A wild throwback to '70s grindhouse movies, Modus operandi is shockingly violent and even more entertaining. Director Frankie Latina took four years to direct this lovingly constructed ode to disreputable genre flicks, all of it shot in his hometown of Milwaukee. He mashes together Blaxploitation, gore, Italian giallo, Japanese gangster flicks and much more into an irresistible guilty pleasure.

Jack Spade, a decorated war hero returns to the ghetto to find his hometown in shambles and his brother dead. Spade swears revenge against the local kingpin, Mr. Big, and sets off to enlist an army of original gangstas.