Dave Hill

Slightly off-topic post here, but if you're not familiar with this comic, Dave Hill, you should really check out his stuff.  He's a great talent and it's hilarious, cutting-edge stuff.

BAXTER

Let this be a lesson to everyone who's ever looked down their noses at Paris and sneered as they turned back to their "freedom fries": never turn your back on the French, especially their filmmakers...because when they want to be, they can be just as truly balls-out fucked up as the Japanese ever thought to be.  BAXTER will be the proof of that.  Don't believe me?  Well, try out the first five minutes as a kid voluntarily slams a thumb tack into his palm.  And if that doesn't freak you out, well...try the plot synopsis.  Baxter, as it turns out, is an insane bull terrier who finds himself discontented living with his new mistress, an elderly woman who's quite afraid of him.  Due to his dissatisfaction, he plans to murder her.

THE OTHER SIDE

The dark side of the afterlife has a revolving door policy in the Slamdance On the Road presentation of "The Other Side".  While waiting for the woman he loves, Sam North is unexpectedly murdered and sent, surprisingly, to hell.  Hell, meanwhile, is an insane combination of childhood flashbacks and plastic wrap and not a whole lot of fire.  Anyway...now Sam's in hell, or is until a few other denizens help him, bafflingly, escape via a corrugated plastic tunnel conveniently located not too far from where he landed in the first place. Naturally, the management disapproves of such things--though if they actually DID have a distaste for this kind of thing you'd think they'd just seal up the damn corrugated plastic tunnel.  I mean, come ON.  Why don't they just put up a big sign saying "This Way Out Of Hell" and start advertising?

DEMONS 2

All right, classic splatter fans--sit down, shut up, and brace yourself as Bava and Argento bring us more eighties survival splatter in DEMONS 2.  If you're already looking askance at this piece and muttering at your monitor: "Hey...wait a second.  Wasn't the end of DEMONS basically an 'end of the world' scenario with people bugging out to the countryside because the cities were jam-packed with cannibalistic, fanged, demonic subhumans hell-bent on murder, mayhem and lunching up the populace?", you're not alone.  Seriously, I thought much the same thing.  And don't worry--there's a rational explanation.