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: Thomas Jane
FEATURING: Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, Laurie German
PLOT: Two blissful newlyweds driving back home from their wedding in Las Vegas
Vegas hit a man in the middle of the road. He lives, but the couple finds he is not all that he seems, and are forced to take drastic measures against him.
WHY IT’S ON [...]
AKA The Legend of Doom House; Malpertuis: The Legend of Doom House
“For sure, one of the weirdest films you’ll ever see, a cult film above and beyond anything else; a film for those initiated into midnight screenings. Where else do such dreams take place?”—Ernest Mathjis, DVD liner notes for the Barrel Entertainment edition of Malpertuis
DIRECTED BY: Harry [...]
DIRECTED BY: Marc Forster
FEATURING: Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Naomi Watts
PLOT: A private practice psychiatrist takes over the case of a suicidal art student after
his regular therapist takes a leave of absence due to stress, and discovers the case has metaphysical as well as psychological implications.
WHY IT’S ON THE BORDERLINE: Stay gets a pretty weird vibe [...]
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
