THE MYSTERY OF RAMPO
A strange and often puzzling fantasy about the late Edogawa Rampo (1894-1965), Japan’s foremost horror/mystery scribe
MY SOUL IS SLASHED
The Japanese video market of the 1990s produced some pretty amazing films, among them this highly audacious take on vampires, an exhausted subject this film treats with considerable freshness and ingenuity
THE MOOR’S HEAD
A somewhat uneven but undeniably affecting work from Austria that depicts a seemingly contented man’s descent into hallucination, paranoia and, finally, total insanity
MOONLIGHT BOY
Poetic, bizarre and altogether impressive nineties-era horror from Taiwan that can be viewed as Asia’s answer to THE SIXTH SENSE
MOEBIUS
Combining a compellingly offbeat story with some very potent (and disturbing) political overtones, this is an intriguing, innovative and unprecedented film that deserves a US release
MIMIC
For years director Guillermo Del Toro all-but disowned this heavily flawed 1997 film, his first English language feature
MIKADROID: ROBOKILL BENEATH DISCO CLUB LAYLA
This 1991 Japanese thriller, whose plot is neatly summed up by its subtitle, has amassed a minor cult following, even though it isn’t all that good
METAL SKIN
This is one of the finest Australian films of the past couple decades, and also one of the most underappreciated: a bleak and upsetting stew of post-teenage ennui, witchcraft, psychosis and death!
MATINEE
A pleasant enough baby boomer nostalgia piece from Joe Dante, worth seeing only for its affectionate tribute to the late William Castle
MARQUIS DE SADE
Trashy straight-to-video fodder, nominally about the Marquis de Sade