SPLICE
This Canadian production is the most ambitious film to date by Canada’s highly idiosyncratic Vincenzo Natali. It suffers from a somewhat haphazard narrative but is still one of most memorable films of 2010
THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE
Far from standard horror fare, the 1973 Spanish film SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE is an extremely difficult, uneventful mood piece that requires multiple viewings—in short, an Art Film
SPECIAL EFFECTS
This 1984 cheapie appears to be writer-director Larry Cohen’s answer to PEEPING TOM, a unique and intelligent account of voyeurism and exploitation in the movie business that, as usual with Cohen, is all-but done in by its low budget and uninspired direction
SOUTHERN COMFORT
This horrific bayou-set kill fest is a key action-suspense film of the 1980s, and one of the finest-ever outings by director Walter Hill
SOCIETY
So-so eighties horror enlivened by amazing special effects and a GREAT climax
SNAKES ON A PLANE
Years from now this 2006 movie, and the brief phenomenon it inspired, will be looked upon as one of the most unique products of its time
SMOOTH TALK
A seminal ’80s indie that still holds up as a provocative and disturbing psychological horror story
THE SKIN I LIVE IN
A rare attempt at genre filmmaking by Spain’s Pedro Almodovar, who provides a visually ravishing exercise in Cronenbergian horror
SISTERS (1973)
A 1973 effort by Brian De Palma that adequately showcases both his good and bad qualities as a filmmaker
SINGLE WHITE FEMALE
2017 marks the 25th anniversary of this nineties thriller, one of the key entries in the “girlfriend/neighbor/cop/nanny/roommate from Hell” subgenre so popular at the time