Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, 1997 Directed by Kirby DickStarring Bob Flanagan, Sheree Rose SYNOPSIS: Documentary on the performance artist, writer, musician and cystic fibrosis sufferer Bob Flanagan. Oh, and he’s a ‘supermasochist’, too. Bob Flanagan cuts a frail figure. His eyes bulge slightly from his face and blue veins push […]

Mother’s Day, 2010. Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. Starring Rebecca De Mornay, Jaime King, Briana Evigan, Patrick Flueger, Warren Kole, Matt O’Leary, Deborah Ann Woll, Shawn Ashmore, Frank Grillo, Lisa Marcos, Lyriq Bent, Tony Nappo, Kandyse McClure and Jessie Rusu. SYNOPSIS:  The sadistic members of a villainous family return to their childhood home, interrupting a […]

King of Devil’s Island (Kongen av Bastøy), 2010. Directed by Marius Holst. Starring Stellan Skarsgård, Benjamin Helstad, Kristoffer Joner and Trond Nilssen.SYNOPSIS:In 1915 a group of young offenders are pushed to the limits of human endurance on the Norwegian prison island of Bastøy.Calling to mind ‘youth run amok’ dramas as varied as Lord of the […]

The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), 2011.Written and Directed by Tom Six.Starring Laurence R. Harvey, Ashlynn Yennie, Maddi Black, Kandace Caine, Dominic Borrelli and Lucas Hansen. SYNOPSIS:Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.The open-ended finale of The Human Centipede […]

The Human Centipede (First Sequence), 2009.Written and Directed by Tom Six.Starring Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie and Akihiro Kitamura.SYNOPSIS:A mad surgeon kidnaps and mutilates a trio of tourists in order to reassemble them into his new ‘pet’, connecting the trio’s gastric systems to create a ‘human centipede’.Two films which have garnered huge attention […]

Storage 24, 2012. Directed by Johannes Roberts.Staring Noel Clarke, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Laura Haddock, Colin O’Donoghue, Jamie Thomas King and Alex Price. SYNOPSIS: London is in chaos. A military cargo plane has crashed leaving its highly classified contents strewn across the city. Completely unaware that London is in lockdown, Charlie and Shelley, accompanied by best friends […]

Lovely Molly, 2011. Directed by Eduardo Sanchez.Starring Gretchen Lodge, Johnny Lewis, Alexandra Holden, Ken Arnold and Lauren Lakis. SYNOPSIS: Newlywed Molly moves into her deceased father’s house in the countryside, where painful memories begin to haunt her. The Blair Witch Project. The film that started it all. Apparently. Since its colossal and unprecedented success back […]

Polisse, 2011.Directed by Maïwenn.Starring Karin Viard, Joey Starr, Marina Foïs, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Maïwenn, Emmanuelle Bercot and Frédéric Pierrot.SYNOPSIS:A photographer is assigned to document the operations of the police officers of the Child Protection Unit and gets an insight into their daily grind as they attempt to balance their private lives with the harsh reality they […]

Cloud Atlas, 2012. Directed by Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski.Starring Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Keith David, James D’Arcy, Xun Zho, Doona Bae and Zhu Zhu. SYNOPSIS: An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, […]

Dark Shadows, 2012. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jonny Lee Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Chloë Grace Moretz and Bella Heathcote.   SYNOPSIS: After two hundred years, the vampire Barnabus Collins is freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972 where he […]