Directed by Pascal Laugier
Starring Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï
Wow, just got done watching this one and it is…intense. Like with my Cannibal Holocaust review, I recommend this film only to horror fan aficionado who feels they’ve seen it all. This is not for the faint of heart and will more than likely offend or scar [...]
Martyrs (2008)
Man Bites Dog (1992)
Directed by Rémy Belvaux
Starring Benoît Poelvoorde
Since out last film took place in Belgium, why not a Belgian film? I revisited this film recently while preparing for a presentation on the subjective camera and it’s uses in film. In the past, I’ve found Man Bites Dog to be an inspirational film for me, one that I actually [...]
Teeth (2007)
Directed by Mitchel Lichtenstein
Starring Jess Wiexler
Ok, you can easily piece together the premise of this movie from the trailer. But what you can’t appreciate is the expert hand that delivers a high concept idea like this in such a technically competant, skillfully acted, and craftly written way. Adverb nazis eat your heart out.
All kidding aside this is [...]
Braindead/Dead Alive (1992)
Directed by Peter Jackson
Starring Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin
Still one of my favorite horror films and one of Peter Jackson’s best films, even though low-budget and tongue-in-cheek, Braindead to this day holds the record for the most fake blood ever used in a film (300 liters). Full of gore and [...]
Blue Velvet (1986)
Directed by David Lynch
Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
Today I was reading about a man who designed his coffin to look like a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer can, and naturally, I though of Blue Velvet. Widely claimed to be Lynch’s best film, Velvet was also one of his more controversial given his [...]
Les Diaboliques (1954)
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot
What attracted me to this movie was a review I read somewhere that called Les Diaboliques, “the greatest Alfred Hitchcock movie never made,” and wow, does it feel like one. Rumors abound that Hitchcock lost out on the right to the novel by a matter of hours. [...]
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Directed by Ruggero Deodato
Starring Robert Kerman, Carl Gabriel Yorke
I kept going back and forth on whether or not to post this one, but for the horror/gore fans, it just doesn’t get any better/worse. This is the sickest, most disturbing movie you will probably ever see. I can’t even post the poster, because it [...]
The Vanishing (1988) aka Spoorloos
Director: George Sluzier
Starring: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets
One of the scarriest movies I’ve ever seen, this Dutch film plays at the base fears of every man, being powerless at the hands of a mad man. American audiences may be more familiar with its remake starring Kiefer Sutherland, and the plot is similar, seeing how the director [...]
