Suicide Club (2001)

Suicide Club starts with 50 school girls jumping in front of a train. There is so much blood that the train is unable to stop. Body parts fly all over the screen. Then it gets worse.

Many films claim the title of "the best movie ending ever," but when it comes to jaw dropping beginnings, this little cult film is pretty hard to beat.

And, as unbelievable as it probably sounds, it is also somehow a deep and meaningful film. Although the film is literary littered with suicides, that is still not what it is actually about. The suicides are more of a tool to express dismay of modern society. It's really about technology, alienation and pop culture. A lot about pop culture. But you will need a whole stack of clean towels to wipe the blood splatter of your face, to see that.

Because Suicide Club doesn't give you any answers. Just like cult classic Donnie Darko, it is pretty much impossible to understand what it was all about after your first viewing. Still, or maybe because of that, it is a haunting experience that you will not be able to put out of your mind for quite a time. I still think about it, and it's almost 10 years since I first saw it.

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Staplerfahrer Klaus (2000)

Driving a fork lift is fun! There's blood, there's guts and there's headless torsos running all over the place.

But there are also rules.

This short film will tell you all about the dos and don'ts of fork lift driving, and as an added bonus it will give you that happy, fuzzy-go-lucky feeling, where the hero drive off into the sunset.

If you don't find this film funny, you're simply a boring person.

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The Mighty Boosh (2004)

Don't do drugs. Watch this show instead!

Weird doesn't even begin to describe The Mighty Boosh. It's so full of... colors! The characters, the stories, the sets, the broken logic and whole universe; everything is just strange. Like watching the recording of a dream.

It might take a few episodes to understand what the hell it is you're watching, but pretty soon you'll be wondering who dropped acid in your drink, laughing your ass off and deciding that you owe whoever it was a big "Thank you!"

There's also a Boosh radio show, a book and a few other things as well, but if you're new to the whole universe, start with a few episodes of the TV show, and you'll be happy to find there is more.

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The Crow (1994)

The Crow really sparkles. Made up of a mostly black and red palette, there are always more shadows and dark silhouettes, than light. The cinematography is amazing, and the imagery alone is enough to put a twinkle in my eye. A certain character claims that it can't rain all the time, but none the less, it does so for the most of the film, peppering trash littered streets where hoodlums and lowlifes reign.

Still the best comic book movie of all time. It kinda gets a bad rap for "only being famous because Brandon Lee was killed during filming", but even though Lee is awesome in this, the real stars were always the badguys, in my opinion.

Top Dollar, T-Bird, Skank, Tin Tin, Funboy and even Gideon. They're all astoundingly awesome. I mean, they literary eat bullets for fun! That's just pure class.

Michael Wincott's voice is out of this world, and when he does the whole bit about: "Greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy: now that's fun!" DAMN that's probably the coolest sentence ever said in all of cinema history. And as a final topping, the great soundtrack serves as a line of coke in your ears.

Whatever you do though, stay as far away from the sequels as possible.

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Martyrs (2008)

VIOLENCE. TORTURE. DEATH. BLOOD.

POW!

This film doesn't wait to build up suspense, before ending in an epic climax. It's there from the very start. Thick, sticky, blood practically drips from the DVD.

"This is the sickest shit I have ever seen," said a friend when we watched this together. And it certainly is pretty fucked up, giving a total "you-want-to-look-away-but-you-just-can't"-effect. This soon-to-be cult film will make you cringe and whine and shake your head to no end. It really gets to you.

And it should. Remember, it's supposed to be a horror movie. It tries to make you horrified, and it succeeds. That is what makes it good.

But what defines a really good horror film is that beneath all the blood and guts and grueling violence, there's actually a message or two to be found. Existential torture, you might say. It is certainly there in Martyrs too, but do you have the stomach to dive down into the pools of blood to find it?

If so, then you should watch it now, before the Hollywood remake comes out.

WARNING: If you got scared by Paranormal Activity, then this film is certainly not for you. This is some advanced sick shit!

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Candyman (1992)

Candyman is ridiculously advertised as "The scariest movie since Silence of the Lambs."

Actually, it's a love story. And a both beautiful and intelligent one at that.

For this is certainly not just another "screaming-girl-running-from-a-scary-man"-flick, no! Instead, it tells a gripping Pandora's Box-story, of sacrifice and immortal love.

Beautifully shot, amazingly scripted, hypnotic acting (the star, Virginia Madsen, was actually hypnotized for real during some scenes of this film) and the music... oh, the music.

Based on a story by the great Clive Barker, and scored by the legendary Philip Glass, this is a film to soothe sore bones.

At least that's what I see.

Maybe it's just a screaming girl running from a scary man.

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Naked Lunch (1991)

William S. Burroughs was a writer that got employed as secret agent in the state of Interzone for at least 18 years. The regular reports he wrote in this time was later collected in a novel called Naked Lunch. When the novel was finally finished however, mr. Burroughs said he knew nothing about it. He'd been a junkie the last 18 years.

So what really happened in all those years? This film certainly wont tell you. But it might very well turn you into an agent in Interzone too.

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Amores Perros (2000)

A good story is magic. It is enthralling. Wondrous.

Coming up with that good story is damn difficult business.

If it wasn't, good films wouldn't be so rare.

And that is why we have so much respect and admiration for those who conjure up the tales we fall in love with.

Amores Perros doesn't have one good story. It has three. All of them are magic.

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