Julien Donkey-Boy is a horror film. Not conventionally, mind you—but a horror film nonetheless. Harmony Korine's Dogme '95 contribution takes on the aspects of the aforementioned Dogme '95 film movement. Due to this, Julien Donkey-Boy is lo-fi, surrealistic, and often uncomfortable. It's very effective as a look at untreated schizophrenia through a dysfunctional family.

The most fascinating character of Julien Donkey-Boy isn't the titular Julien (fantastically portrayed by Scot Ewan Bremner), but Julien's father—a perpetually disgruntled, eccentric, and seemingly melancholy…

The highest praise that I can give Sinister is that it isn't the worst movie I've ever seen.

Sinister is, by and large, a paint-by-numbers horror film. Despite a majority of mediocre aspects, however, it does have a few things going for it. The 8mm film sequences were appropriately grainy, moody, and tense. The music that plays during said sequences (most of which is pulled from Norwegian music group Ulver's "Silence Teaches You How to Sing" EP) fits hand in…