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Two individuals embracing, silhouetted against a warm, glowing backdrop. Vibrant colours and dramatic shadows create an intimate, emotive scene.
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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.
Abstract sculpture with textured, multi-coloured layers forming a distorted face-like shape against a dark background.
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Discover the fear and disillusionment of this cabin fever horror

by Anton Bitel

Toshi­a­ki Toyoda’s Mon­sters Club sees a Unabomber-like char­ac­ter wage a pri­vate war from a remote cab­in in the woods.
A black and white image depicting two people, a man and a woman, in a dramatic pose. The woman appears to have her eyes closed, while the man is reaching towards her. The composition and use of light and shadow create a striking, moody atmosphere.
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Discover the monstrous spectacle of this meta exploitation movie

by Anton Bitel

Mar­co Ferreri’s con­tro­ver­sial The Ape Woman is a deeply cyn­i­cal por­tray­al of mas­culin­i­ty bes­tialised and fem­i­nin­i­ty reified.
Two individuals, a woman in dark clothing with a red scarf and a man in an orange jacket, standing on a wooden fence against a dramatic sunset sky.
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Why Johnny Guitar remains a superior subversive western

by Anton Bitel

With its pro­gres­sive gen­der pol­i­tics and lib­er­al under­tow, Nicholas Ray’s 1954 film was way ahead of its time.
A crowded gathering of people in colourful clothing, with hands raised and expressions of excitement or celebration.
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How Penelope Spheeris captured the wild side of American youth culture

by Anton Bitel

In 1983’s Sub­ur­bia and 1985’s The Boys Next Door, the Rea­gan era is a place of lay-offs, layabouts and gen­er­al decay.
Blonde woman with wide open eyes and an alarmed expression on her face.
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The grisly, greasy-spoon horror of Robert Hartford-Davis

by Adam Scovell

Inspired by real-life killings, 1968’s Cor­rup­tion is one of the first – and most effec­tive – British hor­ror films of its kind.
Hands reaching out towards an individual lying on the floor, who appears distressed.
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Discover this surreal Japanese erotic horror about artistic obsession

by Anton Bitel

Yasuzô Masumura’s macabre mas­ter­piece Blind Beast paints an unnerv­ing por­trait of an artist and his muse.
Two people, a woman with short dark hair and a man with dishevelled hair, in a dark, shadowy setting.
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Discover the eco-horror of this eerily prescient creature feature

by Anton Bitel

John Frankenheimer’s Prophe­cy sees Moth­er Nature exact revenge against a researcher cou­ple in rur­al Maine.
A woman with long blonde hair screaming in an intense, frightened expression.
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Discover this cutting-edge, Gothic-inspired ’80s slasher

by Anton Bitel

Star­ring Lin­da Blair as a text­book final girl, Tom DeSimone’s 1981 Hell Night offers an effec­tive blend of hor­rors old and new.
Portrait of a man with a pensive expression, lying in a field amongst thorny branches.
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In praise of Lucio Fulci’s violent, vengeful Spaghetti westerns

by Adam Scovell

The Ital­ian hor­ror maestro’s hand­ful of entries in the genre show­case his pen­chant for bloody retribution.