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#Alive (Korean: #살아있다 )
Released: 2020
Director: Cho Il-hyung
Synopsis: Live streamer Joon-woo (Yoo Ah-in) is forced to survive alone in his apartment during a zombie outbreak. When he sees a neighbour in the opposite building who is also alive, they work together to figure out a way to get to safety while their buildings are surrounded by zombies.
Verdict: A creepy and at times funny zombie film that Yoo holds up well on his own (until joined by Park Shin-hye as his neighbour). It uses alot of modern technology to frame Joon-woo’s story of survival, and as always, the Korean way of doing zombies is horrifyingly entertaining. 3/5

B

Best Wishes to All (Japanese: みなに幸あれ)
Released: 2022
Director: Yûta Shimots
Synopsis: A young woman visits her grandparents in a rural town, and what she discovers at their house opens up a world of terror.
Verdict: An interesting look at how happiness sometimes requires the suffering of others, balanced well with body horror and the horror of waking up to the real world. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Best Wishes to All review.

C

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari)
Released: 1920
Director: Robert Wiene
Synopsis: This early work of German expressionism follows the story of a warped hypnotist who brainwashes a man that suffers with a sleepwalking condition in order to commit murders.
Verdict: A fantastic and enduring film that proves we don’t need modern technology to create a classic. With amazing set designs and costumes, it has had a clear surrealist influence on cinema as a whole in the last 100 years. It is hard to find an original amongst all the dubbed or soundtracked versions, with some being far more jarring and reprehensible than others, but as it was originally a silent film, it is perfectly easy to watch with the sound off. 4/5

The Call (Korean: 콜 )
Released: 2020
Director: Lee Chung-hyun
Synopsis: When a landline phone rings in 2019, Seo-yeon (Park Shin-hye) picks up and speaks to Young-sook (Jeon Jong-seo), an abused previous tenant of the house calling from 1999. Young-sook helps out Seo-yeon to improve Seo-yeon’s future, but when Young-sook becomes envious, things start to take a dark turn.
Verdict: A unique story, The Call takes twists and turns that, while a little predictable at times, are able to shock and enthrall audiences. It builds well with great pacing and is held afloat by interesting characters. Jeon Jong-seo puts in an especially menacing performance as the young and disturbed Young-sook. 4/5

Cronos (Spanish)
Released: 1992
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Synopsis: An elderly antiques dealer discovers a device created centuries ago by an alchemist who used it to gain immortality. As the dealer uses the device and begins to grow younger, he discovers that he’s not the only one after the gift of youth.
Verdict: As interesting as the premise is, the execution of the story is up and down, with moments of intrigue and gruesome body horror often followed by moments of blandness. Federico Luppi puts in a great performance as antiques dealer Jesus Gris, but Ron Perlman feels out of place in this mainly Spanish-speaking horror. 3/5

D

Dark Water (Japanese: 仄暗い水の底から )
Released: 2002
Director:  Hideo Nakata
Synopsis: When a single mother and her daughter move into a dilapidated apartment, they start to experience some strange events stemming from a leak in the ceiling from the apartment above.
Verdict: Coming soon

Delicatessen (French)
Released: 1991
Director: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Synopsis: In a dystopian world, the tenents of an apartment building subsist on the rare offering of meat from the delicatessen below. When a young man rolls into town and falls for the deli butcher’s daughter, the status quo begins to unravel.
Verdict: A truly unique film, Delicatessen takes a more light-hearted stance on the dystopian cannibalistic trope. A mix of lighter and even rather touching scenes balance well with the bleak, dark humour. Wonderfully shot and edited with interesting angles and a yellowy hue to drive home its post-apocalyptic setting, and superbly performed. 4/5

The Devil’s Backbone (Spanish: El espinazo del diablo)
Released: 2001
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Synopsis: As the Spanish Civil War comes to and end, a young boy ends up in an orphanage where he makes friends and enermies. On top of that, the boy comes to find out about another boy who had disappeared and possibly haunts the orphanage.
Verdict: With its creepy setting, subplots surrounding the politics in Spain at the time and twisty story, this is one of del Toro’s great early features that sets a tone for his future work (even linking to one or two of his other films). The characters bring a depth to what could otherwise have been just another ghost story. 4/5

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El Conde (Spanish)
Released: 2023
Director: Pablo Larraín
Synopsis: Augusto Pinochet (Jaime Vadell), the infamous Chilean dictator, is a vampire. He has lived for 250 years and now wishes to be permanently dead. His children are after his wealth and a nun arrives to kill him, but he won’t go easily.
Verdict: It’s a strange but entertaining and humorous story with lots of clear influences from classic cinema, such as Nosferatu (1922) and The Passion of Joan of Arc, and a hint of modern cinema like What We Do in the Shadows. The visual effects are great and the black and white gives it a classical feel. It’s likely to be an ‘acquired taste’ kind of film, but there’s lots here to enjoy. 3/5
Read the Tiny Tapes El Conde review.

