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This month, our $3 Mystery Movie crosses over with our Offbeat Black Comedies series as we presented a truly outrageous and wonderful horror-fantasy-comedy-musical hybrid that must be experienced to be believed. As jubilant as it is bizarre, this truly singular…
“ONE OF THE MOST BRUTAL, SICK, UNPLEASANT, AND STOMACH-CHURNING FILMS TO BE MADE. That it is artfully shot, well-acted, philosophically poignant, and mannered only seems to add to the discomfort levels. There are no films like this one, and, should…
“A horror film that will haunt your waking hours for weeks. Every frame of It Follows is stamped with nameless dread.” -Total Film After a devastatingly bad date, suburban everyteen Jay finds herself trapped in a race to survive: She’s been cursed…
"This is Pasolini via early John Waters, including a lengthy scene of joyous coprophagia... Shit-eating aside, the sex acts are unsimulated, with a Christ-shaped dildo memorably venturing where angels fear to tread, and plenty of bondage and threesomes and so…
"Provocative, highly controversial...arguably most finely wrought work. It brings together politics, sexuality, society, art, and the irredeemable inauthenticity of bourgeois life." -Guardian With Teorema (a.k.a. Theorem), a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness, Pier Paolo Pasolini moved beyond the poetic, proletarian…
"This is Pasolini via early John Waters, including a lengthy scene of joyous coprophagia... Shit-eating aside, the sex acts are unsimulated, with a Christ-shaped dildo memorably venturing where angels fear to tread, and plenty of bondage and threesomes and so…
"Aggressive, confrontational, and scolding...punishes the audience for its casual bloodlust by giving it all the sickening torture and mayhem it could possibly desire.” -Scott Tobias, The AV Club Michael Haneke, the austere Austrian, takes on America with an English language…
“A raw and unsettling phantasmagorical vision. A deeply impactful film.” - Severed Cinema A recovering alcoholic’s journey lurches into a nightmare tailspin during a global crisis. Sober for only a few months, her sanity erodes as the demon in her…
“Haunting, beauteous... meditates on mankind's place in the cosmos, the wonders of God, and the timeless immanence of evil.” -The New York Times This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted…
“The best Leprechaun movie...elevates bad movies into an art form” -Variety Arkadin continues its annual tradition of defiling St. Patty's Day with some bloody Leprechaun action! After bringing you a double feature of the OG and second entries in 2023…
“The most beautiful and terrible film — sublime visually — beyond all experience, beyond all hope.” - Thea Porter It’s been called “harrowing” (The Guardian), “seriously disturbing” (Blu-ray.com) and “part documentary, part primal scream” (Screen Slate). More than half a century later, it remains…
"Twists horror and erotica into something completely new" - Rolling Stone A Cannes Film Festival sensation and Palme d'Or winner, TITANE is a feverish and jaw-dropping ride from the mind of Julia Ducournau (RAW). When seven-year-old Alexia smashes her head…
“Gloopy, slimy, gory, bloody, and messy... A brutal descent into complete madness” - Bloody Disgusting Three years ago young Tony watched with horror as his father was taken into the night sky by a mysterious blinding light and never seen…
"★★★★★ - Fun, scary, and suspenseful from start to finish." -Cole Smithey Easily the tensest, twistiest, tastiest suspense film from the late-'80s/early-'90s domestic thriller boom, Philip Noyce's DEAD CALM is a three-hander at sea, a sexy, dangerous shocker set amidst…
"Wow, this is one of the most thrilling discoveries in recent memory... kaleidoscopic cinematic poetry...beautifully sharp monochrome with ominous sounds. Estonian masterpiece. Leida Laius is one of best auteurs nobody knows." - Tettyo0910, Letterboxd A tragically underseen gem of folk-tale…
“A living, breathing nightmare committed to celluloid.” - Chris Alexander During a cricket match at an insane asylum between the patients and the local villagers, one of the inmates, Crossley (Alan Bates, in a tour-de-force performance of seething malevolence), tells…