Defining The List

Many times I will be sitting in my living room, misquoting lines from some obscure B-movie, and my wife or family will remark,





"Oh God, this is such a Frank movie..."

What does that mean?

In general, it means it's dark. Like... no happy ending, no rainbows and cupcakes. It's generally saturated with gratuitous, deviant sex. There's got to be violence; preferably graphic, otherworldly violence. I'm a sucker for American provincialism; if it is a inside, regional joke - I'm sold.






Oh, and teen angst... teen angst is a major theme (especially if it is generationally definitive. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be gore porn. It just can't be critically acclaimed. Or arthouse. No big budgets. No big marketing campaigns.






Basically, if you could catch it at 4 in the morning on Cinemax, or at the Ridge Cinema Midnight Movies, it's probably a Frank movie.

I hope that they become your movies, too.