SPIKE OF LOVE
A cult movie in search of a cult, this Canadian made outrage plays like MARAT/SADE reconfigured as a nineties black comedy, being an unrestrained blast of insanity with nearly every imaginable perversion
SPIDER BABY
Time hasn’t been kind to this loveable 1964 oddity, but it remains a memorable film with unforgettable performances
SPECIAL EFFECTS
This 1984 cheapie appears to be writer-director Larry Cohen’s answer to PEEPING TOM, a unique and intelligent account of voyeurism and exploitation in the movie business that, as usual with Cohen, is all-but done in by its low budget and uninspired direction
SOUTHERN COMFORT
This horrific bayou-set kill fest is a key action-suspense film of the 1980s, and one of the finest-ever outings by director Walter Hill
SOUL VENGEANCE
This “blaxploitation” movie is infamous for a one-minute scene near the end involving a homicidal penis…which is indeed an eye-opener, but the rest of the film is pretty crappy
SONNY BOY
The 1990s were filled with independent films marketed, most often misleadingly, as “bizarre”, “shocking”, “subversive” and other similarly enticing adjectives. For a nineties indie that really is all those things go directly to SONNY BOY
SOMBRE
A product of the “New French Extremity” by director Philippe Grandrieux, who provides a highly artful and immersive account of a serial killer loose on the back roads of France
SOCIETY
So-so eighties horror enlivened by amazing special effects and a GREAT climax
SNUFF
A stilted and amateurish exploitation quickie purported to be an actual snuff film. It’s not!
SNAKES ON A PLANE
Years from now this 2006 movie, and the brief phenomenon it inspired, will be looked upon as one of the most unique products of its time