horror films

WATCH CLOSELY: October on the Criterion Channel — Buckets of Blood and Beauty

October 15, 2022
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You want horror? This month Criterion Channel serves up plenty of cinematic chills, vintage and otherwise.

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Film Preview: The Brattle Theatre’s Dead of Winter — Time for Tales of the Beast

January 23, 2019
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These films will no doubt raise your spirits in the dead of winter.

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WATCH CLOSELY: Hallowe’en Horror From Your Couch

October 6, 2018
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A handpicked list of cinematic horror gems for you to watch over the next 26 days.

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Film Commentary: October — A Month of Horror, Multiplying

October 16, 2017
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I love subtlety, and beauty, and trash, and terror, in equal measure.

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Film Review: “XX”—Horror Anthology, Female Version

March 6, 2017
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I was looking forward to XX because it was horror, it was an anthology, and because all four pieces were directed by women.

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Film Review/Commentary: “Goodnight Mommy”—We Have Met the Enemy and He is Ours

November 1, 2015
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Two recent horror films know what they are doing: they are intelligent, clever, original, and genuinely disturbing.

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