AN EXCHANGE OF SOULS

A novel that’s best known today as an alleged inspiration on H.P. Lovecraft’s “Thing on the Doorstep,” AN EXCHANGE OF SOULS also anticipates Michael Blumlein’s horrific gender-swap classic X,Y in its account of a mad doctor who becomes trapped in his fiancée’s body after a soul-switching experiment goes wrong.

EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC

A true bad movie classic! A nominal sequel to THE EXORCIST, this is a staggeringly ambitious, globe-spanning vision of ancient evil and redemption that’s also colossally misguided.

THE EXORCIST

Here we come to perhaps the most famous and revered horror movie of our time–indeed maybe of all time

ETOILE

A lame ballet-centered horror flick that was mercifully forgotten until the release of BLACK SWAN, with which it shares quite a few similarities

SHOCK

A superb 1977 horror movie, the last to be directed by the late, great Mario Bava. A textbook example of how to build mood, tension and, yes, shock on a limited budget, it remains one of the best films of its kind

KILLDOZER

Some people call KILLDOZER a misunderstood masterpiece of horrific science fiction and others an unintentional chortle fest. I simply think it’s a bad movie

ABBY

Another case of a “lost” film that’s become an extremely sought-after item among horror buffs but, now that it’s finally been unearthed, turns out to be a disappointment

REQUIEM

From Germany, a strikingly filmed fact-based account of possible demonic possession, driven by a superb performance by newcomer Sandra Hiller