Exhuma (Korean: 파묘)
Released: 2024
Director: Jang Jae-hyn
Synopsis: Shaman Hwa-rim (Kim Go-eun) and her protégé Bong-gil (Lee Do-hyun) team up with Feng shui master Sang-deok (Choi Min-sik) and mortician Yong-geun (Yoo Hae-jin) to rid a family of an ancestor’s murderous spirit.
Verdict: This film not only features Decent creeps with an interesting plot that involves much of Korea’s turbulent history and incorporates traditional shamanistic rituals. Practical effects are deftly used to keep things as realistically frightening as possible, and the performances are top-notch. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Exhuma review.

Eyes Without a Face (French: Les Yeux sans visage, US: The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus)
Released: 1960
Director: Georges Franju, based on the novel by Jean Redon
Synopsis: Dr. Génessier (Pierre Brasseur), a plastic surgeon, finds his next patient to be his own daughter after she’s involved in a car accident that leaves her face severly disfigured. He lures women to his home in order to try multiple times to conduct a face transplant on his daughter.
Verdict: Coming soon

G

Godzilla (Japanese: ゴジラ )
Released: 1954
Director: Ishirō Honda
Synopsis: The arrival of a giant dinosaur-like creature sends post-war Japan into chaos as it rampages through the country to Tokyo.
Verdict: Coming soon

Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (Korean: 곤지암 )
Released: 2018
Director: Jung Bum-shik
Synopsis: After hearing about an abandoned haunted asylum, the crew of a horror web series head to the asylum to film a live stream with the hope of capturing paranormal events, but they all get a whole lot more than they bargained for.
Verdict: With clear inspiration from the likes of The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, Gonjiam doesn’t present much in the way of originality story-wise, however the scares are pretty decent, particularly in the third act, and the performances are strong. 3/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Gonjiam review.

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The Host (Korean: 괴물 )
Released: 2006
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Synopsis: When some chemicals are leaked into the Han River, it affects the fish and animals, resulting in some monstrous abominations rising and attacking people. When Gang-du’s (Song Kang-ho) daughter is taken by a creature, he resolves to find her, while avoiding the authorities that want to silence him.
Verdict: A superb monster film that has some excellent cinematography and creature design. Strong performances and eerie set designs also make for a decent horror viewing. 4/5

Huesera: The Bone Woman (Spanish: Huesera)
Released: 2022
Director: Michelle Garza Cervera
Synopsis: Excited at the prospect of becoming a mother, Valeria (Natalia Solián) soon finds her pregnancy threatened by dark forces.
Verdict: With themes of women’s mental health and the pressure to have children, a subplot of traditional medicines and healing and subtle yet effective horror, this is a solid all-rounder that should probably be avoided by new/expectant mothers. 4/5
Read the TIny Tapes Huesera: The Bone Woman review.

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Incantation (Chinese: 咒 )
Released: 2022
Director: Kevin Ko
Synopsis: A woman visits her boyfriend’s family and disturbs a ritual, cursing her and her unborn daughter. After a few years and seeking some psychiatric help, she is reunited with her daughter, only for things to take another turn for the worse.
Verdict: In this film, the found footage techniqueis executed very well with some great visual effects and framing. It is a genuinely creepy movie that also has a pretty scary realistic vibe to it, particularly thanks to the narrator who bookends the story with some terrifying revelations. If you enjoy the likes of The Blair Witch Project and REC, this will certainly be right up your Elm Street. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Incantation review.

