Does Hellraiser have a soul? Yes. Despite all the macabre, it is a classic tale of the struggle between good and evil, where the true monsters...
Nothing in Raw will frighten you, but on the other hand it is incomparably better than yet another compilation of pathetic jump scares.
On one hand, Crimes of the Future is horror and nightmare; on the other, an essay and an intellectual exercise. It handles both exhaustively and boldly.
From the perspective of time, Shivers is a handful of crumbs from the Cronenbergian table of bodily macabre. All the necessary elements are there.
Infinity Pool is demanding and difficult cinema, but at the same time very satisfying, because it allows one to experience nearly boundary-pushing sensations.
This is cinema that stimulates the brain, hits the stomach, and leaves behind unease.
A low-budget film cannot be made any better. The special effects, the screenplay, the cast—every single aspect of Patchwork provides fantastic entertainment.
Not everything is clear in The Wailing, but thanks to that the horror penetrates under the skin even more strongly - an exceptionally intense experience.
The Greasy Strangler positively seethes with grotesqueness and eccentricity. A midnight movie? Probably not.
In the age of found footage, sloppy handheld camerawork, and an exceptionally limited visual imagination among contemporary horror directors, The Hallow feels like a return to a horror...