The second section of the list of the 25 most disturbing films ever made that was originally published on the indie website GreenCine. Featuring the infamous Spankwire Video in a special, no-holds-barred addendum!
It’s the latest thing in the pornographic industry:
1. We Live In Pubic – the documentary about Postmodern media that wowed ‘em at Sundance is now a hot as heck reality porn guaranteed to raise your Derrida.
2. Capturing The Piedmonts – the tragic real life story about Long Island Jews and child molestation is transformed into [...]
The inimitable Brando in an engaging interview from 1980. A SHTL exclusive. Questions by Peter Bogdonavich.
Deeper Into The Page: Writers and Poets On Film
By Simon Augustine
Introduction: The Public Mind’s Eye
Could writers working prior to the 20th Century have imagined their creations and characters being expressed in films, with all the dramatic innovations that moving pictures afford? With the advent of film, the literary arts, ancient by comparison, were instantaneously afforded [...]
I saw Harold and Maude the other night for only the second time, and for the first time in about 8 years. What an extraordinary piece of work it is: only a handful of mainstream American films have attempted, and carried off, such absolutely pitch black and dangerous humor, tenderness, pathos, and hilarity within the [...]
Here at Somebody Hit The Lights! we are really excited about our upcoming feature on legendary horror director David Cronenberg, and the rumored release of his much anticipated and much debated film that almost wasn’t: “The Man With Vaginas Growing On His Arms.” Based on a script he originally wrote while taking a break from [...]
Surprisingly Spiritual Films:
Bad Lieutenant and Last-Shot Redemption
By Simon Augustine, Dr. Mal Sardonicus III and research by Lights! Editorial Staff
Abel Ferrara started his career as one of the directors you would leasts expect to make a serious-minded, even devout, Christian film. Ferrara, like fellow filmmaker Martin Scorsese, built his reputation with an oeuvre of gritty New [...]
Disturbing Night At The Movies:” The Ultimate List of Dangerous Films (or How I Misspent My Youth Watching Slashers, Sickos, and Psychos Instead of Reading Shakespeare)
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.-Klaus Kinski, disturbing actor, target of Werner Herzog murder plot
Please Do Not Read This Article [...]
Few films deserve the grand appellation “piece of shit,” and I am perhaps even more recalcitrant than other filmgoers to throw that kind of judgment around loosely; after all, I do not subscribe, as many do these days, to the almost default critical persona that assumes a condescending superior distance to any work of art [...]
According to our market research, there’s nothing customers love more than to talk to the customer service departments of cable companies over the phone. A real live person! No pesky online tasks! That’s why UnderDO Cable Co. is the only minor cable outlet that enables and requires you to talk with customer service each time you want to change the channel. Don’t [...]
The New Trend: X-Rated Movies Based on Actual, Obscure Documentaries
Brando’s Last Stand: The Forgotten Interview
The Public Mind’s Eye. Deeper Into The Page: Writers and Poets On Film, Part I, An Intro.
Surprisingly Spiritual Films #2: Bad Lieutenant and Last Shot Redemption
The Mystical Dashboard: Primer and The Frontiers of the Low Budget
Challenge-A-Critic (Tm) Contest is Coming Soon!
