10/18/2026
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The Face of Horror review – a future cult classic delights with playful spin on Hammer horror

Filed by Vivien Star
The Face of Horror review – a future cult classic delights with playful spin on Hammer horror
London film festivalAnna Biller’s intricate tribute to the British 1960s genre plays melodrama for laughs and pulls it off wonderfully in a medieval tale based on a Japanese ghost storyThere’s over-the-top … and there’s this playfully bizarre new film from US indie film-maker and genre connoisseur Anna Biller, whose previous film The Love Witch first alerted me to her ecstatic love of style, surface and the A-pleasures of the B-movie. The Face of Horror is a deadpan homage to the garish Technico
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