BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1978)
This Czech take on Beauty and the Beast really brings forth the gloom and darkness of the original fairy tale
THE BABY
This early seventies sickie is a real curiosity: an exploitation movie about a grown man raised as an infant. A neglected classic? Hardly, but the film is an intriguing piece of work
EXPULSION OF THE DEVIL
Quite a few haunted house clichés are utilized in this slow moving French-made effort by Juan Luis Bunuel. A seeming inspiration on POLTERGEIST, the film has a few good things, but not enough to make for a worthwhile product.
EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC
A true bad movie classic! A nominal sequel to THE EXORCIST, this is a staggeringly ambitious, globe-spanning vision of ancient evil and redemption that’s also colossally misguided.
THE EXORCIST
Here we come to perhaps the most famous and revered horror movie of our time–indeed maybe of all time
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
EATEN ALIVE
Director Tobe Hooper’s follow up to THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, EATEN ALIVE was one of the innumerable JAWS knock-offs that flooded Hollywood in the late 1970s, the shark stand-in here being a massive crocodile to which a loony old man feeds his enemies
SUICIDE CULT
This ultra-obscure train wreck of a movie is a colossal embarrassment, but it is undeniably fascinating to watch the film’s hideously confused storyline—which somehow mixes astrology, mass suicide, CIA intrigue, mind control and the Second Coming—unfold
STALKER
I say this is the masterpiece of Russia’s late Andrei Tarkovsky, an unforgettable trip through one of the cinema’s most vivid and unsettling dreamscapes
THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE
Far from standard horror fare, the 1973 Spanish film SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE is an extremely difficult, uneventful mood piece that requires multiple viewings—in short, an Art Film