Deep in the Woods (2000)
Sep 22, 2000French Slasher Film
Stylish French slasher film about actors being stalked as they put on a performance of Little Red Riding Hood at a country estate. The fairytale is adeptly wound in and out as metaphor.
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Chicken Run (2000)
Jun 25, 2000Aardman Animation/Talking Chicken Escape Movie
The first full-length Claymation film from the UK's Aardman Animations. With typical Aardman eccentricity, this is a parody of a WWII escape film conducted with talking chickens
There’s Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000)
Jan 11, 2009Magic Soccer Boots
Film about a pair of magical soccer boots, so centred in its local sports culture that it is unlikely to have much appeal outside of its Manchester setting
Thunderpants (2002)
Jun 9, 2003Kid with Super-Powerful Farts
Likeable film about a kid with incredibly powerful farts who uses his ability to launch a rocket. It's mind-boggling to think such a premise was ever given funding nd a greenlight
Outlaw (2007)
Aug 25, 2009Vigilante Film
British vigilante film that strains at issues of social relevance but only ends up parroting Death Wish cliches
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Jul 3, 2010Alternate Life Pathways
Jaco Van Dormael film that reaches for epic ideas in a story about multiple life pathways and a babble of ideas taken from physics but fails to assemble them in a way that makes much sense
Tormented (2009)
May 7, 2018Bullied Schoolkid's Retribution From Beyond the Grave
The first film from Irish director Jon Wright who subsequently made films Grabbers and Robot Overlords concerning a bullied schoolkid who comes back from the grave to kill his tormentors,. Not as polished but what a cast of unknowns
The Dance of Reality (2013)
Jul 21, 2014Surreal Autobiography
The first film in 24 years from Alejandro Jodorowsky, a surreal journey through his own childhood. Gone is Jodorowsky, the mad prophet of El Topo, replaced by a warm, wryly self-reflexive Jodorowsky looking back in on his own life
The Little Stranger (2018)
Apr 6, 2020Ghost Story
Adaptation of a ghost story from Sarah Waters, an author who usually specialises in literary Victorian lesbian bodice rippers. The ghost story is an overmined genre but this is a not uninteresting venture into the field
Acid (2023)
May 4, 2025Deadly Acid Rain
A harsh and urgent French-made catastrophe film about a family trying to survive and get to safety with the appearance of a sudden cloud of deadly acid rain