APT PUPIL
This 1998 Stephen King adaptation is a highly underrated film that deserves a reconsideration
APARTMENT ZERO
I wasn’t terribly impressed with this Buenos Aires-set psychological thriller when it first played back in 1990, and it hasn’t improved a whole lot in the succeeding years
ZODIAC
I can’t imagine a better movie about the still-unsolved “Zodiac” killings that plagued San Francisco during the late sixties and early seventies
AMERICAN PSYCHO (Film)
Although it wowed many mainstream critics, this lukewarm ‘00 adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis’ infamous novel is a dreary and affected slog
AMERICAN PERFEKT
There’s never been a psycho thriller like AMERICAN PERFEKT (sic), a cunning exercise in misdirection featuring a top notch cast. It’s a shame the film isn’t better known
PLAY MISTY FOR ME
The directorial debut of Clint Eastwood, and the uncredited inspiration for FATAL ATTRACTION, was 1971’s seminal girlfriend-from-Hell chiller PLAY MISTY FOR ME
PEEPING TOM
This is the notorious 1960 British sickie that ruined the career of the great Michael Powell. However, it happens to be one of the all-time great psycho thrillers
THE FOOL KILLER
HUCKLEBERRY FINN meets THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER?
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