Cure
An amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) uses a cigarette lighter to hypnotise people in this Japanese thriller they should have called Silence of the Lambert & Butler. The 1997 neo-noir has shades of Se7en […]
Tag Archives: 1990s
The Blair Witch Project
In efforts to make a film about local folklore, Heather, Mike and Josh (Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams and Joshua Leonard) get lost in the woods in this 1999 pseudo-documentary they should […]
Point Break
When the FBI suspect a surfer gang of perpetrating a string of bank robberies, rookie agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) must go undercover for some covert surfing – or incognito […]
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
The cast and crew of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street get a rude awakening in this 1994 slasher sequel, when Heather Langenkamp (Heather Langenkamp), Robert Englund (Robert Englund) […]
Twister
Ahead of the new Twister reboot, we revisit the 1996 disaster movie about a woman (Helen Hunt) left understandably traumatised after watching her dad get sucked off in a tornado. […]
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) returned in 1991 for the “final” Elm Street movie, a promise unlikely to get anyone’s hopes up that it would really be the end. Like Freddy, […]
Run Lola Run
Lola (Franka Potente) has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 marks in this German triptych that shows three possible versions of the same scenario. One of the most instantly striking […]
Blast from the Past
A mad scientist and his pregnant wife (Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek) retreat to their fallout shelter during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 35 years later, their now adult son Adam […]
Audition
Nathan For You‘s ‘The Hunk’ meets Stephen King’s Misery in this J-horror classic about a widower (Ryo Ishibashi) who holds a fake audition to find a new wife. Released in […]
Candyman
An academic’s (Virginia Madsen) research into urban legends takes her through the looking glass when one grizzly ghost story gets its hooks into her. This psychological thriller might be best […]
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