10 great
10 great French horror films
From Eyes Without a Face to Raw, French horror trips the line between realism and the uncanny, and pushes into a realm of profound discomfort.
By Anton Bitel
10 great French horror films
Anton Bitel
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10 great
10 great German horror films
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
Faith in horror: 6 features testing credulity at FrightFest 2025
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Bulk: Ben Wheatley creates a thrilling experimental film about a failed experiment
By Anton Bitel
10 great
10 great Irish horror films
By Anton Bitel
Features
20 years on from the Cannes walkouts, a new look at The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Final Destination Bloodlines: death just keeps on trucking in this enjoyably grisly horror
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
A Minecraft Movie: videogame block-buster has moments of cross-generational joy
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
Restless: a surprising nightmare neighbour thriller
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Wolf Man: creature feature sinks its fangs into toxic patriarchy
By Anton Bitel
10 great
10 great Mexican horror films
By Anton Bitel
One per year
A great action film for every year, 1924 to now
By Henry Barnes, Anton Bitel and others
10 great
10 great horror films of the decade so far
By Anton Bitel
Terrifier 3: the murderous clown returns for a mean-spirited Santa slasher
By Anton Bitel
10 great
10 great comedy horror films
By Anton Bitel
Lists
Body horror and the beauty myth: 6 influences and intertexts for The Substance
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Starve Acre: English folk traditions take root in this disturbing horror set in 1970s Yorkshire
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Cuckoo: Hunter Schafer gives a game performance in this unapologetically berserk horror
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
Horror’s female gaze: 6 features directed by women at FrightFest 2024
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Trap: M. Night Shyamalan tests our morality in this twisted family thriller
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
MaXXXine: a gory, self-consciously derivative exposé of the Hollywood machine
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
The Exorcism: a sophisticated, metacinematic take on genre
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Immaculate: Rosemary’s Baby reimagined as a giallo in a convent
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Exhuma: Korean occult horror excavates multiple layers of weirdness
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
The Dead Don’t Hurt: a ruminative state-of-the-nation western
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Lisa Frankenstein: patchy zombie teen horror goes gravedigging in 1980s pop culture
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Baghead: a trickster witch communes with the dead from a pub in Alberto Corredor’s assured horror
By Anton Bitel
Festivals
Krazy House: 1990s sitcom spoof is startlingly unfunny
By Anton Bitel
Reviews
Dream Scenario: Nic Cage is the man of everyone’s dreams in this surreal satire of online exposure
By Anton Bitel
Features
LFF Cult 2023: the freaky and the wrong at this year’s festival
By Anton Bitel