Crash (1996)
Oct 18, 2004Sexual Fetishism with Car Crashes
David Cronenberg tackles J.G. Ballard's controversial novel, creating a fascinatingly perverse work that ventures into a world where people become sexually aroused by car crashes
Deborah Kara Unger
The Game (1997)
Nov 18, 2007Reality Games
David Fincher film in which Michael Douglas is wound into a conspiracy that makes him doubt everything around him. Fincher creates paranoia but the story eventually becomes an improbably contrived house of cards
White Noise (2005)
May 22, 2005Communications from the Dead
Ghost story about so-called Electronic Voice Phenomenon with Michael Keaton as a widower being contacted from beyond by his late wife. A film that achieves some quite reasonable spooky effect
Silent Hill (2006)
Nov 10, 2006Videogame Adaptation/Sinister Otherworldly Town
One of the best of all filmed videogame adaptations. Christophe Gans creates a creepy and unworldly atmosphere, along with a series of genuinely outlandish creature effects
Messages Deleted (2010)
Dec 22, 2020Screenwriter Taunted by a Killer
In his last ever produced screenplay, cult director Larry Cohen turns in a wonderfully playful script with Matthew Lillard as a screenwriting lecturer harassed by a killer only to find real-life doesn't obey the same rules that screenplays do
Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)
Nov 22, 2012Videogame Adaptation/Sinister Otherworldly Town
Dull and unimaginative Silent Hill sequel that only revisits what went before. The first film had an uncanny otherworldly atmosphere but the sequel reduces everything to no more than pop-up Clive Barker
The Hollow (2015)
Nov 6, 2018Fire Monster/Supernatural Retribution
One doesn't have high expectations of a Syfy Channel film. On the other hand, director Sheldon Wilson surprises and creates a highly original monster and moments of considerable tension
Jackals (2017)
Dec 3, 2018Home Siege by a Sinister Cult
One of the directors of the Saw sequels surprises with this film where a family’s attempts to conduct a cult deprogramming as masked cultists surround the house prepared to do anything to get their recruit back
The Long Night (2022)
Jan 8, 2024Sinister Cultists/Folk Horror
A Folk Horror film where Scout Taylor-Compton visits the South in search of the parents she never knew only for cultists in black robes and animal masks to surround the house