SCREWED
One of the final films by Japan’s late, occasionally great Teruo Ishii, adapting a manga by the legendary Yoshiharu Tsuge
SCANNERS
This David Cronenberg freak-out about warring telepaths contains one of the stand-out moments in horror cinema. As for the rest of the movie, it’s pretty good
SAVE THE GREEN PLANET
From Korea, a horror-sci fi-comedy that’s gross, funny and outrageous
THE SAVAGE HUNT OF KING STACH
There’s a great deal of macabre gusto in this Soviet chiller about a band of ghostly hunters
SAURIANS
Perhaps the most ridiculous of the many early nineties dinosaur flicks, a shot on video monster mash from 1994 that appears to have been made for the cost of a day’s catering on JURASSIC PARK
SATANIS, THE DEVIL’S MASS
A raggedy and unfocused 1970 documentary on the late Anton Szandor LaVey (1930-97) and his San Francisco based Church of Satan
THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT
Possibly the farthest the screen has ever taken the ARABIAN NIGHTS story-within-a-story motif, this distinctly literary exercise is not a film for the uncommitted viewer
SANTA’S SLAY
This Canadian-lensed Christmas-themed splatter comedy from 2005 clearly wanted to be the BAD SANTA of its day…but wasn’t
SANTA SANGRE
A truly amazing 1989 film by Alejandro Jodorowsky–bold, violent, surreal and completely irresistible, it’s one of the decade’s finest films
SANTA CLAUS
Santa versus Satan? That’s the premise of this “classic” Mexican kid flick from 1959, a colorful and totally bizarre take on Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick