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Is this Gaspar Noé’s most religious film?

By Anton Bitel

The director’s short experimental feature, Lux Æterna, plays like a panic attack before reaching a rapturous crescendo.

Discover the cult ’80s slasher that pre-empted Freddy Krueger

By Anton Bitel

The likes of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream owe something to Robert Deubel’s co-ed carve up Girls Nite Out.

Something sinister lives among the sheep in this ’70s wild west monster movie

By Anton Bitel

Fredric Hobbs' surreal 1973 film sees a giant mutant sheep terrorise the residents of a sleepy town in rural Nevada.

The frenetic thrills of Abel Ferrara’s abstract surveillance thriller

By Anton Bitel

Ethan Hawke stars in this poetic and strange thriller about a military operative chasing multiple threads in Rome.

Discover the dreamy delights of this Japanese detective noir

By Anton Bitel

Kaizo Hayashi’s ’80s crime drama To Sleep So as to Dream is a rich homage to Japan’s cinematic heritage.

Discover the surreal provocations of this Japanese anthology comedy

By Anton Bitel

Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine and Shunichiro Miki’s offbeat Funky Forest: The First Contact is now available on Blu-ray.

Discover the indie horror comedy that made ‘mumblegore’ happen

By Anton Bitel

The Duplass brothers’ Baghead, starring Greta Gerwig in one of her first screen roles, is a charming love letter to DIY filmmaking.

Is this ’80s cult classic Japan’s answer to Mad Max?

By Anton Bitel

Crazy Thunder Road, director Sogo Ishii’s explosive anti-establishment thriller, is dedicated “to all crazy bikers”.

Discover the trippy, transgressive pleasures of Mario Bava’s swansong

By Anton Bitel

The Italian genre maestro’s final film, 1977’s Shock, is a haunted house horror quite unlike any other.

Discover this ’80s cult classic that has to be seen to be believed

By Anton Bitel

Renee Harmon is the eponymous Lady Street Fighter in one of the most outrageous exploitation movies ever made.

How Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Anti-War Trilogy bridges generational trauma

By Alicia Haddick

The late Japanese director explores the twin national disasters of 3.11 and World War Two in an epic series of films.

Discover this goofy intergalactic comedy about star-crossed lovers

By Anton Bitel

Richard Benjamin’s hokey My Stepmother is an Alien is an effects-heavy time capsule of ’80s excess.

Discover the film that helped kickstart the found footage phenomenon

By Anton Bitel

Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler’s 1998 horror mockumentary The Last Broadcast predates The Blair Witch Project.

Discover this cult Euro crime thriller from Umberto Lenzi

By Anton Bitel

The maverick Italian director’s 1976 film Free Hand for a Tough Cop is now available in the UK for the first time.

Discover Francis Ford Coppola’s Psycho-inspired directorial debut

By Anton Bitel

The Roger Corman-produced Dementia 13 is much more than a quickie Hitchcock ripoff, as this Director’s Cut proves.

Love and misery in Mike Leigh’s All or Nothing

By Anton Bitel

The director’s 2002 drama about life on a London housing estate is a film of bleak moments and occasional hope.

Why Dario Argento’s Deep Red remains a trashy masterpiece

By Anton Bitel

The Italian director’s 1975 giallo classic is being re-released in a newly restored, longer edit with additional scenes.

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