DIRECTED BY: Robert Altman
FEATURING: Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murhpy, Shelley Duvall, Rene Auberjonois, Stachy Keach, Margaret Hamilton, Jennifer Salt, William Baldwin
PLOT: An oddball genius constructs a one man flying device in the basement of the
Houston Astrodome, assisted by a sexy but murderous guardian angel.
WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: Robert Altman’s [...]
DIRECTED BY: Eric Mandelbaum
FEATURING: Thora Birch, Keith Carradine, Brendan Sexton III, Leo Fitzpatrick, Dean Winters
PLOT: An unambitious young man balances uneasy alliances with the authorities and his
psychopathic girlfriend when she involves him in a meretricious murder case.
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WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: Non linear story telling, oddball characters and incomprehensible motivations [...]
[AKA: The Ordeal]
DIRECTED BY: Fabrice Du Welz
FEATURING: Laurent Lucas, Jackie Berroyer, Brigitte Lahaie
PLOT: Small time entertainer Marc Stevens ventures along a rural route to reach his
next gig, but everything goes profoundly wrong. His car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, a stranger takes him to an inn, and he finds himself trapped in a [...]
DIRECTED BY: J. Lee Thompson
FEATURING: Sharon Tate, Donald Pleasance, David Niven, David Hemmings, Flora Robson
PLOT: A happy marriage descends into an odyssey of terror when a woman’s husband is
called to his ancestral estate by pagan heretics.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: While Eye of the Devil tells a strange story, the occult genre always spins [...]
DIRECTED BY: Franck Vestiel
FEATURING: Clovis Comillca, Vimala Pons, Zohar Wexleser
PLOT: A man named Tolbiac (Cornillac) awakens with amnesia alongside rotting corpses
in a high-tech underground wasteland. He must find his way out of a massive labyrinth deep within the earth. To do so he has to collect and assimilate data and unravel clues to the bizarre [...]
AKA: Blood Island
DIRECTED BY: David Green
FEATURING: Oliver Reed, Gig Young, Flora Robson, Carol Lynley
PLOT: In this H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, a a string of grisly killings is linked to an
unnameable creature inhabiting the loft of an abandoned New England mill inherited by newlyweds.
WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: The Shuttered Room showcases a strange story of monsters and madness. [...]
DIRECTED BY: Marina de Van
FEATURING: Marina de Van, Laurent Lucas, Léa Drucker
PLOT: Esther is a nice yuppie girl who enjoys her office job. She also enjoys dismantling
and consuming her own body. After disfiguring her leg in an accident, Esther develops a necrotic fascination with herself and begins to self-mutilate. She engages in auto-cannibalism while [...]
DIRECTED BY: Philip Chidel
FEATURING: Christian Oliver, Dean Stapleton
PLOT: A medical student gets more than he bargained for when he accepts an
experimental internship and discovers that immortality comes with a steep price.
WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: Subject Two is a fresh twist on the Frankenstein plot. It envisions being reanimated from the undead’s perspective. It [...]
DIRECTED BY: Victor Salva
FEATURING: Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen, Jeff Goldblum, Mary Steenburgen
PLOT: A supernaturally gifted teen misfit fights against the grain when he is forcibly
integrated into a callous, backward community.
WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: A strange blend of fantasy and drama, Powder has shadings of The Enigma of Casper Hauser (1975), Carrie (1976), and The [...]
DIRECTED BY: Rod Hardy
FEATURING: Chantal Contouri, Shirley Cameron, Max Phipps, Henry Silva, Rod Mullinar
PLOT: A direct descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is kidnapped by vampires who want
to make her one of their own.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: While Thirst has an offbeat plot for a vampire movie, it doesn’t go that extra [...]
