The Suspense is Killing Us

We ransacked the "Holiday Crime" section at Scarecrow Video and came up with three gritty, violent and most of all JOLLY thrillers for this most wonderful time of the year. Merry Christmas, dirtbag! RIOT (1996, Joseph Merhi) NAKED CITY: A KILLER CHRISTMAS (1998, Peter Bogdanovich) 'R XMAS (2001, Abel Ferrara)

Christmas is famously a depressing holiday for some folks. The main reason for this, we think, is because it's the time of year when people get trapped in ice-cold confined spaces by psychos and/or pure human incompetence. P2 (2007, Franck Khalfoun) FROZEN (2010, Adam Green) ATM (2012, David Brooks)

Time to talk about some vigilantSHEs for a change! Three ladies pushed too far, who decide to arm themselves, learn krav maga and stick it to the men. It's in Revelations, people! THE BRAVE ONE (2007, Neil Jordan) A VIGILANTE (2018, Sarah Daggar-Nickson) PEPPERMINT (2018, Pierre Morel)

Several people may have heard of the first Relentless film, which raked in nearly 7 million dollars in box office receipts in the late 80's. But did you know that not long after that first movie, they made two more of them? Actually, they made three more but we love you too much to subject you to that amount of Relentlessness. RELENTLESS (1989, William Lustig) DEAD ON: RELENTLESS 2 (1992, Michael Schroeder) RELENTLESS 3 (1993, James Lemmo)

You must join us for this Spooky Season episode about two good Body Snatchers films and one bad one. You have no choice. Life will be better if you listen. There will be no more wars, no more hatred. No more love. But we can promise you this: plenty of goo! INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978, Philip Kaufman) BODY SNATCHERS (1993, Abel Ferrara) INVASION (2007, Oliver Hirschbiegel)