Cherry Falls (2000)
Jul 16, 2009Slasher Film
Witty and rather funny slasher film in which the killer targets virgins in a community. The genre's usual tropes about the chaste girl surviving are turned on their head in rather hilarious ways
Gabriel Mann
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
Apr 15, 2001Girl Rock Group's Adventures/Cartoon in Live Action
A live-action film based on the animated tv series about a girl rock band who originally appeared in Archie comics, this gets buried under its own efforts to be cutely ironic
Abandon (2002)
May 11, 2016Psycho-Thriller
Psycho-thriller that should have gotten better notice than it did. Katie Holmes plays an A-student at an Ivy League college who is stalked by a missing ex. Slick and coolly written, before arriving at an effective twist ending
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (2005)
Aug 10, 2011Demonic Possession
Paul Schrader's original version of Exorcist: The Beginning that was junked by the producers. This is a far more subtle telling of the same story that eschews shock effect in favour of a moral struggle of the soul
Psych 9 (2010)
Nov 26, 2014Sinister Happenings in an Abandoned Hospital
Thriller with a heroine working in an abandoned hospital amid sinister happenings that draws substantially on the fine Danish film Nightwatch. Does an okay if familiar job making us constantly doubt everything that happens before arriving at an ending that only confuses