A SERBIAN FILM
2011’s gross out movie du jour, a profoundly vile and repellent compendium of sexual sadism with political overtones. Well made, but the potential audience is limited, to say the least
THE ANGEL AND THE WOMAN
A Canadian art film from the seventies with supernatural overtones, pornographic interludes and a stern message about the downside of free will and the futility of violence…or something
LOVE RITES
From the great Walerian Borowczyk, a uniquely spare and poetic erotic reverie with extremely dark overtones that erupt in the horrific final scenes
THUNDERCRACK!
This is the legendary underground opus that interweaves Tennessee Williams-esque dialogue, hard core porn and gothic horror into a bizarre black-and-white micro epic
THRILLER–A CRUEL PICTURE
This Swedish obscurity has been called “the roughest revenge movie ever made” by no less an authority than Quentin Tarantino
THANATOMORPHOSE
The spirit of David Cronenberg is evident in this profoundly disquieting art-horror film about a young woman’s body decaying from the inside out
DR. JEKYLL AND HIS WOMEN
The late Walerian Borowczyk’s highly idiosyncratic take on DR. JEKLL AND MR. HYDE, a profoundly eerie and poetic film that may be Borowczyk’s masterpiece
DRACULA SUCKS
Here’s something I’m sure we’ve all been waiting for: a DRACULA porno!
PHALLIC FRENZY: KEN RUSSELL AND HIS FILMS
This isn’t the first book about the English cinema’s premiere enfant terrible Ken Russell, but it is very likely the best
THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE
The Italian sex film is an industry in itself. Here’s one of the genre’s more interesting entries, from Salvatore Sempari, one of its key directors