CORPSE MANIA
More over-the-top—though more refined than usual—Hong Kong horror madness from the Shaw brothers and director Kuei Chih-Hung (of the delirious BOXER’S OMEN)
THE CORMORANT
A very good, chilly and disquieting BBC telefilm, adapted from the popular novel by Stephen Gregory and starring a young Ralph Fiennes
CORALINE (Film)
An extensive stop motion animated feature, and a pretty good movie
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER
Arguably the masterpiece of England’s Peter Greenaway, an unrestrained blast of grossness and bad behavior that was and remains a repellant yet undeniably beautiful mutant of a movie
CONQUEST
This 1983 production is one of the last worthy films made by Lucio Fulci, and undoubtedly the strangest of the many sword-and-sorcery programmers that littered the early 1980s
CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER
A far weirder-than-average potboiler from the sixties. It’s a druggy adventure set in San Francisco’s Chinatown, starring the one and only Vincent Price
CONFESSIONS OF A PSYCHO CAT
This lunatic late sixties obscurity, a hippified take on THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME, is hardly a buried treasure. It is fun, though, an unforgettably whacked-out wallow in gore and sleaze!
COME AND SEE
This shattering, impressionistic Russian epic can be viewed as an unforgiving expose of Nazi atrocities that makes SCHINDLER’S LIST look like LASSIE COME HOME
COMBAT SHOCK
COMBAT SHOCK isn’t mentioned in many film books, yet it’s one of the seminal independent films of the 1980s
CLEOPATRA’S SECOND HUSBAND
In my view this is the film SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE should have been, an irresistibly demented indie about seduction and obsession among a quartet of thirtysomethings