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GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Bernard Rose, USA/UK, 1992)

I first saw Candyman in high school, on a VHS from the local video store, where my friends and I rented three to five films every weekend to watch in the dorm on our prohibited TV/VCR combo...

BY RUFUS DE RHAM  |  November 15, 2025

GUIDE | UNEARTHED
(Natalya Merkulova & Aleksey Chupov, Russia/Estonia/France, 2021)

Leningrad, 1938. The Stalinist purges are in full swing, and the...

BY KEVIN McNEER  |  November 14, 2025

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Brian De Palma, USA, 1976)

Four years after he put aside the satirical, political experiments that defined his early career to make his first true thriller, the macabre and meticulously Hitchcockian Sisters (1972), Brian De Palma released...

BY MICHAEL KORESKY  |  June 14, 2022

GUIDE | UNEARTHED
(Quentin Lawrence, UK, 1961)

For all of Hammer’s reliance on its tried-and-true monsters, the studio did a fair amount of foraying. Hammer horror could take myriad forms beyond beyond the familiar Dracula, Frankenstein...

BY COLIN FLEMING  |  December 31, 2024

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Michele Soavi, Italy/France, 1994)

Directors love Magritte. William Friedkin modeled the iconic...

BY LAURA WYNNE  |  October 17, 2024

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Peter Medak, Canada, 1980)

For all the freaky poltergeist activity and vivid visions of murder to come, The Changeling (1980) dispatches its most abysmal horrors in its opening...

BY JOSÉ TEODORO  |  January 24, 2024

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Jacques Tourneur, USA, 1963)

After the relative success of American International Pictures’ 1963 release of Roger Corman’s The Raven, the studio quickly...

BY ANN OLSSON  |  October 23, 2024

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Jon Amiel, USA, 1995)

Male buddy movies are a dime a dozen, yet finding memorable female screen teams is as difficult as securing a good therapist, doctor, lover, or any other real-world rarity.

BY LAURA KERN  |  November 12, 2025

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 1997)

Not just a key figure in the emergence of the J-horror movement, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is also a contender for the most important filmmaker...

BY LAURA KERN  |  July 15, 2022

GUIDE | ORIGINS
(Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise, USA, 1944)

At this crazy moment, when film history is caught in the grip of multiple clichés that grind on...

BY KENT JONES  |  September 10, 2023

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 1997)

Not just a key figure in the emergence of the J-horror movement, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is also a contender for the most important filmmaker...

BY LAURA KERN  |  July 15, 2022

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