ACNE
No-budget goofiness that’s enjoyable, imaginative and, surprisingly, quite politically astute
PINOCCHIO 964
Director Shozin Fukui employs innumerable over-the-top touches here, creating what may be the ultimate “punk” movie
PHILOSOPHY OF A KNIFE
A history of Japan’s notorious Unit 731, this film, lasting four hours, mixes documentary and staged footage into an utterly unique whole
PARENTS
This eighties curio was advertised and possibly intended as a black comedy along the lines of EATING RAOUL, but it’s actually closer to ERASERHEAD in tone
JABBERWOCKY
This, the first solo directorial effort by Terry Gilliam, is very likely the most squalid and grotesque depiction of the middle ages ever put on screen
GUMMO
Arguably the magnum opus of filmmaker Harmony Korine, GUMMO is one of the most freakish and disturbing films you’ll ever see
THE GREEN ELEPHANT
A fitfully vile bit of arty sleaze that fits in well with high-minded sickies like VIVA LA MUERTE and SALO with its abundance of gore, scatology and general unpleasantness
GRACE
A good film exploring the horrors of motherhood that compares favorably with classics like ROSEMARY’S BABY, BABY BLOOD and INSIDE. It is a little thin, however!
THE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE
Yes, this is it: the 1987 Hollywood flop based on the Garbage Pail Kids stickers from the eighties
TRANCE
This 1982 German sickie remains notorious for its protracted depictions of necrophilia and dismemberment, but it’s also powerfully atmospheric, and a quintessential product of its tim