...the big list....

13 Frightened Girls
Directed by William Castle
1963 -- 89min.
Thirteen girls in a Swiss boarding school, particularly one Candace Hull ("Kitten", "Candy"), stir up trouble on their vacation as they mess with the diplomatic affairs of their elders and get into serious trouble when a Russian spy is discovered murdered.

13 Ghosts
Directed by William Castle
1960 -- 88min
(4)
Gimmick-loving producer William Castle strikes again with this fun haunted-house thriller which invited audiences to find the hidden ghosts roaming about a haunted house through a special process called "Illusion-O" by which patrons could employ a special pair of red-and-blue-colored glasses to detect ghosts on the screen during the film's color-tinted sequences. The story is set in the mansion of the deceased occult scientist Dr. Zorba, whose nephew Cyrus and his family occupy the creepy estate and discover that they are not the only tenants. It seems the Doctor has been harboring 12 elusive specters on the premises, the appearance of which can only be detected through his final invention: a special pair of ghost-viewing goggles. To further complicate matters, it is learned that Zorba has stashed a small fortune somewhere in the house, and someone - or something - is determined to stop Cyrus and family from finding it. This film's original release featured an introduction from Castle, describing the "Illusion-O" process and demonstrating the proper use of the tinted glasses; he also appears in an epilogue stating that the glasses can be used to detect ghosts outside the theater!

26 Bathrooms
Directed by Peter Greenaway
1993 - 30 min
British filmmaker and artist Peter Greenaway is known for his visually inventive images, which can involve pattern, symmetry, and whimsical features. In this brief film, 26 Bathrooms, he presents the subject of bathrooms, seen from his unique viewpoint. Using the letters of the alphabet, this work depicts the various activities that occur in the bathroom and the people who perform these activities. D is for Dental Hygiene, E is for Exercise in the Bathroom, G is for a Good Shave, J is for Jacuzzi, L is for Lost Soap, R is for Reading in the Bathroom, and W is for Washing the Dog.

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A Chinese Torture Chamber Story
Directed by Bosco Lam
1994 -- 92min
Hong Kong filmmaker Bosco Lam directed this notorious Category III exploitation film from Wong Jing's Workshop which mixes outrageous physical humor, unusual softcore sex, and disturbingly sadistic gore and torture in a distinctly Asian manner. Notable is a kinky parody of the pottery wheel sequence from Ghost and an acrobatic sex scene between Elvis Tsui and Julie Lee which is played out as a slapstick martial arts battle in mid-air set to video game sound effects. The story line concerns the plight of Little Cabbage (Yvonne Yung), who is found covered with blood next to her husband's corpse. Little Cabbage's husband was Got Siu-tai (Tommy Wong), who was so incredibly endowed that his ingestion of a super-aphrodisiac caused his penis to explode, resulting in his death. Brought before a magistrate, Little Cabbage's story is related in flashback, showing how she was hired as a maid by a scholar called Yang Ni-mu (Lawrence Ng). Little Cabbage caught her mistress cheating on Ni-mu one day, and was promptly married off to Siu-tai, who rescued her from her former mistress' lover by beating him senseless in events precipitating his own later death by genital explosion. Yuen King-tan co-stars with Lee Siu-kei.

A-Team Episodes:
1.Mexican Sleighride, pt.1(pilot)
2.Mexican Sleighride, pt.2(pilot)
3.The Children of Jamestown
4.Pros and Cons
5.A Small and Deadly War
6.Black Day At Bad Rock
7.The Beast From the Belly of Boeing

The Adult Version of Jekyll & Hyde
Directed by Byron Mabe
1971 -- 91min
(4)
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale gets a rather dramatic overhaul in this adults-only horror opus. Dr. Chris Leeder (Jack Buddliner), a sleazy physician who fancies himself a ladies' man, discovers the lost notebooks of Dr. Henry Jekyll and decides to pick up where the late doctor's experiments left off. Leeder's variation on Jekyll's formula has an unusual twist - it turns him into a beautiful woman (Jane Tsentas). "Miss Hide," however, is no better mannered than her male counterpart, and as "she" pursues Leeder's lovely assistant (Rene Bond) and a sailor on leave who's had one too many, it becomes obvious that the female Hyde has both lust and murder on her mind - which is bad news for Dr. Leeder's fiancée (Jennifer Brooks). The Adult Version of Jekyll and Hide was produced by legendary exploitation impresario David F. Friedman.

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Ali G: Indahouse
Directed by Mark Mylod
2002 - 88min
(5)
Ali G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the evil Chancellor's plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain. However, instead of bringing the Prime Minister down, Ali is embraced by the nation as the voice of youth and 'realness', making the Prime Minister and his government more popular than ever.

The Alphabet
Directed by David Lynch
1967 -- 4min.
(2)
Lynch's first film is a bizarre, revolting and terrifying account of a bedridden young girl apparently being tortured by the alphabet. The letters appear as weird, threatening shapes which (as in his follow-up The Grandmother) seem to take on plant form. The girl herself eventually vomits blood. The innocence of the child's 'ABC' rhyming song is warped to give a frighteningly naive background to the horrific events.

America
Directed by Robert Downey,Sr.
1986 -- 83min
(5)
A TV news satire from director Robert Downey, this film concerns a cable evening news show that gradually turns into chaotic performance art. Head newscaster Terrence Hackley (Zack Norman) has been caught by his wife Joy (Tammy Grimes) with a plaid skirt in his suitcase, so he covers up by wearing it in his interviews. The sagging ratings start to go up and then they zoom sky-high after Joy and the weatherman bounce the station's signal off the moon and it lands in houses around the world. Several zany vignettes send up media moguls and film directors as the news program becomes increasingly bizarre.

American Job
Directed by Chris Smith
1996 - 90min
Randy looks for work in this dryly satirical pseudo-documentary look at mindless minimum wage jobs. Randy is as bland and soulless as the Midwestern town he lives in. As he tries one job after another, no insight into his background, thoughts or feelings is offered. There is only the numbing repetitiveness of the jobs. First he gets a job monitoring a machine at a plastics factory. He does nothing all day but watch it work. Unable to take the boredom, he next begins working as a clean-up person at a fast-food restaurant. That doesn't work and so he continues on with other jobs including taking inventory, cleaning motels, and becoming a telephone solicitor.

Andy Kaufman: The Midnight Special
1981
(4)
This video features rare footage from Andy Kaufman's 1981 television appearances, including Tony Clifton's famous Elvis impersonation.

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The Asshole From El Paso

Audition
Directed by Takashi Miike
1999 -- 115 min
(4)
Controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike creates this unnerving horror film about a widowed TV producer auditioning prospective wives. In his search, one candidate particularly stands out, a lovely ex-ballerina dressed in white. The widower cannot believe his good fortune, until he starts looking more closely at his potential bride-to-be: her autobiographical details don't quite check out, she has a number of ugly scars on her legs, and he learns that people in her life have a habit of disappearing. When he discovers a man trussed up in her living room with his tongue and feet lopped off, he concludes that she is perhaps not the woman of his dreams.

Bad Taste
Directed by Peter Jackson
1987 -- 90min
(5)
Extraterrestrial fast-food franchisers come to earth to pick up food supplies-in this case, human flesh. After wiping out a few small towns, the aliens must contend with a team of government assassins, headed by Pete O'Herne. As the plot rolls on, O'Herne's crew is decimated in as gory a manner as possible, and innocent bystander Craig Smith ends up being marinated (and a darned good job it is). Turns out that the space folks are running on a timetable; they've got to return to their home planet with their human-hash cargo before a rival franchise puts them out of business.

Badi (Turkish ET)
Directed by Zafer Par
1983
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Basket Case
Directed by Frank Henenlotter
1982 -- 90min.
(5)
The poor social skills of a young yokel turn out to have a horrifying explanation in this low-budget splatterfest, which marks the debut of Frankenhooker director Frank Henenlotter. The film begins with a bloody prologue and the arrival of young Duane Bradley (Kevin Van Hentenryck) at a broken-down New York hotel full of drunks, hookers, and assorted weirdos. An upstate native with few big-city survival skills, the earnest Duane seems slightly off. He flashes lots of bills at the hotel manager, carries a large wicker basket with him, and seems bewildered at the variety of characters on display. Once he's alone, Duane's own behavior becomes bewildering as he talks incessantly to some unseen presence and drops prodigious quantities of fast food into his basket. After Duane visits a surgeon's office and the doctor gets rendered into a mangled corpse, all becomes clear; Duane is half of a pair of Siamese twins who were separated against their will in a brutal operation a decade earlier. Belial, his lumpen, beachball-sized brother, secretly survived the procedure and now wants to exact revenge on those who separated him from Duane. Things go according to plan except for one thing: Duane falls hard for coy, busty Sharon (Terri Susan Smith), the receptionist of one of the nefarious doctors. That doesn't sit well with the malformed Belial, who's as attracted to Sharon as he is jealous of Duane's romance with her. Although no sequel appeared for several years, Basket Case was eventually followed by Basket Case 2 and Basket Case 3: The Progeny; Hentenryck and Belial also make a cameo in the director's Brain Damage.

Basket Case 2
Directed by Frank Henenlotter
1990 -- 90 min.
(5)
Although it took eight years for cult director Frank Henenlotter to revisit the twisted world of Duane Bradley (Kevin Van Hentenryck) and his basket-bound, mutant former Siamese twin Belial, this sequel picks up the plot mere moments after the original Basket Case ended, finding the psychically-linked brothers mangled but very much alive after the rather aggressive tiff that pitched them out a Bowery flophouse window. They manage to elude the authorities, escape the hospital (to avoid having to explain the dozen-or-so murders committed by gnarled, lumpy Belial), and eventually find sanctuary at the palatial home of Granny Ruth (jazz songbird Annie Ross), an eccentric activist who rallies the cause of "Unique Individuals" like Belial who have been ostracized by society for their horrific appearance and behavior. (Unique, indeed... Ruth's tenants run the gamut from a boy with 18-inch teeth to a woman who looks like a hammerhead shark in a summer frock.) Although the pair soon grow quite accustomed to their new home, they are eventually forced to confront their murderous past, thanks to a tabloid reporter and a cynical cop, both of whom come to regret sticking their noses into places where such appendages tend to get bitten off. Henenlotter deserves credit for exploring new terrain in this interesting follow-up, but his reliance on outrageous makeup effects diminishes the effectiveness of the "Monsters Are People Too" theme - it's hard to work up much empathy toward Ruth's charges, depicted as mute automatons by actors wearing 70 pounds of foam latex on their heads. Not that Henenlotter doesn't return to grotesque form now and then - particularly for the most disgusting love scene on record and the effective shock ending, which paves the way for yet another sequel.

Basket Case 3
Directed by Frank Henenlotter
1992 -- 90 min
(5)
Cult director Frank Henenlotter does the seemingly impossible by breathing new life into this horror-comedy series about the twisted escapades of the Bradley Brothers: the deranged but sensitive Duane (Kevin Van Hentenryck) and his monstrously-deformed former Siamese twin Belial. The previous installment had the siblings settling a nasty dispute in a particularly grisly manner... but appearances can deceive, as the original Basket Case proved with its similar denouement, which the director casually ignored in order to move things along. This time, Duane and Belial are still a bit miffed at each other but eventually make cute when it's learned that Belial is going to be a daddy - thanks to a stomach-churning tryst with the similarly-shaped mutant Eve in the previous chapter. Things seem to be returning to relative normalcy in their newfound home - considering that said home is Granny Ruth's sanctuary for "Unique Individuals" whose curator (Annie Ross, reprising her role) offers bed and board to an ensemble of freaks with cartoonishly-large deformities. It is only when the entire group sets out for the Georgia clinic of Uncle Hal - a specialist who is capable of delivering Eve's plentiful offspring - that their revels come to an end, thanks to a redneck sheriff and his thick-headed deputies, who don't exactly take a shine to their kind. It's up to Belial to save the day, which he does with bloody gusto thanks to a mechanical exoskeleton built by Uncle Hal's ingenious multi-armed son. Despite falling into some of the same pitfalls as the previous film (namely the slightly-too-outrageous mutant makeup), this is a stylish coda to the series, with strong and very funny performances from the leads and some memorably grotesque moments - especially a bizarre road-trip sing-along by the freaks and the jarring air of "cuteness" in the disgusting birth scene.

Battle of the Stars

Battle Royale
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
2001 -- 114 min
(5)
In a future where society is on the verge of collapse, the government takes drastic action against the problem of rebellious teenagers in this violent sci-fi opus from Japan. In the year 2002, Japan's economy has taken a dramatic turn for the worse, and massive unemployment and inflation have thrown most adults into a state of chaos; the nation's youth culture responds with unprecedented violence, delinquency, and truancy. Desperate to restore order, the Japanese parliament responds by creating the Millennial Reform School Act, in which groups of junior high students are selected at random, sent to an isolated island, and forced to play a rigorous war game, in which all but one of their number are killed. Kitano (Beat Takeshi) is an embittered school instructor who guides the 44 students of the Zentsuji Middle School's Class B through the deadly game known as "Battle Royale," as they struggle to survive against the elements and each other. Battle Royale proved to be both successful and highly controversial in Japan, where it set box-office records and prompted political leaders to call for stricter controls on violence in Japanese entertainment; the film was initially rated R-15 (no one under 15 admitted), unusual for violent films in Japan, though director Kinji Fukasaku later prepared a re-edited version that earned a more lenient classification.

Battle Royale: Special Edition
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
2002 - 120min
(4)
Uncut version of the popular movie.

The Bedroom
Directed by Hisayasu Sato
2001 -- 63min
An oddly beautiful work in the Japanese "Pink Cinema" genre, which combines a fetishistic pornography aesthetic with an avant-garde visual sensibility, THE BEDROOM is a tale of drugs, prostitution, and murder. Kyoko, a prostitute, belongs to a club called "The Bedroom," in which the entire cartel of whores use a hallucinatory drug called "Hallusion." As woman after woman disappears, it comes to light that the Bedroom members are systematically being murdered and mutilated. Kyoko gradually becomes suspicious of her enigmatic boyfriend, Kei, but the answer to this mystery is far more disturbing than she could have imagined. Oddly, the film stars a real-life murderer, Issei Sagawa, who killed and partially consumed his Dutch girlfriend in 1981.

Being Different
Directed by Harry Rasky
1981 -- 100min
Don't confuse Being Different with those exploitational "freak show" documentaries of the 1950s. This is a sensitive-but never sentimental-study of persons whose physical deformities and mental handicaps have not stood in the way of their positive self-images or personal success. Filmmaker Harry Rasky follows these quietly courageous individuals at work and at home. After ten minutes or so, the audience is barely conscious of the fact that these folks are "different" in any way. Being Different benefits from the calm narration of Christopher Plummer.

Beware: Children At Play
Directed by Mik Cribben
1989 - 94min
(5)
In this horror epic from the always-tasteful folks at Troma Team Pictures, the parents in a small town begin having a serious discipline problem with their children. It seems the kids are being lured into a strange cannibalistic cult and start feeding on the flesh of their families!

