Fade to Black (1980)
Jun 18, 2014Movie-Obsessed Psycho
A clever little psycho film concerning a killer who is obsessed with classic movies. This was doing the movie-inspired psychos thing way before Scream and with quite a degree of ingenuity
Dennis Christopher
It (1990)
Jun 10, 2016Stephen King Adaptation/Killer Clown Monster
Stephen King adapted mini-series – the second ever and one of the best. A dark take on the great American Coming of Age tale, Tim Curry makes an unsettling Pennywise (in doing so popularising the figure of the killer clown) and the show is uncommonly good at its disturbing blurrings of reality and illusion
Circuitry Man (1990)
Oct 19, 2003Cyberpunk/Post-Holocaust Quest
Qurkily appealing Cyberpunk film in which a female bodyguard and a male pleasure android must make a journey across a post-apocalyptic wasteland
Necronomicon (1993)
Feb 13, 2009H.P. Lovecraft Anthology
Anthology of three H.P. Lovecraft tales from directors Christophe Gans, Brian Yuzna and Shusuke Kaneko. For claiming such a quintessentially Lovecraftian title as this, you feel that it should have been more than it is
Doppelganger (1993)
Jun 3, 2005Mysterious Doppelganger
Horror film in which Drew Barrymore is haunted by a doppelganger. Before allowing the film to collapse into incomprehensibility, director Avi Nesher creates some fascinatingly weird images
The Silencers (1996)
May 31, 2010Action Film/Alien Invasion Conspiracy
Action film made at the height of the popularity of tv's The X Files with Jack Scalia fighting off the Men in Black
Skeletons (1997)
Mar 26, 2007Smalltown Secrets
An almost respectable film from David DeCoteau about a journalist uncovering the disappearance of a gay man in a town that eliminates those who do not conform to its wholesome lifestyle
The Lost Room (2006)
Nov 3, 2008Everyday Objects with Mysterious Powers
One of the most conceptually ingenious tv mini-series ever created concerning a quest for objects from a mysterious hotel room that have been imbued with amazing powers.