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Horror in a Trance

A run of horror films that work like spells rather than shocks: sleepwalkers, ghosts from folk tales, devil's bargains and predators who seem to come from another order of being, all filmed with a hypnotic, dream-logic strangeness you can only absorb by watching them close together.

Film-school canon (Caligari, Vampyr, Kwaidan) sits next to cult objects and festival oddities. This is for patient, adventurous viewers who would rather be unsettled than scared, and it's best taken slowly, late at night, one film at a time.