The Cult Club: Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Peir Paolo Pasolini’s final film, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, is one of the most notorious arthouse movies ever made and frequently ...
Tag: disturbing
Reviews
Review: Nothing Bad Can Happen
The German title of Nothing Bad Can Happen is “Tore Dances,” something I knew from the beginning thanks to the multiple attempts I have made ...
Reviews
Review: The Square
It’s easy to ignore what’s going on half a world away. By the time the Egyptian people were fighting to take down Mohammed ...
Reviews
Review: National Security
People walked out of the premiere at National Security, which played last year at the Busan International Film Festival. I wonder what was ...
Features
Flixist Discusses: Trash, violence, and scathing reviews
On Sunday I posted a video about the response to my extremely negative review of A Woman and War, explaining why I reviewed ...
Fantasia Review: Thanatomorphose
The other week, Alec and I had a good discussion about extreme horror and disturbing cinema. Inevitably the best films that are disturbing, ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Lesson of the Evil
Takashi Miike, who makes at least a dozen films a year, has been off making Samurai films and videogame adaptations instead of the blood-drenched ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: Smuggler
[For the month of July, we will be covering the New York Asian Film Festival and the (also New York-based) Japan Cuts Film ...
Trailers
Red Band Trailer: Maniac
We posted a truncated, crap quality version of this trailer last week, and let me tell you something, after watching the full, heavily ...
Iranian actress gets jailed and lashed for acting
In news that is sure to get civil rights advocates steaming, an Iranian woman has been jailed for appearing in a film critical ...
Review: The Woman
Human Centipede 2 is on the tips of everyone’s tongue these days when it comes to movies that obliterate the boundaries of good taste. As a ...