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AKA The Incredible Torture Show DIRECTED BY: Joel Reed FEATURING: Seamus O’Brien, Luis de Jesus PLOT: A sadist who runs a Grand Guignol off-off-Broadway show as a cover for his white slavery ring kidnaps a theater critic and a ballerina to design his greatest production yet. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: I . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: BLOODSUCKING FREAKS (1976) DIRECTED BY: Dusan Makavejev FEATURING: Carole Laure, Anna Prucnal, Pierre Clémenti, John Vernon PLOT: Two alternating stories: in one a virgin beauty queen escapes from her millionaire husband and his solid gold penis, while in the other a Socialist sea captain sails down an Amsterdam canal with a hold full of sugar and . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: SWEET MOVIE (1974) An Andalusian Dog “No idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted… We had to open all doors to the irrational and keep only those images that surprised us, without trying to explain why.”–Luis Buñuel on Un Chien Andalou DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel FEATURING: Simone Mareuil, . . . → Read More: 117. UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929) AKA Sex Maniac “Unless you regularly do mushrooms and go to Lady Gaga concerts with your good friend Crispin Glover, then watching Maniac is guaranteed to be the weirdest experience you have ever had.”–ad copy for the Rifftrax version of Maniac DIRECTED BY: Dwain Esper FEATURING: Bill Woods PLOT: An on-the-lam vaudevillian kills and impersonates . . . → Read More: 65. MANIAC (1934) DIRECTED BY: Michael Haneke FEATURING: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski PLOT: Held captive by two charming but very twisted psychopaths, a family tries to outwit them as they are forced to play sick parlor games. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Funny Games is a more substantial captive torment tale . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: FUNNY GAMES (1997) “Just as the body is overcome by desire, so naturalism is overcome by surrealism…”–György Pálfi, director’s statement to Taxidermia DIRECTED BY: György Pálfi FEATURING: Csaba Czene, Gergö Trócsányi, Marc Bischoff PLOT: Three short stories exploring three perverted generations, beginning with an extremely horny soldier in the private service of a lieutenant. His illegitimate . . . → Read More: 56. TAXIDERMIA (2006) DIRECTED BY: Jörg Buttgereit FEATURING: Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice M. PLOT: A necrophiliac who works for a corpse disposal service loses his job, his perverted girlfriend, and finally his mind. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Although Nekromantik is indisputably weird—not simply in its bizarre concept, but in its numerous nightmare digressions from linearity—it . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: NEKROMANTIK (1987) |
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