“He showed me this little script he had written for Eraserhead. It was only a few pages with this weird imagery and not much dialogue and this baby kind of thing.”–Jack Nance
DIRECTED BY: David Lynch
FEATURING: Jack Nance
PLOT: Henry is a factory worker living in a dingy apartment in a desolate urban nowhere. His girlfriend [...]
“I think it is a film fantastique in a way… a film fantastique can have almost anything in it, it’s based on facts but it can take flights of fancy which are still rooted to the truth, to the reality of the story, so the imagination can roam.”–Robin Hardy
DIRECTED BY: Robin Hardy
FEATURING: Edward Woodward, Christopher [...]
AKA Viy, Spirit of Evil; Vij
DIRECTED BY: Georgi Kropachyov & Konstantin Yershov
FEATURING: Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Varley
PLOT: In medieval Ukraine, a seminarian must spend three nights praying over the
corpse of a witch.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: This faithful adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 short story is a classic of world horror, deserving a place alongside the [...]
“We hoped for the look of a Bergman film and the feel of Cocteau.”–variously attributed to screenwriter John Clifford or director Herk Harvey
DIRECTED BY: Herk Harvey
FEATURING: Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger
PLOT: Mary Henry, a church organist, is the lone survivor of an accident when the car she’s riding in plunges over the side of an old wooden [...]
“I hate doing this to a beautiful woman.” -Attributed to cameraman Gil Taylor during the filming of Repulsion
DIRECTED BY: Roman Polanski
FEATURING: Catherine Deneuve
PLOT: At first glance, manicurist Carole (Catherine Deneuve) seems merely to be painfully shy. The early portions of the film follow her in her daily routine, and we grow to realize that her [...]
