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“Like a therapy session of nightmares.” -IMDb Dimly lit corridors, hazardous waste, long-buried secrets, and the voices of the dead: It’s a perfect recipe for a terrible time when an asbestos removal team is dispatched to an abandoned state hospital for a…
“A bizarre masterpiece that invents a brilliantly skewed perspective and sustains it for a nearly impossible 117 minutes.” –Combustible Celluloid It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas—accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr.…
“Deserves to be appreciated as a subversive classic” –Collider In 1974, Tobe Hooper quite literally changed the face of horror with his landmark film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Although the hulking Leatherface and his trusty power tool left an…
"3 WOMEN is an intense psychological drama laced with satire... a mind-blowing screen achievement." -The Barb Though perhaps best known for her work in The Shining and Popeye, Shelley Duvall's greatest, most unnerving performance can be found in Robert Altman's…
“An insanely impressive directorial feature debut for Skotchdopole. It’s funny, bizarre, uncomfortable, and an absolute cringe-fest for all the best reasons.” -Collider At a remote estate in upstate New York, newlyweds Leah (Ella Rae Peck) and Shane (Rigo Garay) celebrate…
Bring in a VHS tape, and you’ll get in free. It can be absolutely anything — a forgotten bargain-bin B-movie, a Hollywood classic, an aerobics tape, a training video, a home movie. Anything! But there’s an incentive to bring us…
"Like Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Georgiy Daneliya’s 1986 film Kin-dza-dza! is, at bottom, biting social satire disguised as dystopian science fiction. Deploying unabashedly absurdist humor, both films decry the alienating effects of bureaucracy, abhor the arbitrary terrors imposed by an authoritarian regime, and exhibit…
As our month-long Lost in the Desert series cruises along, stop off in a dusty little nowhere town and settle in for some gut-wrenching violence in the sweltering Arizona heat. This underrated, underseen, and unclassifiable horror-thriller plays out like a…
"A surprisingly spellbinding reimagining of one of cinema's most infamous disasters, CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT is a stunning achievement." -Stephanie Malone, Morbidly Beautiful 44 years after the 1980 release of historical epic CALIGULA, producer and reconstructionist Thomas Negovan has realized…
"A rivetingly murderous game of cat and mouse that keeps you on the edge of your seat." –Time Out In Steven Spielberg's first full-length movie, Duel, a traveling salesman (Dennis Weaver) is harassed by a menacing 40-ton truck on a…