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GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Craig R. Baxley, USA, 1990)

Part of the Channel 11 Saturday Afternoon Movies canon, I Come in Peace (released outside the U.S. as Dark Angel) is the third-best Al Leong Christmas movie...

BY RUFUS DE RHAM  |  December 29, 2024

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Jack Clayton, UK, 1961)

Jack Clayton’s masterpiece of narrative ambiguity The Innocents begins with a time-honored tableau: Deborah Kerr, hands clasped devoutly...

BY STEVEN MEARS  |  October 31, 2022

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(William Cameron Menzies, USA, 1953)

The rub for makers of American movie horror through the bulk of the 1950s was to make sure that their scares were couched in...

BY COLIN FLEMING  |  October 19, 2024

GUIDE | ORIGINS
(James Whale, USA, 1933)

The early monstrous mass of Universal bogeys put down roots in the pop-culture zeitgeist as deep as any to be found in the most...

BY COLIN FLEMING  |  October 26, 2025

GUIDE | ORIGINS
(Erle C. Kenton, USA, 1932)

It begins with an immense, creaking ship emerging from a silver fog and closes with an island on fire, the myriad...

BY JOSÉ TEODORO  |  November 8, 2024

GUIDE | MODERN SLAYERS
(Billy O’Brien, Ireland/UK, 2005)

One of the grimiest movies ever made, Isolation is the ultimate in contained, farm-set horror, perfect from its attention-grabbing...

BY LAURA KERN  |  November 1, 2024

GUIDE | MODERN SLAYERS
(Colin Minihan, USA/Canada, 2016)

Every so often, the zombie movie collapses from pure fatigue, and some heroic film has to come...

BY LAURA KERN  |  November 1, 2025

GUIDE | ORIGINS
(Jacques Tourneur, USA, 1943)

A nurse leads a catatonic through an expanse of moonlit cane. They pass displays of sacrificed animals...

BY JOSÉ TEODORO  |  March 17, 2023

GUIDE | ORIGINS
(James Whale, USA, 1933)

The early monstrous mass of Universal bogeys put down roots in the pop-culture zeitgeist as deep as any to be found in the most...

BY COLIN FLEMING  |  October 26, 2025

GUIDE | ORIGINS
(Erle C. Kenton, USA, 1932)

It begins with an immense, creaking ship emerging from a silver fog and closes with an island on fire, the myriad...

BY JOSÉ TEODORO  |  November 8, 2024

GUIDE | MODERN SLAYERS
(Billy O’Brien, Ireland/UK, 2005)

One of the grimiest movies ever made, Isolation is the ultimate in contained, farm-set horror, perfect from its attention-grabbing...

BY LAURA KERN  |  November 1, 2024

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