Opening our preview of Mayhem Film Festival highlights with a look at an extraordinary and forgotten Japanese study in obsession and psychosis.

Opening our preview of Mayhem Film Festival highlights with a look at an extraordinary and forgotten Japanese study in obsession and psychosis.
Michele Soavi’s theatrical slasher film feels like an extravagant end-of-an-era production.
It’s not all about flowers and romance – here are the movies that rip the heart out of Valentine’s Day.
Occhiali Neri has been hailed as Argento’s great comeback movie – but is it too little, too late from a director whose artistic visions seem long exhausted?
A Spanish slasher short that left unsuspecting TV viewers aghast in the early 1990s.
The constant implication in superhero films, that women are inherently powerless with their destinies shaped by the actions of men, does not seem a particularly empowering narrative.
The maverick director’s collision of style, slasher and psychedelia remains a seminal moment in American cinema.
A selection of ludicrous and entirely unsuitable VHS artwork for films that would either disappoint or horrify anyone attracted by these covers.