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GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Robert Wise, UK, 1963)

The question of possession looms over The Haunting (1963), with regards to both Hill House, the labyrinthine Victorian mansion in which most of the...

BY JOSÉ TEODORO  |  September 10, 2023

GUIDE | ORIGINS
(Benjamin Christensen, Sweden/Denmark, 1922)

There is a particular allure to the silent horror movie—the sense that, as a viewer, you haven’t merely stumbled upon something but... 

BY MICHAEL KORESKY  |  November 30, 2023

GUIDE | UNEARTHED
(Walon Green & Ed Spiegel, USA, 1971)

Insects are the worst kind of people. With all the venom-pumping, eye-gouging, and...

BY TOM PHELAN  |  February 26, 2024

GUIDE | UNEARTHED
(Mark Robson, USA, 1943)

While 1981’s My Bloody Valentine may rightfully be the go-to Valentine’s Day slasher for anti-romantics who prefer their...

BY LAURA KERN  |  February 14, 2022

GUIDE | ORIGINS
(Sidney Lanfield, USA, 1939)

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories have never lacked for adaptations, with The Hound of the Baskervilles—novel number...

BY COLIN FLEMING  |  October 23, 2025

GUIDE | UNEARTHED
(Montgomery Tully, UK, 1960)

We speak of unreliable narrators, but what of an unreliable film? That is, a movie that purports to tell one story but may in truth be...

BY COLIN FLEMING  |  November 10, 2024

GUIDE | ORIGINS
(Jean Yarbrough, USA, 1946)

The shadowy figure of Rondo Hatton creeps appropriately over the opening-credits sequences of both House of Horrors...

BY LAURA KERN  |  October 27, 2024

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Joe Dante, USA, 1981)

Though recent events have redefined masks as symbols of caution and courtesy, their role in the horror pantheon is steadfastly sinister.

BY LAURA WYNNE  |  November 5, 2024

GUIDE | UNEARTHED
(Paul Lynch, Canada, 1982)

In what could be the fastest-resulting rape-revenge scenario in horror-movie history, a drunken lout brutally forces himself on a young woman...

BY LAURA KERN  |  October 31, 2021

GUIDE | UNEARTHED
(Paul Lynch, Canada, 1982)

In what could be the fastest-resulting rape-revenge scenario in horror-movie history, a drunken lout brutally forces himself on a young woman...

BY LAURA KERN  |  October 31, 2021

GUIDE | UNEARTHED
(Paul Lynch, Canada, 1982)

In what could be the fastest-resulting rape-revenge scenario in horror-movie history, a drunken lout brutally forces himself on a young woman...

BY LAURA KERN  |  October 31, 2021

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