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Review: Dans Ma Peau a.k.a In My Skin (2002)

Review by Louise Lin SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★☆ ☆ Braised Pork Rinds will never taste the same again. Having watched sick films in varying degrees over the years I thought I had been desensitized to the point whereby nothing fazes [...]

May 7, 2017 Reviews

Terrace House: My secret, guilty pleasure for 2016

The last few days of December (post christmas) can be a strangely, dangerous time. It’s that floaty period where you don’t really have to rush any work deadlines, but neither can you go 100% Holiday mode as well. And it is [...]

January 6, 2017 Reviews

Review: The Scapegoat (2012)

Review by: MoonCroaker SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ It was grownup family movie night at the homestead as my mother, wife and sat down to watch something we could all like. With very different tastes running from murder mysteries, to sci-fi [...]

August 19, 2016 Reviews

Review: R100 (2013)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ When we first read the synopsis for Hitoshi Matsumoto’s (Big Man Japan) R100, our spidey senses were tingling overtime because we knew that this could possibly be the film to soothe [...]

July 8, 2015 Reviews

Review: Black Sheep (2006)

  Review by Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Having been a fan of the zombie genre for more than three decades, this one had my name written all over it! The plot for this flick is [...]

May 22, 2015 Reviews

Review: The Room (2003)

Review by: Menstrual Bazin SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆  It is with great audacity that I attempt to review the movie that is THE very definition of what a cult movie is. Something that S.C.U.M’s wet dreams are made [...]

May 12, 2015 Reviews

Review: Pannaiyarum Padminiyum (2014)

Review by: Menstrual Bazin SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ I remembered how it felt the day my first car was sold off for scrap. Worst feeling ever. I’m not a petrol head, and it wasn’t even my car! It was [...]

May 1, 2015 Reviews

Review: M.Butterfly (1993)

Review by: Louise Lin SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Type IV Yellow Fever and proof of how gender is really just a state of mind M. Butterfly manages to be compelling, bizarre and slyly humorous all at once, with a [...]

March 22, 2015 Reviews

Review: Tusk (2014)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ (sorry, I don’t know how to do a 2.5 star!) Kevin Smith’s (Clerks, Dogma) latest offering since 2011’s Red State is a mother lode of bizarre and twisted black humour, titled [...]

January 26, 2015 Reviews

Review: He Took His Skin Off For Me (2014)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Today we came across a gem of a short film that embodies the very ethos of SCUM Cinema; that you don’t need a multi-million budget to produce a genuinely interesting film [...]

January 13, 2015 Reviews