DIRECTED BY: Martin Scorsese
FEATURING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams
PLOT: A U.S. Marshall with a tragic past investigates a mysterious disappearance at an
asylum for the criminally insane on a craggy, isolated Massachusetts island in the 1950s.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Scorsese sprinkles a few flakes of weirdness into his mainstream thriller for [...]
DIRECTED BY: Jean-Claude Brisseau
FEATURING: Carole Brana, Etienne Chicot
PLOT: Sandrine, bored with sex and life in general, takes a year off from the rat race
and meets some libertines who explore the intersection of sex, hypnosis and religious ecstasy.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: This retro sex-drama only flirts with weirdness at the very end. Considered as [...]
DIRECTED BY: Lloyd Kaufman
FEATURING: David Mattey, voice of Clyde Lewis, Heidi Sjursen, Paul Kyrmse
PLOT: An explosion inexplicably causes the Toxic Avenger to switch dimensions with his
evil Bizarro-world opposite, the Noxious Offender.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: None of the other Toxic Avenger movies made the List, so the fourth installment would have to do something [...]
DIRECTED BY: Brian Yuzna
FEATURING: Jeffrey Combs, Jason Barry, Elsa Pataky, Simón Andreu
PLOT: A brilliant young med school graduate gets himself assigned to the institution
where Dr. Herbert West is imprisoned so that he can enlist the good doctor’s assistance in continuing his forbidden experiments in reanimating the dead.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Beyond is a [...]
DIRECTED BY: John R. Hand
FEATURING: Jeremy Hosbein, Amanda Edington
PLOT: A survivor of the apocalypse is conflicted about his mother, who is addicted to a
black fluid that keeps her eternally young but causes disorientation and scarring.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Scars of Youth is a beautifully lensed film, filled with dreamlike images and montages. [...]
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 gynocologists’ offices of the 60s and 70s, we follow a young man and woman who make all the wrong choices in a haze [...]
DIRECTED BY: Luc Besson
FEATURING: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker
PLOT: 300 years in the future, an ex-special ops agent turned taxi driver must collect
four stones and discover the fifth element to stop the universe from being destroyed by evil, with the help of a scantily clad supreme being.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: [...]
DIRECTED BY: Peter Jackson
FEATURING: Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon
PLOT: A murdered 14-year old girl watches her family search for her killer from the
afterlife.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: There are a few weird visual elements in Susie’s pleasant and candy-colored Purgatory, but The Lovely Bones tells a conventional, if unusual, [...]
DIRECTED BY: John R. Hand
FEATURING: John R. Hand, Amy Olivastro
PLOT: A scientist—or perhaps his monster, it’s never quite clear—kills women to harvest
their body parts so the doctor can resurrect his dead love.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Missing apostrophe aside, there’s lots to admire about Frankensteins Bloody Nightmare, though not as much to love. Director Hand [...]
DIRECTED BY: James Felix McKenny
FEATURING: Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm
PLOT: The lone survivor of a devastated nation lives alone in an underground bunker.
Her only companions are the voice recordings of a long-dead scientist and the robots she sends out to do battle with the enemy on the planet’s poisoned surface.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: [...]
