THE CHEKIST
A blistering look at an executioner going about his work in the wake of the Russian Revolution that’s guaranteed to traumatize the most hardened viewers
IT’S ALIVE
The first entry of the IT’S ALIVE trilogy, and the most popular film by writer-producer-director Larry Cohen
IT IS FINE! EVERYTHING IS FINE.
Those who can tolerate sexually explicit psychosexual weirdness will enjoy this cinemutation, the second directorial effort by the demented Crispin Glover
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE
The most notorious rape-revenge movie of the seventies, if not of all time
THE ISLE
A stunning horror film from Korea. Stylish, erotic, and often hellaciously grotesque, it plays like a deranged collaboration between Andrei Tarkovsky and Dario Argento
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS
To fully appreciate this film one has to cast one’s mind back to 1932, when ISLAND OF LOST SOULS shocked audiences worldwide
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1996)
This 1996 film has been largely forgotten, but it was one of the most notorious flops of its decade
IRREVERSIBLE
An extraordinary piece of “shock art.” It seems curiously appropriate that, in the midst of the rabidly anti-French sentiment that saturated the US in the early 00s, this is the major French movie we got
IREZUMI
A key work by one of Japan’s neglected masters of cinema, director Yasuzo Masumura, who in IREZUMI created a starkly violent and perverse account of obsession, revenge and elaborate tattoos
INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER
This 1969 short is the darkest and most psychotic of Kenneth Anger’s films, a fragmentary evocation of black magic and late sixties-era psychedelia