SHADOWS OF THE MIND
A little-seen slasher directed by LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET’S late Roger Watkins. Quite simply: it’s NOT a good movie
THE SENDER
This was the first feature directed by former art director/set decorator (of STAR WARS and ALIEN) and future BATTLEFIELD EARTH helmer Roger Christian, and it’s not bad
SEEDING OF A GHOST
If you can get past this film’s lousy opening minutes you’ll experience one of the wildest of all Hong Kong horror movies—and considering the unfettered nature of most such films, that’s no faint praise
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
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
THE SABBATH
Any movie featuring the delectable Beatrice Dalle involved in orgies and medieval torture can’t possibly be all bad—or so I thought until I sat through this mess
KILLER! (1989)
This 1989 serial killer thriller, made for a reported $9,500, was once called “the most technically accomplished super-8mm movie ever”
THE KEEP
This big budget period piece was scripted and directed by the talented Michael Mann, proving that sometimes it takes a great director to make a truly awful movie
THE OTHER HELL
Nunsploitation insanity from the late Italian trashmeister Bruno Mattai that even by traditional nunsploitation standards is profoundly trashy and perfunctory, and frankly not very entertaining at all
OPERA
Not one of Dario Argento’s best films, but certainly one of his most outrageous. No other Argento movie more enthusiastically pushes his preferences for fluid camerawork, garish colors and extremely graphic violence