IL CASO VALDEMAR
The world’s first gore film
GRIMM MEMORIALS
If there’s one thing to be said in this 1990 splat fest’s favor, it’s that it definitely won’t leave you wanting more.
BRAIN DEAD
Fact: Roger Corman did manage to turn out some interesting films in the 1990s, with the superbly tippy BRAIN DEAD near the top of the list
BEYOND THE THRESHOLD
The most morbid and sensationalistic funeral home expose you’re ever likely to encounter, written by an actual funeral director
THE END OF ALICE
The fascination with deviance that suffused 1990s fiction gave us first person studies of serial killing (AMERICAN PSYCHO), homicidal foot fetishism (FOOTSUCKER) and, with THE END OF ALICE, pedophilia.
On CRIMES OF THE FUTURE and The Tyranny of Exposition
In June 2022 CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, the first feature in eight years to be directed by David Cronenberg—and the first in 21 years to emerge from an original Cronenberg screenplay—was released
MULTIPLE MANIACS
The second feature by John Waters, and in many respects his key film
THE BURNING BUDDHA MAN
Cut-out animation, H.R. Giger-esque grotesquerie and Buddhism—an irresistible combination, I say
CYCLOPS
Japanese grue from 1987 that’s better than BIOTHERAPY.
BIOTHERAPY
Japanese grue from 1986. See CYCLOPS instead.