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Refracting primetime soap operas and cop shows into a one-of-a-kind cosmic melodrama, showrunners Mark Frost and David Lynch captured lightning in a bottle. Cloaking its dark secrets in a down-home slice of winsome Americana, Twin Peaks is the pop-cultural juggernaut that captivated a generation.

Director Lars von Trier’s magnum opus, The Kingdom is a TV phenomenon three decades in the making. A compulsively entertaining supernatural mystery, this incomparable blend of workplace comedy, potent melodrama, and nail-biting ghost story pitches science against superstition in unholy conflict.

With sharp wit and cathartic intensity, Coralie Fargeat turns toxic beauty culture inside out in her Oscar®-winning latest feature. Powered by a career-best performance from Demi Moore, The Substance fearlessly bulldozes its way into the midnight-movie pantheon and the feminist canon.

A mysterious stranger approaches a group of young friends at a sleepy small town playground, then kidnaps and brutally murders one of the girls. Wracked with grief, the victim’s unhinged mother Asako demands that the shaken survivors identify the killer or face a penance of her choosing.

Horror as a genre has long facilitated some of the most deeply felt renderings of loss in cinema. With her acclaimed film The Babadook, director Jennifer Kent picked up this mantle with a chilling treatise on the many shapes grief can take, and the battle that is motherhood. A modern horror classic.

Dario Argento’s expressionism meets Twin Peaks’ small-town vibes in this impressive, refreshingly weird drama from American writer-director Jennifer Reeder. An offbeat teenage horror imbued with magical realism and steeped in macabre humor, Knives and Skin is a bold and proudly feminist mystery.

Home to some of the greatest set pieces Dario Argento ever put on film, this hallucinatory giallo remains one of his most iconic features. Paying homage to Antonioni’s Blow-Up by casting David Hemmings as its leading man, Deep Red is a symbolic masterpiece of prismatic beauty and rapturous terror.

Transfusing exploitation with experimentation, The Driller Killer spills blood, guts, and ideas too. Drilling down into genre, Abel Ferrara’s notorious breakthrough mashes together throbbing punk concerts, lurid grindhouse kills, wicked political satire, and bohemian arthouse digressions.

From exploitation tropes of sex and murder, Christina Hornisher paints a hallucinatory time capsule of 1970s Los Angeles, smattered with vagabond souls and trampled Hollywood dreams. Admired by Sean Baker and Ti West, this spellbinding vision of a wasted Tinseltown is now restored in glorious 4K.

Charlotte Gainsbourg took the Best Actress award in Cannes for her extraordinary performance in Lars von Trier’s controversial classic. A relentlessly powerful allegory of grief and violence, Antichrist remains one of the most harrowing and provocative horror films of all time. Chaos reigns!

With a stellar performance by Haley Bennett, Swallow is a surreal and candy-colored female empowerment thriller about the struggle for bodily autonomy. Joining the ranks of remarkably terrifying films about pregnancy, this drama revives the suspenseful mood—and style—of Rosemary’s Baby.