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Mike Flanagan has been one of our most consistently brilliant horror directors. His character-orientated stories and explorations of trauma and grief have resulted in some of the best horror films of the 2010s . Despite being impressively prolific, he's never made a bad horror movie. Thanks to a distinctive artistic voice and a close knit team of collaborators - screenwriting partner Jeff Howard; producer Trevor Macy; actors Kate Siegel and Henry Thomas among others who have starred in several of his films - we have a clear idea of what makes a Mike Flanagan movie essential viewing. But which is his best? Starting with 2011's  Absentia -  not the director's first film but his first feature-length entry into the horror genre - his seven horror movies so far have been ranked below. Note:- This article does not contain spoilers for any Mike Flanagan movies. 7/ Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) What goes down: It's 1967, and the Zander family run a phon...

Our series on feminist horror films continues, as we take a look at some modern classics. We're going in chronological order, and exploring three of the most interesting 21st Century horror films from a feminist perspective: Teeth, Hush and The Witch . In the latest installment of our series on feminist horror, we look at a broad cross-section of what feminist horror means in the 21st Century.  4) Teeth (2007) In a sentence:  The tonally uneven story of a chastity-promising teenager who discovers she has a toothed vagina. It's perhaps one of the most misunderstood horror movies ever made. What goes down: Dawn (Jess Weixler) is the star speaker at a chastity youth group, but she's struggling to stick to her resolutions when not-so-handsome stranger Tobey (Hale Appelman) appears on the scene. It quickly turns out that Tobey isn't as benevolant as he seems, but thankfully Dawn has a secret weapon against male violence: a toothed vagina. Was th...