Dark and Sadistic Films
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Dir: Rob Zombie
Stars: Sid Haig, Karen Black, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
Dir: Tom Six
Stars: Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, Akihiro Kitamura
A mad scientist kidnaps and mutilates a trio of tourists in order to reassemble them into a human centipede, created by stitching their mouths to each others’ rectums.
A Serbian Film (2010)
Dir: Srdjan Spasojevic
Stars: Srdjan Todorovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Jelena Gavrilovic, Slobodan Bestic
An aging porn star agrees to participate in an “art film” in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.
Hostel (2005)
Dir: Eli Roth
Stars: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljakova
Three backpackers head to a Slovak city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
An American Crime (2007)
Dir: Tommy O’Haver
Stars: Ellen Page, Hayley McFarland, Nick Searcy, Romy Rosemont
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Wolf Creek (2005)
Dir: Greg Mclean
Stars: Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, John Jarratt
Ben, Liz and Kristy; backpackers stranded in the Australian outback, are befriended by a local who is a sadistic psychopath that will plunge them into a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture.
Sheitan (2006)
Dir: Kim Chapiron
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Olivier Barthelemy, Roxane Mesquida, Nico Le Phat Tan
A group of youngsters go out to a disco late one night and accidentally run into a shepherd who has prepared himself for a night of Satanic worship.