SMOOTH TALK
A seminal ’80s indie that still holds up as a provocative and disturbing psychological horror story
SMALL WHITE HOUSE
One of the key underground films of the nineties, a beyond-strange Tijuana-set reverie on the JFK assassination that freely incorporates pornography and scatology.
SLAUGHTER OF THE VAMPIRES
An unauthorized take on DRACULA, SLAUGHTER OF THE VAMPIRES isn’t very good, but has amassed a following due, I’m assuming, to the fact that it’s so old
SKINNER
If the purpose of a horror movie is to startle then this one must be counted as a success, particularly in some unforgettable gross-out moments. That doesn’t change the fact, however, that it’s standard-issue nineties straight-to-video trashola in nearly every other respect
THE SKIN I LIVE IN
A rare attempt at genre filmmaking by Spain’s Pedro Almodovar, who provides a visually ravishing exercise in Cronenbergian horror
THE SIXTH SENSE
Arguably the key horror movie of the nineties, and the film most responsible for lifting the genre out of the doldrums in which it languished for most of that decade
SIX DAYS, SIX NIGHTS
It’s time for a trip to the art house. SIX DAYS SIX NIGHTS, imported from France, is an art film with lots of heavy talk about the nature of love. But it’s also a thriller of sorts, one with enough outright macabre touches to categorize it as psychological horror
SINTHIA THE DEVIL’S DOLL
It’s a fact that the late Ray Dennis Steckler made some good movies in his day, but this soft core horror-art film isn’t one of them
SISTERS (1973)
A 1973 effort by Brian De Palma that adequately showcases both his good and bad qualities as a filmmaker
SISTER MY SISTER
A terrific British film about the notorious Papin sisters, French maids who in 1933 murdered their female employer and her daughter while carrying on a torrid incestuous relationship