IREZUMI
A key work by one of Japan’s neglected masters of cinema, director Yasuzo Masumura, who in IREZUMI created a starkly violent and perverse account of obsession, revenge and elaborate tattoos
INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER
This 1969 short is the darkest and most psychotic of Kenneth Anger’s films, a fragmentary evocation of black magic and late sixties-era psychedelia
THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES
The magnum opus of the late Ray Dennis Steckler, who lavished his largest-ever budget—a whopping $38,000—on this screwball horror-musical from 1963
HOUSE OF USHER
The first of Roger Corman’s stately and refined Edgar Allen Poe adaptations. An affecting film, but I prefer my Corman pictures down and dirty
HOUR OF THE WOLF
An Ingmar Bergman horror movie! THE HOUR OF THE WOLF was largely dismissed by critics, and truth be told it is quite dumb
HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN
Like many cult movie buffs the world over, I’ve been curious about this long-banned Japanese film for years. It’s inevitable, I guess, that I was disappointed
THE HONEYMOON KILLERS
Perhaps the ultimate true crime movie, a dramatization of the crimes of the 1940s-era Lonely Hearts Killers that’s as garish and horrific as anyone could possibly desire
HOMICIDAL
One of the more interesting films made by William Castle, who could always be counted on for unique and enjoyable entertainment
A “Lost” Film Found
IN THE MIDST OF LIFE,a French made adaptation of three stories by Ambrose Bierce, is quite simply one of the great unknown masterpieces of world cinema
TWO THOUSAND MANIACS!
The best of Herschell Gordon Lewis’ early 1960s gore epics, with real production value and gore scenes that (mostly) still startle