THE GREEN ELEPHANT
A fitfully vile bit of arty sleaze that fits in well with high-minded sickies like VIVA LA MUERTE and SALO with its abundance of gore, scatology and general unpleasantness
GRACE
A good film exploring the horrors of motherhood that compares favorably with classics like ROSEMARY’S BABY, BABY BLOOD and INSIDE. It is a little thin, however!
THE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE
Yes, this is it: the 1987 Hollywood flop based on the Garbage Pail Kids stickers from the eighties
TRANCE
This 1982 German sickie remains notorious for its protracted depictions of necrophilia and dismemberment, but it’s also powerfully atmospheric, and a quintessential product of its tim
THANATOMORPHOSE
The spirit of David Cronenberg is evident in this profoundly disquieting art-horror film about a young woman’s body decaying from the inside out
TAXIDERMIA
This Hungarian freak-out isn’t really a horror movie, yet I believe it will be best appreciated by horror fans
THE RUINS
Most US moviegoers ignored this slickly mounted, hard-R rated big studio product. Their loss, methinks!
THE ROOM
Here it is, the most extreme novel by the late Hubert Selby Jr, which of course makes THE ROOM one of the most extreme novels of all time
DER TODESKING
An authentically post-modern horror film from Germany’s wildest wild man Jorg Buttgereit
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER
Arguably the masterpiece of England’s Peter Greenaway, an unrestrained blast of grossness and bad behavior that was and remains a repellant yet undeniably beautiful mutant of a movie