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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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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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Discover the ocular nightmare of this cult Lucio Fulci horror

by Anton Bitel

The visionary Italian director’s 1981 film The Beyond remains one of his most unnerving, transgressive works.
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Cheap thrills: five essential straight-to-video stocking fillers

by Paul Ridd

Top 2019 home entertainment releases for the strong stomached and morally depraved.
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Why The Exorcist III remains a fascinating, flawed horror sequel

by Anton Bitel

A sense of creative conflict infuses William Peter Blatty’s spiritual follow-up to William Friedkin’s 1973 classic.
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Revisiting Paul Verhoeven’s sexually explicit answer to Grease

by Anton Bitel

The 1980 coming-of-ager Spetters is one of the Dutch master’s most uncompromising and controversial works.
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Discover the sleazy cautionary tale of this hitchhiking thriller

by Anton Bitel

Irvin Berwick’s cult 1983 film Hitch Hike to Hell is an American nightmare writ large.
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Criterion’s collection of Showa-era Godzilla films is a cinematic feast

by Andrew Northrop

Fifteen of the iconic kaiju’s adventures have been compiled in a long-overdue commemorative boxset.
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Discover the allegorical terror of this landmark silent era horror

by Anton Bitel

Paul Wegener’s nightmarish take on the Golem of Jewish folklore introduced German Expressionism to the world.
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How Jacques Demy reimagined the Hollywood musical

by Adam Scovell

With The Young Girls of Rochefort, the French director created something wondrously original.

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