Deadgirl, 2008. Directed by Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel. Starring Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan and Candice Accola. SYNOPSIS: Two high school boys bunk off school to go drink beers in the local abandoned insane asylum – what could possibly go wrong? How about discovering a bound and gagged naked (un)dead woman… Rickie and JT are […]
Extreme Cinema – Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, 1975. Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Starring Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto P. Quintavalle and Aldo Valletti. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film Salò (Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, 1975) is based on the Marquis de Sade’s novel 120 Days of Sodom. Instead of France, the story […]
Extreme Cinema – Irreversible
Irreversible, 2002. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, and Albert Dupontel. Irreversible (2002) features strong language, sex, violence and sexual violence in its tale of a woman raped in a subway and whose boyfriend and ex-lover seek a bloody revenge on her attacker. When shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the graphic […]
Extreme Cinema – The Last House on the Left (1972)
The Last House on the Left, 1972. Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, Gaylord St. James and Cynthia Carr. The early 1970s was the period in which America was a nation bitterly divided over the Vietnam War. Wes Craven, a then young director of exploitation […]
Extreme Cinema – The Bunny Game (2010)
The Bunny Game, 2010. Directed by Adam Rehmeier. Starring Rodleen Getsic, Jeff F. Renfro and Gregg Gilmore. SYNOPSIS: A prostitute accepts a ride from the wrong man and finds herself trapped and tortured. It would appear that the horror genre is willingly sinking deeper and deeper into depravity in an attempt to shock, disgust and […]
Extreme Cinema – Pieces (1982)
Pieces, 1982. Directed by Juan Piquer Simón. Starring Ian Sera, Christopher George, Frank Braña, and Lynda Day George. SYNOPSIS: Young girls find themselves brutally hacked to pieces when a chainsaw killer strikes an American university campus. The tagline for Pieces – ‘You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre!’ – should suitably […]
Blu-ray Review – Why Don’t You Just Die! (2018)
Why Don’t You Just Die!, 2018. Directed by Kirill Sokolov. Starring Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Vitaliy Khaev, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Michael Gor, and Aleksandr Domogarov. SYNOPSIS: A cop and four other people find themselves in a violent and bloody standoff. If the grindhouse-style title of Russian director Kirill Sokolov’s debut feature Why Don’t You Just Die! doesn’t fill […]
Extreme Cinema – Crash (1996)
Crash, 1996. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring James Spader, Deborah Unger, Holly Hunter, and Elias Koteas. Whilst the depiction of sex and violence in films has often been the main focal point for the British Board of Film Classification’s decision making, never have the two been combined more provocatively in mainstream cinema as in the […]
Exclusive Interview – Composer Ian Chen discusses his G.A.N.G. nominated Fantastic Creatures score
The Game Audio Network Guild recently announced that instead of cancelling the 18th Annual Game Audio Network Guild Awards that were supposed to be held March 19th, they would be moving the show to a digital event at the end of April or May. While fans are waiting to see who takes home the coveted […]
Blu-ray Review – Phase IV (1974)
Phase IV, 1974. Directed by Saul Bass. Starring Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick, Alan Gifford, Robert Henderson, and Helen Horton. SYNOPSIS: After a cosmic event the ants of the Arizona desert begin to wage war on the life that inhabits the area. Given the state of things at the moment, as humanity faces the […]