BIG BAD WOLVES
Blood-thirsty bogeymen, teen monsters and lone wolves
BUTTERFLIES
Dazzlingly beautiful, elusive and to die for
SIN & PUNISHMENT
Dark transgressions and darker castigation
CONVOLUTED TITLES
The Strange Vice of the Second Time Virgin Who Became a Parade of Roses
DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS
Female prisoners, vampires, possessed bodies and demonic women
SOUNDS OF SCI-FI
Samplers, sonic spaceships, acoustic science and electro-dystopian visions
DOOMED ADVENTURES
Failed expeditions, sinister missions and ill-fated road trips
SLEEP
Nocturnal monsters, dreamers and insomniacs
FORTRESSES
Hidden, black, ancient, high-rise and alternative
REPULSION
The strange attraction of vile acts, dark emotions and messed up characters
CREATURES
Ancient beasts, mystical monsters, sleepwalking murderers
FREEDOM
Skid row outsiders, uninhibited deviants and liberating servitude
MEMORY
Lost love remembered, ghosts of the living and the dead, bygone cinema
FAKES
False child, art forgery, duplicitous moles, unreliable reality
MUTATIONS
Metal men, werewolf girls, freaks and hybrids
TREACHERY
Cheaters, liars, tricksters and traitors
MANGA ADAPTATIONS
Tackling Fukushima, delinquent school boys and vengeful women
FEMMES FATALES
Deadly dames and murderous man-eaters
FAKE DOCUMENTARIES
Political satire, media manipulation, horror trickery
2011 IN FILM
The year’s highlights and low points
ECO SCI-FI
Dead forests, mutant animals, food riots
TWISTED ROMANCE
Murderous tenderness, destructive desires, awkward love
THE ART THEATRE GUILD
The creative explosion of Japanese independent cinema in the 1960s
APOCALYPSE NOW
Deserted cities, sinister machines, survivalist dogs
SECRET SOCIETIES
Freemasons, religious cults, suicide clubs and spy organisations
ALIENS
Spaced out pop stars, extra-terrestrials and foreign organisms
WOMEN IN HORROR
Scream queens, she-devils and scare mistresses
CONFESSIONS
Tricky revelations, poetic admissions and Catholic guilt
BITTERNESS
Fallen Women, Sour Love and Toxic Memories
FREEZE
Iced up Santa, freeze frames, Antarctic creatures
WOMEN ON THE VERGE
Psychotic spinsters, possessed housewives, troubled temptresses
FUTURISTIC CITIES
Cinematic visions of metropolises to come
PROPAGANDA
Revolutionary Soviets, Nazi bombast, apolitical America
OUTLANDISH WESTERNS
A wild bunch of demented gunslingers, mystic outlaws and revolutionary bandidos
CONFINED SPACES
From tanks to locked rooms and futuristic cubes
MOMMA'S BOYS (AND GIRLS)
The deviant offspring of excessively loving mothers
BLOODY BALLET
Bewitched ballerinas, dancing vampires and enchanted pumps
I FOUGHT THE LAW
Gangsters, thieves, bikers and banned filmmakers: what makes a cinematic outlaw?
DEVIL IN THE BLOOD
From Christic masochism to satanic cruelty: religious extremes on film
ANDRZEJ ŻUŁAWSKI
Strange births and spectacular meltdowns
JOHN WATERS
Bad taste, good tunes, high camp
VÊRA CHYTILOVÁ
The leading lady of 1960s Czech New Wave
STANISLAW LEM
Chemical futures, living oceans, alien transfigurations
WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
From Radical Animator to frenzied erotomaniac
KÔJI WAKAMATSU
Porn, politics and provocation
SION SONO
Social earthquakes, secret cults and strange perversions
KEN RUSSELL
Master of excess
SHÔHEI IMAMURA
The cultural anthropologist
ANDREI TARKOVSKY
Metaphysical landscapes, mystical visions, melancholy longings
DARIO ARGENTO
The lush colours of terror
JIM THOMPSON
Mean men, hellish women, savage minds and corrupted souls
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
Messiahs, midgets and metaphysical laughter
GUY MADDIN
The poetic, macabre and playful visions of a wonderfully twisted mind