(April)
charming little Netflix sleeper about an adorable Jewish couple who ran the most prominent gay porn store in California. give the Tiger King and the redundant murder docs a rest and peep this show.
something of a French Extremity take on the mock-snuff genre best exemplified by films like Muzan E and August Underground, with pretty inventive set pieces and performances that transmit genuine panic. this one is literally in the bowels of France.
another brutal attack from France, this time reevaluating the home invasion subgenre in a way that hasn't been done a million times before.
something of a 1980s suburban yuppie take on Watcher in the Attic. made before Gary Busey became the WWE Gimmick version of himself.
the first of 3 moldy mockbusters i chose to review instead of Uncut Gems or Come to Daddy. this one is clearly the more "inventive" of the batch, fusing James Cameron's heist of Harlan Ellison's ideaspace with Indonesian mythology and an easy-on-the-eyes antagonist.
another tension-mounting slowburn of bleak silences and sudden micro-seizing violence from the creators of Goodnight, Mommy.
from the director of innumerable VHS monstroddities like Deadly Prey, Sledgehammer, Killer Workout, Night Wars, and many more comes this jellied-brain entry into the rubbery pantheon of Sub-Predators.
completing the Kirkland Signature Aliens vs. Predator vs. Terminator triptych is the Italian Maestro of the Mockbuster Bruno Mattei, mashing up the Alien and Terminator brands the same way he mashed up Robocop and Predator for his Robowar. i chose to highlight this instead of Uncut Gems.
blend between Luis Bunuel's Young and Damned, Jeff Barnaby's Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Amat Escalante's Heli, and Guillermo Del Toro's Devil's Backbone.
if you're going to watch one movie about over-anxious meatheads going to absurd depths to maintain their grasp on some fucking hunk of cave rock, say no to Uncut Gems and say "slip it in" to White Fire.
(seriously... Uncut Gems wasn't really all that, y'all that. falls into the category that Joker falls into; a "real" movie for people who don't watch "real" movies.)
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