Chris Recommendations

Triumphantly ridiculous rapid-fire comedy masterpiece! It slows down a bit at the very end, but that's hardly worth mentioning because there's enough brilliance to earn a perfect rating. The dialogue is a work of art!

Enjoyable, gruesome parody of "converging storyline" dramas a la CRASH. Once again Stuart Gordon lives up to his surname (GORE-don, heh) in a film that satisfies as drama, although few will want to see it twice.

As a general rule, I find the Troma catalog to be more miss than hit, but this is a bleedin' masterpiece.

Kiefer and Reese should give up trying to be normal actors and take on more projects like this crazed white trash exploitation flick with shades of Lynch and AMERICAN PSYCHO (also with Witherspoon! She's a weirdie!).

Not to disparage Soderbergh's commercially successful (and comparatively coherent) films, he should make a bunch more films like SCHIZOPOLIS and tell the naysayers to Sod off.

An old scenario--boy meets girl, boy learns that girl is from a town of lunatics and is a lunatic herself, boy tries to escape--is told as a surreal adventure comedy with shades of THE ROAD WARRIOR and absurdist Altman.

Teenagers with psychological issues are doing something heroic by saying "no" to life. You've got to appreciate a movie with a message like that.

Deserves a spot among the 1980s' best sci-fi satires like ROBOCOP and MAX HEADROOM. Not that it's as good as those films, but maybe you can make some room for it, toss it in the back behind BUCKAROO BANZAI or something.

Approach this film not as straightforward narrative, but as a stalker's version of reality. To his "victim" he is really a guardian angel protecting her from harm (e.g., other men). And his eyes, far from violating her privacy, guide her out of danger.

i object to the use of the word "retarded" to describe individuals who are mentally handicapped or developmentally disabled. But I fully endorse using the word to describe this film. In short, it's comedy gold!

Way better than you would think--the writing is very consistently funny, and so are Bartel, Woronov, and the supporting cast. Necrophilia is always hilarious, but this is the definitive comedy on the subject.