A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they’ve done in CURE.

The unnerving 1997 thriller Cure, directed by contemporary master of suspense Kiyoshi Kurosawa, follows an investigator as he looks into a string of gruesome murders around Tokyo—and discovers that the murderer may be out of his or her mind. It’s a remarkably disturbing, atmospheric suspense film, compelling up to its last haunting frame. – Criterion

TAXI DRIVER is a terrifying portrait on the edge of madness.

Adrift in New York City after the Vietnam War, socially awkward loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes up a job prowling the city’s streets as a taxi driver to deal with his insomnia. Exposed to no one but a rogues gallery of pimps, hustlers and perverts, Travis begins seeing the world as putrid and in need of cleansing. Through awkward, fumbling attempts at romance, Travis isolates himself further, leaving him alone to mull over his obsessions: guns, a phony presidential candidate, and a roughed-up underage prostitute.

Martin Scorsese’s masterwork, Taxi Driver is a brute of a film, one that scrapes characters from the gutter of New York City and rakes them out into the sun to see how they react. Essential on every level.

The quaint town contains a sinister truth for women in THE STEPFORD WIVES.

The second wave of feminism certainly didn’t make landfall on the town of Stepford, CT. When Joanna Eberhart moves with her husband and two young children from New York City to the quiet town, she finds the women there are too “perfect” – vapid, obsessed with housework and tending to their husband’s every need. Along with her new friend Bobby, she sets up to uncover the terrifyingly unbelievable truth.

The first film version of Ira Levin’s novel, The Stepford Wives, was moderate success when released in the mid-1970s but throughout the decades its popularity has reached cult status. Perhaps it’s because the story of forced sublimation of women back into traditional gender roles continues to horrify each new generation of film goers.

Starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins, Heather O’Rourke

Poltergeist took the haunted house and family in film into a whole new era. Brought to you by the director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Steven Spielberg, it shows the quick evolution from excitement to fear as the young Freeling family discovers their shiny new home in Cuesta Verde comes with a bad case of the evil spirits. Basically, the first in the Poltergeist series eviscerates middle class America in the 1980s by attacking them where it counts, their planned housing communities, with the technology of the time. Trust us, a television has never been so scary.

Welcome to your worst nightmare.

After spending an afternoon lost in an Amsterdam haze, three ugly American backpackers wonder if this is all the hedonism that Europe has to offer. The three meet a Slovak who points them towards a small town deep in Slovakia famous for its parties and beautiful women. The three hop the next train out of town and check into a local hostel where the welcoming staff gets them settled in for a night of decadence. Unfortunately for them, it’s not the sort of decadence they had in mind, as they soon discover that they’ve been lured to an underground club where the rich get their kicks torturing travellers for a price.

The dead rise and stupid humans are still stuck fighting over money and power in George A. Romero’s LAND OF THE DEAD.

Years after the undead dominated the planet in Romero’s Day of the Dead, humanity still thrives in the heart of Pennsylvania… Sort of. Protected by rivers and an electrified fence, the remains of Pittsburgh now exists as a rigid feudal society. Orchestrated by evil haircut-and-a-suit Dennis Hopper, the poor live on the streets in squalor, enjoying zombie pit fights and scavenged food, while the wealthy live a relatively normal life of luxury in a plush high rise. To supply the city, a vigilante group pilots a tricked out, zombie bashin’ bus out into the Pennsylvania wilderness, where they start to notice that the zombies aren’t acting quite as stupid as usual. With the smarty-pants zombies closing in, an all out class war breaks out in the city as factions tear their sanctuary apart in a hopeless fight over cash, comfort and survival.

Starring: Clarence Williams III, Corbin Bernsen, Rosalind Cash, David Alan Grier

A classic style horror anthology with an inner city twist, Tales from the Hood spins four spooky tales of revenge and comeuppance, tackling issues that still plague us over twenty years on: police brutality, child abuse, gang violence, and racism. Told by an oddball funeral director, the stories right social wrongs with a wicked grin: killer dolls take down a racist senator; a victim of murder by police returns for revenge, and gang members and drug pushers get a hard lesson in who they’re really working for.

Steven Spielberg brings future of crime prevention to the present with an eerily familiar in MINORITY REPORT.

John Anderton is a top “Precrime” cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they’re committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge. Can Anderton find a glitch in the system and prove his innocence before it’s too late?

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt

Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been cryogenically frozen when wrongfully accused of killing 30 innocent people while apprehending Phoenix.

Shudder presents a special screening of the new gothic horror film, SWEET, SWEET LONELY GIRL.

Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl is a gothic horror film that chronicles the experience of Adele as she goes to live as a caregiver for her aging aunt Dora. Soon after moving in, Adele meets Beth, seductive and mysterious, who tests the limits of Adele’s moral ground and sends her spiraling down a psychologically unstable and phantasmagoric path. Set against the social security crisis of the 1980 Reagan-Carter election, Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl is an innovative play on genre, striking a bold intersection between the apparitions of a ghost story and the moralist lessons of the after school special. A Shudder Exclusive.