Infested (French: Vermines)
Released: 2023
Director: Sébastien Vanicek
Synopsis: When a particularly poisonous spider finds its way from the deserts of the Middle East to an illegal seller in Paris, France, it is purchased by Kaleb (Christine), a collector of exotic creatures and dealer of sneakers. It’s not long before the spider escapes, multiplies, and causes panic and pandomonium in Kaleb’s apartment building.
Verdict: The whole thing has deeper messaging around the suburban communities and the way they’re treated, is shot spectacularly and has fantastic performances. The ending is a little soft compared to the tension of the rest of the film, but like them or not, spiders can be terrifying. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Infested review.

The Innocents (Norwegian: De uskyldige)
Released: 2021
Director: Eskil Vogt
Synopsis: Two sisters befriend a boy and a girl, and it soon comes to light that one of the sisters and the two new friends all have telekinetic powers that are strengthened when they are near each other. However, the girls soon find they need to protect themselves when they boy starts to abuse his powers.
Verdict: The use of the childrens’ powers is done rather subtly, instead focusing on the effect it has on their personalities and moral understanding, but it works to create a horror/thriller that isn’t forced down our throats, assuming the audience is one with a modicum of intelligence. The performances of the young actors are very good, and if ever there were a film that needs a sequel, it is this one. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes The Innocents review.

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Ju-On series (Japanese: 呪怨 )
Released: 2000-2016
Synopsis: After a man murders his wife and son, the tennants of the building in which the crime was committed suffer from the curse left behind.
Verdict: Coming soon

M

Mads (French: MadS)
Released: 2024
Director: David Moreau
Synopsis: In one mad evening/night, three young people find themselves spreading a strange disease that seems to make people violent and turn on each other.
Verdict: While the premise might not sound all that original, the fact it is a one-shot is what makes it stand out. It is extremely well done, and the three main actors do an amazing job of keeping up with the action and making events seem as real as possible. Again, although the basic story is familiar, the plot itself is unpredictable. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Mads review.

The Medium (Thai: ร่างทรง)
Released: 2021
Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun
Synopsis: When the niece of a shaman in the Isan region of Thailand becomes possessed, the shaman has to do everything within her (questionable) power to help her niece while also dealing with some family issues that come to the fore when the girl becomes increasingly violent.
Verdict: A very well-paced found-footage style film, building up to the possession by slowly increasing the girl’s strange behaviour and planting good foreshadowing. The frights are mostly frightening indeed, though interspersed with the odd gratuitous jump-scare here and there, and the performances are excellent and immersive. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes The Medium review.

Monster Island (alternative title: Orang Ikan; Japanese: オラン・イカン)
Released: 2024
Director: Mike Wiluan
Synopsis: A British WWII POW and a Japanese soldier who betrayed his country are stranded on an island after the ship they were on sinks. They have to learn to work together and stay alive when they realise they are being hunted by a strange creature.
Verdict: In spite of some rough editing, empty scenes and a monster costume that’s a little too close to the Creature From the Black Lagoon, the film is paced well with a good relationship built between the main characters, an interesting historical setting and a satisfying ending. 3/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Monster Island review.

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Noroi: The Curse (Japanese: ノロイ)
Released: 2005
Director: Kōji Shiraishi
Synopsis: A documentary filmmaker investigates an ancient curse that is far darker and widespread than he realises.
Verdict: An early example of the found footage technique being used to create some intense and realistic horror and doing it effectively. With an interesting plot that keeps you hooked, you’re sure to be creeped out, though the occasional use of a non-diegetic soundtrack takes viewers out of the immersion at times and the time between creepy events is sometimes stretched. 3.5/5

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (German: Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens)
Released: 1922
Director: F.W. Murnau
Synopsis: Based (unofficially) on Dracula, Nosferatu features a vampire by the name of Orlok (Max Schreck) who stalks the wife of his estate agent, causing the outbreak of a strange plague in the town.
Verdict: A terrific showcase of German expressionism that, much like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, proves that modern technology is not needed to create a masterpiece. From the set and costume designs to the lighting and the performances, particularly from Schreck and his gangly vampire, Nosferatu stands strong against any Dracula production. 4/5

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The Orphanage (Spanish: El orfanato)
Released: 2007
Director: J.A. Bayona
Synopsis: When Laura (Belén Rueda) returns with her husband and their adopted son to the orphanage in which she grew up, she works to turn it into a home for disabled children, until her son goes missing.
Verdict: Coming soon

