 | | | Inventive violent and disturbing horror film from Spain's greatest contemporary director (sorry Almadovar). Michael Lerner loses his job as an optometrist, and his weird mother (Zelda Rubenstein, the midget medium from POLTERGEIST) hypnotiz... (See full description) |
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 | | | 1991 was a banner year in cinema, similar to 1939, 1950 and 1974. No movie is supposed to win more than one major award at the Cannes festival. Despite strong competition jet black comedy BARTON FINK caused a mini-scandal when it won both t... (See full description) |
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 | | | One of the oddest 1960s sexploitation movies. The opening sequence of go-go dancers being pelted with vegetables sets the tone. "Journey into the mind of the undead, as a talking mummy guides us on grand tour of the timeless “battle of th... (See full description) |
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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 (Môjű tai Issunbôshi) became his epitaph. This film st... (See full description) |
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 | | | Despite being one of the most bizarre, audacious and perverted films ever released by a major Hollywood studio, this was the second most critically acclaimed film of the 1980s (after only RAGING BULL) We are all used to David Lynch now and ... (See full description) |
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 | | | One of my favorite cult movies–imaginative, anti-authoritarian, sexy and ironic. Directed by L. Q. Jones (A veteran "bad guy" character actor who took his name from the part be played in the 1955 film BATTLE CRY). This intelligent, weird, v... (See full description) |
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 | | | Effective early horror from mad-genius Croneneberg; his first film with name stars and arguably the best and most personal of the early films. Art Hindle (Black Christmas) stars as a man embroiled in a bitter custody struggle with his estra... (See full description) |
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 | | | I'm in the minority, but I think this is a pretty exciting piece of film-making. Director Tarsem Singh (previously known only for R.E.M.'s 'Losing My Religion' video) creates three entirely different dream worlds within the minds of three c... (See full description) |
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 | | | George Romero biohazard and martial law thriller about an escaped germ that turns people into homicidal maniacs. Was doubtless influenced by THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN (1971) and George C. Scott's RAGE (1972). THE CRAZIES is, like most Romero mov... (See full description) |
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 | | | Collection of highly sought-after David Lynch shorts, including his first works. A must-see for fans of the legendary filmmaker David Lynch, this collection features six short films from the master of the macabre. Spanning the director's ca... (See full description) |
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 | | | Very odd "lost" movie about a bed that's been eating people for centuries. Surreal and teetering on the edge of Monty Python style comedy, but some real thought went into parts of it. "DEATH BED: THE BED THAT EATS ha... (See full description) |
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 | | | This one-hour documentary program is a treat for Cronenberg fans. Articulate and highly thoughtful about his work and its dominant themes, Cronenberg is an engaging intellectual throughout an extensive interview, explaining how he'd been in... (See full description) |
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 | | | Brilliant lunatic John Boorman (EXCALIBUR, ZARDOZ) was an "interesting" choice to direct this sequel to one of the most popular horror films ever made. The result is certainly one of the more bizarre major studio films… the original edit wa... (See full description) |
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 | | | Midnight movie cult favorite musical fantasy directed by Richard Elfman of Oingo Boingo fame and co-written by Elfman and Matthew Bright, who wrote FREEWAY, a favorite of mine. This project was originally envisioned as an avant-garde theat... (See full description) |
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 | | | For the first time on DVD, Goto, Island of Love is famed Walerian Borowczyk’s (The Beast) rarely seen debut film. A timeless and surreal fairy tale presented uncut and with it’s original rare color se... (See full description) |
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 | | | "The whole world's a freakout on one outrageous trip in this Psychoactive Time Capsule of homicide, hypodermics, and hippies-gone-bad! Three scary specimens of "The Hooked Generation" (1968, 94 min.)–Daisy, Acid, and Dum Dum–want to be big-... (See full description) |
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 | | | Entrancing black comedy directed by Mark S. Waters (adapting Wendy MacLeod's off-Broadway play). Parker Posey delivers a once-in-a-lifetime performance as Jackie-O, a deeply disturbed girl who grew up obssessed with the nearby Kennedy's i... (See full description) |
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 | | | Arrabal's second film. I WILL WALK LIKE A CRAZY HORSE (J'irai Comme un Cheval Fou) forsakes the political allegory present in Viva La Muerte for a dramatic discovery of faith and organized religion. The story follows a man, Aden, played b... (See full description) |
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