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Discover the Psycho-esque thrills of this ’70s serial killer romance

by Anton Bitel

Peter Collinson’s Straight on Till Morning offers a grisly vision of Britain in the 1970s.
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The low, lurid pleasures of Dario Argento’s The Cat O’ Nine Tails

by Anton Bitel

The Italian director’s 1971 giallo shows a visionary film artist still finding his feet.
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The Unseen

by Anton Bitel

There’s shades of Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now in this twisty mystery thriller from writer/​director Gary Sinyor.

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The horror of coming-of-age in Brian De Palma’s Carrie

by Anton Bitel

Adolescence is key to everything in this seminal Stephen King adaptation from 1974.
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The surreal, singular genius of Dario Argento’s Suspiria

by Anton Bitel

Forty years on, the director’s nightmarish gialli has lost none of its potency.
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Most Beautiful Island

by Anton Bitel

Ana Asensio gives an assured debut as writer and director with this haunting story about a migrant woman in the Big Apple.

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The Prince of Nothingwood

by Anton Bitel

Salim Shaheen, Afghanistan’s singular, strutting auteur, is the subject of this wonderfully entertaining doc.

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Discover the patriarchy skewering thrills of this Japanese splatterfest

by Anton Bitel

Sion Sono’s fantasy horror TAG features one of the most arresting opening sequences in movie history.
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Discover this yuletide slasher that inspired John Carpenter’s Halloween

by Anton Bitel

Black Christmas contains one of the earliest examples of the ​‘final girl’ trope in horror cinema.
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How John Carpenter’s The Thing became a horror/sci-fi classic

by Anton Bitel

The director’s newly-restored 1982 film continues to stand the test of time.

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