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Festivals

Something in the Dirt – first-look review

by Anton Bitel

Filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead discover an ominous paranormal entity in their meta fifth feature.
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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.
Review

Scream

by Anton Bitel

This stylishly directed ​“requel” trickily rakes over the grave of the original Scream films, but please, no more!

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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