GUIDES A-Z

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GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Antonia Bird, UK/USA/Mexico, 1999)

Completely mismarketed and misunderstood upon its initial 1999 release, Antonia Bird’s wicked period-horror adventure set in the snowy western Sierra Nevadas...

BY LAURA KERN  |  October 21, 2025

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Russell Mulcahy, Australia, 1984)

I first saw Razorback as part of Joe Bob Briggs’s MonsterVision, which was one of my primary means of discovering new films beyond my small-town video store...

BY RUFUS DE RHAM  |  October 27, 2025

GUIDE | MODERN SLAYERS
(Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza, Spain, 2007)

Seen from the vantage point of the present, any film with the barest hint of a quarantine narrative can only remind...

BY NICHOLAS RUSSELL  |  March 22, 2024

GUIDE | UNEARTHED
(J. Lee Thompson, USA, 1975)

Sometimes, when feelings of déjà vu extend beyond a fleeting moment, it’s enough to make a nonbeliever consider...

BY LAURA KERN  |  November 6, 2024

GUIDE | ORIGINS
(Lew Landers, USA, 1943)

Had you watched Bela Lugosi in Universal’s 1931 Dracula and then been apprised by a clued-in demon-cum-publicist of the...

BY COLIN FLEMING  |  November 10, 2025

GUIDE | CORE HORROR
(Jack Arnold, USA, 1955)

There are three prevailing mindsets behind horror-movie sequels. The most typical goes something like, “We can squeeze...

BY COLIN FLEMING  |  November 4, 2024

GUIDE | MODERN SLAYERS
(Sébastien Marnier, France, 2018)

Sébastien Marnier’s second feature may be cursed with a generic English title, but the film immediately dispels any any semblance of the ordinary...

BY LAURA KERN  |  October 8, 2023

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