An unforgettable mixture of bubblegum teen melodrama and grisly phantasmagoria, Nobuhiko Obayashi's deranged, psychedelic fairy tale is one of Japanese cinema's wildest supernatural ventures and one of horror cinema’s most exciting cult discoveries.

In this expertly unsettling horror, Australian director Jennifer Kent exerts a masterly control over this tense supernatural tale about a children’s book that one single mother should never have opened.

The politically charged, spine-chilling debut from Iranian director Babak Anvari delivered a tense and atmospheric thriller set in a haunted Tehran apartment during the terrifying final days of the Iran-Iraq War.

A shiver of fear runs right through Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona's (A Monster Calls) debut - a gothic frightener about a long-abandoned orphanage with a particularly troubling past, that plays brilliantly on our profound yet unacknowledged fear of children.