With The Wicker Man, Robin Hardy crafted folk horror as we know it today – and he did it to chart the folk revival of the 60s as it turned sour on the brink of a new [...]

Manhunter and The Silence of the Lambs were perfect films, so there was no point in repeating them when it came to Hannibal, Ridley Scott’s adaptation of the third novel of [...]

Red Dragon is one of the stranger entries in the Hannibal Lecter universe. It’s written by Ted Tally, the screenwriter responsible for The Silence of the Lambs, and yet [...]

Like Yasujiro Ozu or Wes Anderson, Dario Argento has spent most of his career minutely refining one aesthetic worldview – that of the serial killer, a figure he has [...]

Manhunter was a horror masterpiece but The Silence of the Lambs may well be the greatest horror film ever made. In its emotional complexity, its beautiful command of [...]

The 2022 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre may not be the worst film in the franchise – that title probably belongs to Leatherface, the previous release – but in [...]

Michael Mann’s Manhunter is the first adaptation of Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lecter cycle and would easily be the greatest if The Silence of the Lambs didn’t happen to [...]

Dario Argento may be renowned for his excess but he was a master of restraint in his debut film, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, which often feels as much a work of music [...]

Not only is Texas Chainsaw 3D the best release in the franchise since the high watermark of the 2003 remake, but it’s the closest that any film in the cycle comes to a [...]

Back to the Future may be the quintessential American film of the 80s – in its mood and tone, in the way it captures the collective fantasy of the 50s as the driving spirit [...]