American Psycho (2000)
Apr 14, 2000Yuppie Psycho
Mary Harron takes on Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial work about a yuppie serial killer and refines it to a blackly funny satire on 1980s pop culture and corporate greed
Chloe Sevigny
Demonlover (2002)
Aug 8, 2003Snuff Internet Site/Corporate Espionage Thriller
Corporate thriller in which Connie Nielsen discovers an underground of snuff S&M. This develops a compulsive hold but its pullback to kneejerk moralism is dissatisfying
The Brown Bunny (2003)
May 25, 2008Mumblecore Deathdream
Vincent Gallo's muchly ridiculed directorial effort is an unbelievably indulgent film consisting of long, tedium-inducing scenes where nothing happens. It does arrive at a a surprise left field ending that travels into genre territory
Sisters (2006)
Nov 4, 2009Siamese Twins Psycho-Thriller
Disappointing remake of Brian De Palma's 1973 Siamese twins psycho-thriller that changes many elements and crucially lacks De Palma's stylistic showmanship
Zodiac (2007)
May 27, 2007True Life Serial Killer
David Fincher's gripping investigation into the unsolved true-life Zodiac Killer case. Fincher's stagings are exacting and the mystery he builds intensely absorbing
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
Aug 27, 2012Madness and Matricide/True Story
A collaboration between Werner Herzog and David Lynch makes for an exceedingly strange film, involving matricide, mental illness and ostriches – and all apparently based on a true life murder
Antibirth (2016)
Jan 25, 2018Stoner Chick's Mutant Impregnation
This has cult midnight hit written over it. It's a loopy trip into people doing drugs, alien impregnation and government conspiracy that should have been quirky and funny but sort of goes asleep at the wheel
The Snowman (2017)
Dec 24, 2017Norwegian Serial Killer Thriller
International production based on a series of books about a Norwegian detective. This flopped badly and was called confusing. Mostly, it is a serial killer thriller that fails to hold you gripped with its unfoldings
Lizzie (2018)
Mar 8, 2021The Lizzie Borden Story/True Crime
Strong and effective retelling of the Lizzie Borden story starring Chloe Sevigny that builds out a fascinating plausible scenario for how the murders might have happened
The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
Sep 14, 2019Zombie Comedy
Jim Jarmusch is one of the foremost American independent directors and here makes his first zombie comedy. The question is is what can he bring to a genre that has been in full-on self-parody mode since Shaun of the Dead
Bones and All (2022)
Jan 21, 2023Young Adult Cannibalism Film
Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino sinks his teeth into making a film about cannibalism. Forget the Young Adult label the film was sold with, this is quite an impressive work