Legendary director, John Woo and Japanese actor, Chow Yun Fat collaborated on one of the finest action films ever produced. The Killer follows a hitman taking one last job to pay for a dame’s eye surgery after inadvertently blinding her during a shootout.

What goes through the mind of a criminal the day before imprisonment? Ed Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Rosario Dawson navigate us through a convict’s last day before a seven-year prison sentence. His 25th hour is cataclysmic.

Warning: Old Boy is not for the faint of heart. This Korean film teems with violence. Though necessary, considering the plot is of a man’s determination to avenge 15 years spent in solitary confinement for a crime he did not commit. The discovery at the climax will blow your mind.

If you had to answer to Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in Sexy Beast or Satan, you’d be better off choosing the latter. There has never been a more frightening character in film. Period. This British film’s plot centers on Logan’s efforts to prevent a hitman from retiring. This movie will make you uneasy, but in the most desirable way.

Long before Lord Of The Rings and King Kong, Peter Jackson wrote and directed one of the goriest movies ever produced – Dead Alive. A tale of a Sumatran rat-monkey infecting flesh-hungry zombies with a mutant virus will repulse even the most seasoned horror flick enthusiast. You’ll never look at a lawnmower the same way again.