HE WENT SEARCHING FOR LOVE… BUT FATE FORCED A DETOUR TO REVELRY… VIOLENCE… MYSTERY! Pianist Al Roberts (Tom Neal) is headed to California where his girlfriend is trying to launch a career, but an unexpected death changes the journey… One of the most famous films that Edgar G. Ulmer made has become perhaps the most … Continue reading Detour
CROSS THE LINE. DEATH WILL FOLLOW YOU BACK. Medical student Courtney Holmes (Ellen Page) is interested in finding out what happens right after you die and convince other students to join her in a dangerous experiment. A remake of the 1990 movie that feels considerably more conventional. The horror ingredients are still part of the … Continue reading Flatliners
IT’S BEAUTIFUL. IT’S EROTIC. IT’S TERRIFYING. THEY KNOW. THEY’VE CROSSED THE LINE. Five medical students begin experimenting with what happens right after you die by flatlining for one minute until the others resuscitate. A thriller with horror elements as each student who participates in the experiments is haunted by something awful from their past that … Continue reading Flatliners
A family living an isolated life somewhere in the woods after a contagious outbreak wiped out most of the population suddenly get a visitor… Trey Edward Shults wrote this relentlessly dark story as a way to deal with his father’s death; that’s also sort of how the film begins. A thriller with horror elements (including … Continue reading It Comes at Night
THE PAST NEVER FORGETS. Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) is hired to get her hands on a computer program built to access the world’s nuclear codes. Seven years after The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo came this sequel, based on a novel that wasn’t part of the original ”Millennium” trilogy. Intensely focused on Salander’s past and … Continue reading The Girl in the Spider’s Web
WHEN HE HEARD HIS CRY FOR HELP IT WASN’T HUMAN. Psychopathologist Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) begins to experiment with his mind using drugs from a Mexican tribe and a flotation tank. This sci-fi film was a departure for Ken Russell, a collaboration with Paddy Chayefsky that didn’t end well. The latter based his story on … Continue reading Altered States
THIS ISN’T A PRISON. IT’S A MACHINE. When a colleague of Ray Breslin’s (Sylvester Stallone) finds himself and his cousin kidnapped and locked up in a high-tech prison, Breslin and his team must figure out a way to break them out. A sequel that went straight to DVD and showed that the original film’s concept … Continue reading Escape Plan 2: Hades
THE LEGENDS WHO TOOK DOWN BONNIE AND CLYDE. We all know the story of how Bonnie and Clyde met, went on a crime spree and were finally killed in an ambush in 1934; Arthur Penn’s 1967 movie contributed to the romantic allure of the tale. This one follows two of the men who hunted the … Continue reading The Highwaymen
QUEEN… OF A CRIME CULT! A gang of criminals are trying to locate three music boxes with a secret hidden inside that were made in prison. The fourteenth and last in this Sherlock Holmes series is also the weakest, its thrills looking fairly mediocre in comparison with the adventures of the last two films. The … Continue reading Dressed to Kill
STILL THE MAN, ANY QUESTIONS? The son (Christian Bale) of a wealthy real estate tycoon kills a black man, is released on bail and leaves the country; when he returns a few years later, New York cop John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) is determined to see him punished. When this blaxploitation hero was revived a … Continue reading Shaft
ONE WAY TICKET TO DEATH…! Sherlock Holmes and dr. Watson (Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce) are on a train bound for Scotland where a murder is committed and a very valuable diamond is stolen. Film no. 13 in the series shows how well-made these simple little thrillers were. In just an hour we’re offered action (Holmes … Continue reading Terror by Night
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) agrees to escort a royal prince home to his country from London; assassins are on their trail. The twelfth chapter in this series takes place largely on a ship bound for Algiers, which is a welcome change of location. Dangers lurk everywhere, especially when three agents board the vessel after a … Continue reading Pursuit to Algiers
Santiago ”Pope” Garcia (Oscar Isaac) gathers a team of friends, all retired Special Forces soldiers, for a mission to Colombia where they intend to steal millions of dollars from a drug lord. A change of pace for J.C. Chandor, who’s not exactly famous for his action-thrillers – but he has plenty of help from co-writer … Continue reading Triple Frontier
