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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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