THE ROOST
This indie horror fest went largely unseen during its brief 2005 theatrical release, but is finding an appreciative audience on DVD
ROOM
Give this no-budgeter a try: it’s frustrating and inconclusive, but also brilliantly filmed and arrestingly weird
ROBO VAMPIRE
What a tremendous piece of SHIT!
RIVER’S EDGE
A good film, but overrated, RIVER’S EDGE, loosely based on a true story, is one of the most popular of the teens-from-Hell films of the eighties, and features quite a few then-upcoming stars
RINGU
Forget about SCREAM or THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT—RINGU is the state of the art in nineties-era horror
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
This 1977 film showcases the work of four great artists: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote the immortal poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; Gustave Dore, who provided the still-unsurpassed illustrations to the text; Orson Welles, who reads the poem in his inimitable baritone; and filmmaker Larry Jordan, who integrated all these elements
RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR
Let’s hope this bleak and alarming film, about terrorists who cripple L.A. by detonating “dirty bombs,” is far-fetched scaremongering—because if not then we’d best head for the fallout shelters ASAP!
RIDING THE BULLET
Stephen King calls this “the best of the independent films made from my work since STAND BY ME”, and he’s probably right
REVOLUTION #9
An interesting companion piece to 1993’s CLEAN, SHAVEN, this no–budgeter attempts to dramatize the inner world of a paranoid schizophrenic
RETURN TO OZ
As far as scary kids movies from the 1980s go, RETURN TO OZ is one of the absolute best