A creepy and off-putting 1981 “comedy” that’s most interesting for the fact that the narrative, about a deeply unhappy man descending into a vortex of sex, drugs and miscellaneous bad behavior, closely mirrored the offscreen existence of its star Chevy Chase
The final feature directed by Jan Svankmajer, who provides a documentary tour of his art-packed home
Nobody seems to remember this Canadian made sci-fier from 1995, and there’s a reason for that
A highly ambitious and very of-its-time Indo-Soviet co-production from 1980
The third feature by Andrei Tarkovsky and his first foray into science fiction, SOLARIS is the most famous such film to emerge from Russia
Mexi-madness containing all the things one might expect from a south-of-the-border trash fest, starting with the Big Three: sex, nudity and gore
This profoundly bizarre 12 minute short was made back in 1983, yet has become quite popular online (with good reason!)
A ground-breakingly gruesome example of avant-garde “pinku” (adults only) cinema
The concept of an insane asylum as a metaphor for modern civilization didn’t originate with this Estonian import, but the film did provide this particular movie model with a quintessentially Eastern European highlight
An inexplicably popular example of Japanese Tokusatsu (live action special effects based cinema) that I say is mid