The Call
Before low-budget thrillers took place on video calls (Unfriended: Quarantine is only a matter of time), they had to make do with telephones – Phone Booth, Grand Piano, Locke, Buried […]
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Twins
In Arnold Schwarzenegger’s comedic debut he plays Julius Benedict, a genetically superior superhuman, who discovers his long-lost twin (Danny DeVito) made from all the genes that were left over. His […]
Cube
If you’re looking for a film to watch as parts of the country re-enter lockdown, Canadian sci-fi/horror movie Cube ticks all the boxes. Five rubes wake up in a trap-infested cube […]
The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
I always assumed that catching bits of Naked Jungle would be the TV memory that scarred me to the day I gratefully died, until I sat through The People v. […]
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Set during the Great Depression, 1985’s The Purple Rose of Cairo finds Cecilia (Mia Farrow) disenchanted with her abusive husband and crummy waitressing job but enchanted by the movies. During her […]
As Good as Dead
The eminently torturable Cary Elwes is targeted by neo-Nazis in Jonathan Mossek’s As Good as Dead. This thankless thriller opened on a single screen in 2010, back when Nazism was […]
Saw II
The franchise with the world’s shortest average shot length continues with this Poundland staple from 2005, and this time the Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell) has 8 people trapped in a […]
Saw
In terms of lockdown movies, it doesn’t get much more locked down than Saw: two men (Cary Elwes and Leigh Whannell) wake up chained to pipes in the kind of […]
Scarecrow
A pair of drifters (a young Al Pacino and a middle aged Gene Hackman) drift into each other while drifting in the countryside. They decide to drift together for a […]
The Stranger
Professor Charles Rankin (Orson Welles) is an apparently normal history teacher-cum-clock enthusiast who is newly wedded to the lovely Mary (Loretta Young). Little does she know that her new hubby […]
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