LA MOUSTACHE
A man loses touch with reality after shaving off his mustache in this French-made excursion in surreal paranoia that’s ominous, unsettling and extremely well acted
TWO THOUSAND MANIACS!
The best of Herschell Gordon Lewis’ early 1960s gore epics, with real production value and gore scenes that (mostly) still startle
TROMEO AND JULIET
Wow! A legitimately good movie from Troma, and one directed, moreover, by Troma’s goofball honcho Lloyd Kaufman!
TRICK ‘R’ TREAT
The resurrection of the horror anthology film format was kicked off in part by this Halloween-set five-parter from 2007
DIABEL
The Polish expatriate filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski is one of the cinema’s most insane filmmakers, and this is one of his wildest films
INSIDE
For once you can believe the hype: this film, easily the most talked-about genre item in recent memory, is a groundbreaking masterpiece of shock and suspense
INK
Viewing this film in the company of a paying audience was like being transported back in time to the late 90s/early 00s, when sci fi-tinged freak-outs like DARK CITY, PI, DONNIE DARKO and THE MATRIX were far more prevalent
I MELT WITH YOU
Nobody, it seems, much liked this star-studded indie about four men succumbing to disillusionment and death in a scenic California locale, but it’s not without worth
THE NUTCRACKER
This superbly mounted, if largely ignored, 1986 film version of Tchaikovsky’s immortal ballet restores the terror and wonder that have been diluted by so many other modern productions of THE NUTCRACKER
NOCTURNA
The set-up of this 1979 obscurity, about Dracula’s babe granddaughter loose in a disco milieu, is irresistible to a bad movie buff like myself