Big Black: Pig Pile (live)

Bird People of China
Directed by Takashi Miike
1998 - 118min
One of Japan's hottest young directors, Takashi Miike directs this curious adventure story set in China's picturesque Yunnan province. Workaholic Tokyo salaryman Wada (Masashiro Motoki) ventures into deepest, darkest China to investigate a massive deposit of high-quality jade. Tailing him is Ujiie (Renji Ishibashi), a snarling yakuza hell-bent on getting Wada's company to repay its debts. Led by their unflappable guide, Shun (Mako), the two go through rural villages and striking landscapes, quickly leaving behind all signs of the 20th century. As the trail grows narrower and more remote and as they brave gales, bugs, and floods, the long simmering tension between Wada and Ujiie bursts into full-scale contempt. One night, after Shun gets blind drunk, he hits his head and loses his memory. Now completely lost, the trio stumbles upon a hill tribe, whose children are adorned with wings made from bamboo and paper. Their teacher, a blue-eyed woman named Yan (Li Li Wang), tells them that she is teaching them to fly. Wada quickly becomes obsessed with this curious local. After she tells him that she has a book on human-powered flight and that her grandfather was a downed British airman, he almost believes that she can teach her students to soar. Soon Wada feels purged from the evils of city life while Ujiie decides to dedicate his life to protecting the village

Blind Beast
Directed by Yasuzo Masumura
1969 -- 90min.
This sick and depraved scenario begins when a blind sculptor and his mother kidnap a young woman and use her as a model. In the darkness of an abandoned warehouse, she suffers at the hands of the artist. Giving in to find an avenue of escape, she becomes caught up in a series of sadomasochistic games. After she eventually loses her sight and her mind, the sexual games become even rougher. Whips are replaced with knives, which give way to meat cleavers, as the demented girl begs to have her arms and legs cut off. The girl ends up cut down to size after the mother dies over a battle with her son. He contemplates suicide when he realizes the girl can no longer give him a hand in this macabre tale that gives new meaning to the expression "tortured artist."

Blind Date Uncensored
VCD
Approx 4 min.
(5)
All the stuff that was "too hot for tv", featuring numerous tits and ass, dates that went wrong and more. Great for any Blind Date fan.

Blind Rage
Directed by Efren C. Pinon
1978 - 81min
Despite an amusing premise - five blind men commit a bank robbery - this Filipino crime film fails to rise above its low-budget blaxploitation look. D'Urville Martin (Dolemite) and Fred Williamson are the main draws, but only devoted fans will want to sit through this one. After 1974's outrageously silly The Killing of Satan, this was a letdown from director Efron C. Pinon

Blood Beach
Directed by Jeffrey Bloom
1981 -- 89 min
Sun-worshiping Californians are disappearing by the droves at a popular beach hangout, and a pair of extremely gruff detectives (John Saxon and Burt Young) grumble their way through the case until the real culprit is discovered... it seems a giant burrowing sand-monster with a taste for well-tanned human flesh has set up house beneath the surface and has been partaking of beach bums and bunnies, sucking them down to a nasty (but mostly unseen) death. The creature is kept completely concealed until the final minutes, but its triumphant arrival reveals the real reason the filmmakers kept it hidden so long: the dreaded beast looks like a giant artichoke! The potential for campy fun in this premise is defeated by a completely straight, plodding detective story, but at least Saxon and Young turned in enjoyably cranky performances before picking up their checks.

Bloodsucking Freaks
Directed by Joel M. Reed
1976 - 91min
(5)
Joel M. Reed directed this notorious cult-horror comedy, which was the center of impassioned protests by Women Against Pornography. Seamus O'Brien stars as the epicene Sardu, who stages Grand Guignol torture performances at a downtown New York club. What the amazed audiences don't know is that the performances are real, using kidnapped victims who are kept in cages, mutilated, and later sold into white slavery by Sardu and his cackling dwarf assistant, Ralphus (Luis De Jesus). Sardu finally goes too far when he kidnaps a famous ballerina (Viju Krim) and a noted critic (Niles McMaster) for his demented shows, resulting in a revolt by the "Caged Sexoids." Reed pours on the gore by the bucket, as a nude victim is turned into a human dartboard, Ralphus gets oral sex from a severed head, Sardu uses human fingers to play backgammon, and a sadistic dentist sucks out a woman's brain through a straw. The fact that the film is intended as a comedy will relieve some and disgust others. Krim and De Jesus co-starred in Gerard Damiano's Let My Puppets Come the following year.

Blue Velvet
Directed by David Lynch
1986 -- 121min
(5)
Director David Lynch crafted this hallucinogenic mystery-thriller that probes beneath the cheerful surface of suburban America to discover sadomasochistic violence, corruption, drug abuse, crime and perversion. Kyle Maclachlan stars as Jeffrey Beaumont, a square-jawed young man who returns to his picture-perfect small town when his father suffers a stroke. Walking through a field near his home, Jeff discovers a severed human ear, which he immediately brings to the police. Their disinterest sparks Jeff's curiosity, and he is soon drawn into a dangerous drama that's being played out by a lounge singer, Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) and the ether-addicted Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper). The sociopathic Booth has kidnapped Dorothy's young son and is using the child as a bargaining chip to repeatedly beat, humiliate and rape Dorothy. Though he's drawn to the virginal, wholesome Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), Jeff is also aroused by Dorothy and in trying to aid her, he discovers his dark side. As the film nears its conclusion, our hero learns that many more indivduals are tacitly involved with Frank, including a suave, lip-synching singer, Ben (Dean Stockwell), who is minding the kidnapped boy. Director Lynch explored many similar themes of the "disease" lying just under the surface of the small town, all-American façade in his later television series Twin Peaks (1990-91).

Blues Harp
Directed by Takashi Miike
1998
(2.5)
The prolific Takashi Miike directed this Japanese crime drama that is set at the same U.S. military base at Yokosuka seen in Shohei Imamura's Pigs and Battleships (1961), yet takes a tour of the Okinawan underground youth culture. Bi-racial bartender Chuji (Tanabe Seichi), son of an Okinawan mother and a black American GI, moves into a music career after a record executive hears his dynamic blues harmonica playing. When young yakuza Kenji (Ikeuchi Hiroyuki) collapses in the alley behind the nightclub where Chuji works, his life is saved by Chuji's girlfriend, a veteran's assistant. It's the beginning of a dangerous association, as the gangster introduces the bluesman to another way of life - and soon trouble erupts. Shown at the 1998 Vancouver Film Festival.

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Breaking the Waves
Directed by Lars Von Trier
1996 -- 159 min
(5)
With Breaking The Waves, director Lars von Trier fashions an often disturbing, sometimes repellent tale of the singular power of love. Bess (an astonishing Emily Watson) is a naive, borderline simple young woman who lives in a Scottish coastal town ruled by the religious doctrine of its council of elders. Recovering from a mental breakdown caused by the death of her brother, Bess marries a rough yet compassionate and attentive oil rig worker named Jan (Stellan Skarsgard). For a brief time, the couple enjoys peaceful wedded bliss, with the worldly Jan introducing Bess to the mysteries of sex. Jan must soon return to his job on the rig, however, where he is paralyzed from the neck down in a freak accident. Bess's emotional trauma over Jan's injury turns into obsession as she prays to God for his recovery and offers to do anything to have her husband back whole. Jan, constantly medicated and profoundly depressed, asks Bess to have sex with other men and tell him about it, thinking this will allow her to return to a normal life. Bess, on the other hand, sees it as an expression of her devotion to Jan that even God won't be able to ignore. Bess' resultant downward spiral leads to a finale of both tragedy and spirituality. Breaking the Waves is one of the most distinctive European movies of the 1990s, marking von Trier's movement toward his influential "Dogma 95" school of filmmaking, which emphasizes realistic situations of contemporary life, filmed without background music, with surprising shifts of angles and film styles, and with a hand-held, restlessly moving camera.

Bride of Re-Animator
Directed by Brian Yuzna
1990 -- 99min
(5)
Loosely adapted from H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West - Re-Animator comes this sequel to one of the wildest, bloodiest, and funniest horror films to ever come down the pipe. Set eight months after the gruesome events of the first film, the follow-up opens with the demented Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) continuing to perfect his "re-agent" formula to regenerate dead tissue with the help of his ever-troubled assistant Dr. Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott). New characters include suspicious policeman Lt. Chapham (Claude Earl Jones) and Cain's old flame Francesca (Fabiana Udenio). Returning to Miskatonic Hospital after a short stint in the military, West and the reluctant, often unwitting Cain plan to create new life from a patchwork of body parts - including the heart of Cain's beloved girlfriend. However, things quickly get out of hand thanks to the snooping of Lt. Chapham and the return of the evil decapitated Dr. Hill (David Gale) who wants revenge for his beheading. There's also the problem of West's dozens of oddball creations who want out of the dungeon they are trapped within. It all comes to a head as Cain and West resurrect their "bride" just as Dr. Hill literally flies in to take his vengeance with the help of West's freakish creations.

Bring Me the Head of Geraldo Rivera
Directed by Jim Sikora
1989 -- 8min
Folks are busy at the production offices of Mort Downey Jr.'s talk show. A warehouse worker is preparing manifests for shipping. He needs the sign off of the producer, a voluble woman who's talking non-stop on the phone to someone named Harry. She signs the manifest without looking up as she talks about sexual surrogates, a woman crushed to death by her fat lover, and a fist fight on Geraldo Rivera's show. "Thank goodness he's been taking boxing lessons," she says. She's interrupted by the arrival of a uniformed woman with a nose ring. The woman opens a paper bag she's carrying and hands the producer what's inside. The horror is only beginning.

Buffalo 66
Directed by Vincent Gallo
1998 -- 120 min
(5)
Actor Vincent Gallo (The Funeral, Palookaville) made his feature directorial debut with this drama about convict Billy Brown (Gallo), released after half a decade spent behind bars. Drifting into downtown Buffalo, Billy kidnaps teen Layla (Christina Ricci) and has her pose as his loving wife when he visits his parents (Ben Gazzara and Anjelica Huston). Layla praises him and goes along with his fanciful tale that they met at CIA headquarters, where they both worked. Mom and dad not only fall for this, they are entranced by Layla, who soon begins to embellish her act. When she claims to be pregnant by Billy, he hustles her out to a bowling alley and on to a restaurant, where they run into trampy Wendy (Rosanna Arquette), who might be Billy's former girlfriend. Eventually, Billy seems ready to track down and kill the person he feels was responsible for his five years in the slammer.

Bug (produced by William Castle)
1975 -- 99 min
(5)
The last gasp of gimmick-horror auteur William Castle (who produced and co-wrote), Bug is an entertaining throwback to the mutant-monsters-amok theme of the 1950s (themselves throwbacks of another kind) that he found so profitable. The film stars Bradford Dillman as a kinder, gentler mad scientist who discovers the presence of a bizarre strain of mutant cockroach emerging from the earth after a severe earthquake. Although larger than the average beetle, the most disturbing aspect of the critters is their innate ability to ignite fires with their bodies - a talent dramatically revealed after a few of the bugs crawl up a vehicle's tailpipe. When Dillman discovers that the creatures possess a group intelligence, he attempts to train and breed them - which proves to be less than a good idea. This is also remarkably violent for a mainstream PG film (particularly in the scene where Bad Seed Patty McCormack's hair is ignited by the six-legged arsonists) with a downbeat ending typical of many horror movies of the '70s.

The Busy Body
Directed by William Castle
1967 -- 102min
A nosey housewife (Marguerite Viby) takes on extra responsibilities when her husband (Buster Larsen) hurts his back while reading the Sunday paper. When she finds a dead body in the upstairs office, she calls the police. The detective (Ole Monty) is summoned, and he discovers the woman is his old school dancing partner. When she turns around to renew the old acquaintance, the corpse is gone in this offbeat situation comedy.

The Candy Snatchers
Directed by Guerdon Trueblood
1974 - 98 min
(2)
Candy (Susan Sennett), the daughter of a wealthy man, is kidnapped by three decidedly unhinged individuals-two male, one female. Subjecting the poor girl to all manner of abuse (including burying her alive at several junctures), the kidnappers set about to extract a huge ransom from Candy's father. Unfortunately, daddy couldn't care less: he's in the midst of a torrid romance, and would prefer not to have his daughter around. As distasteful a film as you're likely to see, The Candy Snatchers is, astoundingly, not without its charms. Our favorite scene: the kidnappers trying to purchase a severed ear from the black market.

Cannibal Ferox (Make Them Die Slowly)
Directed by Umberto Lenzi
1981 -- 93 min
Primarily a showcase for the gory special-effects artistry of Gianetto de Rossi, this revolting horror film stars Giovanni Lombardo Radice (also known as "John Morghen") as a drug-dealer who comes to the Amazon jungle from New York looking for a cache of stolen emeralds. He joins some American college students and soon introduces them to his special lifestyle, raping a native girl, then beating a young Indio senseless before gouging out his eyeball with a knife. Naturally, the local cannibals don't take too well to this treatment, so they cut off Radice's penis with a machete, gouge out his eye, then scalp him and eat his brain. Deciding that his companions are also to blame, the natives hang a young woman by impaling her breasts on meat hooks while her sorrowful companion sings "Red River Valley." Eventually, one woman gets back to New York, where she reads a dissertation on cannibalism to earn her PhD. Cult filmmaker Umberto Lenzi really outdid himself with this bloody spectacle, which maintains a consistent air of cruelty with a non-stop procession of beatings, rapes, real-life animal slaughter, larva-chewing, genital-chopping, cannibalism and the infamous meathook scene. Definitely for acquired tastes only, this nauseatingly effective shocker features a brief appearance by adult-film star Richard Bolla as a New York policeman.

Cannibal : The Musical
Directed by Trey Parker
1996 - 95min
(5)
This is an amiable little parody from director Trey Parker, best known as co-creator of the cult TV series South Park. Set in 1873, the film deals with Alferd Packer (Juan Schwartz- AKA Trey Parker), who is accused of cannibalizing members of his six-man party on a trip West. There are comic songs, Japanese people pretending to be Indians, and a cyclops whose eye spurts pus. The film's highlight may be Alferd's saloon kung-fu fight with a cocky fur-trapper named Frenchy over his beloved horse Liane. Cannibal! is surprisingly light on gore for a Troma Team release (save for the prologue and finale) concentrating instead on goofy sight-gags, sex jokes and silly songs like "Shpadoinkle" and "Hang the Bastard". The cinematography is attractive, evoking all those frontier musicals of yore, and the overall quality is good, if obviously low-budget. A rare winner from Troma, featuring a cameo by underground film maven Stan Brakhage as the father of one of the pioneers.

