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Two decades on Waterworld remains a mad, fascinating folly

by Anton Bitel

A new restora­tion reveals the insane ambi­tion of this bloat­ed Kevin Cost­ner vehicle.
A woman with curly hair wearing a red blouse speaking on a vintage telephone.
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Discover this shocking ’70s deep cut to middle-class America

by Anton Bitel

A babysit­ter is ter­rorised by an anony­mous called in Fred Walton’s pro­to-slash­er When a Stranger Calls.
A woman in a black outfit lying on the floor, surrounded by smoke.
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Discover the retro camp charm of this Razzie winning comedy horror

by Anton Bitel

In 1988’s Elvi­ra: Mis­tress of the Dark, Cas­san­dra Peterson’s hero­ine proud­ly dis­play her two best assets.
Two figures in traditional Japanese costume, one embracing the other, against a backdrop of smoke or flames.
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Discover the erotic grotesquery of this Japanese triptych

by Anton Bitel

The pro­lif­ic film­mak­er Teruo Ishii invent­ed a whole new sub­gen­rre with 1969’s bizarre Orgies of Edo.
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The bleak futurism of John Carpenter’s Escape from New York

by Anton Bitel

The genre maestro’s dystopi­an thriller feels eeri­ly pre­scient in its depic­tion of a bro­ken police state.
A man holds a lit blowtorch in a darkened room, casting an intense orange glow on his face.
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Why Long Weekend remains an Ozploitation classic

by Lara C Cory

Col­in Eggleston’s 1978 film emerged from one of Aus­tralian cinema’s bold­est and most pro­duc­tive periods.
Close-up of a man and woman's faces, illuminated by blue light, in an intimate moment.
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How Candyman reflected the fears of urban society

by Anton Bitel

Bernard Rose’s cult 1992 hor­ror, based on a Clive Bark­er short sto­ry, tack­les sex, class and race in inner-city Chicago.
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Discover the animalistic terror of George A Romero’s first studio movie

by Anton Bitel

The genre maestro’s 1998 Mon­key Shines was dubbed ​‘An Exper­i­ment In Fear’ – and with good reason.
Distressed young person pressing face against bars of a crib or cot.
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Discover the deranged melodrama of this maternal horror

by Anton Bitel

Ted Post’s 1973 film The Baby takes the notion of the dys­func­tion­al fam­i­ly to a whole oth­er level.
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Discover the ferocious insanity of this cult Japanese horror

by Anton Bitel

Teruo Ishii’s Hor­rors of Mal­formed Men con­tains one of cinema’s most straight­for­ward­ly stark rav­ing villains.