THE DOYLE DIARY
Here’s a truly amazing artifact for the ages, a sumptuous reproduction of a sketchbook kept by Charles Altamont Doyle, father of Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle
COME AND SEE
This shattering, impressionistic Russian epic can be viewed as an unforgiving expose of Nazi atrocities that makes SCHINDLER’S LIST look like LASSIE COME HOME
COMBAT SHOCK
COMBAT SHOCK isn’t mentioned in many film books, yet it’s one of the seminal independent films of the 1980s
IREZUMI
A key work by one of Japan’s neglected masters of cinema, director Yasuzo Masumura, who in IREZUMI created a starkly violent and perverse account of obsession, revenge and elaborate tattoos
I BURY THE LIVING
A fifties-era descent-into-madness tale with impressive visuals, though not without some glaring flaws
NO MERCY, NO FUTURE
From Germany, a bleak and unforgiving portrayal of madness, notable for its uncompromising realism and a stunning lead performance by Elisabeth Stepanek
HOUR OF THE WOLF
An Ingmar Bergman horror movie! THE HOUR OF THE WOLF was largely dismissed by critics, and truth be told it is quite dumb
FAREWELL JOHNNY
This film is often classified as the first South African cult movie, an insane asylum-set satire that remains an arrestingly bizarre spectacle
THE ORDER OF DEATH
England’s Hugh Fleetwood is one of contemporary fiction’s best kept secrets, and THE ORDER OF DEATH is one of his most impressive novels
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES…THE TRUTH HAS SET ME FREE!
A profoundly insane reminiscence adequately summed up by its own ungainly subtitle: “The memoirs of Bob Hope’s and Henry Kissinger’s mind-controlled slave…Used as a presidential sex toy and personal computer”