No Telling (1991)

Horror,

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No Telling essentially answers the question, what if PETA made a Frankenstein movie? But it’s so much more that that. Sure there’s the ethical question about whether lab experiments on animals is actually okay—as long as it leads to beneficial medicine? But more importantly, No Telling is extremely well directed by Larry Fessenden with nice swooping camera movements that don’t trip over the shoestring budget. Fessenden also uses a stopped car on the highway to illuminate the spatial distance between a married couple before they relocate to a remotely idyllic farmstead.

So what’s the horror? The husband (Stephen Ramsey) is setting up traps to catch wild animals to test a serum on and his company is totally fine with it as long as word doesn’t get out (thus the move to the middle of nowhere). But then he starts abducting beloved pets. Ultimately, though animals are being sewn together and brought back to life, the true horror of No Telling are the secrets in a marriage; chiefly, could we still love each other if we knew where the money was really coming from? Throw in some femme forward dinner table conversations about the pissing matches between men and you’ve got a nicely made extremely low budget horror film that’s very much a product of the 90s.