TALES OF HALLOWEEN [2015]

Featuring a gaggle of well-known and not-so well known genre directors, including Neil Marshall, Lucky McKee & Darren Lynn Bousman, Tales of Halloween, is an anthology film that seems like it's set out to compete with Michael Dougherty's modern cult-classic Trick 'r Treat for the most amount of fun a Halloween film can be.
Does it succeed?  Almost.
There's a few weak shorts in the bunch but for the most part it's really sick and twisted gory fun that keeps on rolling right up to the final frame.  Even the weaker shorts are enough fun to keep it from ever really losing steam.

3 spooky Mick Garris' out of 5

ALL CHEERLEADERS DIE [2013]

Normally uber-moody director Lucky McKee teams up with I Know Who Killed Me director Chris Sivertson to create All Cheerleaders Die, a horror/comedy film that's reminiscent of Idle Hands and Jennifer's Body.
Now, if you're familiar with any of the three films I just named then you're probably aware of the quality of the flick we're talking about here and I don't need to go into further detail about the pros & cons of it.
It's premise is incredibly stupid but it's fully aware of that, which makes for a hilarously wicked and completely bat-shit crazy good time for anybody willing to toss their brain out the window for 90 minutes.

2½ "cold" girls out of 5

THE WOODS [2006]

Something eerie is going on in director Lucky McKee's bizarre supernatural thriller The Woods.
McKee has a stylish and imaginative flair that brings this otherwise run of the mill Suspiria clone up a few notches where it allows us to know the characters and feel the atmosphere.  It never really frightens or disturbs like the director's other works but manages to keep it spooky beginning to end.
...and let's face it, we all want to see Bruce Campbell fight trees again.

3 glasses of spilt milk out of 5

MAY [2002]

Director Lucky McKee's May is an unnerving, darkly humorous character study that slowly creeps under your skin with twisted delight and tragedy.
Angela Bettis is absolutely fantastic as the title character who blends vulnerability and frighteningly fucked up without ever missing a beat.  It's aided by some bizarrely suiting supporting performances, a quirky yet intoxicating soundtrack and delicately executed storytelling that unravels like the loose strands barely holding May's sanity together.  This unique little horror film sneaks up on you and leaves you in traumatized awe.  

4 kitties on ice out of 5

The Woman (2011)

A feral woman is forcibly taken from her forest environment by a family man and shown the nature of 'civilised' living.
The only way I could watch The Woman was to think of the work as a catalyst for self-analysis, not an end product in itself. My emotions were put through a mangler, torn apart, set on fire and then ground into dust.
Most of the film doesn't need words; at times it felt like they were included simply to distract from the crushing power of the imagery, to soften the impact by supplying something familiar. Conversely, they connected me to the flawed characters and I began to hate the words.
It'll polarise an audience. It may even polarise the individual.

4 baser instincts out of 5