MOSQUITO
The full title of this 1976 Swiss curio is MOSQUITO DER SCHAENDER (MOSQUITO THE RAPIST), meaning it is NOT to be confused 1995’s big bug bummer MOSQUITO
MEN BEHIND THE SUN
This Hong Kong shocker has attained near-legendary status among extreme movie buffs, and is indeed a shocking, traumatizing film
MAN ON A SWING
A profoundly creepy, arrestingly eccentric but ultimately unsatisfying slice of fact-based horror from the seventies
MACABRE
This gruesome and depraved yet subtle, atmospheric Italian horror fest was the directorial debut of Lamberto Bava, son of the legendary “Father of Italian horror” Mario Bava
SUMMER OF SAM
From Spike Lee, a wildly overbaked yet vital account of the seventies-era “Son of Sam” killings. The film has much to say about the effects of fear and paranoia, none of it comforting
STUCK
Based on a real-life incident in which a man was hit by a woman with her car and ended up stuck in the windshield for the next two days, STUCK is darkly funny, gory and horrific
SMOOTH TALK
A seminal ’80s indie that still holds up as a provocative and disturbing psychological horror story
SISTER MY SISTER
A terrific British film about the notorious Papin sisters, French maids who in 1933 murdered their female employer and her daughter while carrying on a torrid incestuous relationship
AN AMERICAN CRIME
A dramatization of the 1965 torture murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens, and about as good as can be expected of a true crime drama from the director of ELLA ENCHANTED and the star of JUNO
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