FLOODING
It’s always great, after sitting through hours of no-budget trash, to be rewarded by a film of real merit…especially after you’ve spent part of that time viewing something like FLOODING!
5150 ELM’S WAY
After PONTYPOOL this was the finest Canadian horror film of 2009, a consistently surprising, shocking and suspenseful chiller that plays like a particularly demented variant on THE STEPFATHER
FATAL ATTRACTION
It seems hard to believe that this very silly movie was taken as seriously as it was back in the late 1980s
THE TODD KILLINGS
Surely one the major feel-bad movies of the Twentieth Century, THE TODD KILLINGS can be called the anti-BREAKFAST CLUB
TIME
The 13th film by South Korea’s demented Kim Ki-duk is this typically crazed riff on plastic surgery and schizophrenia
TIDELAND
A Terry Gilliam feature that showcases this vital talent at his free-wheeling best
THE THRILL KILLERS
In tribute to the late trash auteur Ray Dennis Steckler, here’s a review of one of his few authentically good films
DREAD
There are some good things in this gorier-than-average Clive Barker adaptation, but it’s a confused and mediocre movie overall
RUBY
One of the last notable films made by the late Curtis Harrington, RUBY is an eccentric EXORCIST wannabe starring Piper Laurie
ROOM
Give this no-budgeter a try: it’s frustrating and inconclusive, but also brilliantly filmed and arrestingly weird