Captain EO
Directed by Francis Ford Copolla
1985-17min.
(3)
Starring Michael Jackson. Captain EO was designed as a Disney theme-park attraction, and showed, in 3D at Disney's Epcot Center. The plot follows a motley crew of space travelers — led by Jackson as Captain Eo — who are captured by the oppressive leaders of a remote planet and sentenced to a century of torture. Captain Eo responds with a demonstration of the power of rock music, staging an impromptu concert that revitalizes the barren planet and transforms the evil aliens into beautiful, peace-loving humanoids.

Captured For Sex 2

Careful
Directed by Guy Maddin
1993 - 100min
(5)
Careful takes place in the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad, where everyone speaks in whispers for fear of starting an avalanche. This self-inflicted noise control to the overall suppression of emotions and impulses. Entering this rarefied atmosphere is aspiring butler Brent Neale. Remaining as silent as his companions, Neale bears witness to all sorts of muted aberrations, from incest to surreptitious suicide. Director Guy Maddin stages Careful in the manner of an early German Expressionistic talkie, replete with subtitles, hand-tinted color sequences, heavy-handed symbolism and a "popping" soundtrack

Carnucula

Carny
Directed by Robert Kaylor
1980 -- 102min
In Robert Kaylor's Carny, the world of the carnival is an illusion manipulated by the carnies to fleece the suckers. The marks generally deserve what they get, because of their greed, corruption, or just plain stupidity. It's share and share alike for Frankie (Gary Busey) and Patch (Robbie Robertson), partners in a dunk-the-bozo act in a carnival travelling through the American South. At one of the small-town stops, Donna (Jodie Foster), an alienated teenager, dumps her obnoxious boyfriend and, with Frankie's encouragement, joins up and moves into their trailer (and Frankie's bed). Feeling displaced, Patch schemes to get Donna out of the carnival. However, the carnival's owner needs Donna to foil a loathsome pair of local officials who demand payoffs. She plays her part perfectly and is accepted by all, although she moves into another trailer.

Cecil B. Demented
Directed by John Waters
2000 - 90min
(4)-taken from screener copy
Iconoclastic satirist John Waters bites the hand that (periodically) feeds him in this humorous look at the underside of the film industry. Self-styled guerrilla filmmaker Cecil (Stephen Dorff) leads a Baltimore movie-making collective/street gang called the Sprocket Holes, which includes Cecil's girlfriend and frequent leading lady, a low-rent porn actress named Cherish Oh Lordy (Alicia Witt). Desperate for attention, they kidnap famous Hollywood actress Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith) during a Baltimore publicity stop and force her at gunpoint to star in their latest production, Raving Beauty. Before long, Honey comes down with a severe case of Stockholm syndrome and joins the Sprocket Holes in their bid to destroy the mainstream film industry. Waters regulars Ricki Lake, Patty Hearst, and Mink Stole highlight the supporting cast.

Celebrity Boxing 1
see Vanilla Ice fight Willis Drummond, Greg Brady fight Danny Partridge, and Tonya Harding fight Paula Jones.

Celebrity Boxing 2
See the following celebrity match-ups....Screech vs. Horshach from "Welcome Back Kotter", basketball star Manute Bol vs. former Chicago Bears' William "Refridgerator" Perry, and Joey Buttafuoco vs. Joannie Laurer(WWF's Chyna). Classic!

Celebrity Porn Compilation

Chafed Elbows
Directed by Robert Downey,Sr.
1967 -- 63min
(2)
Within the first five minutes of the film....a man gets out of bed with his mother, goes to the hospital and the doctor tells him he's pregnant, they must do a cesarian section and he gives birth to $1800 dollars out of his hip. He then goes outside and gets held at gunpoint and painted on and told to go to the local gallery where he will be purchased because "you're my best painting yet". This is only a fraction of the insanity provided by Robert Downey,Sr here. The movie consists almost entirely of still photographs with voiceovers, with the occasional, jumpy live action. Most of the film is in black and white, but there is one color sequence. This is an old, really hard to find film, so the quality isn't the best, but it's worth it to see.

Chained For Life
Directed by Harry Fraser
1951 -- 61min
(4)
The conjoined twins Violet Hilton and Daisy Hilton, also seen in Tod Browning's classic Freaks and the smarmy Slash of the Knife, star in this interesting melodrama about love, betrayal, and murder. They play Vivian and Dotty Hamilton, joined-at-the-spine singers in a vaudeville show managed by the unscrupulous Ted Hinckley (Allen Jenkins). Hinckley pays a sharpshooter named Andre Pariseau 100 dollars a week to date Dotty as a publicity stunt. When the pair are married, Dotty's desire to be surgically separated from her sister leads the panicked Violet to shoot Pariseau dead, and she stands trial (with Dotty, naturally) for murder. Despite the exploitative ad campaign, this is a well-done melodrama presenting a realistic (?) situation in an engaging way. Viewers may still get the feeling that they might go to Hell for watching it, but at least it avoids the sleazy implications of Slash of the Knife. The British-born Hilton sisters were exploited in real life from a very early age, with their mother pimping them to various carnival freak shows around Britain and the U.S. Aside from their film and nightclub work, they were best known for an actual trial in which they were named as "the other women" in a divorce case. Their Pittsburgh hotel went belly-up in the 1950s and they ran a fruit-stand in Florida until they died in 1964 at the ages of 56.

Chicken Hawk:Men Who Love Boys
Directed by Adi Sideman
"Shockumentary" on members of the NAMBLA organization. More reviews coming soon.

The Clash: Westway to the World
Directed by Don Letts
2000
although it somewhat skirts around the truth of the matter, "westway to the world" is a must have for clash fans. it's not nearly as good as other punk rock docs like julien temple's brilliant "the filth and the fury", or jem cohen's "instrument", but worthwhile, nonetheless. my major point of contention is the fact that the movie just kind of wraps with the clash "breaking up" in 1982, when in fact mick jones was kicked out, and the clash went on to release their most horrible album, a "back to basics punk record", in 1985. the early years are well documented, and the stories of life on the road with the sex pistols are great. of course the music is top notch. the dvd also includes a short film called "clash on broadway", which includes a lot of footage also in the feature.

Class of Nuke Em High
Directed by Richard W. Haines ; Lloyd Kaufman
1986 - 81min
(5)
Trash-movie moguls Lloyd Kauffman and Michael Herz - the creative team (so to speak) behind distributor Troma Films and makers of The Toxic Avenger - foist yet another epic of bad taste upon the viewing public with this melding of teenage sex-comedy and slime-oozing monster mayhem, described by the filmmakers as "like The Breakfast Club, only not as stupid, and really, really drunk." The story involves the student body of Tromaville High school, who resemble the usual group of slackers, stoners and surf punks who drift through the halls of academe... except this is Tromaville, and the dilapidated nuclear plant is busily churning out glowing green effluvia next door. Before long, the kids are glowing in the dark too, riding hell-bent through the hallowed halls on their choppers, shrieking obscene pseudo-songs and giving birth to slimy mutant offspring... pretty much business as usual. The only way to put this film into any kind of perspective would be to say it's never dull; fans of Troma product (the cinematic equivalent of head cheese) should be delighted. Followed by two sequels, subtitled respectively Subhumanoid Meltdown and The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid.

Class of Nuke Em High 3
Directed by Eric Louzil
1994 - 102min
(5)
The third installment of the Class of Nuke 'Em High series takes up where the second left off: after saving all of Tromaville from a giant mutant squirrel, Roger Smith is overjoyed at the birth of his twin sons, Dick and Adlai. Unfortunately for all concerned parties, Dick is kidnapped at the hospital and subsequently taught to be very naughty by the thugs who raise him. Adlai, meanwhile, is raised by Roger to be kind and peaceful. Trouble comes in the form of the loathsome Dr. Slag, Ph.D., who uses Dick to frame Adlai for a crime he didn't commit in the hopes of turning the denizens of Tromaville against him. If his wily plot works, Slag will turn the town into a toxic wasteland; with destruction looming, it's up to Adlai to save the day

Cocksucker Blues
Directed by Robert Frank
1972 -- 93 min.
(3)
A film by photographer Robert Frank on the Rolling Stone's 1972 American tour. Not released by the Stones because it contained scenes of drug use and groupie orgies.

Coffee & Cigarettes 1,2#3
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
1986-1993 - 25min
3 short conversions around a coffee table and a pack of cigarettes. Starring Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Steve Buscemi and Roberto Benigni.

Color Me Lurid
Directed by George & Mike Kuchar
70 min.
Contains 4 short films from the Kuchar Brothers. "Hold Me While I'm Naked","The Mongreloid","Forever and Always" and "A Reason to Live".

Come Drink With Me
Directed by King Hu
1965 - 95min
(4)-DVDr
The governor's son, on government business, is hijacked on the road and kidnapped by a ruthless gang of thugs who hold him as a hostage, demanding their leader's release from prison. The governor sends the legendary Golden Swallow (Cheng Pei-Pei) to rescue him. Golden Swallow arrives in town disguised as a man, and soon meets up with members of the gang in a local pub. She orders them to surrender. They refuse, and test her, throwing various objects at her, which she calmly deflects, before mounting a full-scale attack. As they fight, Drunken Cat (Yueh Hua), a kung fu master disguised as a beggar, enters the pub and looks on amusedly. Soon the two join forces to rescue the governor's son, and to defeat the wicked monk who aids the gang, and who learned his skills from the same master who taught Drunken Cat. Legendary Hong Kong action director King Hu (Swordsman) made Come Drink With Me for the Shaw brothers in 1966. Come Drink With Me was one of the classic Hong Kong kung fu films that inspired Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and it contains many of the same elements from that film, including gender confusion, a stolen mystical weapon, and a wall-climbing woman warrior played by Pei-Pei, whom Ang Lee would cast as the villainous Jade Fox in Crouching Tiger.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (DVD Screener - quality = 4.5)
Directed by George Clooney

Constellation Jodorowsky
Directed by Louis Mouchet
1994 -- 91 min
(4)
This is a fascinating documentary about the chilean writer,director,artist alexandro jodorowsky the interviewer louis mouchet asks jodorowsky a potpourri of questions about his films,philosophy,art and his opinion and feelings on a host of subjects,mouchet begins the interview with the simple but spellbinding inquisition ‘Who are You?' to which jodorowsky replies with a tale of the emperor of china,he states that when we can define ourselves we cease to be,he shares with us his thoughts and definitions of his lifelong quest for knowledge and the unknown and his exploits into the panic movement in france and his drawings and art and how he avoided the lynching by the audience at the premiere of fando and lis,there are also interviews with his associates marcel marceau,jean giraud and the musician peter gabriel,we also learn of his plans of the project of dune which fell through and was later made by david lynch,there is also an interesting and amusing look at jodorowsky as an orator in a class of students in which mouchet is invited to join in,it is a fascinating and enlightening look at the life and works of this creative and artistic guru.

Cooking With Huck Botco
(Description taken from www.5minutestolivevideo.com)Those of you not familiar with the amazingly sick and twisted work of Huck Botko, please pay close attention. Huck Botko HATES his family and these short documentaries are more than enough proof to prove that point. In Fruitcake Huck pays homeless people to spit into a fruitcake, which he later gives to his dad. In Baked Alaska, Huck puts real road kill into his Baked Alaska, cooks it up and give it to his loving mother. In Cheesecake, he pays two people Hepatitis to write Happy Birthday on a cheesecake with their infected blood. After letting it sit and dry, he presents it to his sister for her b-day. And in Graham Cracker Cream Pie, Huck pays some gay porn stars to jack off into a cream pie. He then drives it over to his brothers house for a sweet treat surprise. Yes sir, this may be the sickest tape you've ever seen, but there is nothing like watching people eat disgustingly tainted food and then comment on how good it is. The best line has to be Huck's brother saying "It's a little salty"!

Corey Haim:"Me,Myself & I"
See "the Haimster" playing tennis, hockey, driving his car, making his synth music, doing his hair, everything you always wanted to see him doing. See him desribe love as "dolphins running through your veins. Classic.

Corpse Fucking Art

The Corpse Grinders 2
Directed by Ted V Mikels
2000 -- 102min
(4)
Half of the storyline is nearly identical to the original "Corpse Grinders" (1972). The nephews, Landau and Maltby, of the original owners of Lotus Cat Food [For cats who love people] start up the family business again. Duplicated from the original are nosey nurse and doctor characters as well as the greedy grave digger and his wacky wife. What's added to the mix in this sequel are cat-like aliens! Battle weary and beaten by their enemy [evil dog-like aliens], the cat people ask for Earth's assistance in procuring food. Guess which cat food the aliens really like a lot?

Coven
Directed by Mark Borchardt
1997 - 40min
The film that Mark from American Movie was making. An alcohol/drug abuser re-examines his life until he nearly dies from an overdose. Then a friend convinces him to join a self-help group which turns out to be demonic.

Crash Test Dummies safety video

Crazy Documentary
More great quotes in this one as well. This documentary (not really called "Crazy Documentary", but the title is unknown), focuses on three separate schizophrenics. One, Bob, has a strange obsession with the Wizard of Oz and large corporate department stores. Another man is quiet and gentle, but claims he can "Smash a bat into the head of a gentleman", and a woman who I can't even figure out what's wrong with.

Cremaster 1
Directed by Matthew Barney
1995 - 40min

Crime Doctor's Manhunt
Directed by William Castle
1946 -- 61min.
Scripted by Leigh Brackett of The Big Sleep fame and directed by future horrormeister William Castle, Crime Doctor's Manhunt has been singled out by many film buffs as the best of Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series. This time, criminal-turned-sleuth Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) befriends amnesiac war veteran Philip Armstrong (Myron Healey), who is morbidly drawn to a small-town carnival. When Armstrong is murdered, Ordway recalls him saying that his death was preordained by sideshow fortune-teller Alfredi (Ivan Triesault). An interested observer to the events is Armstrong's meek fiancee Irene (Ellen Drew) whose cruel twin sister Natalie would seem to be the instigator of the murder. That's a swell theory-except for the fact that Natalie has been dead for two years! The film's best line is delivered by Inspector Manning (William Frawley), but to repeat it here would be giving away the ending.

Crippled Heroes
1982
The Chinese-produced Crippled Heroes was also released as Crippled Masters. Either way, we grasp the concept. This is a martial-arts epic about kung-fu masters with physical handicaps. The film demonstrates that punishment can be induced from any body extremity if you're skilled enough. Peter Shen heads this cast. Crippled Heroes is one of a group of chopsocky efforts packaged together for American TV airplay in late 1980s.

