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Art Horror and the Horrific Avant-Garde

List title inspired by Joan Hawkins' book Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-Garde (but does not correspond to her works cited and mostly includes films not mentioned in the text)

horror by way of abstract, experimental, art cinema which isn't entirely reliant on narrative - not "elevated" horror

style as substance

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • The Cremator
  • The Face of Another
  • Meshes of the Afternoon
  • Demons
  • The Wolf House
  • Grim
  • My House Walk-Through
  • The Phantom Carriage
  • Häxan
  • Possession
  • City of Pirates
  • Hour of the Wolf
  • At Land
  • Outer Space
  • House
  • The Hourglass Sanatorium
  • The Ravishing of Frank N. Stein
  • Blood of the Beasts
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Mother Joan of the Angels
  • Possibly in Michigan
  • Thunder
  • The Black Tower
  • Ghost
  • Sleep Has Her House
  • The Skeleton Dance
  • Labyrinth of Dreams
  • Face Like a Frog
  • Suicide
  • The Snowman
  • Oriental Elegy
  • Inland Empire
  • Zone
  • Twilight
  • Bridal of Rose ~The Promise Exchanged at Midnight~
  • Prometheus' Garden
  • The Telephone Box
  • The Third Part of the Night
  • A New Life
  • The Tell-Tale Heart
  • The Devil
  • Faust
  • Morgiana
  • Despite the Night
  • Mound
  • The Signalman
  • November
  • The Sandman
  • Un Chien Andalou
  • The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
  • The Exquisite Corpus
  • Eraserhead
  • The Woman Who Powders Herself
  • Lucifer Rising
  • Penda's Fen
  • Destiny
  • Clinic
  • ODDSAC
  • Rapture
  • A Night on Bald Mountain
  • A Page of Madness
  • Diamanda Galas: The Litanies of Satan
  • The Backrooms (Found Footage)
  • Dream Work
  • Beneath the Skin
  • Hell
  • The Boxer's Omen
  • This House Has People in It
  • Dog's Dialogue
  • Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
  • Kagero-za
  • Down to the Cellar
  • Suspense.
  • Zigeunerweisen
  • Enter the Void
  • The Separation
  • Club of the Discarded
  • Little Otik
  • The Demon
  • Dante's Inferno
  • Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
  • The Demon
  • The Bones
  • The Fall of the House of Usher
  • Anti-Clock
  • Bobby Yeah
  • Open Doom Crescendo
  • Torchbearer
  • Belladonna of Sadness
  • The Smaller Room
  • Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
  • Dawn of an Evil Millennium
  • In the Dark
  • Cerulia
  • Unbalance
  • Poison for the Fairies
  • The Merry Frolics of Satan
  • The Forbidden Files
  • Prelude