Time to dust off this collection of B-Westerns from Sinister Cinema’s Sinister Six-Gun Collection. The packaging is ultra-cool, starting off with those priceless trailers:
Trailer # 1: “Ride at Full Gallop into a Thundering Texas Romance to the rescue of a girl haunted by killers! Johnny Mack Brown as the fist-flashing GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS” blazes across [...]
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 that show a man who [...]
DIRECTED BY: Jim Jarmusch
FEATURING: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Robert Mitchum, Crispin Glover, Iggy Pop, Billy Bob Thornton, Mili Avatal, Gabriel Byrne
PLOT: Mild-mannered accountant Bill Blake heads west, becomes a wanted man after he
shoots a man in self defense, and, wounded, flees to the wilderness where he’s befriended by an [...]
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: [...]
DIRECTED BY: Mike McKown, Jim Towns
FEATURING: Josh Ebel, Kelly I. Lynn
PLOT: A mad doctor reanimates the body of his loved one who has died in a plague.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Silent films have an inherently dreamlike feel to them that gives them a leg up in the weird department. Prometheus Triumphant fails to capture and [...]
In the late 1950s movie star Errol Flynn owned a movie theater in Havana. Not the beautifully chiseled Flynn from The Adventures of Robin Hood, but a fat 50 year old has-been, yellowed with cirrhosis, eaten up with syphilis and dodging numerous creditors, including the IRS, with his latest teen age girlfriend: fourteen year old Beverly Aadland. Flynn, probably feeling his [...]
“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 [...]
I know we’ve already featured a Betty Boop cartoon in this space (Betty Boop in Snow White), but this one was so good, we had to share. In this episode Bimbo falls into a manhole, and finds himself in a hideout for a group of people in black face with melted candle hats. [...]
DIRECTED BY: Juraj Herz
FEATURING: Rudolf Hrusínský, Ilja Prachar, Milos Vognic, and Zora Bozinová
PLOT: In this mesmerizing, Gothic horror film,
a funerary specialist becomes obsessed with what he believes to be the nobility of his calling, with terrifyingly tragic and bizarre results.
WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: The Cremator treats unusual, morbid, taboo subject matter in a [...]
DIRECTED BY: Victor Halperin
FEATURING: Bela Lugosi
PLOT: A Haitian plantation owner seeks the help of local witch doctor and zombie mogul
‘Murder’ Legendre (Bela Lugosi) to bewitch another man’s bride.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: White Zombie can send quite the uncanny chill down your spine at times and is well worth a look for those seeking [...]