Crispin Glover's music cd

Cube 2:Hypercube (Workprint Screener-2VCDs)
2002 - 90min

The Cure: Orange (live)

Dancer in the Dark
Directed by Lars Von Trier
2000 -- 137min
(5)
Reportedly the third in acclaimed director Lars von Trier's "Golden Hearts" trilogy (preceded by Breaking the Waves and The Idiots), this film is a hip reworking of the classic Hollywood Musical, starring international pop diva Bjork. Set somewhere in rural Washington state, Czech immigrant Selma (Bjork) works in a pressing plant, struggling to make ends meet for herself and her 10-year-old son, Gene (Vladica Kostic). Her best friend is coworker and fellow European Kathy (Catherine Deneuve). While outside work, she is maintaining a cautious friendship with local yokel Jeff (Peter Stormare). She also landed a starring role as Maria in an amateur production of The Sound of Music. Selma's life would be one of relative contentment if it were not for the ugly secret she harbors - she is on the verge of blindness due to a genetic disorder, and her young son will suffer the same fate without an operation. Selma has quietly been stashing away money for the surgery and has already amassed $2,000. When her savings, squirreled away in a can in the kitchen, suddenly disappear, she confronts her cash-strapped landlord Bill (David Morse). Of course, like all musicals, the plot periodically takes a backseat to the Dancers seven production numbers, including a show-stopping sequence in Selma's factory. Shot entirely on digital video, the film reportedly used up to 100 cameras for each musical number. Dancers in the Dark received top prizes at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival including Best Actress for Bjork and the coveted Palme d'Or for Best Picture.

The Dancing Outlaw/Dancing Outlaw outtakes

The Dark Side of Oz
90 minutes
This the Wizard of Oz with Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" already dubbed into the movie so you don't have to synch it up.

Dark Water (2 VCD's)
Directed by Hideo Nakata
2002 -- 100min
Following up on his horror smash hits Ringu and Ringu 2, Hideo Nakata directs this supernatural psychological drama about a middle aged woman struggling to cling to her sanity. Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki) is the midst of a nasty divorce with her thuggish, abusive husband over the custody of their five year old daughter Ikuko (Rio Kanno). In Japan's family court system, which is heavily weighted towards the mother, Yoshimi case would normally be a piece of cake. Unfortunately, Yoshimi has a history of mental imbalance as a result of her miserable, emotionally starved childhood. The transition from housewife to independent working woman has been stressful. She has moved into a fleabag of an apartment - completely with a constantly leaking roof - and has had little luck finding employment. Worse, Ikuko and then Yoshimi start seeing a creepy little girl dressed in yellow suddenly appearing in apartment. With a growing sense of dread, Yoshimi starts having outbursts not only in family court, but also at her daughter's kindergarten. When she slumps into a coma after the end of one such fit, she realizes what the girl in yellow is trying to communicate.

David Lynch Misc. Tape
includes TV commericals directed by Lynch, his Lumiere and Company short (universally hailed as the best of the bunch), and a hard-to-find documentary entitled Don't Look At Me

Daydream

Dead Alive
Directed by Peter Jackson
1992 -- 97min
(5)
Director Peter Jackson's second feature cheerfully trumps the gross-out quotient of his splatterfest debut, the appropriately named Bad Taste. The tone is cartoonishly comic, and the premise is simple: The village dweeb (Timothy Balme) is trying to maintain a budding romance with the sweet Paquita (Diana Penalver) while concealing the fact that his overbearing mum (Elizabeth Moody, in an amazing good-sport performance) is a flesh-eating zombie. (She owes her condition to a bite from a "Sumatran Rat Monkey" at the local zoo.) Complicating matters even further is Les, a greedy uncle (Ian Watkin), who suspects that his sister has died and is eager to occupy her elegantly furnished Victorian mansion. The climax is a housewarming party Les throws to celebrate his "inheritance;" what he really gets is his comeuppance, thanks to his sister and her similarly afflicted zombie pals, who burst out of their basement prison to turn the guests into appetizers. Our hero finally cuts a wide swath through the zombie party crashers with the help of a rotary blade lawn mower, leaving the house awash in blood and body parts in order to save his romance.

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
Directed by Samuel Fuller
1973 - 102min
(3)
An American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.

Dead or Alive
Directed by Takashi Miike
1999 -- 105 min
(4)
Takashi Miike takes a dime-a-dozen yakuza script and turns it inside out in this high-octane surrealist crime action thriller. The film's first ten minutes is a breathless montage depicting a naked woman clutching a bag of cocaine being thrown off a high-rise, a porcine Chinese gangster devouring bowl after bowl of noodles before getting whacked, a tinsel-wigged stripper in mid-grind, another Chinese gangster having sex with a guy in a pubic bathroom, clowns throwing knives, and the world's longest cocaine line. Welcome to planet Miike - one that seems unnervingly like reality but just tweaked enough that the viewer believes almost anything can (and does) happen. What follows is a tale pitting narcotics cop Jojima (Sho Aikawa), who has an ailing daughter and a neglected wife, against Ryuichi (Riki Takeuchi), a Chinese-born gangster sporting a hairstyle that would make Wayne Newton jealous. As Ryuichi tries to muscle in on a big drug haul from Taiwan, those closest to him get killed - particularly his whey-faced younger brother and girlfriend (the latter meets a particularly grizzly end at the hands of a sadistic scat-enthusiast yakuza). Likewise, Jojima, who is on Ryuichi's tail, looses his partner, his wife, and his daughter. Soon the two are on the road to a literally cataclysmic confrontation.

Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Directed by Takashi Miike
2000 -- 97min
In spite of its title, this film bares no direct relation to Takashi Miike's rip-roarin' Dead or Alive, which is not surprising since ended with world going up in flames in the last installment. This film opens with Mizuki (Sho Aikawa) who is hired by an eccentric magic enthusiast (Tsukamoto Shinya) to off a yakuza crime lord, only to have his target wasted by a rival mobster Shuichi (Riki Takeuchi). It turns out that the two are long lost childhood friends who grew up in an orphanage in a remote island in the Inland sea. After the crime, they find themselves drawn back to their childhood haunt. There they reconnect with another friend Kohei (Kenichi Endo) who ended up, not a hired gun, but a modest fisherman who also runs the orphanage. After giving a hilarious performance for a room full of kids, Mizuki and Shuichi decide to leave the island and to work together as hitmen. This time, however, they're killing to make a difference - figuring that with each scumbag they ice they can save 10 children, they donate their proceeds to charity.

Death in the Seine
Directed by Peter Greenaway
1988 - 40min
(4)
Historical drownings in the Seine are catalogued, dissected and elaborated, with multilayered visuals and 'documentary' asides.

Death Powder

Decampitated
Directed by Matt Cunningham
1998 - 92min
(5)
Troma Entertainment presents this low-budget horror spoof directed by D. Matt Cunningham. A group of friends gather to go camping, in spite of the fact that none of them have any experience roughing it in the great outdoors. Further complicating matters, the friends find themselves in the haunted Decamp woods, which has a reputation for disappearances and gruesome murders. As the campers begin dying horrible deaths, the remaining members of the group scramble to save themselves.

Def By Temptation
Directed by James Bond III
1990 - 95min
(5)
Writer/producer/director James Bond III also stars in this innovative supernatural thriller as Joel, a divinity student from rural North Carolina who has a serious crisis of faith and travels to New York to seek the advice of his friend, aspiring actor K (Kadeem Hardison). In an effort to loosen up his conservative companion, K gives him a taste of New York nightlife - personified by an alluring club vamp with the less-than-subtle name of Temptation (Cynthia Bond). Although her true nature as a soul-stealing succubus is more than obvious to the audience (particularly after several scenes of unsuspecting wannabe players torn limb-from-limb), Temptation nevertheless ensnares naïve, innocent Joel in her devilish spell, prompting K to investigate the woman's background, with a little help from a detective (Bill Nunn) determined to connect her with several murders. Bond's intelligent morality play is a step above simple homage to horror and "blaxploitation" genres of the '70s, avoiding many of those films' stereotypes to present three-dimensional characters and realistic dialogue. The vibrant, color-rich cinematography is the work of frequent Spike Lee collaborator Ernest R. Dickerson.

Demon Pond
Directed by Masahiro Shinoda
1980 - 124min
Filmed in Japan, The Demon Pond is a complicated but captivating "parallel world" endeavor. Tamasuro Bando stars as the "Dragon Princess" of an enchanted pond in a misty netherworld. In the real world, Bando also plays the human wife of an unfaithful husband. As the "real" Bando suffers, the "magical" Bando looks on in sympathy. Also released as Dragon Princess, The Demon Pond was based on a popular play by B. K. Izumi.

Demons in my Head
Directed by Neil Johnson
1999 -- 95min
(5)
A young man finds an alien talisman in the crater of a meteor that just landed in his backyard. The relic gives him the power to make his wishes become realities. The downside: the relic happens to be a transport for demons from an evil dimension who have bloody designs on world domination.

Der Fuhrer's Face
Directed by Jack Kinney
1942 - 8min
(3)
Highly controversial Disney short starring Donald Duck. A marching band of Germans, Italians, and Japanese march through the streets of swastika-motif Nutziland, serenading "Der Fuehrer's Face." Donald Duck, not living in the region by choice, struggles to make do with disgusting Nazi food rations and then with his day of toil at a Nazi artillery factory. After a nervous breakdown, Donald awakens to find that his experience was in fact a nightmare.

Devil Doctor Woman
1992 -- 52min
(3)-no subtitles
The tamest of the bunch but if you watched the whole series this one is much needed. A transtesticle has a game show I think? There's blood an guts but this one looks like it was made for the fun of it not for the shock value the others had. Still enjoyable in a hokey sort of way.

The Diane Linkletter Story
Directed by John Waters
1969 -- 15min
(2)
Made around the time of "Mondo Trasho," this is what Waters calls an "instant movie." He read about Diane Linkletter's suicide in the paper one day, gathered some of his friends, and shot a dramatic recreation of it that same day. In hindsight, this was a precursor to all those "E! True Hollywood Story" specials. It's even in grainy black-and-white, just like those so-called "dramatic re-enactments" we see on TV today. Essential viewing for Waters fans.

The Dirk Diggler Story
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
1988
This was PT Anderson's first film, made when he was just 17, it's shot on video and was edited together on two VCRs. This is just an amazing film, shot as a documentary on the rise and fall of porn star Dirk Diggler, covering his career through the late 70s and into the 80s, featuring excellent deadpan narration. All of which was later re-written and expanded on for his second full-length film, Boogie Nights. The film features lots of on set footage as we watch Dirk in action during filming; this is interspersed with interview footage with his friends and fellow porn stars. Some of the major characters that would feature in Boogie Nights are already here, including Reed Rothchild, Dirks best friend and sidekick in their films, here played by a huge bodybuilder, with an amazing mullet haircut. Also present is director Jack Horner, here played by Robert Ridgley, who was in Boogie Nights playing the Colonel, he turns in a great world weary performance as Dirk's mentor, never once taking off his massive shades, his performance is excellent and he's easily the best in the film. Dirk himself is played by Mike Stein, a good friend of Andersons, who plays Dirk perfectly, with long flowing dark hair and a slim muscular physique. His performance is great as he goes from top of the world star to bottom of the ladder gay porn films, one of the differences in this film is that here Dirk is bi-sexual and Reed is his lover as well as friend. Anderson manages to cover lots of ground in the short 30 minute running time, covering Dirks porn career and then his successful album, which we get to see being recorded. Here we get to see him singing exactly the same song Mark Wahlberg sings, `The Touch'; the mixing of the album even features the discussion about the bass line drowning out the vocals. After this we get to see Dirk's attempt to get into the world of TV, through his own show `Angels Live In My Town'. The opening credits sequence is fantastic, easily the equal of the same scene in Boogie Nights, with Dirk running up and down alleyways, jumping over fences and doing karate kicks, all the while decked out in flares, waistcoat and cool shades. After this its all down hill for Dirk as the drugs begin to take over his life. The main thing that comes through from this short film is that Anderson is very assured about what he wanted to do, the film runs along very quickly and he gets amazing performances out of the actors. There is a great attention to detail and he manages to create a great sense of authenticity on the sets of the different films we see getting made. Anderson uses his limitations very well and creates a rawness and reality with the video footage looking very realistic in capturing the mood of the characters as they reminisce about Dirk. The dialogue is also spot on and features some classic lines and some very funny moments. The final of the film plays out in slow motion as we see Dirk and Reed hanging out while the Carpenters `Memories' plays over the top. The film is a great insight into what was to come for Anderson as well as showing how talented he must have been at 17 to be able to make something as realistic and entertaining as this. It's a must see if your into Boogie Nights or if you just want to see a very entertaining film.

Divine: Shoot Your Shot / Live at Hacienda
2000 -- 76min
(4)
Everyone's favorite overweight, cross-dressing, trashy transgressor of norms, Divine was truly an original! A frequent star of John Waters films, he became a cult hero by overstepping societal boundaries of taste and behavior. Unbeknownst to many John Waters fans, Divine was also a musician; several of his songs were hits in the U.K. This special video release contains two 1983 live performances in Manchester. In his inimitably outrageous manner, the most Divine of them all sings and dances to several of his hit songs, many of which are as over-the-top as the performer himself. See him perform such songs as: Gang Bang, Shoot Your Shot, Jungle Jezebel, Born to Be Cheap, Love Reaction, Alphabet Rap, Shake It Up, Native Love and the Name Game.

Dottie Gets Spanked
Directed by Todd Haynes
1994 -- 27min
(4)
Made between POISON and SAFE, DOTTIE GETS SPANKED is Todd Haynes' half-hour dramatic film about a 6-year-old boy's obsession with an imaginary TV star named Dottie Frank. Set in suburban New York in 1966, the film explores the imaginative, inner life of young Steven Gale, whose world revolves around the popular program The Dottie Frank Show (something reminiscent of the 1960's Lucy Show). The zany misadventures of the TV heroine is the source of endless fascination for the impressionable boy, reflected not only in his expertise on everything "Dottie", but in his drawings, fantasies and dreams. But Steven's father doesn't understand. So when Steven wins a contest to visit the set of the Dottie show and meet his beloved idol, he discovers the childish screwball is in reality a tough professional in full command of her set. In the end, Steven's mother joins the father in discouraging his fixation, and Steven learns a bitter lesson about the world outside and its strict divisions.

Driver 23
Directed by Rolf Belgum
1998 -- 90min
Dan Cleveland is the guitarist and leader of a Minneapolis-based progressive hard rock band called Dark Horse. Dan is convinced that Dark Horse will one day be recognized as an important musical force, and that wealth, stardom, and critical acclaim await him. However, the rest of the world doesn't seem quite so certain, so in the meantime, Dan works as a driver for a delivery service and tends to his physical and emotional maladies with a variety of prescribed drugs as he confronts the many frustrations that are part of the life of a struggling musician. Minneapolis-based independent filmmaker Rolf Belgum followed the part-time inventor and would-be rock star with his camera for several months, and the result was the documentary Driver 23. Driver 23 was screened in competition at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, and was screened at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art as part of their 2000 biennial presentation.

The Drums of Tahiti
Directed by William Castle
1954 -- 73min
During a 1980 interview, writer-director Douglas Heyes mentioned that he preferred to forget his first big-screen writing assignment, Drums of Tahiti. Though lensed in 3D, the film's action content is minimal: the character spend most of their time talking over their various problems. Set in the South Seas in the late 19th century, the story concerns gun smuggler Mike Macklin (Dennis O'Keefe). To divert the authorities' attentions from his activities, Macklin hides behind the reputation of his trophy wife Wanda (Patricia Medina). Meanwhile, police inspector Pierre Duvois (Francis L. Sullivan) bides his time, waiting for Macklin to tip his hand. One of the film's isolated highlights is an energetic native dance by the curvaceous Sylvia Lewis.

