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Love Eternal (2013)
one day, a cloistered young man decides that he doesn’t want to live anymore and he starts researching various suicide methods. tens, hundreds of them. but funnily enough, it’s precisely his obsession with death that keeps him alive. accessing a particular side of “love” that most people are willing to sweep right under the rug,…
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The Ruling Class (1972)
let’s revisit a cult classic for a little bit: the ruling class directed by peter medak, an acidic satire that targets the english class system and leaves no room for subtlety when doing so. it simply goes for absurd lines, bizarre moments and justly schizophrenic acts instead. with one of a hell performance delivered by…
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Ravenous (1999)
this post works as a mere reminder of a movie that is unfairly neglected, underrated if not simply forgotten. ravenous, an oddball directed by antonia bird is definitely not what you would call a crowd-pleaser. and considering its dreadful official poster, who would give this movie a second thought? but, joking aside, ravenous dwells on…
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Når Dyrene Drømmer (When Animals Dream) (2014)
among last year’s feature film debuts, this one from jonas alexander arnby was an atmospheric wonder that immediately caught my attention. blunt, brisk and reckoning on intimate vibration, when animals dream has all it takes to fly right under the radar of any audience aching for a classic horror movie despite the werewolf analogy it…
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The Battery (2012)
two basketball players who’ve formed a battery (a defensive team of catcher and pitcher) back in the old days survive an apocalypse we don’t get to know anything about. wandering and scavenging ever since. one of them still dreaming of the old world and fantasizing about a pair of pink panties and a husky female…
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The Swimmer (1968)
ned merrill is what you would call an american suburbanite. athletic and well played by burt lancaster. who decides one day to swim his way back home through his neighbors’ private pools. it is a strange journey that seems to have its own dreamlike, almost cartoonish reality. but as ned stops to speak with each…
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The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)
dumping reality in favor of a quirky apocalyptic vision that involves no cannibalism, the nine lives of tomas katz is ben hopkins’s low budget endeavor to deliver spectral horror. a tall extra-terrestrial materializes from a sewer only to witness the last day of the universe and cause general chaos. changing his identity with the persons…
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Vanishing Waves (Aurora) (2012)
lithuanian feature written and directed by kristina buozyte. visually powerful, beautifully captured but without a great storyline. depicting an artificially induced neural connection between an awake scientist and a comatose woman. dwelling upon violent mental landscapes that escape the constant monitoring delivered by computer screens. showing that altered forms of consciousness can easily elude any…