THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT
Possibly the farthest the screen has ever taken the ARABIAN NIGHTS story-within-a-story motif, this distinctly literary exercise is not a film for the uncommitted viewer
THE SANDMAN 1996
Those familiar with the no-budget auteur Bookwalter’s work won’t be surprised to hear that the shot-on-video SANDMAN isn’t very good…but then, it’s not all that bad, either
SALOME (1972)
This 1972 Italian obscurity is easily the wildest production of Oscar Wilde’s SALOME you’ll ever see
SALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM
Widely hailed as the most disgusting and/or disturbing movie of all time, SALO is indeed a profoundly unsettling viewing experience
THE SABBATH
Any movie featuring the delectable Beatrice Dalle involved in orgies and medieval torture can’t possibly be all bad—or so I thought until I sat through this mess
KURONEKO
This was filmmaker Kaneto Shindo’s follow-up to his unquestioned masterpiece ONIBABA (1964). The highly ambitious KURONEKO isn’t up to the same high standards, but does contain stunning black-and-white photography and some genuinely startling elements
THE KINGDOM
One of the decade’s premier cinematic achievements in the horror genre, a wild, crazy, profound and endlessly thought provoking work
THE KEEP
This big budget period piece was scripted and directed by the talented Michael Mann, proving that sometimes it takes a great director to make a truly awful movie
OPERA
Not one of Dario Argento’s best films, but certainly one of his most outrageous. No other Argento movie more enthusiastically pushes his preferences for fluid camerawork, garish colors and extremely graphic violence
ONIBABA
One of the all-time classics of Japanese horror, ONIBABA is a stunningly photographed, deeply stylish film