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Two queer teens find themselves stalked by their desire in this rural Australian horror film
The characters become immersed in a psychosexual frenzy of self-discovery.
David Cronenberg’s The Fly remains a grotesque yet deeply moving tale of transformation, technology and what it means to lose your humanity.
The new Australian film is an effective exploration of one woman’s eating disorder, and a worthy entry into the growing canon of contemporary female-led horror.
Evil Dead’s shared universe doesn’t behave like other modern franchises.
The female cannibal has become a radical figure who satisfies her cravings.
Beneath the horrifying labyrinth, Backrooms tells a familiar story of foreclosed futures, precarity and frustrated aspirations.
The Backrooms horror legend began as an anonymous 4chan post in 2019. Now it’s an A24 film by director Kane Parsons – just 20 years old.
The Backrooms began with a single image: a claustrophobic warren of tawdrily yellow, windowless rooms with aged carpets and harsh overhead fluorescent lights.
A writer is driven mad by ghosts and witches in a remote Irish hotel.
Cronin has skill but it is lacking in this uninspired film.
Fashion, film, Nazi mythology and a film to scare the bejasus out of you this week.
Undertone crosses the boundary between listener and participant, resulting in a work which fulfils its promise of terror.
Bugs abound in this terrifying story of scientific ambition.
Count Dracula was originally a rank-breathed predator. His transformation into a tragic romantic mirrors a century of shifting attitudes about sex, gender and desire.
A group of American high school friends discover an Aztec death whistle and, for reasons best known to them, give it a blow at a party.
A claustrophobic film that defies convention.
Horror films teach us to confront real-life trauma and atrocities, not escape from them.
Haunted was a groundbreaking documentary that took the paranormal to prime time in Australia.
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