Items29The creator’s order
  1. 1The Babadook (2014)The Babadook (2014) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased 22 May 2014A picture book gives grief a form that a mother and child can argue about, hide and fail to control. Jennifer Kent makes domestic exhaustion part of the monster's atmosphere, so the rooms feel harder to inhabit as the relationship frays. Choose it for the unsettling overlap between protecting…0
  2. 2Raw (2017)Raw (2017) 6.9/10 on IMDbReleased 10 Mar 2017Veterinary-school initiation makes Justine's need to belong collide with an appetite she cannot keep politely separate from herself. Julia Ducournau ties body horror to sibling rivalry and the discovery of desire, with institutional routines making the transgression feel alarmingly ordinary. A…0
  3. 3Titane (2021)Titane (2021) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased 14 Jul 2021Metal, injured flesh and a desperate desire for family occupy the same tactile world. Julia Ducournau lets the film change emotional shape as an unstable identity meets someone willing to accept a badly needed relationship. The tenderness is inseparable from bodily alarm rather than a reward after…0
  4. 4Revenge (2017)Revenge (2017) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased 18 Nov 2017The desert villa's glossy surfaces become a place where the people treating Jen as disposable lose control of the image. Coralie Fargeat exaggerates colour, bodies and physical endurance until the retaliation feels almost mythic. It is a deliberately extreme rape-revenge film, with sexual assault…0
  5. 5Saint Maud (2020)Saint Maud (2020) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased 9 Oct 2020Maud's desire to save her patient makes care and control increasingly difficult to separate. Rose Glass restricts our access to a lonely nurse's experience, letting tiny bodily sensations acquire enormous spiritual significance. A compact choice for religious obsession and uncomfortable…0
  6. 6Censor (2021)Censor (2021) 5.9/10 on IMDbReleased 11 Jun 2021Enid classifies disturbing images for work while a family absence makes her own images much harder to contain. Prano Bailey-Bond uses the textures and changing boundaries of 1980s horror to make certainty look manufactured. Choose it for a film about what people demand that images explain, with…0
  7. 7Relic (2020)Relic (2020) 6.0/10 on IMDbReleased 3 Jul 2020Three generations encounter a house whose deterioration becomes harder to distinguish from the oldest woman's changing experience. Natalie Erika James makes corridors and domestic clutter carry the fear of losing a familiar person. The film's strongest movement is towards the difficult intimacy of…0
  8. 8Saccharine (2026)Saccharine (2026) 5.9/10 on IMDbReleased 22 May 2026A medical student's pursuit of a smaller body gives a supernatural weight-loss scheme a painfully recognisable emotional entry point. Natalie Erika James makes appetite, attraction and shame press on the same person, while the haunting literalises a cost she cannot simply measure. The May 2026…0
  9. 9The Invitation (2016)The Invitation (2016) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased 8 Apr 2016Karyn Kusama lets a dinner invitation become frightening through the small social penalties for asking an unwelcome question. Past grief makes the guests' competing versions of recovery matter before the danger is clear. The 2015 film rewards attention to where people sit, who interrupts and what…0
  10. 10Jennifer's Body (2009)Jennifer's Body (2009) 5.6/10 on IMDbReleased 18 Sept 2009Karyn Kusama, working from Diablo Cody's screenplay, makes the intimacy of a teenage friendship as unstable as the appetite threatening the school. The language is funny and performative, while humiliation and exploitation give the monster story its bite. This earlier choice suits viewers who enjoy…0