Brilliantly atmospheric horror from Brazil that prefigures, and very nearly matches, HALLOWEEN and WHEN A STRANGER CALLS in its depiction of a young woman receiving strange phone calls while looking after two children in a secluded mansion
With this nonlinear epic, filmmaker Jonathan Reiss adapted what is certainly one of the most unfilmable books of all time: THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION by J.G. Ballard
ATRAPADOS (1981) is one of the world’s great unknown cult films, a shocking, nightmarish, mind-expanding apocalyptic parable
This British production seems destined to be remembered best for its troubled production history. It’s a solid work, though, a compelling romantic chiller with a first-rate performance by the late Natasha Richardson
The absolute last word on visual addiction, ARREBATO is a fascinating Spanish cult film
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
In which debuting writer-director Brandon Cronenberg boldly mines the biological horror trope invented by his father David
This werewolf classic, from writer/director John Landis, remains a groundbreaking combination of comedy and balls-out horror
I can’t imagine a better movie about the still-unsolved “Zodiac” killings that plagued San Francisco during the late sixties and early seventies
Although it wowed many mainstream critics, this lukewarm ‘00 adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis’ infamous novel is a dreary and affected slog