A twenty-year-old boy prepares for death with a bowl of bloody corn flakes. Sensitive viewers should beware of some bloody, grotesque imagery.
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Sala Samobójców, AKA Suicide Room DIRECTED BY: Jan Komasa FEATURING: Jakub Gierszal, Agata Kulesza, Krzysztof Pieczynski, Roma Gasiorowska-Zurawska PLOT: When a spoiled rich boy is mocked after an embarrassing high school incident publicly reveals his homosexual desires, he retreats into a virtual world, a community called “suicide room” full of teens trying to work . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: @SUICIDEROOM (2011) AKA Kairo DIRECTED BY: Kiyoshi Kurosawa FEATURING: Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, Koyuki PLOT: A computer expert’s suicide is the first in a series of mysterious events and disappearances that leave Tokyo, and the world, depopulated; is a website that dials up people on its own and asks if they want to meet a ghost responsible? . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: PULSE (2001) DIRECTED BY: Higuchinsky FEATURING: Eriko Hatsume, Fhi Fan PLOT: One by one the residents of a small Japanese village become “infected” with an obsession for spirals, leading them to neglect their normal day to day lives and eventually to their odd spiral-related deaths. Yes, you read right…spiral deaths! WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: SPIRAL [UZUMAKI] (2000) The second submission in the June review writing contest: by “SG Eric”. DIRECTOR: Hal Ashby FEATURING: Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon PLOT: Twenty-something rich kid unfulfilled with his life stages fake suicides to peeve his uppity mother and ultimately finds meaning in life when he meets carefree 89-year-old Maude. WHY IT DESERVES TO MAKE THE . . . → Read More: READER RECOMMENDATION: HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) DIRECTED BY: Shion Sono FEATURING: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Saya Hagiwara PLOT: A shocking mass suicide in a train station attracts the attention of the police and a curious hacker who may have found a link to the seemingly random act. WHY IT’S ON THE BORDERLINE: This exercise in the Japanese new school of shock horror . . . → Read More: BORDERLINE WEIRD: SUICIDE CLUB (2002) DIRECTED BY: Marc Forster FEATURING: Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Naomi Watts PLOT: A private practice psychiatrist takes over the case of a suicidal art student after his regular therapist takes a leave of absence due to stress, and discovers the case has metaphysical as well as psychological implications. WHY IT’S ON THE BORDERLINE: Stay . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: STAY (2005) DIRECTED BY: Goran Dukic FEATURING: Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham, Tom Waits PLOT: In a special afterlife reserved for suicides, three lost souls hit the road: Zia is searching for his earthly lover, Mikal is convinced she’s here by mistake and is looking for the People in Charge, and Eugene is along for the ride . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY (2006) |
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