Eat and Run
Directed by Christopher Hunt
1986 - 85min
(5)
It is best not to suggest to the 500-pound, plaid-suited, humanoid alien Murray the Creature that he eat Italian for dinner because he is sure to take you literally as can soon be seen in this sci-fi parody. Before the film is through, Murray the meat-eater will have consumed 35 Italian residents of New York's little Italy. Investigating their bizarre disappearances is an Irish cop, who discovers their awful fate while waiting for a pizza in an Italian restaurant. Later he tries to get his superiors to believe his story, but of course they don't and the cop is left with no alternative but to try and dispatch Murray by himself.

Edward Penishands

The Eighth Day
Directed by Jaco van Dormael
1996 -- 114min
(3.5)
Two men with seemingly nothing in common become unlikely friends in this drama from France. Harry (Daniel Auteuil) is a salesman working for a large but faceless corporation, where he's become a success at the expense of his personal life. His wife Julie (Miou-Miou), frustrated by his lack of concern for his family, has divorced him, and while he still has visitation rights to his children, he manages to forget when it's his weekend with his daughters, and he neglects to pick them up at the train station. Harry is depressed and nearly suicidal; while driving late one rainy night, he accidentally hits a dog who is walking with Georges (Pascal Duquenne), a personable young man with Down's Syndrome. Georges lives in a mental institution, where he's happy and well cared for, but when several of the other patients leave for a weekend visit, Georges decides that he should leave too, and he sets out to visit his mother. Harry can't bring himself to leave Georges behind, so after burying the dog, he offers to drive him to his mother's home, which becomes the start of a complicated odyssey for the two of them, especially after Harry finds out that Georges' mother is no longer alive. Actor Pascal Duquenne actually does have Down's Syndrome. One of the highlights is when Georges and all of his "slow" friends steal a bus and break into a shut down amusement park.

El Topo
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
1970 -- 125
(4)
This violent and allegorical Mexican western attracted a cult following in its day. It is the story of El Topo, a gunslinger who sets out for revenge against the outlaws who slew his wife. He ends up getting his revenge and saving the life of a woman who is being terrorized by bandits. She leads El Topo (which means "the Mole" in English) on a search for the region's top four gunfighters. But before they set off, Topo leaves his young son in a monastery. He and the woman hook up with another female and begin their search. During one battle, El Topo is wounded and the women leave him to die. His comatose body is found by a strange group of cave dwelling people who take him to their subterranean home. He does not wake up for many years. When he does, he is enlisted to help the clan dig an escape tunnel. Later they come to a tiny town where the residents belong to a weird religious cult and El Topo's son has become a monk. The townsfolk are terrorized by a sadistic sheriff. When the clan members come into the town, the stage is set for a blood-soaked tragedy

The Element of Crime
Directed by Lars Von Trier
1984 -- 104 min
(5)
Lars von Trier's first film, The Element of Crime, concerns police detective Fisher who seeks the help of a therapist after having an amnesic episode. Unable to recall why he returned to Egypt, Fisher begins to look for answers. He returns to Europe, where he was previously engaged investigating the Lotto Murders, to visit his mentor, Osborne. The author of The Element of Crime, Osborne advocates identifying with criminals as a means of capturing them. After a brief meeting, Fisher continues his investigation assisted by an Asian prostitute. As he undergoes the archetypal descent into the underworld, he gets dangerously close to uncovering the cause of his amnesia and the murderer.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup

End of Violence
Directed by Wim Wenders
1997 -- 122min
(5)
Wim Wenders directed this allegorical drama about the emotional impact of violence in our culture, set against the backdrop of California's entertainment business. Mike Max (Bill Pullman) is a Hollywood producer who has earned a great deal of money and power in the film industry through his success with a series of brutally violent action pictures. While Max can juggle any number of tasks while working, he can't find time for his wife Paige (Andie MacDowell), and when she announces that she's divorcing him, he admits to himself (but not to her) that he deliberately put her through emotional trauma; Paige leaves to do volunteer work in the Third World, hoping to bring new meaning to her life. Very little reaches Max on an emotional level until Cat (Traci Lind), a stunt performer, is seriously injured on the set of Max's latest project. Not long after, Max is first car-jacked, then kidnapped by a pair of desperate thugs. He escapes and is given shelter by a group of Mexican-American gardeners. Wanting to retreat from the physical and spiritual violence that has become a key part of his life, Max opts to work with the gardening crew and stay away from his old life, remaining "missing" in the eyes of the world as he searches for a new life. Meanwhile, Max and his secretary Claire (Rosiland Chao) become aware of a secret plan that Ray Bering (Gabriel Byrne) has prepared for the city of Los Angeles, which will essentially put the entire town under constant surveillance, with the goal of ending violent crime once and for all. Frederic Forrest, Udo Kier, and legendary director Samuel Fuller also star.

Epidemic
Directed by Lars Von Trier
1987 -- 106
(3)
Director Lars von Trier stars in a double role in this experimental horror fantasy. He pretentiously portrays a director who spends a year and a half preparing to make a horror film with help from a government grant. In the second part, he plays a young physician who unknowingly has a plague virus planted in his medical bag. Fantasy sequences depict the possible horror that could come if the virus is unleashed on the public

Eraserhead
Directed by David Lynch
1977 -- 100 min
(4)
Filmed intermittently over the course of a five-year period, David Lynch's radical feature debut stars Jack Nance as Henry Spencer, a factory worker in an unnamed industrial wasteland. Upon learning that a past romance has resulted in an impending pregnancy, Henry agrees to wed mother-to-be Mary (Charlotte Stewart) and moves her into his tiny, squalid flat. Their baby is born hideously mutated, a strange, reptilian creature whose piercing cries never cease. Mary soon flees in horror and disgust, leaving Henry to fall prey to the seduction of the girl across the hall (Judith Anna Roberts). An intensely visceral nightmare, Eraserhead marches to the beat of its own slow, surreal rhythm: Henry's world is a cancerous dreamscape, a place where sins manifest themselves as bizarre creatures and worlds exist within worlds. Interpreting the film along the lines of Lynch's claims that it's the product of his own fears of fatherhood may make Eraserhead easier to digest on a narrative level, if need be.

Even Dwarfs Started Small
Directed by Werner Herzog
1971 -- 96min
(4)
Even viewers who've seen Freaks won't be completely prepared for Werner Herzog's bizarre Even Dwarfs Started Small. The film is set in a dismal mental institution, wherein dwell several midgets, dwarfs and other "oddities." Sick of being tormented and exploited by the so-called normal people of the world, the inmates stage a coup, taking over the asylum and utterly reversing the status quo (Herzog's apparent attempt to draw parallels between the events on screen and such real-life upheavals as Vietnam). As in his other films, the director imbues his misshapen characters with a sort of regal grandeur, as if to purge the German wartime atrocities against "underdesirables." Herzog also produced, wrote and provided the musical arrangements for Even Dwarfs Started Small.

Evil Dead
Directed by Sam Raimi
1983 -- 85min
(5)
Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods where they find unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find the Necronomicon and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only one remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.

Evil Dead 2
Directed by Sam Raimi
1987 -- 84 min
(5)
A sequel/remake of the film The Evil Dead. A young man named Ash takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin, and plays back a professor's tape recorded recitation of passages from the Book of the Dead. The spell calls up an evil force from the woods which turns Linda into a monstrous Deadite, and threatens to do the same to Ash. When the professor's daughter and her entourage show up at the cabin, the night turns into a non-stop, grotesquely comic battle with chainsaw and shotgun on one side, demon horde and flying eyeball on the other.

Evil Dead Trap
Directed by Toshiharu Ikeda
1988 -- 105min
(4)
Nami hosts a late night home video program. She receives a tape which appears to be a real snuff film. She and her crew investigate the location where she meets a man looking for his brother who warns her to stay away. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.

Exhausted: The John Holmes Story
Directed by Julia St.Vincent
1981 -- 72min
Great documentary on the world's most famous porn star John Holmes. Lots of classic footage, including some scenes that Paul Thomas Anderson re-enacted almost EXACTLY for Boogie Nights. I'm jealous of this guy. Plus, he claims to have slept with over 14,000 women. This was made before he died of AIDS though, so it doesn't cover his death.

Face of Another(aka Tanin No Kao)
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara
1966 -- 124min
Bearing traces of both Frankenstein and the 1959 Georges Franju horror classic Eyes without a Face, the Japanese The Face of Another is a disturbing Japanese drama featuring Tatsuya Nakadai. His face horribly disfigured in an accident, Nakadai, a wealthy industrialist, commissions a special mask from a renowned plastic surgeon. Nakadai's wife fails to recognize her husband and makes advances to him, which effectively destroys their relationship. Driven insane, Nakadai turns to murder to compensate for the loss of his identity. The melodramatic elements of the film are neatly blended with moments of erotica and generous doses of existential philosophy. The Face of Another is another thought-provoking "documentary fantasy" from the director of the cult classic Woman in the Dunes.

Fando & Lis
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
1967 -- 93min
(4)- a little bright, but good quality
Fando and Lis are a young couple who embark on a journey to the city of Tar. Lis is handicapped and is aided by Fando who pulls her along in a wagon or carries her in his arms as they encounter a series of offbeat characters and situations: a man plays a burning piano in a dump surrounded by dancers. A girl eats a rose, and three men and a child huddle under an umbrella as someone cracks eggs over their heads. The couple frequently quarrels as they struggle to complete their symbolic journey.

Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill
Directed by Russ Meyer
1966 - 83min
(3)
Exploitation maven Russ Meyer created a cult classic with this turbo-charged action film. Three curvaceous go-go dancers in a cool sportscar go on a desert crime-spree, led by Varla (the amazing Tura Satana), a busty, nasty woman dressed entirely in black. Varla's lesbian moll Rosie (Haji) - who has an extremely overwrought accent - and reluctant bimbo Billie (Lori Williams) are along for the ride. When they meet a naive young couple (Ray Barlow and Sue Bernard), Varla challenges the man to a race then breaks his spine with a single karate chop. They take the girl hostage and drive to a house owned by a crippled old lecher (Stuart Lancaster) and his hunky but retarded son Vegetable. Varla discovers that the old man has money hidden on the property, so the girls try to find it. Meanwhile, Vegetable's perverted father tricks him into raping Billie as he watches, but his other son (Paul Trinka) finally shows up to save the day. A great deal of bloodshed, campy catfighting, and funny dialogue fills the bulk of this fast-paced comic book of a movie.

The Fat Man
Directed by William Castle
1951 -- 77min
The popular radio detective series The Fat Man was brought to the screen in 1951, with the series' original star J. Scott Smart retained in the title role. Smart plays porcine sleuth Brad Runyon, who tackles the mystery surrounding the murder of a Los Angeles dentist. With the assistance of general factotum Bill Norton (Clinton Sundberg), Runyon follows the trail of clues all the way to a three-ring circus. Famed Barnum & Bailey clown Emmett Kelly makes his screen debut as one of the suspects; others essential to the action are such up-and-comers as Rock Hudson, Julie London and Jayne Meadows. The film's flashback-within-flashback structure helps to enliven its more verbose passages. For the most part, The Fat Man plays more like a radio show than a movie-at least until the exciting climax, inventively staged by director William Castle.

Fatal Instinct
Directed by Carl Reiner
1993 - 89min
(5)
Fatal Instinct is an Airplane-style spoof of the late-'80s, early-'90s cycle of erotic crime thrillers. Setting the plot in motion is a kinky murder. Armand Assante plays the cop assigned to the case; he's also the prosecuting attorney; the "Sharon Stone" part is essayed by Sean Young. A dash of Body Heat is thrown in the pot as Assante's wife Kate Nelligan plots her hubby's demise. Tony Randall has a bit as a judge, while the film's semi-mocking jazz score is provided by Clarence Clemmons - who shows up on screen to toot his sax at various crucial plot junctures.

Fear, Anxiety & Depression
Directed by Todd Solondz
1989 -- 84min
(5)
Solondz's first film. This film focuses on the trials and tribulations of Ira (Todd Solondz), who is an unsuccessful playwright trying to find himself in New York City.

Feast of Friends
Directed by Paul Ferrara
1969 -- 50min
The American rock group The Doors appear in this self-produced and directed color documentary about the band. Any viewer unfamiliar with the group and their work will be further confused as there is no listing of the band members by name. For the record, they are Ray Manzarek on keyboards, John Densmore on drums, Robby Krieger playing guitar and Jim Morrison as lead singer. Concert footage shows crazed fans storming the stage to get closer to the rock-hero icons in this 50-minute feature.

Female Trouble
Directed by John Waters
1975 -- 95min
(4)
A riotously funny bad-taste epic from director John Waters, Baltimore's "Prince of Puke," this sick classic tells the depraved life story of obese criminal Dawn Davenport (Divine), from her bad-girl youth as a go-go dancer on Baltimore's infamous Block to her death in the electric chair. Mink Stole is terrific as Dawn's bratty daughter Taffy, conceived following a romp on a junkyard mattress with a fat derelict in soiled underpants (also played by Divine). Mary Vivian Pearce and David Lochary co-star as crazed owners of a beauty-parlor who are convinced that "crime equals beauty," and they take Dawn under their wings, forcing her to mainline liquid eyeliner to enhance her appeal. Edith Massey steals the film as Dawn's obsessive neighbor, Ida, who wants her nephew to be gay (because heterosexuals lead "sick and boring lives") and throws acid in Dawn's face when she marries him. A hilariously appalling film, Female Trouble is just as disgusting and far funnier than Waters' previous Pink Flamingos, if not as notorious.

Fight For Your Life
Directed by Robert A Endelson
1977 - 82min
(3)
This video is mostly taken up by talking about vengeance rather than getting on with the job. A mean trashy exploitation picture about three convicts who escape from jail and hole up at the house of a black minister. There's a few nasty scene's where the ministers family are being repeatedly terrorised by the thugs. In the end the minister turns the tables on the 3 convicts and gives them their just desserts.

