Ben Wheatley’s new version of the gothic thriller Rebecca joins an impressive list of big-screen Du Maurier adaptations

Long before an age of lockdown, films from Rosemary’s Baby to The Shining and In the Shadow unveiled the home as the ultimate fear

After Guardian writers reminisced about the films that caused nightmares in their younger years, you responded with a long list of alternative options

Two new analyses of Alfred Hitchcock’s macabre imagination are equally compelling

Back when giant spiders first roamed the multiplex and B-movie bunnies packed the drive-in, rabid creatures represented an underclass growling at their lack of power. With White God, an acclaimed Oscar contender from Hungary, this political bite returns, says Xan Brooks

A film 'replete with the visual and linguistic trappings of imprisonment' is let down by its creaky special effects, writes Geoff Dyer