farmhouse fends off an alien home invasion, with almost no dialogue in the entire film.

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Sting

A girl raises a spider that fell from space in a New York apartment block, and it grows.

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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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Night of the Comet

A comet turns most of Los Angeles to dust, and two Valley girls inherit the city.

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Them

A French couple terrorised in a house at night, 77 minutes, and it claims to be true.

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Watcher

An American in Bucharest who cannot speak the language and is not being believed. Quietly excellent.

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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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The Chaser

A former detective running an escort agency works out that his missing women all went to the same client.

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The Lodge

Two children snowed in with their father's new partner, who has a history with a cult.

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Frozen

Three people stuck on a chairlift. Almost nothing else, and that is enough.

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Open Water

Real sharks, no cages, 130,000 dollars. The horror is arithmetic: how long does a person float?

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Revenge

Reworks the structure with the assault largely off screen, which removes nothing it needs.

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Sleep Tight

The concierge of a Barcelona apartment block cannot bear that a tenant is happy, so he makes sure she is not.

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The Ruins

Tourists, a Mayan pyramid and a plant with intent. Nastier than its reputation.

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The Vanishing

A man spends three years looking for his girlfriend and is finally offered the answer on one condition.

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Green Room

A punk band plays the wrong venue. Jeremy Saulnier does not flinch and neither does the film.

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Triangle

A yacht, a storm, an ocean liner, and a loop that keeps folding back on a single mother.

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Wolf Creek

Three backpackers in the Australian outback. The first hour is a holiday film and it is not padding.

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The Ritual

Four men, a Swedish forest, and a creature design worth waiting for.

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Dead Snow

Nazi zombies in the Norwegian mountains, and it knows exactly how silly it is.

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The Hills Have Eyes

A nuclear family against a family mutated by nuclear testing. By the end there is no difference in method.

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Dog Soldiers

A squad on exercise in the Highlands versus werewolves, and it is closer to a war film than to horror.

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Tremors

The monster has rules and the film obeys them. A perfectly built piece of engineering.

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Heretic

Two missionaries, one house, and Hugh Grant enjoying himself enormously as the worst man alive.

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Ready or Not

A bride versus her new in-laws and their family obligation. Very funny and mean.

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Barbarian

Go in knowing nothing. The structure is the point and every synopsis ruins it.

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Gerald's Game

The King novel everyone said was unfilmable. One bed, two handcuffs, and a degloving.