Feed Your Dark Side

Romanian art-film that's extremely compelling while emotionally devastating at times.

A cheerfully dark and absurd collection of images and events that will leave you wanting more.

Takashi Miike introduces the ultimate Mistress of Pain.

This Aussie gem manages to knock over taboos like bowling pins while still delivering a compelling story with all kinds of psycho-social insights. Give it a look!

Kill or be killed. On a mass scale. And they're kids.

One wicked little exercise in grotesque and unsettling surrealism. This is not your grandmother's movie.

Unsettling in the deepest sense of the word.

De-romanticizing idyllic suburban life with unflinching relentlessness.

A superbly crafted, sad, haunting, and at times visceral capturing journey into the mind and struggle of a schizophrenic man

Darkly erotic and haunting, this is a portrait of addiction and obsession like you've never seen.

A thoroughly depressing movie, but also a deeply human one with moments of spiritual levity. Von Trier's most multidimensional film with Bjork leading us through the dark.

The godfather of the 'Midnight Movie' this sprawling epic of Western meets bizarre mystical journey has a bit of something for everyone. Kind of amazing, really.

An especially vicious and harrowing take on the "vacation gone horribly fucking wrong" sub-genre of horror. This will make you cringe. And it'll make you fearful of the world we live in.

Lynch gives us a bizarre glimpse at his lonely, fearful soul.

Black comedy doesn't come any blacker, social critique doesn't come any grimmer.

Vicious and splendid little movie by Peter Jackson that takes us deep into the psychology of two inseparable adolescent girls.

Brutally stone-cold depiction of a mad man, made all the more unnerving by its cinematic aptitude.

A deranged tale from master Swede Ingmar Bergman. This one's a surreal nightmare reluctant to remove its claws from your mind.

David Lynch's transition to digital is a wild success, in its own eccentric way. 3 full hours and I was completely absorbed every second. Phenomenal sound editing too!

Indecently bloody, uncannily realistic looking. The French outdid themselves!

The only time I can remember hitting fast-forward during a committed first-time watch. I'll never see a red corridor/tunnel/hallway without recalling this goddamn movie.

About the worst fever-dream one can imagine.

Lynch has a knack for capturing things the human subconscious would rather forget.

You'll be shaking too hard to pick your jaw up off the floor!

Told with devastating power this film introduces us to two boys at age 8 and 18, and how their traumatic experiences have shaped them in unique ways, while steadily bringing them together to face a shared and tragic past.

If the second half was a great as the first half, this would be a true masterpiece. Instead it's a noteworthy oddity from the marvelous David Cronenberg.

A stylish powerhouse of a film, superb in every way. Squeamish need not apply.

Darkly beautiful, moody, academic, and haunting. It's a mesmerizing and rich and delightfully hellish viewing experience.

Don't watch on a full stomach.

A top notch Spanish mystery thriller revolving around a college student's disappearance and a snuff video.

The ultimate cyber-punk mayhem experience. Everything here is designed to shock, mesmerize, and blow your mind!

Brazenly nihilistic and a true technical achievement in horror.

Cronenberg serves up a darkly ingenious meditation on the human condition.

Ingmar Bergman presents a dark fable/nightmare involving rape, murder, troublesome coincidence, and religious subtext. Inspired Wes Craven's Last House on the Left.

Exciting and disturbing achievement in contemporary horror that provides plenty to cringe at and chew on afterward.

I'm supposed to love it but I don't. Something just doesn't feel right in the approach that maybe wouldn't give me such fits if it were a lesser work of cinema.

Overly smug, self-satisfied and obtuse and never adds up to anything of import. Might even belong in the "Regretted" section.

I really wanted to like this film, but not unlike other Lars Van Trier efforts, too much struck me as pretentious posturing. But fucked up, to be sure.

Like most of Haneke's work, this didn't do much for me.

Belgium does TCM with mixed results.

25 minutes of a terribly sad and painfully observant destruction of the human soul, set within a broken marriage. Oh, and one of the most shocking acts of self-inflicted harm I've ever seen on screen. It's now without its merits I guess, but I sure wish I hadn't watched it.

I haven't looked at a dumbbell the same way since.

Too long for its own good and visually repetitive, though certain aspects of the film are quite impressive.

Has its moments, but in the end not as satisfying or as delightfully/wickedly haunting as its peers- Inside and Martyrs.

Most people think rather highly of this movie, but it simply didn't hold my interest the way I imagined it would. Most of the violence is highly stylized and leans toward ridiculous rather than disturbing. Nothing against the movie, just didn't do it for me.

See above. Plus lame-ass twist ending.

After you've finished watching this technical marvel of a thoroughly dark and bloody film you'll be excited to find somebody to talk to that didn't just finish watching it. It's impressive in a number of ways, but quite sadistic.