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GUIDE | MODERN SLAYERS
(Guillermo del Toro, Mexico/Spain/USA, 2006)

With modern-day growing fascism and the overreach of military powers, Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 horror-fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth...

BY KATIE SMALL  |  November 7, 2025

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Bernard Rose, UK, 1988)

Paperhouse has many frightening scenes, but one stands out as particularly scary for its brevity and almost inexplicable terror. The film’s young protagonist...

BY MICHAEL KORESKY  |  October 31, 2021

GUIDE | ORIGINS
(Victor Sjöström, Sweden, 1921)

If ever a film’s reputation preceded it, Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage is that film. On more than one occasion...

BY STEVEN MEARS  |  October 18, 2024

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Mario Bava, Italy/Spain, 1965)

Planet of the Vampires is a film you haven’t seen at all if you haven’t seen it in the wee hours, with the...

BY TOM PHELAN  |  April 5, 2024

GUIDE | MODERN SLAYERS
(Bruce McDonald, Canada, 2008)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was: “What?” This syllable, spoken by Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie), shock jock in decline, is in response to...

BY TOM PHELAN  |  January 3, 2023

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Mark Herrier, Canada/USA, 1991)

When we were in our late teens, my best friend had a random VHS collection consisting of just three titles: Night of the Living DeadCreepers, and Popcorn.

BY LAURA KERN  |  January 19, 2023

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Andrzej Żuławski, France/West Germany, 1981)

Everything is either fractured or in the process of splitting apart. It is the final decade of the Cold War, and Mark (Sam Neill), a spy...

BY JOSÉ TEODORO  |  July 8, 2025

GUIDE | MODERN SLAYERS
(Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 2001)

Pulse is, in my mind, the pinnacle of the J-horror wave in the late ’90s and early ’00s. It is part of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s early explorations into the apocalypse, which also include...

BY RUFUS DE RHAM  |  November 3, 2025

GUIDE | MODERN SLAYERS
(Bruce McDonald, Canada, 2008)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was: “What?” This syllable, spoken by Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie), shock jock in decline, is in response to...

BY TOM PHELAN  |  January 3, 2023

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Mark Herrier, Canada/USA, 1991)

When we were in our late teens, my best friend had a random VHS collection consisting of just three titles: Night of the Living DeadCreepers, and Popcorn.

BY LAURA KERN  |  January 19, 2023

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Andrzej Żuławski, France/West Germany, 1981)

Everything is either fractured or in the process of splitting apart. It is the final decade of the Cold War, and Mark (Sam Neill), a spy...

BY JOSÉ TEODORO  |  July 8, 2025

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