STREET TRASH
Another eighties-era gorefest that adds up to very little conceptually but excels in manic inspiration. It’s about bums who get a hold of flesh-melting hooch—plenty of grue ensues!
SPLICE
This Canadian production is the most ambitious film to date by Canada’s highly idiosyncratic Vincenzo Natali. It suffers from a somewhat haphazard narrative but is still one of most memorable films of 2010
SINGAPORE SLING
SINGAPORE SLING contains nearly everything we’ve come to expect in “cult” cinema: mind-boggling weirdness, unapologetic perversion and a steadfast refusal to play by any rules
SHIVERS
The first feature by David Cronenberg, 1975’s SHIVERS pretty much set the stage for what was to come from “Dave Deprave.”
A SERBIAN FILM
2011’s gross out movie du jour, a profoundly vile and repellent compendium of sexual sadism with political overtones. Well made, but the potential audience is limited, to say the least
SALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM
Widely hailed as the most disgusting and/or disturbing movie of all time, SALO is indeed a profoundly unsettling viewing experience
ACNE
No-budget goofiness that’s enjoyable, imaginative and, surprisingly, quite politically astute
PINOCCHIO 964
Director Shozin Fukui employs innumerable over-the-top touches here, creating what may be the ultimate “punk” movie
PHILOSOPHY OF A KNIFE
A history of Japan’s notorious Unit 731, this film, lasting four hours, mixes documentary and staged footage into an utterly unique whole
PARENTS
This eighties curio was advertised and possibly intended as a black comedy along the lines of EATING RAOUL, but it’s actually closer to ERASERHEAD in tone