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Pan’s Labyrinth (Spanish: El laberinto del fauno)
Released: 2006
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Synopsis: In 1944, Spain, Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) lives with her pregnant mother and new tyrannical stepfather. As she navigates her horrific new world, she discovers a labyrinth and magical creatures, and the tale of Princess Moanna, with Ofelia believed to be the reincarnation of the princess. In order to return to her kingdom, she must pass three tasks while avoiding the threat of her stepfather.
Verdict: A groundbreaking film that has a unique blend of fantasy, horror and psychological drama that creates a truly disturbing film that also has a huge helping of hope. The VFX are fantastic and very imaginative, as are the costumes and make up of the creatures. This film is quite possibly del Toro’s magnum opus. 5/5

The Platform duology (Spanish: El Hoyo)
Released: 2019, 2024
Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Synopsis: In a vertical hole with hundreds of levels, inmates live two-per-floor. Through a hole in the middle, a platform carrying food steadily moves between floors, only stopping for a couple of minutes. However, the lower in the hole one is, the less likely it is one will get any food. Each month, the inmates change floors, not knowing if they will get lucky on a higher floor, or unlucky toward the bottom.
Verdict: The first film has great characters and characterisation, shocking and thought-provoking action and some gory outcomes. The second film doesn’t quite live up to the first, as it perhaps tries to delve too deep (pun not intended) into the themes of the premise, but provides more gore and shocks.
Read the Tiny Tapes The Platform 2 review

The Pool (Thai: นรก 6 เมตร)
Released: 2018
Director: Ping Lumpraploeng
Synopsis: A couple are trapped in a deep empty pool, and their circumstances become dire when a crocodile appears with them.
Verdict: Coming soon

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Raw (French: Grave)
Released: 2016
Director: Julia Ducorneau
Synopsis: Justine (Garance Marillier) has been a vegetarian all her life. When she enters veterinary school, she comes in close contact with meant, and soon she develops a taste for it, but not from animals.
Verdict: Coming soon

REC quadrilogy (Spanish)
Released: 2007-2014
Director: Jaume Balagueró/Paco Plaza
Synopsis: While reporting from the night shift at a fire station, news reporter Ángela (Manuela Velasco) heads out to an apartment building with the crew where there has been a mysterious outbreak affecting the building’s occupants. Following these events, the outbreak spreads to other areas and people.
Verdict: REC and REC 2 are excellent films, full of suspense, horror and shocking revelations. The other two films that round out the quadrilogy aren’t nearly as good, with number four being particularly disappointing, not to mention unnecessary. Best to also avoid the American remakes, Quarantine and Qurantine 2: Terminal. 4/5

Red Rooms (Canadian French: Les chambres rouges)
Released: 2023
Director: Pascal Plante
Synopsis: Fashion model Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) becomes fascinated with a murder case, a fascination that soon becomes an obsession.
Verdict: Kelly-Anne’s self-destructive slide from casual observer to near-partaker in the murder case is fantastically done and paced extremely well. There’s a lot of depth to her, and it makes for an interesting POV for the murder case. While the details of the murder are gruesome, everything that surrounds it is nearly just as gruesome in its own perverted way. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Red Rooms review.

Revenge (French)
Released: 2017
Director: Coralie Fargeat
Synopsis: After a young woman is raped and left for dead, she sets out to get revenge on her attackers.
Verdict: Fargeat’s debut film already set her up as a strong filmmaker with a solid eye for detail and a clear focus on female-centred experiences. Although some of the symbolism is a tad on the nose at times, the story and the horror aspects deftly portray the anger that stews within most, if not all, women when it comes to how we’re treated by the patricarchy, not to mention what we’re capable of, even when pushed to our limits. 4/5

Ring franchise (Japanese: リング)
Released: 1998
Director: Hideo Nakata, based on the book by Koji Suzuki
Synopsis: The series revolves around a cursed video tape that gives viewers seven days to live unless they make a copy and pass it on for others to watch.
Verdict: Coming soon

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Sleep (Korean: 잠 )
Released: 2023
Director: Jason Yu
Synopsis: Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) is newly married to Hyeon-soo (Lee Sun-kyun) and pregnant. Everything is perfect, until she realises that Hyeon-soo has some problems at night. Keeping herself awake worrying about him and what he might do, Soo-jin must find a way to help her husband before events take a turn for the worse, especially after she gives birth.
Verdict: There’s definitely potential to read into post-partum mental health issues in this film, but it can also be taken on the chin as a simple psychological horror. It builds very well, and is a decent creepy film that has quite a shocking, if not entirely unpredictable, ending. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Sleep review.

