Prison (1987)
Oct 9, 2003Haunted Prison
An early film from Renny Harlin made for Charles Band concerning a haunted prison. Features an unknown Viggo Mortensen in one of his earliest roles
Viggo Mortensen
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
May 9, 2000Backroads Brutality
The third of the Texas Chainsaw films where the rights have now been inherited by New Line Cinema and the brutality of the original promptly watered down to MPAA standards
The Reflecting Skin (1990)
Jan 8, 2001Surreal Vision of Disturbed Childhood
A dark Coming of Age story set in a surreal depiction of the midwest populated by what might be vampires and angels
The Prophecy (1995)
Mar 18, 1999War Between Angels
Standout film about angels warring on Earth that dispenses with any cutsie depiction of angels. Several sequels followed.
Crimson Tide (1995)
Nov 22, 2000Submarine Thriller/Impending Nuclear War
Gripping submarine drama from Tony Scott with captain Gene Hackman and second-in-command Denzel Washington fighting over whether to obey orders and fire their nuclear missiles after receiving a possibly faulty alert
Psycho (1998)
May 1, 1999Psycho Remake
Over Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of Psycho, there hangs the single question of “Why?” The result seems a futile conceit, one only designed to infuriate those who regard the original in such high esteem
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Dec 19, 2001Epic Fantasy Adventure
Peter Jackson wowed the world with this first part of his adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy. This is epic filmmaking and one that shows Jackson in full command of his craft
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Dec 24, 2002Epic Fantasy Adventure
Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings saga truly gains its feet here, expanding out onto an epic scale where he has fused special effects and story into a singular vision
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Dec 23, 2003Epic Fantasy Adventure
The weakest of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films. This is the most variant from the source material and the one where Jackson allows his tendency to visual effects bloat to take over
The Road (2009)
Nov 30, 2009Grim Post-Holocaust Survivalism
The extraordinary poetry of Cormac McCarthy's novel about a man trying to retain his humanity amid the harsh struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic world is necessarily weakened in being translated to screen but the film still does a fine job of capturing the essence of the book
Jauja (2014)
Oct 13, 201419th Century Explorers/Fantastic Journey
This starts out seeming like a non-fantastic drama about explorers in 19th Century Argentina. However, the film seems to disregard this and heads towards a bafflingly surreal and undeniably fascinating ending
Crimes of the Future (2022)
Jul 2, 2022Future Surgical Experiments
A 79 year-old David Cronenberg returns with one of his best films, a synthesis of his major themes in an extraordinary and perverse look at a future where surgery has become performance art. This site's best film of 2022.