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DIRECTED BY: Giuseppe Capotondi FEATURING: Ksenia Rappoport, Filippo Timi, Antonia Truppo, Gaetano Bruno, Fausto Russo Alesi PLOT: After surviving a gunshot wound to the head, a woman is haunted by apparitions of the dead and visions from what seem to be an alternate, but parallel version of her life. WHY IT SHOULD . . . → Read More: RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: THE DOUBLE HOUR (2009) DIRECTED BY: Ben Wheatley FEATURING: Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Michael Smiley, Harry Simpson, Emma Fryer PLOT: Jay the hitman, out of the game and down on his luck, takes up a new contract with his partner Gal to help support his wife and young son. As they start knocking people off a “Kill . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: KILL LIST (2011) DIRECTED BY: Chris Witherspoon FEATURING: Rick Crawford, Audrey Walker, Chris Witherspoon, Jo Black-Jacob, Richard Topping PLOT: Dennis Twist (Crawford), an English professor/failed novelist who lives in the suburbs with his wife Crystal (Walker) goes into Portland for a day to break off a clandestine relationship with his girlfriend, who has an ex-boyfriend just out . . . → Read More: 366 UNDERGROUND: RAGE (2010) DIRECTED BY: Srdjan Spasojevic FEATURING: Srdjan Todorovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Jelena Gavrilovic, Katarina Zutic, Slobodan Bestic PLOT: An ethical and well-intentioned ex porn star collaborates with an Eastern syndicate to produce a series of art-house pornographic films. In the process he is unwittingly ensnared in the dark, serpentine morass of his film executives’ depraved madness. WHY . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: A SERBIAN FILM (2010) DIRECTED BY: Vladan Nikolic FEATURING: Peter Scanavino, Jason Robards III, Ana Asensio, David Thornton PLOT: In the year 2044 people have been genetically engineered to feel perpetually happy, so they perversely seek out illegal drugs that bring intense pain; in this society, a dealer in pharmaceutical misery stumbles upon what may be a generations . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: ZENITH (2010) DIRECTED BY: Ted Post FEATURING: Ruth Roman, Anjanette Comer, Marianna Hill, Suzanne Zenor, David Mooney [as David Manzy] PLOT: A social worker becomes obsessed with a case involving a family with an adult son with the intellect of a one-year old, who sleeps in a crib and wears a diaper. WHY IT WON’T MAKE . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE BABY (1973) DIRECTED BY: Tom Tykwer FEATURING: Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood PLOT: An apprentice perfumer in pre-Revolutionary France sets out to make the perfect scent, a task that requires him to murder thirteen beautiful virgins. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Although its choice of protagonist—an orphaned serial killer with a superhuman . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER (2006) DIRECTED BY: David Bradley/an uncredited director FEATURING: Walter Stocker, Audrey Caire, Carlos Rivas, Dani Lynn, Bill Freed PLOT: They (renegade Nazis in South America) saved Hitler’s brain (actually, his entire head). WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: They Saved Hitler’s Brain is awfully strange, and strangely awful, but it has one huge strike . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THEY SAVED HITLER’S BRAIN (1963/197?) DIRECTED BY: Jamie Babbit FEATURING: Elisha Cuthbert, Camilla Belle, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan, Katy Mixon PLOT: A deaf girl becomes ensnared in her adoptive family’s amoral dysfunctions. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: The Quiet is an artfully produced, comparatively non-formulaic independent film, but it’s not a dramatic enough departure from the . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE QUIET (2005) DIRECTED BY: Deagol Brothers FEATURING: Eric Lehning, Cody DeVos, Leah High, Brett Miller, Tia Shearer, Jordan Lehning PLOT: A young man finds one summer love with the reanimated object of his desire. WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: Skillful blending of genres combined with a premise of genuinely romantic necrophilia make this movie 100 . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: MAKE-OUT WITH VIOLENCE (2008) |
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