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eXistenZ is director David Cronenberg’s 1999 film that is his strangest and most disturbing yet. It was overshadowed during its release, but has picked up a bit of a cult fan-base since it was released on DVD. A world-famous, celebrity virtual reality game designer named Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is unveiling a demonstration of [...]

Paul W.S. Anderson is not a director known for producing artistic films and this is no exception, but what he does deliver in Event Horizon is one of the most original and terrifying horror movies of the 1990s. Starring Laurence Fishburne as Captain Miller, Sam Neill as Dr. William Weir, Kathleen Quinlan as Peters, [...]

10. Lady in White (1988) Falling neatly into the nobody-saw-it category of remakes is Frank LaLoggia’s Lady in White, an unusual little ghost story that originally starred Lukas Haas and Len Cariou. The movie barely made a dent in the slasher-crazy world of ’80s horror movies, but it’s the kind of alternative to what the genre [...]

#2: Hostel: Part II Castration Performed By: Garden Pruners Eli Roth gave new meaning to critics’ “gornography” nickname for his ultra-gory Hostel series in the second to final scene of his sequel. In this completely unexpected moment, the soon-to-be tortured Beth gains the upper hand when she unflinchingly severs the penis of her torturer with a [...]

John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson star in this 2007 adaption of a Stephen King short story, directed by Mikael Håfström (Derailed, 2005) surrounding the mysteries of  a haunted hotel room in New York City. Continue reading… SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "1408, 2007", url: "http://fauxnixon.com/1408-2007/" });

Matt Reeves’s much marketed 2008 action/horror/thriller Cloverfield lives up to its hype.  It takes the point-of-view camera technique utilized in The Blair Witch Project and brings it to new extremes as it ekes out a truly creepy and unsettling looking at an attack on Manhattan by what can only be described as a monster. Continue [...]

The duo which brought us The Beach in 2000 now brings to theaters a zombie movie that will ultimately change the genre from one predominated by B-movies to one where humanity is examined after society has been removed to help us learn more about how essential socialization is to humanity. If that sounds like something [...]

#3: Cotton Candy Gun From: Killer Klowns from Outer Space Used by: The Killer Klowns Easily one of the most inventive guns ever to be featured in a movie, horror or otherwise, is the cotton candy guns wielded by the grotesque alien Klowns of Killer Klowns from Outer Space. When fired, the guns discharge a beam of electricity [...]