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
IN MY SKIN
The year 2003 saw more than its share of nasty films, but I feel confident in naming the French import IN MY SKIN as the year’s all-around nastiest film
NOTHING BUT TROUBLE
One of the most notorious flops of the nineties, an overly expensive, under-conceived Tim Burton-esque concoction from writer/director Dan Aykroyd
THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE)
This, as you may recall, was the gross-out spectacle of 2010
THE TROOP
2014 got off to a roaring start with this downright ferocious exercise in no-frills horror