Sei donne per l'assassino (aka Blood and Black Lace) (1964)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Sleepaway Camp
Hiltzik's 1983 shocker worked for the low-budget, low-brow horror genre a bit like 'Don't Look Now' did for the art film. What it establishes and what it ultimately unveils need not necessarily work together; along the way there are plenty of twists and turns to keep viewers on their feet and guessing, and there is a constant aura of anxiety, as if the audience is supposed to know they're in for a big surprise and is left to frantically piece clues together before it's too late. The film carefully and immediately typecasts itself as a trashy slasher film. But nothing you've seen before can prepare you for the film's finale, a startling and disturbing bang which is left on the screen just long enough to haunt our dreams and just short enough to make us question what we've seen. -
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Spider Baby, or The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968)
Society (1989)
