CALVAIRE (aka The Ordeal) **** Belgium / France / Luxembourg 2004 Dir: Fabrice Du Welz. 88 mins After being menaced by a horny, elderly fan in his dressing room, handsome young singer Marc Stevens (Laurent Lucas), heading off to a Christmas gala, breaks down in the middle of nowhere. He…
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RITUALS **** Canada 1977 Dir: Peter Carter. 95 mins A long-underrated but finely crafted Canadian addition to the urban-paranoia sub-genre of post-DELIVERANCE chillers in which city folk are driven to savagery by the hostilities waiting for them in the great outdoors. Surgeon Hal Holbrook and his four buddies / work…