Cases involving people going missing have increased sixfold in the past 25 years. It is said that at least 100,000 people a year go missing in New York City. Most missing person’s cases are the results of accidental death, suicides, kidnappings and murders. In most...
Naoyuki Tomomatsu’s Stacy, based on Kenji Otsuki’s novel as adapted by Chisato Oogawara, is a tongue-in-cheek apocalyptic tale posing as social criticism. However, amid all of the genre referencing and subplots, Tomomatsu’s narrative loses focus as its unbalanced...
The longevity of Jeff Lieberman’s Squirm has been largely due to its unjust classification as a cult classic. Granted, the production is very poorly made yet it does not find its proper niche alongside Ed Wood’s features or Coleman Francis’s The Beast of Yucca Flats...
Robert Siodmak’s The Spiral Staircase is an ingeniously constructed suspense thriller which resulted in Ethel Barrymore’s nomination for Best Supporting Actress. The work is a patient, taut, well written old, dark house tale surrounding a serial killer years before...
Co-director Adam Green has described his third film as resembling what would happen if “Alfred Hitchcock pulled Woody Allen over and fucked him in the ass”. While that image will stay with all of us for the rest of our days, upon watching SPIRAL, you can see his point...
