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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...

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...

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
(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

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