SWEET HOME
W haunted house movie that woefully lacks the complexity and craftsmanship of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s later films
VLAD TEPES
Vlad Tepes was the historical personage who inspired DRACULA, and this Romanian epic remains the only worthwhile Tepes film biopic
SODOM AND GOMORRAH: THE LAST SEVEN DAYS
Another 1970s era dispatch from the Weird Porno category
THE MUSHROOM MAN
A most unique period piece from Mexico involving betrayal, racism and hallucinogenics.
DIAMOND PYRAMID
One of the better made-for-TV movies directed by the visionary and prolific András Rajnai, a pioneer in the Hungarian TV field
PROPHECY
This 1979 ecologically-minded monster fest is not to be confused with the 1995 Christopher Walken film of the same name
I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS
A most unlikely offering from writer-director Charlie Kaufman
PINOCCHIO
This 2019 film sought to adapt Carlo Collodi’s immortal ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO in its original un-Disneyfied form
SWISSMADE
a 1968 science fiction themed three parter from Switzerland that’s known primarily for the fact that one of its segments was designed (not directed, as the imdb erroneously reports) by the late H.R. Giger
MEAT
The most fearsome and notorious Frederick Wiseman documentary of them all