Final Destination 2 (2VCD's)

Flying Doctors of East Africa
Directed by Werner Herzog
1969 -- 45 min
(2.5-3)

For Y'ur Height Only
1980 -- 88min
In this offbeat action/adventure story, a group of gangsters, under the instructions of their leader Mr. Giant, ambush a scientist and steal the formula for a powerful new weapon, the N-Bomb, which he was about to turn over to the government. It's imperative that the N-Bomb be recovered as soon as possible, so the world's greatest secret agent is put on the case - Agent 00 (Weng Wang), who is a skilled martial arts fighter, a cool hand with a gun, and has a way with the ladies. There is one thing about Agent 00 that is a bit unusual, though - he's three feet tall. For Your Height Only was shot in the Philippines by first-time director Raymond Jury

Fort Ti
Directed by William Castle
1953 - 73min
(4)-taped off of TV
Future horror-film entrepreneur William Castle warmed the director's chair for Fort Ti. Set in the 18th century, the film recounts the exploits of Rogers' Rangers, a band of adventurers devoted to seeking out a "northwest passage" through Canada. At this juncture, however, Major Rogers (Howard Petrie) is more concerned with helping the British forces at Fort Ticonderoga during a series of French and Indian raids. Top billing is bestowed upon George Montgomery as Captain Pedediah Horn, Rogers' right-hand man. The film boasts two leading ladies: Joan Vohs, as a suspected French spy, and Phyllis Fowler as a married Indian woman who falls in love with Captain Horn. Fort Ti was filmed in 3D, and in typical William Castle fashion the stereoscopic gimmick is exploited to the hilt.

Foutaise
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
1989 - 10min

Fraggle Rock (3 Episodes)

Frat House
Directed by Todd Phillips
1998 -- 60min
(3)
Documentary co-directors Todd Phillips and Andrew Gurland, after profiling publisher Al Goldstein in Screwed (1997) moved on to this study of college fraternity hazing practices, gaining cooperation as long as frat houses and universities were not named. Activities at "Beta Chi" included excess alcohol consumption and licking substances from a nude dancer. After three weeks, however, the Beta brothers had second thoughts, and the filmmakers took off after receiving threats. At their next site, the filmmakers were only allowed to film if they participated in scheduled events, including being locked in a dog-cage and doing push-ups in vomit. One of the filmmakers was hospitalized with stomach pains. Filmed in 16mm for HBO, this hour-long documentary was shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.

Freiheit
Directed by George Lucas
1966 - 3min
This film shows a German student (Randal Kleiser) escaping across the Berlin Border and being shot to death, while on the soundtrack, various platitudes about dying for freedom can be heard.

Freaked
Directed by Alex Winter & Tom Stern
1993 - 79min
(5)
The manic writing-directing comedy team of Tom Stern and Alex Winter (the latter of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) followed up their deranged short-film collaborations and the short-lived MTV series The Idiot Box with this comic fantasy, which amounts to a virtual car crash of anarchic, mind-blowing weirdness. The brain-damaged plot follows self-centered sitcom actor Ricky Coogin (Winter), official spokesman for the E.E.S. (Everything Except Shoes) corporation, into the jungle-bound South American nation of Santa Flan. Coogin has been sent as an emissary on behalf of E.E.S. to placate the media uproar over a substance called Zygrot-27, a chief ingredient in many E.E.S. products which has been decried as a fatal environmental toxin. Accompanied by his friend Ernie (Michael Stoyanov) and environmental activist Julie (Megan Ward), Ricky takes a detour into the jungle to a bizarre amusement park overseen by bombastic barker/inventor Elijah C. Skuggs (Randy Quaid), who specializes in the display of "Hideous Mutant Freekz" (the film's original title). The trio soon discover that Skuggs manufactures his oddities himself, and they find themselves at the mercy of his hideous freakmaking factory - which coincidentally uses Zygrot-27 as a catalyst. Once he has the hapless heroes strapped down, Skuggs reveals his intention to transform Coogin into an evil mega-freak who will destroy all the others in a slam-bang, standing-room-only closing event. Miffed at the notion of sustaining an acting career as a spine-covered, pus-gushing monster, Coogin joins a rebellion within Skuggs' captive stable of other man-made freaks - whose ranks include such monstrosities as effete human worm; a bearded lady (Mr. T in a frilly dress); a man with a sock-puppet for a head (voiced by Bob Goldthwait); and Ortiz the Dog-Boy (an uncredited Keanu Reeves). Their plans to turn Ricky into a zygrot-powered superhero go astray, however, leading to a hilariously apocalyptic finale. Doomed to home-video status by lethargic distribution from Twentieth-Century Fox, this unappreciated gem deserves a second look; packed with hilarious visual gags, ultra-gross setpieces and body-function jokes, Freaked is a hallucinogenic funhouse of a movie.

Frighteners
Directed by Peter Jackson
1996 -- 109min
(3)
Charlatan Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) has genuine psychic powers, but he doesn't use them to help people. Rather, he generates cases for his supernatural private-eye firm by harassing a group of hapless ghosts (including a dearly departed Wild West outlaw and an undead judge played by John Astin) into staging hauntings and poltergeists in the homes of likely marks. Bannister's world turns on its head when he starts noticing real hauntings around town - ghostly assassinations that seem to be tied to the execution 20 years earlier of a brutal serial killer. Lucy Lunskey (Trini Alvarado), the wife of one unlucky victim, teams up with Bannister to get to the bottom of the killings and find out what shut-in Patricia Bradley (Dee Wallace Stone) and her witchy mother (Julia McCarthy) have to do with the sinister spree.

Frogs
Directed by George McCowan
1972 -- 90min
The slimy denizens of the Everglades organize a particularly nasty rebellion in this enjoyable entry from the nature-run-amok horror subgenre which favored drive-in venues of the mid-70s. The story takes place amid the festivities honoring the birthday of crotchety, wheelchair-bound Southern patriarch Jason Crockett (Ray Milland) - a chemical-industry magnate whose pesticides are responsible for much of the toxic pollution found in the swamplands. The revelry ends quickly, however, when thousands of local fauna decide to crash the party. Under the apparent telepathic guidance of the less-than-menacing swamp bullfrogs, armies of snakes, insects, and snapping turtles tear their way through the cast. Competent direction, great use of swampland ambience, and spooky sound effects help to provide a suitably large dose of the creepy-crawlies.

Fuckland(aka Dogme #8)
Directed by José Luis Marquès
2000
Fabián, a magician from Buenos Aires, saves his money from weddings, birthdays, and bar mitzvahs, and uses a hidden camera to document a week-long trip to the Falkland Islands where he has a patriotic plan: to impregnate a British woman.

Fudoh
Directed by Takashi Miike
1996 -- 100min
(4)
Seijun Suzuki meets the Grand Guignol in this wild hallucinatory yakuza drama, directed by Japan's gonzo cinema auteur Takashi Miike, about one of the ugliest family squabbles this side of Oedipus. The film opens with lifelong gangster Iwao Fudoh (Toru Minegishi) killing his grown son after an important mob deal goes south, as his younger son, Riki, looks on. Fast forward ten years, Riki Fudoh (Shosuke Tanihara) is the coolest kid in high school, who also runs a band of school-aged assassins. Flanked by two lethal bombshells in schoolgirl outfits - Toko (Tamaki Kenmochi), who sports an Uzi, and Mika (played by porn star Miho Nomoto), who sports a blow gun and freakish muscle control in her nether regions - along with a bevy of commando elementary school kids, Riki slowly seeks revenge on his father and his associates, just as Iwao's gang is planning to merge with an even more nefarious outfit hailing from Kyushu. Explosions, decapitations, and hermaphroditic coupling ensue.

Fugazi:Instrument
Directed by Jem Cohen
1999 - 93min
Fugazi was arguably the most important and influential underground rock band of the 1990s. While their fierce indie punk ideals dictated that they deliberately stay under the mass media radar (the group declined to do interviews with the mainstream press and requested that critics buy their albums rather than sending out free copies), the band's powerful music (muscular but inventive hard rock that showed the influence of the space of dub reggae and the propulsive energy of hardcore) and uncompromising lyrical stance (songs that clearly if undogmatically dealt with racism, sexism, economic injustice, and a wealth of other political and social concerns) made many converts. Without the benefit of commercial radio play, MTV exposure, or coverage in most major music magazines, Fugazi managed to sell over 200,000 copies each of such albums as Red Medicine, Steady Diet of Nothing, and Repeater. In addition, the band, which once described its approach as "revolution through example," was among the most strongly principled in rock; Fugazi released its recordings through its own label, refusing many blank-check offers from major labels, and would play only all-ages venues with a ticket price of five dollars, while the group's concerts in their hometown of Washington, DC, were either benefits for community action groups or free shows usually affiliated with political causes. Filmmaker and photographer Jem Cohen was friendly with band members Ian McKaye and Guy Picciotto before they formed Fugazi, and early on began documenting the group's performances on film and video. Instrument was compiled from ten years' worth of footage of Fugazi on and off stage, performing at venues both large and small, working in the studio, discussing their work (one revealing interview comes from a public access television show done by high school students), and sometimes displaying their oft-ignored sense of humor. Directed by Jem Cohen in collaboration with the members of Fugazi, Instrument was his first feature film.

Full Metal Gokudo (dvd-r)
Directed by Takashi Miike

Future Voyeur

Gap Toothed Women
Directed by Les Blank
1987 - 31min
(4)
Plain and simple, a 30-minute film about women with a gap in their teeth. The women talk about the advantages and disadvantages of having "gap-teeth".

Garbage Pail Kids: The Movie
Directed by Rodney Amateau
1987 - 100min
(2.5 - 3)
Sometimes kids like to do things to gross out or shock their parents. This is only natural, but many companies exploit this tendency by creating toys to appeal to that childish joy in the disgusting. In the late '80s, a new kind of bubblegum card, the Garbage Pail kids, featuring caricature paintings, of ugly, unclean moppets with yukky names such as Greaser Greg and Valerie Vomit, Windy Winston, and Foul Phil, each with an offensive habit, found populari

Gary Coleman: For Safety's Sake

Girls Gone Wild:"Doggystyle" with Snoop Dogg & Ultimate Spring Break
See these girls get nasty for the camera when Snoop's right there. The Doggystyle video isn't as good as the Ultimate Spring Break, but they're still great.

Go,Go Second Time Virgin
Directed by Koji Wakamatsu
1969 -- 65 min.
Prolific Japanese filmmaker Koji Wakamatsu's Go, Go Second Time Virgin tells the tale of two Japanese teens brought together by sexual violence, revenge, and rebellion. A girl (Mimi Kozakura) is forcibly carried to a rooftop and gang-raped, as a boy of similar age (Michio Akiyama) stands to the side watching the events unfold. The boy remains on the roof until the next morning, waiting for the girl to wake. When she does finally rise, the two teens begin sharing intimate details about their lives, including the fact that the boy has recently killed four people that forced him to take part in an orgy. As the two kindred spirits sink lower and lower into depression and delusion, they exact revenge for the crimes against the girl and take a bold, tragic step to end their misery once and for all.

God's Angry Man
Directed by Werner Herzog
1990 -- 46 min
(1)
Herzog's documentary on Dr. Gene Scott, a cable access televangelist with an anger management problem. Please note, the quality of this video is pretty poor. It is for DIE HARD Herzog fans only. You can hear the projector's motor in the background when people on screen are not talking. It is still watchable, but the quality is poor

Godspeed You Black Emperor

Graveyard of Honour
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
1975 - 94min
(5)
Vengeance Is Mine meets La Strada in Japanese gangland auteur Kinji Fukasaku's real-life yakuza drama about a sociopathic loser who always seems to make the wrong decision. Opening in the blackmarkets of Shinjuku just after the war, Ishikawa (played by matinee icon Tetsuya Watari) works as muscleman for the Kawada crime family. After a raid on a Chinese gang's gambling parlor turns into street warfare, Ishikawa finds himself taking refuge in the boarding room of frightened waif and war orphan Chieko (Yumi Takigawa). After a brief departure, he returns, stinking drunk, to collect his belongings and eventually he rapes her. Meanwhile, Ishikawa almost sparks a gang war after beating up a prostitute of a rival gang. Though the Kawada clan's connection with the American occupation forces eventually forestalls any bloodshed, Ishikawa's godfather (Hana Hajime) balls him out and humiliates him. In retaliation, Ishikawa jumps his boss and stabs him an inch short of his life — a cardinal sin in the crime world. Ishikawa again takes refuge with Chieko, who in spite of his previous brutishness takes pity on the battered and bleeding gangster and nurses him to health. After a brief stint in jail, Ishikawa learns that he is spared execution only through the efforts of his old friend and crime boss Kozaburo Imai (Tatsuo Umemiya); he is instead banished from the Tokyo yakuza world for ten years. Imai arranges for him to lay low in Osaka, where he lives in a flophouse, spending his time whoring, developing tuberculosis, and shooting up dope. He soon gets bored of Osaka, and ventures back to Tokyo with his witless junky sidekick Ozaki (Kunie Tanaka). After another stint in jail, he marries Chieko, who has by this point developed full-fledged tuberculosis. This film was ranked one of the best Japanese films of 1975 by the prestigious film journal Kinema Jumpo.

Greaser's Palace
Directed by Robert Downey,Sr.
1972 -- 91 min
(4)
Greaser's Palace, together with Zachariah, is one of the great "head" westerns of our time. Alan Arbus plays a zoot-suited character named Jesse, who is not only a Christlike figure, he is Christ! En route to Jerusalem, where he hopes to find work as a "singer-dancer-actor," Jesse finds himself in a dusty western town. At first, he is targeted for extermination by town boss Seaweedhead Greaser (Albert Henderson) but all this changes when he brings Greaser's son Lamy (Michael Sullivan) back from the dead. Jesse's healing powers lead to all sorts of wacked-out complications and, inevitably, a bizarre confrontation with the town looney, exotic dancer Cholera (Luana Anders). Somehow it's not surprising within the context of the film to confront such diverse supporting players as Toni Basil, Luana Anders and Herve Villechaize. In addition, a very young Robert Downey Jr. (the son of the director) appears as a Quasimodolike child.

Great Ecstacy of Woodcarver Steiner
Directed by Werner Herzog
1974 -- 45 min
(2.5-3)
In this documentary, the dramatic ski-jumping exploits of Walter Steiner are explored, along with his life-story and the philosophy which motivates him. Steiner is a Swiss woodcarver who experiences something resembling bliss in the confrontation with fear which is a feature of ski-jumping. One highlight of the film is its slow-motion footage of jumping.

The Grandmother
Directed by David Lynch

Gummo
Directed by Harmony Korine
1997 -- 95min
(5)
In this elliptical ensemble piece, which marks the directorial debut of indie bad boy Harmony Korine, the teens of tornado-scarred Xenia, OH, kill cats, tape their boobies, arm-wrestle, bathe, cross-dress, huff glue, avoid perverts, pay to have sex with retarded girls, lift makeshift dumbbells to the strains of Madonna's "Like a Prayer," fight, cuss, shave their eyebrows, undergo cancer treatment, euthanize senior citizens, and pee on passing cars. A hallucinatory barrage of images and scenarios with little in the way of traditional plot, Gummo has been variously described as a surrealist joke, a visual poem, and a worm's-eye view of white-trash suffering. The main characters include Solomon (Jacob Reynolds), who sells cat carcasses to a middleman who procures them for use at a local Chinese restaurant; his mother (Linda Manz), who teaches him to tap dance while reminiscing about her dead husband; Tummler (Nick Sutton), a mullet-haired local sex symbol; a midget (Bryant L. Crenshaw); a pair of boy-crazy, bleach-blond sisters named Dot (Chloe Sevigny) and Helen (Carisa Bara); a slut with a lump in her breast (Lara Tosh); a group of drunken louts; and Bunny Boy (Jacob Sewell), who wanders the town enigmatically in a pair of long pink ears. In between scenes of these characters enacting their bizarre routines, Korine intersperses impressionistic and quasi-documentary scenes with voice-over narration that ranges from incest memoirs to arty dialogue along the lines of "He's got what it takes to be a legend: He's got a marvelous persona." Shot just outside Nashville, TN, Gummo includes costume designs by Korine's then-girlfriend, Chloe Sevigny, who also plays Dot and who previously starred in the Korine-scipted, Larry Clark-directed Kids. Jacob Reynolds would go on to appear in Getting to Know You, though few of the director's other discoveries have appeared on film since.

