30 DAYS OF CINEMA

Jane Schoenbrun returns with a new kind of remake, carving up slasher conventions with surreal, campy abandon. Newly-minted scream queens Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson are a revelatory pairing, bringing wit, deep feeling, and sultry eroticism to this visionary dissection of movie nostalgia.

Worming out from the same 1970s counterculture that spawned Pedro Almodóvar (who dubs here!), this lysergically anarchic cult horror is suffused with twisty self-reflexivity. Always down to be controversial, director Iván Zulueta injects personal passions—heroin, cinema—into rough and ready frames.

Take a tumble down the rabbit holes of internet culture with this uncanny coming-of-age tale from director Jane Schoenbrun. Skirting the boundaries of horror, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a nerve-shredding fever dream of collective psychosis from the dark heart of the online zeitgeist.

Acclaimed Romanian auteur Radu Jude throws the Dracula myth into the blender of modern commodity culture, reassembling the undead pieces into a grotesquerie of digital-media stupidity. Anarchic, obscene, and utterly hypnotic, this monstrous AI satire is an intravenous hit of 21st-century absurdity.

Katarina Zhu writes, directs, and stars in her subtly sexy debut feature, which draws from the metal-blue glow of the screen for its portrait of modern alienation. With a milky-white rabbit and sensitive strokes of empathy, Bunnylovr burrows for tender moments among lurking danger and suspense.

Charles Laughton’s tenebrous Southern Gothic fable achieves a rarely seen perfection of vision—remarkable for being the sole(!) directorial effort by the erstwhile actor. Amid the cold, obsidian beauty of Laughton’s direction, a petrifying Robert Mitchum burns with fire-and-brimstone malice.

A heartfelt exploration of queerness wrapped in unexpectedly furry packaging, this beguiling metacinematic animation is a work of profound imagination and sincerity. Designing its chimerical world with stunning precision, Bouchra bridges the gap between the surreal and the hyperreal.

Inaugurating the explosion of “J-horror” exports at the turn of the millennium, this wild—and wildly successful—chiller sounded the arrival of one of the most fertile scenes in modern horror cinema. Once seen, never forgotten: Hideo Nakata’s cursed-video classic is the definitive Japanese scarefest.

In this inimitable cult classic starring a magnetic Lee Pace, singular filmmaker Tarsem crafts a magical love letter to the power of storytelling and the human imagination. Now restored in spectacular 4K, this visual feast of magnificent costumes and stunning locations rivals the wildest of dreams.