REVIEWS:
- AMER (2009)
- ANGST (1983)
- ANIMAL KINGDOM (2010)
- APARECIDOS (2007)
- AUGUST UNDERGROUND: MORDUM (2003)
- BLACK SWAN (2010)
- BUG (2006)
- CALVAIRE (2004)
- COLD FISH (2010)
- CONFESSIONS (2010)
- DARK WATERS (1993)
- DAY OF THE DEAD (1985)
- GUILTY OF ROMANCE (2011)
- IVANSXTC (2000)
- JULIA (2008)
- JULIA'S EYES (2010)
- KABOOM (2010)
- LA VIE NOUVELLE (2002)
- LEVRES DU SANG (1975)
- LITTLE DEATHS (2010)
- THE MANITOU (1978)
- THE MARK (2008)
- MARWENCOL (2010)
- NIGHTMARES IN RED,WHITE & BLUE (2010)
- THE NINE LIVES OF TOMAS KATZ (2008)
- NO MORIRE SOLA (2008)
- PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (2010)
- PINK FLAMINGOS (1972)
- [REC] (2007)
- [REC]2 (2009)
- RED, WHITE AND BLUE (2010)
- THE REEF (2010)
- RESURRECTING THE STREET WALKER (2009)
- RETROACTIVE (1997)
- SPLICE (2009)
- STAKE LAND (2010)
- SURVIVE STYLE 5+ (2004)
- TARGETS (1968)
- TAXIDERMIA (2006)
- THIS IS ENGLAND '86 (2010)
- TROLLHUNTER (2010)
- TROUBLE EVERY DAY (2001)
- WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (2011)

FEATURES:
- A BRIEF INTERLUDE OF SICKNESS & 'EXODUS' (a short by Chuck Palahniuk)
- AMERICAN NIGHTMARES: THE CINEMA OF BUDDY GIOVINAZZO
- FILMS OF THE YEAR (2009)
- FILMS OF THE YEAR (2010)

- THE LAUGHING SHADOW: a very short story
- WHERE THERE IS NO IMAGINATION, THERE IS NO HORROR: A personal selection of cinematic scares

LINKS:
- SexGoreMutants - The Independent Home of Horror
- FAB Press Online: Quality Cinema Merchandise
- Midnight Eye: Visions of Japanese Cinema
- Mondo Macabro: The Wildside of World Cinema
- Andrzej-Zulawski.com
- Strange Things Are Happening: Excess All Areas
- Fascination: The Jean Rollin Experience
- Blue Underground: DVD & Blu-ray cult classics
- Shameless Screen Entertainment

9th October 2011

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GUILTY OF ROMANCE (dir. Sion Sono, 2011)

The films of Sion Sono frequently demand the viewer’s attention if the most is to be got from each experience.

With this tale of murder in a derelict building of a Tokyo red light district and the flashback events leading up to it concerning unsatisfied Izumi, token wife to her novelist husband, who embarks on a journey of sexual discovery, both liberating and dangerous, most will be put off by the many darkly challenging subtexts at play.

Granted his depictions of human frailty and, ultimately, our failings continues to be highly confrontational, yet Sono remains one of more interesting directors working in cinema today.

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