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CAPSULE: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: REANIMATED (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)

BORDERLINE WEIRD: SUICIDE CLUB (2002)

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)

CAPSULE: REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA (2008)

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)

BORDERLINE WEIRD: FROWNLAND (2007)

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)

CAPSULE: HARDWARE (1990)

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)

BORDERLINE WEIRD: THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH (2002)

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)

47. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004)

“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)

CAPSULE: SATAN HATES YOU (2009)

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)

RECOMMENDED AS WEIRD: THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS (2009)

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)

CAPSULE: THE PERFECT SLEEP (2009)

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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