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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

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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

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SISTERS (1973)

A 1973 effort by Brian De Palma that adequately showcases both his good and bad qualities as a filmmaker

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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

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SINGLE WHITE FEMALE

2017 marks the 25th anniversary of this nineties thriller, one of the key entries in the “girlfriend/neighbor/cop/nanny/roommate from Hell” subgenre so popular at the time

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THE RAPIST

Here we have a genuine rarity: a truly original entry in a rather hackneyed subgenre. THE RAPIST is so unique, in fact, that I’m finding it difficult to adequately describe

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RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE

According to William Gibson, “If you dropped the characters from NEUROMANCER into Jack Womack’s Manhattan, they’d fall down screaming and have nervous breakdowns.” That, I suspect, is particularly true of RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE

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RAIN

This graphic novel collects the six issues of writer/illustrator Rolf F. Stark and co-writer Marlene Stevens’ early nineties underground comic RAIN

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WRONGFUL DEATHS

This “documentary novel” tells the tragic story of the untimely deaths of novelist William Wharton’s daughter and stepson, and Wharton’s subsequent fight for justice

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THE WOODS ARE DARK

This is the “restored and uncut” version of THE WOODS ARE DARK, the second novel by the late Richard Laymon, and the one he maintained destroyed his career in the U.S.

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