The French, it seems, are adept at putting a philosophical spin on horror: when they do this, they make it all their own, offering distinctly grisly fare which has a questioning side. Martyrs managed - successfully or unsuccessfully, according to your view - to craft a film largely consisting of the torture of young women into an existentialist jou... Click to read more "In My Skin (Dans Ma Peau)"
Some movies are so bad they are bad, some are so bad they are good and The Incredible Melting Man is so bad it's amazing. The film is a prime example of producers interfering in a filmmakers vision and, while the interference has a negative effect on the intended end product, it endows the final movie with something truly quirky and unique. It was ... Click to read more "The Incredible Melting Man"
Have you ever wanted to make a film so absolutely stacked with wrongness that even the text version of the screenplay would have the BBFC nervously reaching for their safety scissors? Have you? Do visions of necro-incest and gut-fucking dance regularly through your head, as you're trying desperately to look normal in front of all the other people w... Click to read more "Taxidermia"
Teeth is a very bold and disturbing independent horror movie taking a bizarre darkly humorous look at the subject of abstinence and the "coming of age" movie genre. The movie is far from full on splattification but is unsettling on a number of levels, firstly it is the scumbags that are involved with the naïve and innocent Dawn (the unfortunately a... Click to read more "Teeth"
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a very trippy 1989 black and white movie from Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto with a very arthouse feel to it. Concerned with imagery and symbolism rather than a coherent and straightforward storyline, Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a bizarre yet metaphorical ride through the crumbling sanity of a man whose encounter with an ind... Click to read more "Tetsuo: The Iron Man"
Often the first indication that there might be something arty about a film is that the lead character is an artist and that the film is split into acts. Canadian film Thanatomorphose is a film about a sculptress suffering from body rot and is split into the acts "Despair", "Another" and "Oneself". It is a repugnant celebration of putrescence and b... Click to read more "Thanatomorphose"
