It's sick, it's weird, it's spooky, but it's compulsive viewing. Forget Brat Packs and Rambo, this is the dark side to America. Beneath the squeaky clean surface lurk neuroses and perversions, degradation and despair. Brilliantly done, this film will haunt you.
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BULLET FOR THE GENERAL (1966)
Certification18 Our Rating
The first and best of the Italian "Mexi-Westerns", on a par with Leone's and with a haunting soundtrack. An American mercenary teams up with a bandit on the fringes of the revolutionaries in order to assinate their leader. A violent political film from the same pen as The Battle Of Algiers.
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CATCH-22 (1970)
Certification15 Our Rating
Adapted from the classic, absurdist, anti-war novel by Joseph Heller. "Catch-22" is the story of Yossarian, a pilot who trys to opt out of flying bombing missions by being declared insane, the catch being that anyone trying to avoid bombing missions by being insane must be sane. This dark classic catches much of the flavour of the book, the insanity, the corruption and the absurdity of war. Think MASH, but non-linear - flawed but awesome.
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CHEECH AND CHONG'S NEXT MOVIE (1980)
Certification18 Our Rating
The follow on from the amazingly funny stoner flick "Up In Smoke" - more anarchic adventures with the two stonedest space-cadets in the world. I shan't bother to try and tell you what it's all about, just get high and enjoy it.
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CRASH (CRONENBERG) (1998)
Certification18 Our Rating
David Cronenberg puts the human psyche under the microscope here, with the central characters seemingly hypnotised by their own dark compulsions. James and Catherine have an open relationship, proudly regaling each other with the ice-cold details of their latest extra-marital exploits, but a head-on crash involving Holly Hunter provides the catalyst for James's erotic obsession with auto accidents and, after hooking up with Vaughan, who re-stages celebrity car crashes, and his lover, who wears l
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CUBE (1998)
Certification15 Our Rating
A highly original and very clever sci-fi thriller in which six strangers awaken in a maze of darkened, box-like rooms, with no idea of how they got there or how to get out. A distant but ominous grinding noise permeates the walls of their prison, but it transpires that each of the six has some sort of skill that may help their escape. Filmed entirely within a cunningly designed single set, and starring an unknown cast, "Cube" is a gripping riddle of a movie which, happily, refrains from a cop-ou
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DARK CITY (1998)
Certification15 Our Rating
Dark and brooding sci-fi treat from the director of "The Crow". In a city controlled by "The Strangers" - a colony of spooky bald aliens - everything stops at midnight. The citizens' memories are reprogrammed, and their surroundings altered, with everyone waking up in a state of dazed confusion. Everyone that is, except John Murdoch, (Rufus Sewell) who is somehow immune to the induced collective trance, and who knows that the murder rap he is suddenly, supposedly, facing is a nonsense. Sinister
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DOG SOLDIERS (1978)
Certification18 Our Rating
A brutal gripping thriller that finds Vietnam Vet Ray Hicks, a character modelled on notorious beatnik Neal Cassady, helping out an old friend by smuggling a stash of heroin into the States. Double-crossed and ambushed Ray barely escapes with his life, a state of affairs his attackers are determined to rectify. Released in the US as 'Who'll Stop The Rain?', "Dog Soldiers" is a tight, hard, action adventure with emotional depth, engaging characters and is one of the best American films of the lat
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EATING RAOUL (1982)
Certification18 Our Rating
Paul and Mary Bland dream of owning a restaurant, if only they had the cash. Sickened by their neighbours' nightly orgies, the prudish pair suddenly realise that swingers have one thing in their favour, they're all loaded! And besides who'd miss them...? An outrageously irreverent, most deliciously black, comic collision of sex, food and murder.
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ENTER THE DRAGON (1973)
Certification18 Our Rating
America does Bruce Lee, who is sent to investigate a private army on a desert island. This features the famous final fight sequence in the hall of mirrors. Legend has it that during one fight scene his flying kick was too fast to be captured at 24 frames per second, forcing the camera man to film in slow motion in order to make it look real! Ouch!
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