GIRLY

This British oddity represents yet another case of promising material given indifferent treatment

SOLDIER BLUE

Perhaps the most infamous of the many revisionist westerns churned out by Hollywood in the early seventies

THE ENCHANTMENT

This altogether odd 1989 thriller hails from Shunichi Nagasaki, Japan’s onetime cinematic sultan of noir

THE SHUTTERED ROOM

Few people seem to remember this British made H.P. Lovecraft adaptation from 1967, and I say that’s for the best

RING: KANZENBAN

The true inception of the phenomenally popular RING film cycle was this Japanese TV movie from 1995

LUX ÆTERNA

This bizarre concoction is pure Gaspar Noé: an intense psychodrama marked by technical bravura and a highly experimental thrust

THE WITCHES

A dream collaboration if ever there was, the first and only teaming of Nicolas Roeg and Jim Henson

TUMBBAD

An example of new school Bollywood horror, meaning the music numbers and inflated runtimes of its predecessors are nowhere to be found

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