Speak No Evil (Danish: Gæsterne)
Released: 2022
Director: Christian Tafdrup
Synopsis: A Danish couple and their clingy daughter meet a Dutch couple and their tongueless son while on holiday in Tuscany. The Dutches invite the Danes to stay at their home for a few days, but while there the Danish couple witness bizarre antics from the Danes and are disturbed by the way they treat their son.
Verdict: This original version of Speak No Evil plays on subtlety to build the terror extremely well, and the disturbing incidents are not forced down your throat but rather unnerve until the horrifying climax. The whole thing is paced very evenly and very much sums up what psychological horror is. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Speak No Evil review.

Sputnik (Russian: Спутник)
Released: 2020
Director: Egor Abramenko
Synopsis: In 1983, the Soviet military hires a doctor to assess the wellbeing of a cosmonaut who has recently returned to Earth after a strange accident in space, an accident that has left him with a dangerous organism living inside his body.
Verdict: The claustrophobic settings help to make not only the organism feel more intimidating, but being set mainly in a suffocating military compound of some kind makes it also feel like its encroaching on the audience’s comfort. The story itself is a little bland, as are the characters, and the film doesn’t really have much in the way of originality, but it works just fine as a basic horror film. 3/5

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Terrified (Spanish: Aterrados)
Released: 2017
Director: Demián Rugna
Synopsis: As some people living on the same street simultaneously experience supernatural events, two paranormal investgators dig into the occurrences and the lives of the neighbors on the street, eventually discovering they all have one thing in common.
Verdict: A very interesting premise, though not so well executed, Terrified has plenty of frights but could have afforded to be a little longer in order to go into more depth. Apparently a sequel is underway, so hopefully we can get more in the way of an explanation for the film’s events, in which case it would work well as an introductory film to an expanding series. 3/5
Read the Tiny Tapes Terrified review.

Thirst (Korean: 박쥐 )
Released: 2009
Director: Park Chan-wook, based on the book Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
Synopsis: Catholic priest Sang-hyun (Song Kang-ho) joins an experiment to find a vaccine for a deadly virus, though he ends up contracting the disease. He appears to recover, but soon, Sang-hyun comes to see that what he contracted is much more than your average human disease.
Verdict: A Park Chan-wook film never shies away from shocking its audience, and though Thirst is no different in that regard, it doesn’t necessarily have the most original of stories. It’s dark and makes a good attempt to put a spin on the vampire genre, but it’s not necessarily the best vampire movie out there. 3/5

Tigers Are Not Afraid (Spanish: Vuelven)
Released: 2017
Director: Issa López
Synopsis: In Mexico, a group of children rally to survive among the drug cartels, with one of them, a girl, who has been granted three consequential wishes, deals with the spirits of the dead that seek revenge on the crime boss who killed them.
Verdict: A tough watch at times, Tigers Are Not Afraid is so much more than a horror film. While it does indeed have supernatural elements, they are few and far between and don’t always meld well with the realistic story of children trying to survive amongst the very real horrors around them. The creeps come across as disjointed amongst the real frights and sadness of the childrens’ lives, but it does exactly what it needs to do for the most part. 4/5

Train to Busan series (Korean: 부산행 )
Released: 2016-2020
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Synopsis: Divorced workaholic Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) takes his daughter to Busan to visit her mother, but the train they are travelling on is besieged by zombies. In the 2016 prequel animation Seoul Station, the zombie outbreak begins with an injured man outside Seoul train station, and in 2020’s Peninsula, people are struggling to survive in a dystopian society filled with zombies and unruly people.
Verdict: This is a strong series overall, with Train to Busan in particular being a succesful zombie film that showcases how well South Korea can do zombies and horror in general. Seoul Station uses excellent animation to provide an origin story, and Peninsula plays on a post-outbreak world that brings terrors other than zombies alone.