Hands On A Hardbody
Directed by S. R. Bindler
1997 - 95min
(4)
This humorous documentary captures contestants in a 1995 competition held annually in a Longview, Texas, car dealership parking lot. A brand new Nissan pickup truck is the prize won by the person who can keep a gloved hand held against the truck for the longest period of time (with a 15-minute break every six hours and a five-minute break every hour). Six contestants drop out during the first 24 hours - with only two contestants still standing by the 70th hour. With an event not far from the eccentric edge found in Errol Morris' documentary portraits of oddball Americana, director S.R. Bindler shot this film in Hi8 video, transferred to 16mm. Shown at the 1997 Santa Barbara and AFI/Los Angeles film festivals.

Happiness
Directed by Todd Solondz
1998 -- 139 min
(5)
After his 1995 breakthrough, Welcome to the Dollhouse, director Todd Solondz was courted by a number of studios to make a big-budget film with top stars. Instead, he chose to make this agressively dark comedy-drama of perversions and twisted lives. Andy Kornbluth (Jon Lovitz) explodes with anger after rejection in a restaurant from Joy Jordan (Jane Adams), one of a trio of middle-class New Jersey sisters. Joy's sister Trish (Cynthia Stevenson), a housewife with three kids, is married to psychiatrist Bill (Dylan Baker), who counsels the lonely, overweight Allen (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Allen is obsessed with Joy's other sister, the successful poet Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle). Bill has fantasies of turning an assault rifle on families in a park, masturbates to teen magazine photos, and develops an unhealthy interest in a classmate of his 11-year-old son, Billy (Rufus Read). After a telephone sales job, Joy moves on to substitute teach at an adult education class, where she falls prey to the advances of an insensitive cabdriver, Vlad (Jared Harris). Allen's series of obscene phone calls to Helen come to an end when she challenges him to come next door and carry out his sexual threats. Meanwhile, the sisters' parents, Lenny and Mona Jordan (Ben Gazzara and Louise Lasser), find their marriage collapsing after 40 years. Lenny has sparked the interest of divorcee Diane Freed (Elizabeth Ashley), but he actually would prefer to be alone. The path to happiness, it seems, is littered with dreams, despair, and abnormalities.

Hardware Wars
1978 -- 13 min
(5)
Household appliances set the mood for this parody of Star Wars.

Hated:GG Allin & the Murder Junkies
Directed by Todd Phillips
1993 -- 120min
(4)
G.G. Allin was a musician and performance artist who was the human embodiment of everything dangerous, threatening, and unwholesome about punk rock, with absolutely none of its redeeming qualities. Allin's music was a fuzzy, incoherent blare that made the Ramones sound baroque by comparison, featuring lyrics that openly celebrated degradation, rape, and murder, and his performances (which rarely lasted more than ten or 15 minutes) usually found him far gone on drugs and alcohol, naked and rolling about in his own feces when not attempting to physically attack the audience. In short, Allin was not a musician so much as a one-man freak show, and he won a small but loyal audience as perhaps the most singularly perverse sociological phenomenon of his day before dying of a drug overdose on July 28, 1993 (failing to make good on his pledge to take his own life on stage). Filmmaker Todd Phillips spent several weeks in 1993 following Allin as he and his band the Murder Junkies (which briefly featured Dee Dee Ramone on guitar) attempted to tour, and Hated: G.G. Allin and the Murder Junkies is the result. The film features footage of several chaotic live performances, interviews with Allin and his bandmates, clips from television appearances (including an interview with Geraldo Rivera in which Allin tells the reporter, "My flushed blood and body fluids are a communion to the people - whether they like it or not"), Allin having some typically repugnant "fun" at a party, and a phone call from G.G. after he ran afoul of the law (a frequent occurrence in his short life). The home video release of Hated also features bonus footage of Allin's funeral and his final "concert." Director Phillips later went on to cover the opposite end of the rock spectrum with Bittersweet Motel, his feature on the improvisational "jam band" Phish.

Heart of Glass
Directed by Werner Herzog
1976 - 93min
(5)
Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas) is a mesmeric production by Werner Herzog about the power and importance of art. Director Herzog was known to put his actors through the wringer to get the results he wanted. In this film, Herzog decided that the best way to get his people to dance to the crack of his whip was to actually put them under hypnosis! The dazed, zombie-like performances certainly fit the subject matter. This is the story of an 18th-century Bavarian glassblower who by virtue of his delicate work virtually casts a spell over his neighbors. When the glassblower dies, the townsfolk discover that he failed to leave behind the secret for his special ruby glassware. The word usually used to describe Heart of Glass is "haunting"; some viewers have gone beyond haunted and into "possessed." Watch carefully and spot director Herzog in a bit as a glass carrier

Heat Vision & Jack
Directed by Rob Schrab 2000
30min
(3)
A few years ago, Ben Stiller presented this pilot, written by him. A Knight Rider rip off, of sorts, starring Jack Black and featuring Owen Wilson as the voice of his talking motorcycle.

Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Directed by Jeff Krulik

Heavy Metal Parking Lot outtakes & news footage

Hell House
Directed by George Ratliff
2001
Fascinating documentary on a haunted house made by the Trinity Assemblies Of God church in Cedar Hill, Texas where there's no ghost, vampire or werewolf but features scenes of abortions gone horribly wrong, raves that spiral into gang rapes, homosexual men on their AIDS deathbeds renouncing God, kids reading `occult' books like the Harry Potter series, etc.

Hell House-short
Directed by Dewey Nicks
1998 - 30min
Shorter film on the same subject as above

The Hidden
Directed by Jack Sholder
1987 -- 96min
(5)
A cop discovers that there's something unusual about his new partner in this unusual sci-fi thriller. A seemingly well-mannered stock broker one day snaps, robbing a bank, stealing a Ferrari, and driving straight into a police barricade without any thought for his own safety, and he's mowed down by a hail of bullets. The detective assigned to the case, Tom Beck (Michael Nouri), thinks that he notices a strange look in the eye of the thief, but when FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher (Kyle MacLachlan) informs Tom that he's also been assigned to the case, he thinks that he sees the same curious look in Lloyd's eyes as well. Lloyd also has an odd way of carrying himself, as if he's not entirely in control of his own body, and in time, Tom discovers what the two men have in common - both are actually aliens from another planet. They are creatures from another world capable of entering a human (or animal) body at will and using it as a vessel as long as they need. When the stockbroker died, the rogue alien simply crept into another body to begin his crime spree all over again. Lloyd has been sent to Earth to bring the thief's reign of terror to a halt and has taken over the body of an FBI agent with that in mind. A major cult favorite, The Hidden also features Clu Gulager, Ed O'Ross, and Claudia Christian.

High School
Directed by Frederick Wiseman
1968 - 75min
In 1991, the National Film Preservation Board selected High School (1969) for inclusion in the National Film Registry. Richard Schickel, writing in Life, called this a "wicked, brilliant documentary about life in a lower-middle-class secondary school." Acclaimed filmmaker Frederick Wiseman roamed freely through Philadelphia's Northeast High School to document a continual clash of teens with administrators who confused learning with discipline. At 75 minutes, this is one of Wiseman's shortest documentaries, yet the impact is just as memorable as in his three-hour films. Both facts and social values are transmitted from one generation to another, and such social conditioning is seen in a series of formal and informal encounters between teachers, students, parents, and administrators. One disciplinarian lectures a minor offender: "We are out to establish that you are a man and that you can take orders." Wiseman went back to school 25 years later to film more successful student-teacher interactions and progressive teaching methods at an alternative high school in New York's Spanish Harlem, seen in his much longer (220 minutes) High School II (1994).

The Holy Mountain
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
1973 -- 126min
(3.5 - 4)
A film that screams "product of its time," The Holy Mountain was Alexandro Jodorowsky's dizzying elegy to the sex, drugs and spiritual awakening of the late 1960s and early 1970s - a suitably bizarre follow-up to his El Topo (1971). Fascinating although it only fitfully makes sense, The Holy Mountain is beautifully shot and designed, and it suggests what might have resulted if Luis Buñuel, Michelangelo Antonioni, and George Romero had all dropped acid and made a movie together. A Christ-like vagrant and thief wanders through a perverse and unfriendly land until he encounters an enlightened one, who gathers the thief and six of the world's most powerful individuals for a spiritual pilgrimage. If you want to see the conquest of Mexico re-enacted by reptiles, soldiers shoot innocent people as birds fly from their wounds, and a wizard turn feces into gold, this is the movie for you.

Home Movie(workprint)
Directed by Chris Smith
2001 -- 65min
(3.5)
The old saying has it that a person's home is their castle, and this documentary takes a witty look at five unusual homes that have been designed to match the ideas and eccentricities of the people who own them. Ben Skora is a self-styled inventor who has tricked out his Illinois home with a variety of unusual gadgets, among them a nine-foot-tall robot. Linda Beach, an American actress who enjoyed a successful career in Japanese television, lives in a tree house in Hawaii that draws its power from a nearby waterfall. Bill Tragle's home is also close to the water, as the Louisiana alligator rancher shows off his luxurious houseboat. Ed Pedan and his wife Diana Pedan have made a home out of an abandoned underground complex in Kansas, built and then abandoned by the American military. And Bob Walker and Francis Mooney designed their home not with their own needs in mind, but those of their 11 pet cats. Directed by Chris Smith, who previously made the acclaimed documentaries American Job and American Movie, Home Movie had its premiere at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.

Homicidal
Directed by William Castle
1961 -- 87min
(4)
Homicidal is producer/director William Castle's slant on Hitchcock's Psycho. The movie gets off to a lively start with a beautiful young woman marrying a handsome young man on impulse, then brutally stabbing the justice of the peace! The woman goes into hiding as the nurse of a mute, wheelchair-bound old lady (Eugenie Leontovitch). The young lady's behavior arouses the suspicion of Patricia Breslin, the old woman's niece, and of Pat's sympathetic male confidante. Derivative though it may be, Homicidal is good gory fun, with an unsettling performance by Jean Arliss as the "hero/heroine." (The fact that Arliss never made another picture has in recent years created an androgynous aura of mystery around the performer; in fact, Jean Arliss was really Joan Marshall, a bona fide female who'd previously appeared on several TV programs). This also features a 10-minute "Psychette" after the movie, a short "documentary" on "Homicidal" and the gimmicks involved in promoting it.

Hospital
Directed by Frederick Wiseman
1970 - 84min
This 1970 Frederick Wiseman documentary was a 1994 National Film Registry selection by the National Film Preservation Board. In 1970, the 84-minute film won two Emmys-"Best News Documentary" and "Best Director." Wiseman looked at life in a large urban hospital, detailing daily activities with his main focus on the emergency ward and outpatient clinic. Medical expertise, organizational considerations, availability of resources, and the nature of communications among staff and patients are all shown as factors in the delivery of appropriate health care. Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) wrote, "It is as open and revealing as filmed experience has ever been. You look misery in the eye..."

House of 1000 Corpses (screener) 2VCDs
Directed by Rob Zombie

House on Haunted Hill
Directed by William Castle
1958 -- 75 min
A perennial favorite of the "Shock Theatre" TV circuit, House on Haunted Hill stars Vincent Price as a sinister gent (you're surprised?) who owns a sinister mansion on a sinister hill. He offers several of his enemies $10,000 each-if they agree to spend the night in the crumbling old mansion. Price festively gives each of his guests a tiny coffin containing a handgun, then proceeds to set in motion any number of gadgets and devices designed to frighten the guests into using their weapons. Strange as it seems, old Vinnie isn't the real villain of the proceedings: that honor goes to his scheming wife Carol Ohmart and her lover Alan Marshall. Also on hand is eternal doom-sayer Elisha Cook Jr., who is given the film's famous final line. When originally released to theatres, House on Haunted Hill was accompanied by one of those gimmicks so beloved of producer/director William Castle: the gimmick was "Emergo," and it involved a prop skeleton that "emerged" from the screen at a crucial moment to frighten the audience. Like most of Castle's best films, House didn't really need the gimmick, but its presence added to the fun-especially when second- and third-time viewers responded to "Emergo" by bombarding the skeleton with popcorn and empty soda bottles.

The Houston Story
Directed by William Castle
1956 -- 79min.
(5)
One of the many "exposes" of corporate corruption filmed in the 1950s, Houston Story was ground out with stingy efficiency by Columbia Pictures. Gene Barry plays a crafty oilman who with the aid of several hand-picked henchmen steals gasoline from his rivals. Edward Arnold, he of the wicked laugh and deadly glare, is a mobster boss who persuades Barry to siphon his hard-earned stealings into the coffers of the Syndicate. The covetous oilman agrees, planning to turn the tables on the criminals and take over the Syndicate himself. Houston Story is of interest for its cast of TV stars-to-be: Future "Bat Masterson" and "Burke's Law" headliner Gene Barry, daytime-drama leading lady Jeanne Cooper, and "Perry Mason" costar Barbara Hale (in a blonde wig).

How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck?
Directed by Werner Herzog
1976 -- 44 min.
(2.5-3)
Herzog examines the world championships for cattle auctioneers, his fascination with a language created by an economic system, and compares it to the lifestyle of the Amish, who live nearby.

How's Your News?
Rundown coming soon

How's Your News?...the movie!

The Hunger
Directed by Tony Scott
1983 -- 97min
(3)
The exquisitely beautiful Catherine Deneuve plays Miriam, a centuries-old vampire capable of bestowing the gift of immortality on her lovers - namely her current partner John (David Bowie). To sustain their sanguinary requirements, the pair cruises New York nightclubs in search of victims (as illustrated in a stunning opening sequence to the accompaniment of "Bela Lugosi's Dead" performed by seminal Goth band Bauhaus). When John awakens one morning to discover telltale signs of aging, it is revealed that his own sustained youth is not permanent, and his physical decrepitude begins to increase at an incredible rate. In a panic, John visits the clinic of scientist Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon), who has recently published a book on reversing the aging process, but she initially dismisses him as a crank, leaving him to sit in the lobby for several hours... during which his body ages several decades. After learning of his condition, Sarah traces John to his uptown flat. John is nowhere to be found, having been consigned by Miriam to a box in the attic with her legions of undead loves, leaving Miriam to deal with Sarah - which she does quite effectively, seducing her into a steamy lesbian tryst. Their passion is consummated by a mingling of Miriam's blood with Sarah's, which later manifests itself as a psychic link between the two women and leaves Sarah with a rapidly-increasing appetite for blood.

