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  1. How The Cell breaks new ground in surreal imageryReleased in 2000, Tarsem Singh’s The Cell remains one of the most visually audacious films to emerge from the borderlands between horror, science fiction and…
  2. It Follows And The Horror Of IntimacyDavid Robert Mitchell’s It Follows turns sexual transmission into a supernatural rule: after an encounter, an unseen presence begins moving towards its next…
  3. The Use Of Colour In Only God ForgivesNicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives turns Bangkok into a fever dream of saturated reds, electric blues and bruised shadows. The city is recognisable, yet…
  4. Michael Myers and the Quiet Terror of HalloweenJohn Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) understands that horror does not always need a monster that roars, explains himself, or performs elaborate violence. Michael…
  5. Why The Descent Is a Claustrophobic MasterpieceNeil Marshall’s The Descent understands that horror begins before the first creature appears. Released in 2005, the film follows six women on a caving…
  6. Akira’s Cyberpunk Streets and the Birth of Sci-Fi HorrorFew animated films have made a city feel as alive, hostile, and physically overwhelming as Akira. Its Neo-Tokyo is a maze of elevated motorways, crowded…
  7. How Midsommar Uses Daylight to Amplify DreadMost horror films lean on shadow, rain-slicked streets, and the sudden absence of light to make us flinch. The vocabulary of fear has long been written in dark…
  8. The unreliable narrator in Jacob's Ladder and its lasting influenceJacob's Ladder arrived in Australian cinemas during the summer of 1990, and its unsettling rhythm still echoes across the country's genre-film conversations…
  9. Dust, sweat, and chainsaws: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre's gritty 1970s horrorThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre arrived in 1974 like a summer bushfire skipping over a dry paddock, leaving scorched earth and terrified whispers in its wake.…
  10. The Witch's Final Scene and the Power of Female AgencyRobert Eggers' 2015 folk horror debut feels like a fever dream pressed into black and white, and Australian genre fans have circled it ever since. It surfaced…