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 SABBATH
Any movie featuring the delectable Beatrice Dalle involved in orgies and medieval torture can’t possibly be all bad—or so I thought until I sat through this mess
ARREBATO
The absolute last word on visual addiction, ARREBATO is a fascinating Spanish cult film
ANGELS AND CHERUBS
The first and most famous feature directed by Mexico’s Rafael Corkidi, who seems destined to be known primarily as the cinematographer of EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN
ALICE (1988)
The first feature by the Czech animator Jan Svankmajer was this bizarre take on ALICE IN WONDERLAND, notable for its unflagging invention and oppressive atmosphere
PROVIDENCE
Although the ending sucks, this is a fascinating and altogether unique hallucinatory drama by the famed avant-gardist Alain Resnais
THE JAR
Very, very stupid straight-to-video horror from the eighties
GOZU
I can sum this film up in two words: Fucked Up
GOTHIC
I’m one of the very few people who’ll admit to liking this movie, an ostensible historical rendering of the conception of FRANKENSTEIN, filtered through the mad vision of the one and only Ken Russell
GOLDEN BRAID
One of the strangest films ever made by Australia’s Paul Cox, who here spins a typically sexy and surreal account of a man in love with a braid of blond hair