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By Eric Young, on August 20th, 2010% DIRECTED BY: Mike Schneider
FEATURING: Karl Hardman, Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea
PLOT: An animated recreation of the classic zombie film, Night of the Living Dead:
Reanimated features a number of talented animators filtering Romero’s original vision through their own artistic viewpoints, expressing the universal messages therein in their own mediums. WHY IT WON’T . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: REANIMATED (2010)
By Eric Young, on May 19th, 2010% DIRECTED BY: Shion Sono
FEATURING: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Saya Hagiwara
PLOT: A shocking mass suicide in a train station attracts the attention of the
police and a curious hacker who may have found a link to the seemingly random act. WHY IT’S ON THE BORDERLINE: This exercise in the Japanese new school of shock horror . . . → Read More: BORDERLINE WEIRD: SUICIDE CLUB (2002)
By Eric Young, on April 21st, 2010% DIRECTED BY: Darren Lynn Bousman
FEATURING: Anthony Head, Paul Sorvino, Alexa Vega, Sarah Brightman, Bill Moseley, Paris Hilton
PLOT: A worldwide epidemic leaves humanity on the brink, but a biotechnology
company saves everyone…for a price. Anyone unwilling or unable to pay becomes the prey of a killing machine known as the Repo . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA (2008)
By Eric Young, on April 12th, 2010%
DIRECTED BY: Ronald Bronstein
FEATURING: Dore Mann, David Sandholm, Paul Grimstad
PLOT: A pathetic loser named Keith lives a putrid existence in his sigh-
inducing apartment. He is horribly flawed in every way; vacuous, temperamental, and repulsively stupid. He lives with a roommate he wants to rid himself of, he tries to romance women . . . → Read More: BORDERLINE WEIRD: FROWNLAND (2007)
By Eric Young, on March 22nd, 2010% DIRECTED BY: Richard Stanley
FEATURING: Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, Lemmy, voice of Iggy Pop
PLOT: A desert wanderer in a post-apocalyptic wasteland discovers a relic. It’s the
dismembered skeleton of a cyborg used by the government in the war that destroyed civilization, and when a man conveniently buys the creepy-looking thing for his metal . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: HARDWARE (1990)
By Eric Young, on February 15th, 2010%
DIRECTED BY: David Lynch
FEATURING: Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Nance, Catherine Coulson
PLOT: A series of six short films spanning director David Lynch’s career from the
1960s through the 1990s. We track Lynch from his early years as a highly experimental student to a macabre master of the darkly surreal with these films . . . → Read More: BORDERLINE WEIRD: THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH (2002)
By Eric Young, on February 8th, 2010% “Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it.”-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d …”–Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard
DIRECTED BY: Michel . . . → Read More: 47. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004)
By Eric Young, on January 28th, 2010%
DIRECTED BY: James Felix McKenney
FEATURING: Don Wood, Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm, Reggie Bannister, Debbie Rochon, Michael Berryman, Larry Fessenden
PLOT: In this re-imagining of the “Christ-sploitation” films shown in churches and
probably a few Southern gynecologists’ offices of the 60s and 70s, we follow a young man and woman who make all the . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: SATAN HATES YOU (2009)
By Eric Young, on January 18th, 2010% DIRECTED BY: Terry Gilliam
FEATURING: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Tom Waits, Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp, Jude Law
PLOT: A 1000 year-old mystic enlists the help of a seedy amnesiac to save his
daughter, whose life he exchanged for eternal youth, from the clutches of the Devil.
WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: . . . → Read More: RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS (2009)
By Eric Young, on January 4th, 2010%
DIRECTED BY: Jeremy Alter
FEATURING: Anton Pardoe, Roselyn Sanchez, Patrick Bauchau
PLOT: In a dark, nameless city, a man must return to a city in which he is despised to
save the life of “the one who got away.” He must travel to the rotten heart of this noirish nightscape to get her . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE PERFECT SLEEP (2009)
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