NASTY
Director Paul Chart, of the psycho-thriller classic AMERICAN PERFEKT, can always be counted on for the unexpected, and unexpected is indeed the word for NASTY
1996: The Year in Bedlam
From a cinematic standpoint 1996 can be viewed as the beginning of the end on two counts
WHY DOES HERR R. RUN AMOK?
A maddening, thought-provoking and altogether brilliant portrayal of a murderer that doesn’t announce itself as such until the final ten minutes!
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Here we have a novel that might be termed the thinking man’s MISERY
IF I WERE A SPY
The second film directed by France’s Bertrand Blier was this eccentric black and white noir thriller from 1967
Cult Films In Search of A Cult
Having written about the subject for the past 20 years, I can discern what marks out cult films, and the following, I believe, are all prime candidates
THE LADY IN THE CAR WITH GLASSES AND A GUN
A most intriguing exercise in psychological displacement in the guise of a crime thriller, this twice-filmed novel by France’s Sebastian Japrisot (actually Jean-Baptiste Rossi) is a confounding masterwork.
THE AX
A first-person serial killer novel from one of America’s finest suspense writers.
AFRAID TO DEATH
Joe Egan is a desperate man on the run from a mysterious blonde woman who is in fact the Angel of Death.
BURIED ALIVE (1990)
A slightly above average early 90’s TV movie potboiler from Frank Darabont, future director of high profilers like THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION and THE GREEN MILE