THE ETERNAL
A nineties indie interesting for its experimental aspects and the way it slyly recalls the old dark castle horrors of old
ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW
This is the already-infamous indie that was filmed surreptitiously at Walt Disney World. The film is fairly affecting, although the crummy final third does it in
EPIDEMIC
Denmark’s Lars Von Trier has made some wonderful films in the horror genre (THE KINGDOM, ANTICHRIST), but EPIDEMIC, his first such effort, is not among them
ENTER THE VOID
This highly immersive film, the most ambitious and provocative to date by filmmaker Gaspar Noe, proves that truly bold, risk-taking, precedent-setting cinema is still possible
THE END OF THE WORLD (1931)
Yikes! An asteroid is heading for Earth, threatening to wipe out the entire planet Sounds like METEOR, DEEP IMPACT, ARMAGEDDON and a host of other modern-day disaster pics, but it’s actually THE END OF THE WORLD, filmmaker Abel Gance’s 1931 epic.
END OF THE LINE
Another movie everyone seems to like but me. Sorry, but I found this subway-set splatter fest to be dull and uninspired
ELVES
Ludicrous straight-to-video anti-Christmas trash from the eighties! ELVES is popular with bad movie buffs, but don’t expect much
EL TOPO
EL TOPO is the most famous film ever made by the incomparable Alejandro Jodorowsky, an early-seventies counterculture mainstay that retains much of its off-kilter brilliance
EL NOMINADO
Yet another take on the reality TV craze, EL NOMINADO is disturbing because it seems quite plausible in terms of its setting (an enclosed space deep underground) and outcome (a contestant goes violently insane). Too bad the film just isn’t very good
EL AMOR BRUJO
Flamenco dancing takes center stage in this musical extravaganza from Spain’s Carlos Saura. All told it’s an impressively stylized work that interweaves authentic Gypsy folklore with song, dance and a fairly potent ghost story