The Hollywood remake of the Korean A TALE OF TWO SISTERS. THE UNINVITED’S makers tried to create something beyond most Hollywood horrors, but what they came up with, in contrast to the complexity of the original film, is a hokey gothic melodrama
There’s never been a love story quite like this 47 minute Japanese drama about insanity and obsessive knot-tying
One of the best genre items of recent years, this 1994 New Zealand release is that rarity of rarities: A truly original horror film
I find this REPULSION-esque Robert Altman ppsychodrama pretty silly overall, yet it does have a haunting and intriguing aura
This is one of the nastiest, most unflinching depictions of madness and murder you’ll ever experience, despite the fact that THE DEATHMAKER doesn’t contain a single act of onscreen violence
A powerful and fascinating piece of work, and one of the absolute finest films of 2002
Here’s a truly amazing artifact for the ages, a sumptuous reproduction of a sketchbook kept by Charles Altamont Doyle, father of Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle
This shattering, impressionistic Russian epic can be viewed as an unforgiving expose of Nazi atrocities that makes SCHINDLER’S LIST look like LASSIE COME HOME
COMBAT SHOCK isn’t mentioned in many film books, yet it’s one of the seminal independent films of the 1980s
A key work by one of Japan’s neglected masters of cinema, director Yasuzo Masumura, who in IREZUMI created a starkly violent and perverse account of obsession, revenge and elaborate tattoos