Directed by René Daalder • 1976 • United States
Starring Derrel Maury, Andrew Stevens, Robert Carradine

This powerful blend of social commentary and exploitation is one of the premiere genre films of the 1970s and a provocative allegory about fascism and power structures in a high school world w...

Directed by Dario Argento • 1977 • Italy
Starring Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci

One of cinema’s most potent hallucinogens, Dario Argento’s witchy freak-out is a sustained spectacle of outrageously stylized violence and eye-popping art direction. When doe-eyed American ballerina S...

Directed by Paul Lynch • 1980 • Canada
Starring Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens

Ultimate scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis stars in this midnight-movie classic, one of the most popular slashers to follow in the wake of HALLOWEEN’s success. For six years, a group of four teenage frien...

Directed by Amy Holden Jones • 1982 • United States
Starring Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella

Scripted by lesbian feminist author Rita Mae Brown, THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE puts a smart, subversive, and lightly satirical spin on the 1980s slasher formula. When Trish (Michelle Mi...

Directed by David Lynch • 1992 • United States

In the town of Twin Peaks, everybody has their secrets, but no one more than Laura Palmer. In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, fo...

Directed by Andrew Fleming • 1996 • United States
Starring Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell

Having just moved to Los Angeles, Sarah (Robin Tunney) is an outsider at St. Benedict’s Academy until she meets three other social outcasts. Nancy (Fairuza Balk), Bonnie (Neve Campbell), and Roch...

Directed by Jim Gillespie • 1997 • United States
Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe

From the writer of SCREAM comes the box-office smash that revitalized the slasher genre for the 1990s. It’s the Fourth of July, and Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) has won a beauty...

Directed by Robert Rodriguez • 1998 • United States
Starring Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris

THE BREAKFAST CLUB meets INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS in this sci-fi horror joyride from definitive ’90s teen screenwriter Kevin Williamson (SCREAM, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER) and gen...

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku • 2000 • Japan
Starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Takeshi Kitano

Stunningly subversive and explosively controversial, Kinji Fukasaku’s still-shocking vision of the adolescent experience as literal bloodsport has taken its place as one of the definitive cult films of...

Directed by John Fawcett • 2000 • Canada
Starring Katharine Isabelle, Emily Perkins, Kris Lemche

Werewolf mythology gets a wickedly subversive, feminist reworking in this sleeper cult favorite, which locates both horror and dark humor in the turbulent experience of puberty. Alienated from their ...

Directed by Richard Kelly • 2001 • United States
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, James Duval

Described by director Richard Kelly as “‘The Catcher in the Rye’ as told by Philip K. Dick,” this cult classic is a mind-altering experience whose metaphysical enigmas are still being unraveled. T...

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku and Kenta Fukasaku • 2003 • Japan
Starring Shugo Oshinari, Ai Maeda, Tatsuya Fujiwara

The sequel to Kinji Fukasaku’s cult sensation—begun by the veteran director but completed by his son Kenta Fukasaku following his death—was no less controversial thanks to its incendi...