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Second, our little guide only begins to scratch the surface of what’s available out there — there are entire shelves of books on the horror films of nations like Japan, Spain and Indonesia. The true story of a bear who ingested a duffel bag of cocaine in Georgia in 1985 and heads out on a violent and destructive rampage, eating people and tearing down everything that stands in its way. Secondly, there's the realism of it all – there's a kitchen-sink approach here, with improvised character-driven sequences that play out with such mundanity that when the shit eventually hits the fan, it all feels palpably possible. As with Salem's Lot (above), Evil Dead Rise was originally slated to release in theaters (and later on HBO Max) in October of 2022, but the movie has now been pushed back until April 2023. A serial killer thriller, ghost story and affecting family drama rolled into one, it’s rich in Stephen King-esque tropes: small town, period setting, rowdy school, troubles at home and a villain (played by Ethan Hawke) who feels both supernaturally evil and terrifyingly real.

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When found at the open mouth of a cave, they're brought back home safely – but begin acting extremely strangely. Iranian-American filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour made a stunning debut with this black and white “vampire spaghetti Western,” in which a young skateboarding female vampire entwines herself in the lives of the dissolute inhabitants of the “Iranian ghost town Bad City. Arguably the film that kicked off decades of Italian horror filmmaking, Black Sunday was the official directorial debut of cinematographer Mario Bava, who would go on to become of the cornerstones of his country’s genre output. If an early-career Christopher Nolan were to make a horror movie, it might come out something like Mike Flanagan's Oculus – a film constantly playing with perceptions of reality, told across two intercutting timelines. Breaking the fourth wall and challenging the viewer’s own rationale for watching such ghastly goings-on, Funny Games is a harrowing, heart-freezing endurance test.

A young girl and her family are taken hostage by a group of strangers who tell them they can stop an impending apocalypse – if they sacrifice one of their family members.

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It's when he likes to run around, playing with fresh souls, wiping your Bake Off series record off your Sky box.The premise of the thriller is spooky-simple: late one stormy night, a father-and-son coroner team (Cox and Emile Hirsch) find themselves with one final cadaver to dissect before quitting time. Edna is a haunting presence, struggling to cling on to the remnants of herself; Kay and Sam try to figure out how best to care for her, whilst dealing with the walls of their family home closing in around them – literally. Much like Screamdid back in the 1990s, The Cabin in The Woodsplays with the audience’s expectations concerning the horror genre and its various tropes, leading to all manner of knowing nods, chuckles and more than one scare. A Hong Kong production that became one of the better known responses to the J-horror craze (inspiring a limp U. Responsible for some of the most iconic horror imagery of recent decades, and sparking a gamification of gore that has inspired many a film since, Saw quickly became a defining horror force, with a twist ending that's deservedly gone down as an all-timer rug-pull.