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Family Values: David Cronenberg’s The Brood

Perhaps David Cronenberg’s most personal and unnerving film, a tale of marital strife, bad science and killer kids.

The Xmas Jukebox: Subwoolfer’s I Think I Killed Rudolph

The Eurovision also rans team with boy band has-beens for the theme tune to a Christmas horror film.

Raindance 2023: Pett Kata Shaw

A collection of Bangladeshi folk horror stories that is impressively creepy and original.

No Easter Fun In Germany: The Banned Films And Public Pleasures Of Silent Holidays

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Almost 700 films – and other pleasures – are outlawed for public consumption in Germany at Easter and other religious holidays. Here’s the full list of the forbidden fruit.

The Reprobate TV Movie Night

A collection of above-average made-for-TV movies from the 1970s.

Heli On Earth: Cinema At Its Bleakest

One of the grimmest movie experiences of recent years re-examined.

The Adventures Of Lil’ Reprobate – Episode 3

Noah Brown’s cartoon creation returns to continue to speak truth to power. Sort of.

Mayhem 2022: Kuroneko

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The enhanced Mayhem screening of the Japanese classic is an interesting reinterpretation of the film.

Those Pictures Of Terror – The Delirious Delights Of The Night Of The Bloody Apes

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Half beast, half man, all wild entertainment – the oddest of the video nasties is an experience to savour.

Blecch Glasses: Dario Argento And The Limitations Of Creativity

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Occhiali Neri has been hailed as Argento’s great comeback movie – but is it too little, too late from a director whose artistic visions seem long exhausted?

The Enduring Pleasures Of The Cat and The Canary

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Revisiting the classic 1939 version of the much-filmed murder-mystery story.

A Sequel Too Far: The Creature Walks Among Us

The Universal monster cycle – and the series of films starring their only original creation, the Gill Man – ends with a whimper rather than a bang.