 | | | | Haunting, cruelly dazzling time-travel end-of-the-world story inspired by the tragic science fiction art film La Jetée (1962). This "end of civilization through intentional release of engineered viruses" plot is destined to remain topical f... (see full description) |
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 | | | | Former AVENGERS director Robert Fuest (The Devil's Rain, The Final Programme) perfected the horror/comedy in these two endearing and extraordinarily visually stylish movies, now available inexpensively on one disc. This was the role of Vinc... (see full description) |
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 | | | | Some say THE AGONY OF LOVE (1966) is the best film HARRY NOVAK ever produced. 1966 • b&w • Directed by William Rotsler with Pat Barrington, Sam Taylor, Parker Carvey, William Rotsler. "In a fabulous, cinema-ve... (see full description) |
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 | | | | Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Excellent film about life, love and dog-fights. (Don't worry, it's all staged – no dogs were harmed!) Three interconnected stories about the different strata of life in Mexico City all resolve with a... (see full description) |
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 | | | | Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. Since Europe and Asia are now producing better entertainment movies than Hollywood it begs the question what the hell Hollywood is for. ANATOMY contains all the shocks, nudity, black humor, and grisly fx of th... (see full description) |
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 | | | | Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. Like most sequels this isn't as good as the original (which is wonderful), but it's not all bad. Franka Potente doesn't star but at least she's in it. The approach is more action-oriented and kinetic than the ... (see full description) |
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 | | | | "The Filipino legend of the Aswang is transplanted to the northwoods of America in this stylish horror movie. A sensation at the Sundance Film Festival midnight screening in 1994, it was picked up for US distribution, retitled The Unearthin... (see full description) |
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 | | | | Asylum of Satan (1971) Lovely Lucina Martin suspects there's something wrong with the rest home where she's recovering from a nervous breakdown. Therapy includes cov... (see full description) |
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 | | | | Despite his obvious problems, it is time to start taking Paul Verhoeven seriously. From roughly 1954-1964 Alfred Hitchcock developed the most intriguing and satisfying cinematic approach I know of. He then succumbed to age. Almost all post-... (see full description) |
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 | | | | Twistoid revenge giallo directed by Claudio Guerín and uncredited Juan Antonio Bardem. In 1973, on the final day of shooting, Guerín fell or jumped to his death from the central bell tower constructed for this film. How weird is that? The... (see full description) |
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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) |
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 | | | | Directed by Yip Wai-Shun. Wild Chinese gore-comedy-horror hybrid with a nod to Romero's Dawn of the Dead, in that it features zombie mayhem in a crowded shopping mall. "Woody and Bee are a pair of young punks working at a DVD store. Out fo... (see full description) |
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 | | | | Directed by Takashi Ishi. "Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained absolute power by executing the former boss and marrying his d... (see full description) |
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 | | | | One of Franco's big "real movie" Harry Alan Tower productions. Fu Manchu, The Yellow Peril (Christopher Lee) kidnaps ten beautiful woman and injects them with a deadly poison which will enable them to kill any man who kisses their lips. He ... (see full description) |
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 | | | | "This classic cult horror film, from acclaimed writer/director Jeff Lieberman, is a masterpiece of psychological suspense and terror. At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of the brutal killings, Jerry (Re... (see full description) |
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 | | | | The directors that have tackled Vonnegut books have tried to lovingly and precisely translate the literary experience to film. Unfortunately, the results are mixed because Vonnegut's novels are un-cinematic by nature; short on plot and visu... (see full description) |
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 | | | | "When American author Edgar Allan Poe visits London, he is approached by British journalist Alan Foster, who becomes the target of a peculiar wager. Not believing Poe's assertion that all of his macabre stories have ... (see full description) |
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 | | | | Director: Gerard Ciccoritti. "Night brings out the hunger in everyone, especially a mysterious New York cab driver. As a vampire, working the night shift lures a sultry array of passengers within his grasp. Embracing those ready to die, he ... (see full description) |
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 | | | | Directed Robert Voskanian. Because 11-year-old Rosalie has "always been strange," her ornery father hires lovely Alicianne to be Rosalie's governess in their big, gloomy house. Of course, what no one understands is that darling little Rosal... (see full description) |
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 | | | | Polanski's most critically acclaimed film and as perfectly crafted as a movie gets. (Yes, THE PIANO won best picture and CHINATOWN didn't, but THE PIANO wasn't up against GODFATHER 2) Star producer Robert Evans deserves a lot of the credit... (see full description) |
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 | | | | Directed by Dan Hoskins. Tasteless Troma spoof that's a cut above most Troma productions and features Billy Bob Thornton. Disjointed mix of Easy Rider, The Magnificent Seven, Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill!, and The Night Of The Living Dead fi... (see full description) |
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 | | | | A Film by Jon Reiss. Starring Radha Mitchell & Boyd Kestner. Blackly comic, perversely erotic, and thoroughly unpredictable, this genre-bending story of sexual mindgames begins innocently enough when yuppie couple Robert and Hallie decide t... (see full description) |
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 | | | | COMMON LAW WIFE directed by Larry Buchanan ("Eric Sayers") with Anne MacAdams, George Edgely, Max Andersen, Lacey Kelly. "Do you want me to put one right between your eyes?" asks rich old bastard Shugfoot Rainey ... (see full description) |
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 | | | | Directed by Herb Stanley. Because she's in the middle of a mental break-down, crackpot Virginia can't join her brother on safari and decides to go big game hunting in the Big Apple instead. Inviting three strangers to her trophy - an actor,... (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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