Wally Wozzel (Lilbrowncat)

This is the film "The Blair Witch Project" should have been. Shot in the over-abused handheld camera mode, this little gem manages to re-invent the Zombie flick in 75 short minutes. The pace is unrelenting...we follow a TV documentary crew filming an episode of "While We Sleep" about firemen, nothing new here but the way the film unfolds, with new and inventive "BOO" scares, is masterful and with an ending that will blow your mind, makes this one of the finest horror films in the last few years. See it before the sucky U.S. remake "Quarantine"

I find it fascinating that the same director that unleashed "Weekend at Bernie's" upon the world also gave us this masterpiece. Everything about this film is landmark...the sweeping cinematography, the crisp editing, the attention to detail is staggering. Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" and Boorman's "Deliverance" share the same terrain of one man's descent into hell. Donald Pleasance's alcoholic, educated "Doc" is intoxicated fun as the films philosophical standpoint. Jack Thompson's first role and Chips Rafferty's last, this great film is enjoying a recent restoration and re-release after decades in limbo. A true classic given a well deserved welcome back!

Regularly voted the scariest movie of all time, thanks to Friedkin's taut direction, wonderful performances [especially from Jason Miller as Father Karras and Ellen Burstyn, who damaged her spine carrying out one effect] and the gripping source material by William Peter Blatty [who has a cameo as the producer of the movie Burstyn is acting in], Many scenes have become the stuff of legend: possessed child Regan [Blair] vomiting pea soup or getting a bit graphic on the bed with a crucifix, but the creeping horror of the movie remains embedded in your mind well after the credits have rolled. A director's cut is available, featuring Regan's infamus spider-walk, alternate ending and "improved" sound but try and search out the 25th Anniversary Edition with the great documentary "The Fear of God".

Darren Aronofsky's follow-up to his groundbreaking "Pi" is a portrait of addiction, disturbing in the achingly emotive performances and in its suggestion we could all go down that road. Ellen Burstyn is Sara, whose addiction to sugar and television becomes an addiction to diet pills as she tries to lose weight to enter a tv game show. Her son, Harry [Jared Leto] is addicted to heroin, as is his girlfriend Marion [Jennifer Connelly]. This is not your typical drug-addicts-cleanup story, this is a stunning, brutal account of where addiction can lead all of us!