ART DARK

pessimistic... unsettling... harsh...

American Psycho (Unrated Version) (DVD) • 2000
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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Christian Bale as the slick, sick Wall Street player who doubles as serial killer, putting away people who annoy him and the women with whom he has loveless sexual encounters. Chloe Sevigny, Willem Dafoe and Reese Witherspoon ... (See full description)

Audition (Uncut Special Edition DVD) • 1999
OdishonVentura DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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Directed by Takashi Mike Starring Renji Ishibashi, Ryo Ishibashi, Miyuki Matsuda, Eihi Shiina. A producer whose wife died seven years earlier longs for a companion and mother to his child, so he holds an audition for a mate. One of the appl... (See full description)

Big Knife, The (DVD) • 1955
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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Memorable critique of Hollywood's warped dream factory… a melancholic and mysterious psychodrama adapted from Clifford Odets's play. High contast B&W cinematography adds punch to this jet-dark, cynical movie. When matinee idol Charlie Cas... (See full description)

Blind Beast vs. Killer Dwarf (DVD) • 2001
Panik House DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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BANNED FOR TWO YEARS! LEGENDARY DIRECTOR TERUO ISHII’S FINAL DISTURBING MASTERPIECE! "When prolific Japanese Cult Director Teruo Ishii passed away in 2005, BLIND BEAST VS. KILER DWARF (Môjû tai Issunbôshi) became his epitaph. This film st... (See full description)

Bully (Unrated Version) (DVD) • 2001
Trimark DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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Directed by Larry Clark. There is no point watching this film except in this unrated form. The R-rated edit just doesn't pack the same punch. Clark seems to be the real deal. KIDS was powerful, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE was superb, and BULL... (See full description)

Extremities (DVD) • 1986
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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Harrowing Farrah Fawcett rape-revenge flick. Farrah Fawcett repeats her hit stage role in this gripping drama about a woman who captures a would-be rapist, then must decide... (See full description)

Fail Safe (Special Edition DVD) • 1964
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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A tale of two movies: FAIL SAFE and DR. STRANGELOVE, both released in 1964, are about an un-ordered American bomber strike on the USSR. The two films are so similar, even in small plot details, that both projects could have started from the... (See full description)

Flavia The Heretic (DVD) • 1974
Synapse DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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This semi-feminist Euro-trash historical film is notorious for tasteless gore but is a fairly interesting and serious attempt at telling this true story. "The controversial Euro-cult classic finally comes to DVD in this exciting re-master... (See full description)

There is nothing like FLESH+BLOOD. It's a big-budget, gorgeous looking historical epic with major stars, but made with the lurid sensibilities of a sleazy Italian exploitation movie. Paul Verhoeven has never been shy about sexual nudity (SH... (See full description)

Gummo (DVD) • 1997
New Line DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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This is not directed by Larry Clark, but it’s written and directed by KIDS screenwriter Harmony Korine, and deals with the same subjects, so it makes sense to categorize it with Clark. Plotless, dream/nightmare excursion through the lives o... (See full description)

Hardcore (DVD) • 1979
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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"Turn it off! TURN IT OFF!" That famous sound bite is, of course, devoutly religious father Jake Van Dorn (George C. Scott) hollering at a man projecting a porn loop starring his daughter. Writer and director Schrader revisited themes from ... (See full description)

Hitcher, The (DVD) • 1986
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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Directed by Robert Harmon. Effective horror thriller. A young man transporting a car to another state is stalked along the road by a cunning and relentless serial killer who eventually frames the driver for a string of murders. Rutger Hauer... (See full description)

Highly recommended! A great film, IMO, andthe apogee of crime exploitation films. Sleazy, creepy and eerily realistic luminous B&W film based upon the true story of American serial killers pretty-boy Raymond Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco) and ... (See full description)

Humanite (Humanity) (DVD) • 1999
Fox Lorber DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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Directed by Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus). Intensely controversial film that garnered both condemnation and several awards at Cannes. Certainly one of the most accomplished of the recent wave of French 'serious' films with brief hardcore... (See full description)

I Spit On Your Grave (DVD) • 1978
Day of the Woman; aka I Hate Your Guts; Rape and Revenge of Jennifer Hill
Elite Entertainment DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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Directed by Meir Zarchi. This haunting, disturbing movie with (primitive) feminist overtones is one of the finest exploitation films ever made. "This woman has just cut, chopped, broken and burned five men beyond recognition... but no jur... (See full description)

Irreversible (DVD) • 2002
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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When debuted at the Cannes film festival people walked out in outrage, and I can see their point. Other people think it's a great film, and I can see their point too. It's a violent film in every way;... (See full description)

Lady In A Cage (DVD) • 1964
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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First time ever on DVD. This movie is the real deal... I’ve watched this movie at least five times over the years because whenever it comes on I can’t turn it off, and that’s the ultimate test. Sure, the lead is annoying, there are dead pat... (See full description)

Manhunter (DVD) • 1986
Anchor Bay DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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First and best film version of Thomas Harris' book RED DRAGON, the first appearance of Hannibal Lecter. (The second filming, RED DRAGON is a bit more faithful to the book but an inferior movie.) Michael Mann is an under-rated guy because ... (See full description)

Rivers Edge (DVD) • 1986
DVD / Region 1 (USA)
 
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First-rate shocker about Reagan-era kids numbed by incompetant parenting, drugs, the threat of nuclear war and everything else. Samson, a troubled teen, murders his girlfriend for no reason, leaving her nude body by the river's edge. He bra... (See full description)

Sadist, The (Arch Hall Jr) (DVD-R) • 1963
DVDR / All Regions / Mastered from film
 
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Directed by JAMES LANDIS with ARCH HALL JR, HELEN HOVEY, MARILYN MANNING *Recommended* A truly wonderful film by any measure. Belongs alongside other sick early 1960s B&W thrillers like LADY IN A CAGE, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? And TH... (See full description)

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