Troll Hunter (Norwegian: Trolljegeren)
Released: 2010
Director: André Øvredal
Synopsis: When a series of apparent bear killings draws their curiosity, a group of students head to the forest to find out what is going on. While there, they follow a hunter, only to discover that he is hunting something much, much bigger than bears.
Verdict: A great play on the classic Nordic folklore of trolls that features great performances, human and troll alike, with some fun dry humour mixed in with the terror of finding massive trolls out in the Norwegian wilderness. The shaky camera style can make you feel a little motion sick in this one, but if you can get past that, it’s an entertaining thriller. 4/5

The Ugly Stepsister (Norwegian: Den Stygge Stesøsteren)
Released: 2025
Director: Emilie Blichfeldt
Synopsis: After the passing of Agnes’s (Thea Sofie Loch Næss), aka Cinderella’s, father, her ‘evil’ step-mother begins to push her eldest daughter Elvira (Lea Myren) into more intense lessons, beauty regimes and surgical changes to make her more attractive to the opposite sex, the goal being to find a rich husband, at any cost.
Verdict: The extreme measures Elvira puts herself through, intiated by her mother, are truly horrific and reflective of the pain women will put themselves through to achieve the ‘perfect’ look. The performances are excellent, the story and characters well written, and the body horror scenes hard to look away from. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes The Ugly Stepsister review.

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Verónica & Sister Death (Spanish: Hermana Muerte)
Released: 2017/2023
Director: Paco Plaza
Synopsis: In Verónica, which is loosely based on a true story, the titular Verónica (Sandra Escacena) begins to experience strange things after messing around with a Ouija board. In Sister Death, the prequel to Verónica, a woman who experiences holy visions is sent to live/teach in a convent/girl’s school, where she learns of the convent’s dark past and begins to have her own communications with the dead.
Verdict: Verónica is a terrific film, which is a little unsurprising as the Spanish are quite adept with horror. The performances are excellent and the scares are plentiful while also being decently subtle at times. Sister Death isn’t quite on the same level as Verónica, but it has its own setting and story that is mostly separate from Verónica until the very end, meaning it has much to offer on its own.

The Vourdalak (French: Le Vourdalak)
Released: 2023
Director: Adrien Beau
Synopsis: Marquis Jacques Saturnin du Antoine (Kacey Mottet Klein) finds himself at the home of a missing man named Gourcha (voiced by Adrien Beau). Gourcha’s family welcome Jacques into their home, but upon Gourcha’s shocking return, the family become divided, with some believing he has become a vourdalak (similar to a vampire), and Jacques gets involved when Gourcha becomes violent.
Verdict: A wonderfully gothic film that is timeless in its style. The puppet used for Gourcha initially seems absurd to the point of comedy, but as the film progresses, it becomes a real figure of fear. The story is superb and underscored with individual characterisations that are the foundation of this insane and enjoyable horror. 4/5
Read the Tiny Tapes The Vourdalak review.

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The Wailing (Korean: 곡성 )
Released: 2016
Director: Na Hong-jin
Synopsis: When apparently possessed people start attacking and killing each other, police officer Jong-goo (Kwak Do-won) investigates after his own daughter becomes one of the possessed. Enlisting the help of a deacon, Jong-goo comes to find that there are supernatural elements to the people who have gone mad, and he must hurry to find the source before more people die.
Verdict: A fantastic creepy horror that mixes a modern setting with a folkloric legend to create a chilling story. It keeps a good pace, mixes horror sub-genres quite cleverly and manages to obtain a level of depth with the characters that’s not often done well in the horror genre. 4/5

When Evil Lurks (Spanish: Cuando acecha la maldad)
Released: 2023
Director: Demián Rugna
Synopsis: When the people of a small town discover a demon making its way through them, a handful band together to try to rid the town of its presence before it can take over all of the townspeople and commit further atrocities.
Verdict: With great cinematography, body horror prosthetics and makeup, When Evil Lurks is a gruesome horror with genuine shocks to go along with its enticing premise. The final shot is particularly aesthetically pleasing and will leave you with a morbid yet satisfying taste in your mouth. 4/5
Read the TIny Tapes When Evil Lurks review.

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You Won’t Be Alone (Macedonian: Нема да бидеш сама)
Released: 2022
Director: Goran Stolevski
Synopsis: In the 19th century, a baby has her voice taken by a witch, and when she is older, she is kidnapped and turned into a witch herself. Eventually, she wonders what it is like to be human, and tries to find a way to become human once again.
Verdict: A very interesting story that is told in a unique way through the inner narration of a mute woman. The way in which one becomes a witch within the story is fascinating, as is the way the mute, childlike woman navigates her way back into a community. On top of this, the commentary on the way women are treated (both in the past and the present) is presented in such a clear way that you may not help but empathise with the witches. 4/5