Fatal Attraction
Glenn Close goes hopping mad in the thriller that spawned countless copycats and the expression “bunny boiler,” while the word “myxomapsychosis” sadly never caught on. Fatal Attraction isn’t the first […]
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Deep Red
A pianist (David Hemmings) witnesses a brutal murder in 1975 giallo Deep Red, which would technically make orange. Directed by Dario Argento with another progtastic score by Goblin, Deep Red […]
The Handmaiden
From Park Chan-wook, the South Korean mastermind behind Oldboy and Stoker, comes the best film about a handmaiden since The Phantom Menace. Ostensibly the story of a pickpocket (Kim Tae-ri) […]
Split
Just in time for Oscar season comes M. Night Shyamalan’s Split, in which a man with 23 personalities (James McAvoy) abducts three girls who don’t have one personality between them. […]
Single White Female
Single White Female is a 1992 thriller about a New York woman (Bridget Fonda) whose new flatmate (Jennifer Jason Leigh) turns out to be the roommate from hell. And I don’t mean she steals […]
Julia’s Eyes
Julia’s Eyes (Los ojos de Julia) is a Spanish horror film about a woman going blind, directed by Guillem Morales and produced by Guillermo Del Toro, who likes to promote promising filmmakers (with […]
Peeping Tom
There’s a great moment in Scre4m, during one of Ghostface’s deadly games of horror trivia: “Name the movie that started the slasher craze: Halloween, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Last House […]
