While having the perfect formula to make a so-bad-it's-good feature, with stuntman Mike Cartel acting as writer, director, editor, and starring in a first-time feature, the movie transcends that label into something much more preposterous. Taking place on the seedy side of New York's 32nd Street, Frank Henenlotter's Brain Damage is a wonderfully gritty body horror film with a crass edge. Jim Van Bebber's Deadbeat at Dawn may very well be the most brutal indie movie ever made, chock-full of action and violence taking place in a gentrified city full of nihilists and killers.