New Acquisition: Gummo (1997)

 

Spring Breakers (2012)

Four college girls hold up a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation, and while partying, drinking, and taking drugs, they are arrested, only to be bailed out by a drug and arms dealer.

Slickly made morality play exacerbating the sex and violence elements of the story, and the performances are good with Franco upping the ante as the low-life drug dealer; however, basically the result is not much different than an exploitation flick from 70s or 80s.

Stoker (2013)

A young woman's world comes crashing down when her father dies in a car accident, and adding to the girl's emotional turmoil is the sudden arrival of an uncle whom she never knew existed.

The plot, strongly reminiscent of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, doesn't spell out in full, but it has atmosphere and the director has a fine artistic eye for details and it does have a wicked twist ending.

Maltin**: "Director Park, in his English-language debut, uses his formidable skill creating a moody atmosphere to bring a sense of foreboding to this sick and pointless story...which, inevitably, is punctuated by extreme violence." 

Gummo (1997)