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"A drama that builds to a fever pitch of tension and holds itself there with superlative artistry." - The Hollywood Reporter Anatole Litvak’s classic adaptation of Mary Jane Ward’s book, THE SNAKE PIT is a harrowing portrait of a young…
This month, Arkadin brings you a truly unique and underseen mini-masterpiece of suspense that will leave you guessing till the last frame. With wry humor and a meta sensibility that can only be described as "De Palma-esque," this ingenious little…
“A stark, vicious little b-movie featuring a truly berserk and mesmerizing performance from bitch goddess extraordinaire Joan Crawford” - The Lobotomy Room Film Club Film legend Joan Crawford is absolutely electrifying in this deliciously tawdry (yet disarmingly empathetic) shocker from…
"AN ABSOLUTE MASTERWORK... My jaw dropped at the sheer spectacle (in glorious—and I mean glorious—color) spread across the screen" - If You Want the Gravy A visually stunning phantasmagoric journey through the labyrinth of the mind, THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM creates…
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"A WILD EXPERIENCE! The most resonant exploitation movie of its era... Using a mental hospital as a microcosm of a country whose prosperous post-war facade is slowly cracking up is the sort of faux-lowbrow cunning that turns a nasty little…
"AN ABSOLUTE MASTERWORK... My jaw dropped at the sheer spectacle (in glorious—and I mean glorious—color) spread across the screen" - If You Want the Gravy A visually stunning phantasmagoric journey through the labyrinth of the mind, THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM creates…
Considered one of the first— if not the first— women in prison movies, 1933’s Ladies They Talk About stars a perfectly cast Barbara Stanwyck as Nan Taylor, the hardboiled member of a gang of bank robbers who ends up taking the…
Shredder Orpheus (1989) is a low-budget reimagining of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice presented as a post-apocalyptic skateboard rock opera. Orpheus (played by director Robert McGinley) is a local rock star that must descend to the underworld on a skateboard-from-hell to rescue…
Body horror made a quantum leap in ’32, with the twin releases of these two markedly different exploitation classics. In Island of Lost Souls, Charles Laughton plays the sinister Dr. Moreau, whose gene-splicing lab in the jungle spawns a new class…