1989 • Italy • Directed by Michele Soavi

For his second feature film - and first full collaboration with co-writer/producer/mentor Dario Argento - writer/director Michele Soavi unleashes a "mind-blowing" (Bloody Disgusting) "masterwork" (DVD Drive-In): In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass gra...

1972 • United States • Directed by Bob Clark

Five young kinky actors and their artistic director come to a desolate and nearly forgotten burial island, complete with a morbid history.

1971 • Italy • Directed by Mel Welles and Aureliano Luppi

Co-produced by Roger Corman, "one of the most underrated horror movies of all time" (Classic Horror) features lurid direction by Mel Welles (LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS) from a story by by Dick Randall (PIECES), and a cast that includes Hollyw...

2018 • Japan • Directed by Sôichi Umezawa

From Japanese special effects master Soichi Umezawa comes a singular horror experience in a wildly hilarious marriage of The Blob and The Evil Dead. After studying in Tokyo, Kaori returns to Aina Academy to finish her prep classes for art school. Quickly...

1970 • Italy • Directed by José Luis Merino

Though he made only two horror films, veteran writer/director José Luis Merino here embraces the genre's classic elements and ravishes them to vivid extremes: When a beautiful biochemist (Erna Schurer) arrives at a foreboding castle to work for a sinis...

1977 • Italy • Directed by Mario Bava

In a career spanning four decades and encompassing virtually every genre under the sun, Mario Bava inspired multiple generations of filmmakers, from Dario Argento to Martin Scorsese and Tim Burton. Best remembered for his gothic horror movies, for his final ...

1987 • United States • Directed by Richard Friedman

TV star Mary Page Keller ('Pretty Little Liars') appears alongside Andrew Stevens ('10 to Midnight', 'The Fury') as a couple terrorised by an age-old curse in this much-underrated late-80s offering from director Richard Friedman. Keller plays K...

1965 • Japan • Directed by Tomu Uchida

Considered the magnum opus of the five decades-long career of Tomu Uchida (Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, The Mad Fox), the epic crime drama A Fugitive from the Past was voted third in the prestigious Kinema Junpo magazine’s 1999 poll of the Top Japanese Films...

In the post-war years, the proliferation of transnational European co-productions gave rise to a cross-pollination of genres, with the same films sold in different markets as belonging to different movements. Among these, Riccardo Freda's ('I vampiri', 'The Horrible Dr. Hichock') 'Double Face' wa...

1960 • Italy • Directed by Giorgio Ferroni

Before Black Sabbath, before I Vampiri, director Giorgio Ferroni (The Lion of Thebes, Blood for a Silver Dollar) introduced audiences to period horror Italian-style with his chilling 1960 shocker Mill of the Stone Women – a classic tale of terror redole...

2019 • Japan • Directed by Toshiaki Toyoda

A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures the mystical scene of a samurai gathering (a stellar cast of actors joined by the 20-person Edo punk band Seppuku Pistols, who also provide the soundtrack) within the moss-grown l...

1981 • Italy • Directed by Andrea Bianchi

Burial Ground, also known as The Nights of Terror, Mariangela Giordano (of THE SECT and PATRICK STILL LIVES fame) stars in this '80s splatter classic about a cursed country estate besieged by horny houseguests, undead Etruscans and the unusual relationsh...

1987 · United States · Directed by Ethan Wiley

House II: The Second Story sees young Jesse (Arye Gross) moving into an old family mansion where his parents were mysteriously murdered years before. Plans for turning the place into a party pad are soon thwarted by the appearance of Jesse’s mummifi...

1965 • Italy • Directed by Massimo Pupillo

Gaslighting abounds in Massimo Pupillo’s Lady Morgan’s Vengeance – a delicate tale of romance and mystery, with a sprinkling of sadism and the supernatural – as newlywed Sir Harold Morgan (Paul Muller, Nightmare Castle) attempts to destroy his new bride...

2019 · South Korea · Directed by Lee Min-jae

An infectiously funny slice of modern Korean cinema where Train to Busan, The Quiet Family and Warm Bodies collide to create a memorable rom-zom-com from first time director Lee Min-jae.

When the illegal human experiments of Korea's biggest Pharmace...