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Movie reviews and images from the seedy underbelly of world cinema. May contain offensive language, sex scenes, graphic violence, drug use, horror, gratuitous nudity, and/or traces of nuts.

The Informers, USA 2009

With rampant sex, drug use, gratuitous nudity and outstanding use of period music, The Informers is an experience more than a film. As a slice of life evoking a specific time period, the film works extraordinarily well. As a complete story, not so much ... Read on

Welcome to the Quiet Room, Japan 2007

Set in a psychiatric ward, Asuka finds herself strapped to a bed with no idea how she got there. Her hallucinations seque in and out of reality as she tries to get a grip on where she is and why ... Read on

SexyKiller, Spain 2008

What do you get when you mix a sexy psychotic coed with a science experiment gone awry and a band of flesh-eating zombies? In this case, you get one of the best horror-comedies in recent years ... Read on

LoveDeath, Japan 2006

LoveDeath from director Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Azumi) is essentially a Japanese road movie cum Yakuza flick, which explains the 'death' portion of the film's title. There's loads of guns, standoffs, random killings, and even a few squirty death sequences ... Read on

The Kiss, Canada / USA 1988

The Kiss is a supernatural erotic horror that effectively mixes a foreboding atmosphere with a pervasive sexual undercurrent, as the battle for 16yo Amy's virginal soul is waged against an ancient evil from Africa ... Read on

The Unborn, USA 2009

The Unborn is a truly creepy movie that delivers its shocks and scares with style. Rather than relying on humour or gore, Goyer uses tension and suspense in the classic horror tradition that Hollywood seems to have largely forgotten ... Read on

Princess Aurora, Korea 2005

Korea is a country perhaps best known for its melodramas, but also for excellent revenge flicks such as Oldboy. Actress and first time director Eun-jin Bang gives us a melodramatic revenge flick that successfully mixes the two ... Read on

Satanás, Colombia 2007

Loosely based on a book by Mario Mendoza, this is a brutal movie at times, featuring rape, murder, revenge, and downright anti-social behaviour. Due to its realism and the quality of the film-making, it will probably shock more ... Read on

The Machine Girl, Japan 2008

There's no pandering to sensitive tastes or the moral high ground here. There's gore galore, Japanese schoolgirls covered in blood, and sick Yakuza bastards all rolled together into one epic low-brow comedy-horror revenge flick that pulls no punches. Read on

Valerie's Week of Wonders, Czechoslovakia 1970

A dreamlike, raunchy Alice in Wonderland on acid. It's sometimes slow, sometimes weird, often sexy, and almost always puzzling - but certainly an interesting and unique film, which is artfully photographed with many memorable images. read on

Hell Ride, USA 2008

Rampant nudity, over the top violence, convoluted plot, and clever dialogue - this is adults only baby, bless its dark soul. The film nods its homages so often it could cause whiplash! But it doesn't come across as a cheap imitation - at least not unwittingly.
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