The Savage Stack

Jim VanBebber's street crime saga is DIY scumbag cinema at its very finest.

Why the hit found footage film is still one of the scariest genre riffs in modern cinema history.

Robert Forster and Fred Williamson are men possessed by vengeance and violence is Bill Lustig's gnarly street opera.

MANIAC COP co-conspirators Larry Cohen and Bill Lustig reunite for a cartoony slasher that plays like Lucio Fulci adapting a Springsteen song.

Paul W.S. Anderson does his own "HELLRAISER in space", and it's better than the actual "HELLRAISER in space".

Allan Moyle's queer coming of age story is also a love letter to the grimy days of 42nd Street's past.

Sleaze maestro Ruggero Deodato delivers his answer to LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT ('72) and actually outdoes that notorious Video Nasty's brutality quotient.

Abel Ferrara continues to document '80s NYC in all its grimy glory with this neon-tinged piece of lurid pulp.

Jim Wynorski's rubbery creature feature is still one of the best comic book cinema sequels ever.

Blaxploitation gets its IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, equipped with a megaton of white hot rage.

Ossie Davis delivers a Blaxploitation coming home picture that sees a squad of 'Nam vets cleaning up Harlem's dope game.

Penelope Spheeris mixes punk rock and serial murder for a chilling look at a pair of handsome spree killers.