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: Uwe Boll
FEATURING: Jonathan Cherry, Ona Grauer, Clint Howard, Jurgen Prochnow
PLOT: Teenagers go to the Isle of the Dead for the “rave of the century,” but ravenous
killing machines from somewhere within the zombie genus spoil the party.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Uwe Boll’s weirdest idea is to periodically insert brief, totally unrelated clips [...]
“I only include things that are psychologically true in my stories, no matter how bizarre, stupid, silly or gratuitous the episodes in them may seem… I can only hope that the spectacle of me trying to inflict pain on hard-to-reach places on my own body is amusing to some people.”–Guy Maddin
DIRECTED BY: Guy Maddin
FEATURING: Darcy [...]
DIRECTED BY: Chan-wook Park
FEATURING: Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang
PLOT: A drunk Dae-su Oh is seized off the streets and imprisoned for years in a private
apartment without any explanation; when he is just as mysteriously released, his former captor toys with him, giving him clues to help Dae-su track him down and, more importantly, discover [...]
DIRECTED BY: Takashi Miike
FEATURING: Kou Shibasaki, Shin’ichi Tsutsumi
PLOT: Students begin receiving phone calls from their own cell phones, dated three days
in the future; the message is their own voice screaming, and the end up dead at the appointed time.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Weird director Miike adds a few surreal style points at the [...]
PLOT: A dowdy nurse contracts an odd strain of the zombie virus which changes her into
a flesh-eating sex maniac.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: There are plenty of weird elements in this low-budget B&W horror comedy, from slightly out-of-sync dubbing to deliberate overacting to Eraserhead-inspired dream sequences, but they seem forced and shallow, like [...]
PLOT: Four college kids are abducted by a backwoods maniac family.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Because the Texas Chainsaw Massacre ripoff plot was too tissue-thin to support a movie, heavy metal musician turned debutante director Rob Zombie’s fleshed the film out with stylistic excess. Home movies from inside the serial killers’ psyches, purposeless solarizations, [...]
