DON’T DELIVER US FROM EVIL
This film was banned in France for eight months, and wasn’t distributed in the U.S. until 35 years later. Now that this notorious work has finally been unveiled, the furor is revealed as much ado about very little
DON’T LOOK NOW
One of the greatest horror movies of the 1970s, and indeed of all time: a sexy, innovative and atmospheric depiction of psychic terror
DON’T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS
British-made silliness with a novel twist on the Yuletide slasher formula: this time it’s not a mad Santa Claus on a killing spree but guys dressed as Santa who bear the brunt of the abuse
DR. JEKYLL AND HIS WOMEN
The late Walerian Borowczyk’s highly idiosyncratic take on DR. JEKLL AND MR. HYDE, a profoundly eerie and poetic film that may be Borowczyk’s masterpiece
THE DREAM-QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH
A primitive but impressive animated rendering of H.P. Lovecraft’s surreal novel THE DREAM-QUEST OF UKNOWN KADATH that captures the dreamy ambiance of the text with uncanny fidelity
THE DUNWICH HORROR
A dumber-than-average H.P. Lovecraft adaptation from 1970, courtesy of American International Pictures, who naturally attempted to juice up Lovecraft’s writing with late sixties psychadelia and gratuitous sex appeal
THE ROOST
This indie horror fest went largely unseen during its brief 2005 theatrical release, but is finding an appreciative audience on DVD
ROOM
Give this no-budgeter a try: it’s frustrating and inconclusive, but also brilliantly filmed and arrestingly weird
RINGU
Forget about SCREAM or THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT—RINGU is the state of the art in nineties-era horror
RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR
Let’s hope this bleak and alarming film, about terrorists who cripple L.A. by detonating “dirty bombs,” is far-fetched scaremongering—because if not then we’d best head for the fallout shelters ASAP!