Stuck, 2007

This was excellent. Mena Suvari plays the lead character, AKA piece of ...(poop)! She's driving home stoned from a party and accidentally hits Stephen Rea. As you can see from the picture, he actually gets wedged in the windscreen. Its pretty horrific and I was really wincing in one scene involving the windscreen wipers - eeeeeeew! Mena is, as I said, a nasty piece of work and she would rather leave him stuck, waiting to die, than risk getting in trouble for the accident. And the worst part? It's based on a true story, see here.

SECOND OPINION: Stuart Gordon holds a place in my heart. Many years ago I saw Reanimator and discovered gore was good. Last year, I watched it again, and discovered gore was good, and funny, if a little childish. Now he's made this, a film about a guy stuck in a windscreen. Nach. As Rach says, the chilling thought is that, to a degree, this actually happened. A girl did hit a homeless guy with her car, he did get stuck in her windscreen and she waited days for him to die before dumping him somewhere.

As you know, we avoid real life horrors, since it's not what Friday Horror Night is about. There are exceptions to every rule though, and since this story follows the hapless jaywalker as he fights back, it was a rule worth breaking.

The characters and acting are first class and the snappy script is wonderfully paced. We feel for Thomas, we feel his pain, his confusion and his desperation. For all the hokey plot, it feels real. I was willing him to break free, but this is no easy film to watch. With Gordon's pedigree, he's not about to shy away from the red stuff. Prepare yourself for some very painfully moments where tension is perfectly blended with Thomas' pain.

Last, but not least, lets not forget this film is a black comedy. There are plenty of laughs to be had, all of them tinged with sadness, pain, excitement, anxiety and any other feeling you can muster. It's all first class.