Emiliano Rocha Minter – Tenemos la carne AKA We Are the Flesh (2016)
Quote: In what seems to be a post-apocalyptic world, a grubby middle-aged man goes about the business of survival in a derelict building. His solitary, wordless existence changes with the arrival of...
View ArticleHong-jin Na – Goksung AKA The Wailing (2016)
Quote: Na Hong-jin’s The Wailing is a work of thriller maximal-ism, a rare case of more actually being more rather than less. In the spirit of other South Korean films like Memories of Murder, The...
View ArticleLiam Gavin – A Dark Song (2016)
Synopsis: Sophia Howard rents a house in the countryside of Wales and hires the occultist Joseph Solomon to contact her son that was kidnapped and murdered by teenagers practicing black magic. Along...
View ArticleYorgos Lanthimos – The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister....
View ArticlePaco Plaza – Verónica (2017)
Quote: Madrid, 1991. A teen girl finds herself besieged by an evil supernatural force after she played Ouija with two classmates....
View ArticleJames Whale – Frankenstein (1931)
A Man-Made Monster in Grand Guignol Film Story Out of John L. Balderston’s stage conception of the Mary Shelley classic, “Frankenstein,” James Whale, producer of “Journey’s End” as a play and as a...
View ArticleHy Averback – Chamber of Horrors (1966)
A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him. Psychotic Jason Cravette...
View ArticleJosé Pedro Lopes – A Floresta das Almas Perdidas AKA The Forest of Lost Souls...
A man walks through the Forest of Lost Souls, a place where many go to end their lives. Ricardo is a depressed family father looking for the place where his daughter killed herself. Carolina is a...
View ArticleAlfred Hitchcock – The Birds (1963)
Quote: A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack...
View ArticleGeorge A. Romero – Night of the Living Dead [+commentaries] (1968)
Quote: Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of...
View ArticleRobert Altman – Images (1972)
Quote: Altman shot “Images” (1972) in Ireland during the wet autumn months of 1971, and premiered it the following May at Cannes. It won Susannah York the award for best actress (it’s the role she’s...
View ArticleUlli Lommel – The Boogeyman (1980)
Quote: A young girl witnesses her brother murder a man through a reflection in a mirror. Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death....
View ArticleNorman Lee – The Monkey’s Paw (1948)
Synopsis: Oft-filmed black-and-white thriller of coincidence or inexorable fate based on the popular play by W.W. Jacobs. The Monkey’s Paw was filmed at Kay Carlton Hill Studios at St Johns Wood in...
View ArticleFred Tan – Li gui chan shen AKA Split Of The Spirit (1987)
The ghost of a murdered woman possesses a dancer’s body in order to exact vengeance on her killer. Light Industry wrote: A rarity unearthed from Harvard’s vaults, Fred Tan’s Split of the Spirit is a...
View ArticleJörg Buttgereit – Nekromantik (1987)
Quote: The controversial horror film that shocked the world in 1987, when it was banned in Germany, censored in Japan and simultaneously became a huge underground hit in the US (now long out of...
View ArticleMarco Dutra & Juliana Rojas – As Boas Maneiras AKA Good Manners (2017)
Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their...
View ArticleWalerian Borowczyk – Docteur Jekyll et les femmes AKA The Strange Case of Dr....
The film takes place before, during and immediately after the engagement party of Dr.Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osborne, attended by numerous highly respectable guests (a general, a doctor, a priest,...
View ArticleEmily Hagins – Pathogen (2006)
Quote: A terrible (synthetically created) bacteria is accidentally released into the Austin community’s water supply, and the unsuspecting citizens ingest the bacteria. Which causes them to become...
View ArticleRoy William Neill – Black Moon (1934)
Plot Synopsis A white woman returns to the native island where she was raised with her young daughter and her husband’s secretary. In her youth, she was indoctrinated into the ways of voodoo and her...
View ArticleJustin Benson & Aaron Moorhead – The Endless (2017)
Quote: This mind-bending thriller follows two brothers who receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that...
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