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One of the things I love to do with my platform here is highlight smart genre flicks that, for whatever reason, didn’t get an audience. Call it a public service announcement for people who share my tastes. I wrote about The Broken](http://www.cinematical.com/2009/01/12/public-service-announcement-check-out-the-broken-at-the-after/) last year, and Tormented](http://www.cinematical.com/2010/01/02/overlooked-in-2009-tormented/) in January. My latest discovery is Christopher Smith’s Triangle](Triangle - Movie | Moviefone), an outstanding British-Australian supernatural thriller (set in America) that did not get a theatrical release here, and was dumped onto DVD a month ago.
If you like this stuff, you probably already know about Christopher Smith, the Brit who brought us the exuberant, hilarious horror comedy Severance](Severance (2006) - Movie | Moviefone) back in 2006, as well as the subterranean monster movie Creep](Creep (2004) - Movie | Moviefone), which I tragically haven’t seen, the year before that. (Horror Squad](http://www.horrorsquad.com/2010/02/02/interview-chris-smith-talks-triangle-black-death-hopes-f/) ran a fun interview with Smith last month when *Triangle *was released on DVD, though be warned: it gives away far, far too much about the film.) With Triangle, Smith dumps the envelope-pushing, laugh-a-minute outrageousness of Severance, and instead embraces quiet menace, mounting tension, and stretches of deliberate confusion. It’s a gleaming, gorgeous, sharp-as-a-tack horror film.