Treasure Island (1999)
Apr 7, 2010Surrealism
Unrelated to Robert Louis Stevenson, this is a bafflingly surrealist parody of a 1940s thriller
Pat Healy
The Innkeepers (2011)
Mar 30, 2012Haunted Hotel
A ghost story from Ti West that gains its effect from a quiet, mundanely understated approach and existing in an ambiguous place where we cannot be sure whether manifestations are real or in the imagination
Cheap Thrills (2013)
Mar 7, 2014Two Men in a Series of Extreme Bets
A man offers two down-on-their-luck guys a series of increasingly more extreme bets for money. This sets out to defy taboos and good taste, largely succeeding by pushing into some alternately grotesquely funny and nauseating territories
Starry Eyes (2014)
Oct 29, 2014Twisted Deals for Hollywood Stardom/Deadly Infection
Bizarre horror about an actress trying to get her big break in Hollywood that takes all manner of strange turns as she becomes infected and starts physically decaying. More explanation about what is going on would have helped no end but the film still arrives in memorably perverse territory
Tales of Halloween (2015)
Dec 14, 2015Anthology of Halloween Horror Stories
An anthology of Halloween-themed horror tales, all from different genre directors, including some interesting high-profile names. The results are uneven with the film providing a couple of amusing segments but nothing truly standout
Carnage Park (2016)
Mar 20, 2017Human Hunting for Sport
Mickey Keating makes a Backwoods Brutality film that has borrowed a good deal from The Most Dangerous Game about a woman abducted and forced to make a survival run through the desert with her bare hands
Pandemic (2016)
Oct 25, 2017Zombie First Person Shooter Found Footage Film
While the title leads you to expect a plague outbreak film, you soon discover this is a zombie film. What it is is a Found Footage film mounted as a First Person Shooter film at which you have to admit that it launches into action with considerable gusto and ferocity
Run. (2020)
Jan 24, 2021Wheelchair-Ridden Teen Imprisoned by a Psycho Mother
Well constructed thriller where a wheelchair-confined teenager discovers that her mother is up to sinister purpose and attempts to escape despite her lack of mobility
The Pale Door (2020)
Apr 9, 2024Western/Town of Witches
Weird Western where a group of outlaws on the run end up in a town of witches
We Need to Do Something (2021)
Feb 18, 2024Family Trapped in a Bathroom During a Mysterious Catastrophe
A horror film made as an allegory for Covid with a family trapped inside a bathroom without supplies as a mysterious catastrophe happens outside their door