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Hacks (2002)
Watch it alone. Because you will laugh...inappropriately.
This movie was a complete surprise. Like the kind of surprise you'd get finding out you've been living next to a level 10 sex offender for the past three years.
Home sick for the day, I popped this film into the DVD player and fell back on the couch in a fog. It may have been the cold medicine talking, but... "WTF was THAT?!!" is all I would say for the next couple of hours, then hit the rewind button to laugh at it all over again.
Hacks has some of the most _________, ________, _______ (insert your favorite uncomfortable stereotype in the blanks), inappropriate, under-medicated, off-color, marginally-criminal, deeply disturbed and hilarious humor imaginable.
I found myself laughing out loud at several scenes and picking my jaw up from the floor on others. It's not a film for everyone to be sure. There are more than a few cringe-inducing scenes...but if you have a sardonic streak and possess a strong sense of irony, you'll get it.
Cookers (2001)
Creepy and Compelling
I wasn't much of a horror/gore fan, but late one night, this movie converted me. Rescued from a $1.99 bin at a video store on Halloween, we fully expected this to be a standard, low-budget haunted house flick. It turned out to be so much more. Creepy and compelling, the film builds in tension with every frame and surrounds you with a constant feeling of dread. You just know something bad is going to happen, you just don't know when. Helped along by decent acting and some very clever audio design, there are a couple of scenes that should make your flesh crawl, a few that will surprise you, and some that will make you say "wait...was that reality or a hallucination?" Good movie for a late night fright or two.