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
SCREWED
One of the final films by Japan’s late, occasionally great Teruo Ishii, adapting a manga by the legendary Yoshiharu Tsuge
SANTA SANGRE
A truly amazing 1989 film by Alejandro Jodorowsky–bold, violent, surreal and completely irresistible, it’s one of the decade’s finest films
SANTA CLAUS
Santa versus Satan? That’s the premise of this “classic” Mexican kid flick from 1959, a colorful and totally bizarre take on Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick
SALOME (1972)
This 1972 Italian obscurity is easily the wildest production of Oscar Wilde’s SALOME you’ll ever see
SAINT MARTYRS OF THE DAMNED
Fans of David Lynch and Takashi Miike should appreciate this extremely well-crafted French-Canadian exercise in surreality, though I suspect most everyone else will be annoyed by it
THE KINGDOM
One of the decade’s premier cinematic achievements in the horror genre, a wild, crazy, profound and endlessly thought provoking work
OPERA
Not one of Dario Argento’s best films, but certainly one of his most outrageous. No other Argento movie more enthusiastically pushes his preferences for fluid camerawork, garish colors and extremely graphic violence
THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION
With this nonlinear epic, filmmaker Jonathan Reiss adapted what is certainly one of the most unfilmable books of all time: THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION by J.G. Ballard