THE POLLUTERS

A product of the upscale smut outfit Brandon House that reads like a watered-down template for Charles Platt’s THE GAS

EVIL ANGELS

A pitiless investigation into the farthest reaches of uncontained passion, adapted for the screen in 1992 by Roman Polanski

CRUSH (1992)

A product of the nineties indie film scene, when dark and twisted were in and commercial considerations were very much out

COLD FRONT

A recently republished 1980s horror novel that’s strong, descriptive and thoroughly Canadian

THE ANIMAL (1968)

An especially intriguing trash-fest combining period-specific sexploitation with HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER-esque psycho-horror

THE EMBALMER

A tricky film, this: a cunning and perverse thriller that takes the guise of, and works best as, a dark character study