A supermarket worker trying to make some quick money ends up tangled in one very long night involving drugs, cops, Vegas and a lot of bad decisions. I had an enjoyable time with this. The way it jumps...

A young governess, Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr), arrives at a large country estate to care for two orphaned children and slowly becomes convinced there is something deeply wrong with the house. This is...

After losing his wife and daughter, composer John Russell (George C. Scott) moves into an old house and begins to realise that something inside it is trying to get his attention. I liked how patient t...

Three separate tales of fear make up Black Sabbath, each working with a slightly different kind of horror. “The Telephone” is the most stripped back of the three, built around a woman receiving threat...

Centuries after being executed for witchcraft, Asa Vajda (Barbara Steele) returns from the dead and begins targeting the descendants of the family that condemned her. The film has this cold, gothic fe...

The Ghost Ship is about Tom Merriam (Russell Wade), a young officer who begins to suspect that Captain Stone (Richard Dix) is far more dangerous than anyone aboard the ship realises. I liked the growi...

Julia Ross (Nina Foch) takes a job as a private secretary, only to wake up in a strange house where everyone insists she is someone else. I really liked how the film turns gaslighting into the whole t...

Yim Wing Chun (Michelle Yeoh) spends her days running a tofu shop and using her martial arts skills to protect her village from a group of bandits. There is a really playful energy to this. It mixes c...

A gambler is driven out of a small frontier town, only to find himself pulled back when an Apache attack leaves everyone fighting to survive. For a while, this feels like a fairly standard western. Th...

Detectives hunt a mysterious killer known as “The Judge,” whose identity remains hidden as the investigation slowly closes in. For most of the film, this plays out as a fairly straightforward police p...

A carefully planned armored car heist quickly starts falling apart once the police close in and the men involved begin turning on each other. This is gritty, blunt and surprisingly violent, with almos...

Freebie (James Caan) and Bean (Alan Arkin) are two San Francisco detectives trying to bring down a local hijacking boss before a hitman gets to him first. This is absolute chaotic madness. The film sw...

After his father and brother are murdered, Clay O'Mara (Audie Murphy) sets out to find the men responsible, with outlaw Whitey Kincade (Dan Duryea) becoming an unlikely part of his revenge trail. I li...

The Seven-Ups follows Buddy Manucci (Roy Scheider), a New York cop leading a small unit that uses increasingly questionable methods to go after serious criminals. I really liked how stripped back this...

Mary and Max follows Mary, a lonely girl in Australia, and Max, an isolated man in New York, who form an unlikely friendship through years of letters. The stop motion, strange little characters and da...

The Guest follows David (Dan Stevens), a soldier who turns up at the home of a fallen comrade and is welcomed in by his family. There is something slightly off about David from the beginning. He is ca...

The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter follows the surviving members of the Yang family after a betrayal leaves most of them dead. This is a bleak, brutal and genuinely tragic revenge film. There is so much anger...

Iron Monkey follows Dr. Yang (Yu Rongguang), a respected physician who secretly becomes a masked vigilante fighting back against corrupt officials. I really liked the playful energy running through th...

Full Contact follows Jeff (Chow Yun-fat), who gets pulled into a violent criminal world after a robbery goes badly wrong. This has such a sleazy, dirty feel to it. Everyone seems dangerous, the violen...

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin follows Liu Yude (Gordon Liu), a young man who enters the Shaolin Temple and begins years of brutal martial arts training after violence reaches his home. I loved how much ...

Isle of the Dead follows General Pherides (Boris Karloff), who becomes trapped on a small Greek island after an outbreak of plague forces everyone there into quarantine. I liked the isolated setting a...

The Glass Key follows Ed Beaumont (Alan Ladd), the right hand man to a powerful political figure who gets caught in the middle of murder, corruption and shifting loyalties. I really liked the hard boi...

Bedlam follows Nell Bowen (Anna Lee), a woman who begins questioning the treatment of patients inside the notorious Bethlem asylum and soon finds herself drawn into its world. I really liked the setti...

The Leopard Man follows a small New Mexico town thrown into fear after a nightclub publicity stunt involving a black leopard goes badly wrong. I really liked the atmosphere here. The film gets a lot o...

The Curse of the Cat People follows young Amy, a lonely and imaginative girl who begins retreating into a private world of her own. It feels more like a psychological drama disguised as a horror film,...

Cat People follows Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), a woman who believes that giving in to strong emotion will cause her to transform into a deadly panther. I really liked how restrained this is. So muc...

The Seventh Curse follows Dr. Yuen (Chin Siu-ho), who finds himself caught up in an ancient curse involving black magic, monsters and a very strange adventure. This feels like the sort of film where a...

The Heroic Trio brings together Wonder Woman (Anita Mui), Invisible Woman (Michelle Yeoh) and Thief Catcher (Maggie Cheung), three very different women who end up on the same side. This felt like a cu...

Shaolin Soccer follows Sing (Stephen Chow), a former Shaolin monk who decides to bring kung fu to football and puts together a team of his old brothers. The premise is completely ridiculous, and that ...