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From 'A Clockwork Orange' to 'The Exorcist,' here are the best horror movies from the 1970s.

Uncomfortable Brunch: "The Virgin Spring" Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden.

The late Czech director František Vláčil is best known in the West for his visionary medieval epics. But there was more to him than that, argues this feature from our September 2010 issue.

Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang o

Including two British subcultures, a tale of four sisters and a sharp, icy blast from the middle ages – what are you watching this weekend?

Some horror movies banned upon release have eventually been seen by the public, but many others may never see the light of day because of their content.

"Last House on the Left" is a tough, bitter little sleeper of a movie that's about four times as good as you'd expect. There is a moment of such sheer and unexpected terror that it beats anything in the heart-in-the-mouth line since Alan Arkin jumped out of the darkness at Audrey Hepburn in "Wait Until Dark."I don't want to give the impression, however, that this is simply a good horror movie. It's horrifying, all right, but in ways that have nothing to do wit...

In England circa 1380, a troupe of traveling actors makes its way across the medieval landscape, where to go 20 miles from home was to enter a world of strangers. In London at about the same time, Geoffrey Chaucer was writing about another group on the road -- pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. His Knight, learning from the journey, declared: "This world is but a thoroughfare full of woe, And we be pilgrims, passing to and fro. Death is an end to every worldly sore." The actors arr...

25 Great Movies Inspired By Folk Tales By Meagan Drillinger, Stacker News On 8/3/21 at 8:00 PM EDT The folk tale tradition—from fairy tales to ghost stories—has origins stretching back to the start of human speech. The art of oral storytelling predates the written word, and has been used for time immemorial for recording information, teaching morality, and untangling some of lifes greatest mysteries. Stacker surveyed film history and compiled a list of movies across decades, countries, a...

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