CROSS COUNTRY
An X-rated thriller whose 1975 copyright date (a time when mainstream fiction was much wilder than it is now) is fully evident
VIOLATED ANGELS
A ground-breakingly gruesome example of avant-garde “pinku” (adults only) cinema
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
VAMPYRES
An almost-classic of British horror from 1974
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
SOME CALL IT LOVING
The altogether bizarre second feature directed by James B. Harris, Stanley Kubrick’s former producing partner
THE EMBALMER
A tricky film, this: a cunning and perverse thriller that takes the guise of, and works best as, a dark character study