THE FUNGUS
London is destroyed yet again in this 1980s example of “Nasties” horror writing
London is destroyed yet again in this 1980s example of “Nasties” horror writing
There are some ingeniously nasty elements in this 1988 horrorfest, yet also some misconceived ones, all packed into a vastly overblown framework
90s SOV insanity that’s much better than most
The best film yet made by Brandon Cronenberg, but it’s still not quite there
The world’s first gore film
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.
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
The most morbid and sensationalistic funeral home expose you’re ever likely to encounter, written by an actual funeral director
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.
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