Horror

Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: Norman Sinder and David Cronenberg based on a book by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland
Release Year: 1988

Love is the deadliest disease

Few filmmakers have a style as clearly defined as Canadian director David Cronenberg, whose career has been developed on a constantly evolving path moving from the themes of extreme physical horror of his early years (which culminate in the awesome remake of “The Fly” in 1986) to the subtler, psychologically oriented (though no less disturbing) themes of his recent work. Like a trip from the outer body horror to the inner one, the one of the mind.

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Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Glenn M. Benest, Matthew Barr & Wes Craven
Release Year: 1981

When Pennsylvania Dutch go bad.

After Jim Schmidt (Douglas Barr) dies in a tractor accident – it rolls over him even though he told his wife, Martha (Maren Jensen), that he’d removed the wheels – things get weird. Since Jim was born into a religious culture called the ‘Hittites’ that are like a jerkoff branch of the Amish, they keep annoying his widow for unknown reasons. There’s a lot of talk about young Faith Stohler (Lisa Hartman) being the messenger of the incubus, or maybe it’s someone else, or maybe not….

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Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Bruce Joel Rubin based on a novel by Diana Henstell
Release Year: 1986

Boys will be boys and girls will be robots.

Young nerd Paul Conway (Matthew Laborteaux) moves to a new town for school to work on his robot and meets cute girl-next-door Samantha Pringle (Kristy Swanson). Because of a close encounter with professional paranoid crazy lady Elvira Parker (Anne Ramsey) Paul’s life takes an unfortunate turn. Eventually, Paul’s robot BB (annoyingly voiced by Charles Fleischer) and Samantha get a little closer together than anyone could have wished….

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Director: Yoon Hong-Seung
Writer: Yoon Hong-Seung and Kim Eun-Kyeong
Release Year: 2008
Korean title: Gosa

Saw set in a Seoul school

It’s Saturday in Seoul. Twenty intelligent high school graduates have gathered for some special tutoring to prepare for the university’s entry exam. What they didn’t anticipate, is that their very lives will depend on their correct answers when they find themselves targeted by an anonymous killer, who is about to turn this exam into a merciless game of torture, horror and death.

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Director: James Sbardellati
Writer: Howard R. Cohen
Release year: 1983

One boobie, two boobies, four boobies, six boobies, eight…

The fearless warrior Deathstalker (Richard Hill), defender of all women who expose their breasts, sets off on a quest to obtain three ancient relics with magical powers. The evil magician Munkar (Bernard Erhard) pretty much wants the same, only he cares a bit less about topless women and more about, well, uhm, doing evil things. Naturally, there’s also a princess held captive which the mighty Deathstalker has to save.

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