SURRENDER DOROTHY

A dark, twisted no-budgeter about a disturbed young man who attempts to turn his hetero-male roommate into Dorothy, the perfect woman

SHIVERS

The first feature by David Cronenberg, 1975’s SHIVERS pretty much set the stage for what was to come from “Dave Deprave.”

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

ASYLUM (2005)

This British production seems destined to be remembered best for its troubled production history.  It’s a solid work, though, a compelling romantic chiller with a first-rate performance by the late Natasha Richardson

PLAY MISTY FOR ME

The directorial debut of Clint Eastwood, and the uncredited inspiration for FATAL ATTRACTION, was 1971’s seminal girlfriend-from-Hell chiller PLAY MISTY FOR ME

X,Y

This digitally lensed mind roaster is among the darkest depictions of male-female dynamics you’ll ever experience

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

TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES

This, the late Jean Rollin’s “triumphant return” to the type of seventies-era vampire cinema that made his name, appeared in 1997. It’s hardly triumphant