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A quintessential American independent film from the eighties, and still a one-of-a-kind masterpiece. Grim, gory and darkly comic, BLOOD SIMPLE was the first feature by the Coen Brothers, introducing a brilliant and distinctly American voice into a moviemaking landscape that definitely needed it–and if you ask me still does.
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A fifties-era descent-into-madness tale of a man who comes to believe he can control who lives or dies based on the color pins he sticks in a cemetery map. An odd and disquieting little film with impressive visuals, though not without some glaring flaws.
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I BURY THE LIVING (1958) [...]

THE LOST was the first film adapted from the work of novelist Jack Ketchum, and transposed his hellish universe to the screen quite well. In other words, it’s a skilled and intelligent but strictly not-for-the-squeamish viewing experience.
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Jack Ketchum’s 2001 novel THE LOST was, like most of Ketchum’s books, published as a paperback original, [...]

Most US moviegoers ignored this slickly mounted, hard-R rated big studio product. Their loss, methinks, as THE RUINS is the creepiest, ickiest, most intense horror movie I’ve encountered in some time.
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Scott Smith’s bestselling 2006 novel THE RUINS seems unlikely material for a movie. The book is an effective but excessively drawn-out account [...]

Richard Stanley more than made good on the promise of HARDWARE with DUST DEVIL, a veritable epic of gore and magic set in the deserts of Namibia, Africa. It has its flaws (unavoidable considering the extremely troubled production history), but it’s a stunning film nonetheless, a work of unique integrity and audacity.

A dumber-than-average H.P. Lovecraft adaptation from 1970, courtesy of the ever-exploiting American International Pictures, who naturally attempted to juice up Lovecraft’s writing with late sixties psychadelia and gratuitous sex appeal. The results are every bit as nonsensical as you might imagine, although those with a yearning to see the infamously virginal sixties starlet Sandra Dee [...]

You probably know this perverse Hong Kong film in truncated form as part one of the popular THREE…EXTREMES anthology. I didn’t like the condensed version of DUMPLINGS at all, but find that in its full 90-minute length the film has a real sense of style, not to mention a fair amount of gut-level grotesquerie.

Here’s something I’m sure we’ve all been waiting for: a DRACULA porno! Actually this is the soft-core version of this 1979 film (the hard-core cut is entitled DRACULA’S BRIDE), a relic from the days when porno flicks had things like stories and characters, were shot on film rather than video and actually played in legitimate [...]

Django Kill!, a prime example of the Italian “spaghetti” western as horror movie, is one of the most violent westerns made. Director Giulio Questi gives the film a haunting, surreal veneer that suits well the many horrific elements. In keeping with the “spag west” genre, it also contains a great deal of gothic imagery. If [...]

The Polish expatriate filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski is one of the cinema’s most insane filmmakers, and this is one of his wildest films, an unapologetically grotesque and over-the-top 18th Century-set study of madness and anarchy.For those who can stomach it, this is a fascinating viewing.