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Festivals

Alice – first-look review

by Leila Latif

KeKe Palmer plays an enslaved woman who makes a shock­ing dis­cov­ery in Krystin Ver Linden’s mis­judged thriller.
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Home Ents

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.
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Review

Pray Away

by Emily Maskell

This dev­as­tat­ing doc­u­men­tary expos­es the shock­ing truth of one of the world’s largest gay con­ver­sion ther­a­py schemes.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Home Ents

Is True Romance the ultimate male movie fantasy?

by Anton Bitel

With its movie nerd hero, dot­ing blonde hero­ine and shock­ing vio­lence, this ear­ly ​’90s cult clas­sic is peak Tarantino.
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Review

Promising Young Woman

by Hannah Strong

A fero­cious lead turn by Carey Mul­li­gan super-charges this shock­ing, out­spo­ken debut that pulls none of its punches.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Interviews

Brandon Cronenberg: ‘We built a wax Andrea Riseborough’

by Leila Latif

The genre prodi­gy talks per­fect cast­ing and prac­ti­cal effects in his lat­est shock­er, Possessor.
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Home Ents

Discover the sordid pleasures of this late-career Mario Bava slasher

by Anton Bitel

The Ital­ian hor­ror maestro’s 1971 film A Bay of Blood remains one of his most shock­ing works.
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In Praise Of

How Shock Corridor reflected the madness of 1960s America

by Rich Johnson

Samuel Fuller’s mur­der mys­tery cap­tures the fear and para­noia which beset post­war society.
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Review

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

by Hannah Strong

This con­tro­ver­sial Ted Bundy biopic star­ring Zac Efron only scratch­es the sur­face of its subject.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Future shock: The sci-fi movies that predicted 2019

by Dan Cooper

Blade Run­ner, Aki­ra and The Run­ning Man are all set in our present – but how much did they get right?