Life on the Edge (1989)
Sep 4, 2000Family Life in a Weird Alternate Society
A film where makeup effects artist Tom Burman takes the director's in this head-scratchingly strange film about a family set in a bizarre future world
Juliette Lewis
Cape Fear (1991)
Jul 5, 2000Ex-Con's Revenge Thriller
Martin Scorsese remakes the classic thriller with Robert De Niro playing the ex-con seeking revenge against his lawyer. Scorsese makes the morality more ambiguous and bring out tensions within the family
Kalifornia (1993)
Dec 3, 2000Serial Killer Road Movie
Coolly intelligent road movie with a then-unknown David Duchovny as a writer on a tour of serial killer murder sites and an unknown Brad Pitt giving a charged performance as a psychopathic redneck
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Sep 11, 2000Mass Murder Spree
Oliver Stone film with Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as a couple on an ultra-violent mass murder spree. Stone gets heavy-handedly preachy but directs with an excess of style that proves enormously entertaining
Strange Days (1995)
Feb 2, 2003Near Future Social Disorder/The Millennium/Virtual Memories
A Kathryn Bigelow directed Cyberpunk film scripted by James Cameron concerning an illicit technology that can replay memories. This offers a powerful vision of a socially divided L.A. on the eve of the millennium
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Oct 19, 2002Getaway Thriller/Vampire Bar
Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino combine forces on a film that begins as a getaway thriller and then abruptly morphs into a vampire film. This has a smart edginess to it but the vampire scenes have not dated well
Full Tilt Boogie (1997)
Jul 11, 2007The Making of From Dusk Till Dawn
A documentary shot during the making of From Dusk Till Dawn, which gets to the heart of the issues in ways most making of documentaries don't
The 4th Floor (1999)
May 19, 2000Disturbed Apartment Neighbour
A thriller that develops quite a degree of eerie suspense as Juliette Lewis moves into a new apartment and finds she is surrounded by some very strange neighbours
Enough (2002)
Nov 1, 2002Abusive Husband Psycho-Thriller
Thriller about an abused wife standing up to take the law into her own hands against her husband. This has its credibility shot out by being made as a Jennifer Lopez film who does not seem to want taint the glamour of her image by seeming battered
Cold Creek Manor (2003)
Apr 19, 2007Southern Gothic Psycho-Thriller
Mike Figgis, the director of Leaving Las Vegas, visits the Backwoods Brutality genre in this Southern Gothic, but despite a top drawer cast, this never does more than stir lukewarm cliches
Metropia (2009)
Dec 4, 2024Near-Future Dystopia
Animated film set in a dystopian near-future Europe of constant surveillance where even people’s heads are monitored
Jem and the Holograms (2015)
Jan 29, 2016Girl Pop Band/Animation in Live-Action
The original animated series was one of the pop oddities of the 80s – part teen pop fantasy, part superheroics and secret identities. This live-action remake is an object lesson in how to strip all the fun elements out a series
Nerve (2016)
Nov 20, 2016Internet Site That Offers Deadly Challenges
This is like an online version of 13 Sins about an internet site that pushes people to take increasingly more outrageous and eventually deadly dares. One of the new thrillers centred around social media that seeks to adopt its visual look, this is slickly polished and aimed direct to the teenage demographic
Ma (2019)
Sep 6, 2019Psycho Film
Blumhouse production with Octavia Spencer as a stalkery mad woman who befriends a group of teens in an elaborate revenge plot. Quite what people though they were making is a scratch of the head
Dreamland (2019)
Aug 8, 2021Crime Thriller with a Vampire
Bruce McDonald, who directed the standout Pontypool, makes a crime film where Stephen McHattie plays both a hitman and a heroin-addicted trumpet player. For head-scratching reasons, the film also includes a vampire