“My son, there’s murder in every intelligent man’s heart.” Generally regarded as the first film noir, this taut little paranoid crime thriller clocks in at just 64 minutes. An ambitious…

“Terror Stalks the Bayou!” A nice little atmospheric horror film produced on a miniscule budget by PRC, Strangler of the Swamp opens with the haunting lines: “Old legends – strange…

"Paris! City of Love and Intrigue—Scene of the Most Fascinating Mystery Ever Filmed!" Based on a popular urban legend, So Long at the Fair is an immensely entertaining mystery/thriller set…

“Nothing in nature is terrifying when one understands it.” The third film in Universal’s Frankenstein series and the sequel to Bride of Frankenstein (1935), the reasonably entertaining Son of Frankenstein…

“Hike your own hike.” I stumbled upon Southbounders purely by accident during a futile search for Appalachian Trail documentaries a couple of years ago (I had delusions of hiking the…

“This has gone well beyond the boundaries of prudence and good taste.” Love it or loathe it, this camp classic is a demented little low-budget horror flick/black comedy you won’t…

“Nothing in common. Everything to gain.” A low-key independent film that boasts some remarkable performances, Spring Forward centers around the developing friendship between two parks department employees in a small…

“The years I’ve spent trying to get all the things I was told were important – that I was supposed to want! Things! Not people … or meaning. Just things.”…

“Hong Kong Cinema Over the Edge.” Just when aging martial arts expert “Sang Kuan Chun” (Jack Long) prepares to retire, his abilities are questioned by an anonymous source. So he…

“His dreams were beautiful, innocent and harmless. Until the day they came true." Of all the oddest, most unlikely romantic pairings in film history, Ned Beatty (Deliverance) and Mia Sara…