Autopsy (2008)
Had a definite B-movie feel, bad acting and all. However, plenty of excellent splatter, creepy sets, and surreal moments made it well worth watching.
6/10
Blind Beast (1969)
My expectations were in the wrong place going into this one. Having heard about this movie from the HDC "Most goriffic, disturbing..." list, I was expecting something different. As it turns out, this is a fairly smart drama about the relationship of captive and captor, and the captor's control issues with his mother. It almost had a theatrical play feel to it, with 90% of the movie being dialog, and most of the movie occuring in a single, two-room location. The room with the giant sculpted art was unique and surreal. Pretty decent watch, however, I had trouble believing that the captive would make such an abrupt, diametric change in her feelings toward her captor. The finale did have measurable shock value from a conceptual standpoint, even if it lacked reward on-screen.
6/10
Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door (2007)
As horrifying as this movie is, it follows more of a drama format than horror, which I believe made it even more stomach-churning. Call it Stand By Me, but with torture. Not the best child acting I've ever seen, but good enough not to distract from a well-told, mesmerizing-as-a-body-bag-on-the-side-of-the-road story. I spent much of the movie feeling queasy, and being based on a true story, it's harder to tell oneself, "It's only a movie."
7/10
The Devil's Rock (2011)
I wanted to like it. It was recommended on this forum, and had a few good reviews on IMDB. However, for me, it was so unbearably boring, I literally could not keep my eyes open. I tried on three separate occasions to finish it, and was finally, painfully successful. The problem for me was that the two main characters are so incredibly wooden, and the majority of the screen time is the two of them mumbling (literally) to each other about how scary and evil "she," in the other room, is -- she, being a demon who has taken the form of the main character's girlfriend. The demon woman had no scary makeup to make her seem possessed, and the scariest thing she did was pull incessantly on the chain she was shackled to the wall with. On a couple occasions, she actually did take on the form of a she-devil, which would be cool if it wasn't merely red shoe polish and a devil horns scalp hat. They could have at least shown her entire body, given that I believe she was topless, but I guess that would have cost too much in shoe polish.
5/10
This Means War (2012)
Chick flick with enough action to keep boyfriends/husbands interested. Not bad.
6/10.