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Discover this awe-inspiring collection of Japanese ghost stories

by Anton Bitel

Masaki Kobayashi’s Oscar-winning 1964 anthology film Kwaidan is now available on Blu-ray for the first time.
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Dreamland

by Anton Bitel

The director and star of cult horror hit Pontypool reunite for a hard-boiled hitman noir.

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Discover this bizarre B-movie riff on The Exorcist

by Anton Bitel

Warner Bros took legal action over 1974’s Beyond the Door, but its differences from Friedkin’s film are more striking than its similarities.
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Is this the pinnacle of Japanese pink cinema?

by Anton Bitel

Atsushi Yamatoya’s 1967 Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wasteland subverts expectations of this softcore genre.
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Discover the religious allegory of this epic King Hu wuxia

by Anton Bitel

The Chinese master’s 1979 Raining in the Mountain is now available on home video for the first time in the UK.
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Discover the final horror from one of the genre’s unsung greats

by Anton Bitel

José Ramón Larraz’s slasher swansong, Deadly Manor, features some playfully misdirection and an insane ending.
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Sonic the Hedgehog

by Anton Bitel

A scene-stealing Jim Carrey just about sustains this fast, fun and forgettable video game crossover.

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First Love

by Anton Bitel

A young romance blooms one wild night in Tokyo in director Takashi Miike’s high-energy caper.

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Daniel Isn’t Real

by Anton Bitel

A traumatised man summons his former imaginary friend in Adam Egypt Mortimer’s knotty psychological thriller.

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Discover this classic ’80s slasher with a contemporary twist

by Anton Bitel

José Ramón Larraz’s Edge of the Axe buries several over-used tropes of the genre.

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