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

SOUL VENGEANCE

This “blaxploitation” movie is infamous for a one-minute scene near the end involving a homicidal penis…which is indeed an eye-opener, but the rest of the film is pretty crappy

SNUFF

A stilted and amateurish exploitation quickie purported to be an actual snuff film. It’s not!

SINTHIA THE DEVIL’S DOLL

It’s a fact that the late Ray Dennis Steckler made some good movies in his day, but this soft core horror-art film isn’t one of them

THE SINFUL DWARF

You want sick? If so than this is the film for you, a sordid, ugly and bizarre Euro-obscurity about, yes, a dwarf who commits all manner of sin

THE SHOUT

Although it’s fallen into obscurity in recent years, this 1978 film marked something of a milestone in British horror with its unique narrative and unprecedented (for the time) use of sound

SHOOT

This would-be thriller wants very much to be a shocking expose of the dark underbelly of American machismo, and maybe it was back in 1976, but not today