I Am Not A Freak

Ichi the Killer
Directed by Takashi Miike
2001 -- 128min
(4)
Maverick auteur Takashi Miike spins this unsettling, blood-soaked yakuza yarn adapted from Hideo Yamamoto's cult manga Koroshiya 1. When mob don Anjo mysteriously disappears, his protégé Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano) vows to find the people responsible. Sporting a blond head of hair and a yawning, pierced slash for a mouth, Kakihara is no ordinary gangster and his methods are equally unorthodox; he impales one poor suspect's naked body on a series of meat hooks and then dumps hot oil on him. Meanwhile, a shadowy character known as Jijii (played by director Shinya Tsukamoto) deftly manipulates, for his own nefarious ends, Ichi (Nao Omori), an unbalanced but ruthless killing machine clad in a superhero suit. Pining for the sadistic abuse of his boss, Kakihara learns of Ichi from a Hong Kong hostess (Alien Sun) and sets out to find this fabled butcher, hoping he can inflict the pain that Kakihara craves. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival as a part of the Midnight Madness program.

Ichi the Killer: Anime (aka Koroshi-ya 1 Episode 0)
Directed by Takashi Miike
(approx. 45minutes)
(3.5)
This is sort of a "prequel" to the Takashi Miike film. This is the animated version. Subtitles are sometimes hard to read during the daytime scenes. This is a fansubbed version. Features the voice of Takashi Miike.

The Idiots
Directed by Lars Von Trier
1998 -- 115 min
(5)
Lars von Trier wrote (in four days) and directed this Danish comedy-drama about a group of Copenhagen eccentrics who find a therapeutic release and confront apathy via unacceptable, idiotic behavior which they call "spazzing." Stoffer (Jens Albinus) is supposed to be selling his uncle's house but instead it becomes the focal point for geeky group activities. Restaurant patrons are disturbed by the group's mischief, but single diner Karen (Bodil Jorgensen) develops an appreciation of their antics. Stoffer, at his birthday party, wishes for a "gangbang," and both clothes and inhibitions are soon discarded. But when Stoffer calls for the group members to let idiocy invade their personal daily lives, only Karen takes up the challenge.

I.K.U.
Directed by Shu Lea Cheang
2000 -- 92min
Taiwanese-born experimental filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang directs this dizzying computer-enhanced sci-fi cyber-porn flick. A pun that roughly translates from Japanese as "I'm coming!", the title aptly sets the film's orgasmic tone. The story, as such, revolves around the GENOM Corporation, which has started mass-producing sexbots for the lofty purpose of bettering humankind's sexual development. Reiko (Tokitoh Ayumu) is one such cyborg; her body being one giant "Gen-XXX IKU Coder" hard drive, she is burdened with the task of collecting "orgasm data" by shagging everything that moves. Set against some brilliantly bizarre digitally-animated set pieces, the film's characters couple, triple, and so forth with remarkable indifference to gender, species, or physiological make-up. This film was screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

The Illustrated Man
Directed by Jack Smight
1969-103min
(4)-DVD-r
This science fiction fantasy is taken from the stories of Ray Bradbury. Carl (Rod Steiger) has a tattooed torso of bizarre illustrations done by his wife Felicia (Claire Bloom). Each one tells a story about the future, and when Will (Robert Drivas) meets The Illustrated Man in a hobo jungle en route to California, Carl warns him not to look too closely at the pictures on his person. One story has Carl, Felicia, Will and another man stranded on a planet plagued by perpetual rainstorms. Another has Will as a marriage counselor who watches in horror while Carl and Felicia's children plan their deaths. The third futuristic saga has Will observing Carl and Felicia on the top of a mountain as they plan to kill their children. After the three stories, Will is plagued by futuristic nightmares of Carl coming to kill him in this depressing and pessimistic film.

Images of Liberation
Directed by Lars Von Trier
1982 -- 57min
The graduate film of student Lars von Trier, the behavior of Danish resistance fighters at the end of World War II is called into question by documentary footage of them making street arrests and by fictional enactments of crimes...

In the Land of the Owl Turds
Directed by Harrod Blank
1987 - 30min
(4)
Directed by Les Blank's son, In the Land of the Owl Turds is about a young man (played by Harrod) who has lived with chickens for 6 years, and cannot seem to be compatible with any women in the real world. He is sexually frustrated, and drives a strange "art car", which seems to turn potential love interests off. He ends up painting himself green and running off into the woods, only to find another female outcast.

Industrial Symphony #1
Directed by David Lynch
1990 - 50 min
(5)
This unique musical video features the works of director David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti to create this surreal, "industrial-strength" music. Vocals are from Julee Cruise.

Internal Affairs (aka Mogan Do)
(more info coming soon)

Irreversible
Directed by Gaspar Noe
2002 - 99min
(5)
Gaspar Noe's Irreversible utilizes the same storytelling technique used by Christopher Nolan in Memento and Harold Pinter in Betrayal. Consisting of about a dozen scenes, all shot in single takes, Irreversible charts a disturbing night in the life of Marcus (Vincent Cassel), but presents the events in reverse chronological order. The audience eventually learns how the beautiful Alex (Cassel's real-life partner Monica Bellucci) is involved. The film opens with a violent altercation at a gay sex club and works backward to explain how and why the violence occurred. The actors improvised the vast majority of the dialogue starting from a four-page story outline. Irreversible was screened in competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

It's A Small World
Directed by William Castle
1950 -- 74min
Obviously designed as an exploitationer, It's a Small World isn't bad within its own limits. Paul Dale, a real-life radio disc jockey, stars as midget Harry Musk, who is met with cruelty and insensitivity wherever he goes because of his small stature. Unable to adjust to the "big" world, Harry falls in with bad company and becomes a criminal. Redemption comes in the form of midget Dolly Burke (Anne Sholter), who convinces Harry to go straight and pursue an honest living as a performer with the Cole Bros. circus. The "normal-sized" cast is populated with such familiar faces as Will Geer, Steve Brodie, Todd Karns and Margaret Field. Director William Castle also shows up in a cameo role as a police officer.

It's Alive
Directed by Larry Cohen
1974 -- 90min
(4)
Horror journeyman Larry Cohen, writer and director of numerous quirky horror projects, made his first foray into the genre with this low-budget cult favorite about a murderous mutant baby on a suburban rampage. The story opens with a delivery-room massacre as the newborn child of Frank and Lenore Davies (John P. Ryan and Sharon Farrell) answers the doctor's slap by tearing him to pieces - along with a few other medical personnel - before fleeing the hospital for whereabouts unknown. The subsequent hunt for the killer baby creates a rift between Frank, who wants the child destroyed, and Lenore, whose maternal instincts convince her that her child is not deliberately homicidal but merely frightened and defending itself. The baby's bloody rampage continues with several murders (including the creepy scene in which the terrible tyke savages the neighborhood milkman), until it is cornered by Frank and a police task-force. At the crucial moment, Frank has a sudden change of heart and tries to defend the infant from the police. Despite painfully low production values that render the monster scenes a bit silly (Rick Baker's creepy-looking but inarticulate baby model was simply pulled along on a string), Cohen's concept shines through, presenting a skewed but sincere interpretation of family values that could only be pulled off in the horror genre (see also Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes for another example). The script makes passing suggestions that the mutation was a result of an inadequately tested fertility drug, a concept explored more fully in the sequel It Lives Again and quite extensively in the third installment, Island of the Alive.

Jackass: The Movie (decent quality for a bootleg)
Directed by Jeff Tremaine
2002 -- 80min
Johnny Knoxville and his crew of fun-loving masochists bring their routines to the big screen in this feature adaptation of the popular but controversial MTV series Jackass. A crew of young men perform a variety of strange, painful, and often humiliating stunts for the amusement of themselves and those around them, including crawling across dozens

Jim Rose Circus Sideshow video
Description/quality coming soon.

John Waters :The Incredibly Strange Film Show
More info coming soon.

John Waters & Divine: Rare TV Appearances
110min
(quality varies because some of this footage is really old and has been copied a lot. a must for john waters fans)
SMOKING IN THIS THEATER- no smoking ad made for movie theaters featuring John Waters. This is the advertisment that they show at the beginning of most of his underground movie festivals.
JOH N WATERS ON DAVID LETTERMAN 1988-John talks about his upcoming movie entitled "Flamingos Forever", his moustache, living in Baltimore and Divine's music career.
-JOHN WATERS ON DAVID LETTERMAN 1987-John talks about his movie "Hairspray", his trip to L.A. and his book entitled Crackpot.
-JOHN WATERS ON DAVID LETTERMAN 198?-John talks about his trip to the White House and again talks about his book entitled Crackpot.
-JOHN WATERS ON LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS-A tour of John Waters house and the things he collects.
-JOHN WATERS AND DIVINE ON DAVID LETTERMAN 1981-Divine sings "Born To Be Cheap" + they talk about thier careers and how they met. Clip Shown from Polyester and John talks about his book entitled Shock Value.
-DIVINE ON ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT 198?- Divine talks about his role in Lust In The Dust + interview with Tab Hunter.
-DIVINE ON THICK OF THE NIGHT-Divine sings "Born To be Cheap" + gives a rundown on all of the John Waters films that he has appeared in and talks about his career.
-NIGHTFLIGHT....DIVINE PROFILE-A Profile on Divine's career + music videos for "Hard Magic", "These Lips Were Made For Kissin'" (Lust In The Dust) and "I'm So Beautiful". Clips shown from Polyester and Lust In The Dust.
-DIVINE...."YOU THINK YOU'RE A MAN"- The music video in extended mix form.
-NIGHTFLIGHT....DIVINE PROFILE (CONTINUED)- Clips shown from Trouble In Mind. Divine comments on his change to a male role in film.
-DIVINE ON THE LATE SHOW 8/14/87- Divine talks about his role in Hairspray.
-JOHN WATERS ON CONAN O'BRIEN SHOW 4/11/97- John talks about his career and the re-release of Pink Flamingos for it's 25th anniversary.
-THE MAKING OF PINK FLAMINGOS- A 10 minute short that was filmed on the set of Pink Flamingos when John was making it. Contains interviews with Divine, John Waters and Mary Vivian Pierce.

Joy Division Compilation Tape

Julien Donkey-Boy
Directed by Harmony Korine
1999 -- 94min.
(5)
In his second directorial effort, writer/director Harmony Korine embraces the hyper-realist aesthetic of Lars Von Trier's Dogma 95 film movement, which mandates handheld photography using only available lighting, among other restrictions. As in the controversial Gummo (1997), Korine abandons traditional narrative for a series of vignettes about bizarre characters, in this case centered on Julien (Ewen Bremner), a schizophrenic who works in a school for the blind. Julien lives at home with his pregnant sister Pearl (Chloe Sevigny); his brother Chris (Evan Neumann), who wrestles in his spare time; and their violent father (Werner Herzog), who slaps his children around, hoses them down with water, and offers to pay Chris ten dollars to dress up in his late mother's clothes and dance. Eventually Julien escapes from his home and interacts with people on the street (some of whom, reportedly, were not professional actors and had no idea that Bremmer was an actor playing a scene).

Junk
Directed by Atsushi Muroga
1999 - 83min
(Review by Trevor Dunson) Junk is a Japanese zombie movie directed by Atsushi Muroga. It is the story of a gang of thieves who stumble into the wrong "abandoned" warehouse in an effort to escape the police. They are soon met by their Yakuza friends, who turn on them. Luckily for our goofy thieves, a band of zombies appear, and start doing what zombies do best, which is chomp human flesh! Zombies, ya gotta love 'em! Junk is a different kind of zombie film. The zombies here are not the head down and drag a foot kind as in some Fulci films, nor are they the blue-green skinned moaners from Romero's universe. These zombies can move baby! We have a super chock zombie well schooled in the martial arts. We have a Yakuza zombie who immediately eats his owns intestines once he "converts" into zombie hood. And we have a slew of soldier zombies, complete with machine guns. Back to our super hot chick zombie, she was the love interest of our "hero", a Japanese scientist who was assisting the American military on the reanimation of dead folks. Well, of course this all goes wrong, and his girlfriend is none to happy from being revived from her death (why are zombies so pissed at us?). She turns out to be an ass kicking flesh eater, complete with a hair changing trick (still trying to figure that out), and a great half a body missing routine. She wasted all of the soldiers before our robbers got there, and the soldiers are just now touching their dead side feelings. More zombies to kill! This movie moves fast and furious, and has its fair share of gore. The characters are paper thin, but who cares, this is a body count film. I enjoyed the effort put forward to try and make something different. The bad parts of this film revolve around the Americans in it. They are portrayed as idiots, and speak English like a robot would. The scientist answers them in English, or at least I think he did. But, somebody has to be an idiot if they are trying to get corpses to walk. I also had a consistency problem with the super chick zombie. I guess she could change from a hot normal dead chick, to a head ripping blond super bitch zombie like that. Kind of strange, but still worth watching!

Kenneth Anger Short Films
Fireworks(1947-20min)
Puce Moment (1949-6min)
Eaux D'Artifice (1953-12min)
Rabbit's Moon (1950-7min)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965 - 3min)
Lucifer Rising (1973-29min)
Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969-12min)
Scorpio Rising (1964-30min)
Inaugeration of the Pleasure Dome (1954 - 38min)

Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

Kids of Widney High: Record Store Performance, Interviews, "New Car" video
Review coming soon.

The Kids of Widney High "Rockin With Santa"
Review coming soon

Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Directed by Stephen Chiodo
1988 -- 90min
(5)
This low-budget cult classic horror spoof has one of the great movie titles of all time. Mike (Grant Cramer) and his sweetheart Debbie (Suzanne Snyder) are smooching on lover's lane when they see what appears to be a meteorite crashing over the horizon. They loosen their liplock long enough to investigate and find a curious circus tent. There they discover malevolent clowns who stop their victims with popcorn-shooting guns and acid-drenched pies in order to feast on human blood. The unfortunates are then entombed into inescapable cotton candy cocoons. Officer Dave Hanson (John Allen Nelson) is called to investigate with help from Officer Mooney (John Vernon). For those viewers who already think clowns are a little creepy to begin with, this one will push them over the edge.

Killer Shrews
Directed by Ray Kellogg
1959 -- 70min
Ken Curtis, former singing cowboy and Gunsmoke's Festus, joined right-wing radio's Gordon McLendon in producing this hilariously bad monster movie about a horde of outsized rodents run amok on an isolated island. The creation of mad scientist Baruch Lumet (father of acclaimed director Sidney Lumet), the monster shrews (portrayed by collies in goofy rubber masks!) escape the lab during a hurricane and devour nearly every other animal on the island before seeking human prey - including star James Best and girlfriend Ingrid Goude (1957's Miss Universe), who are stranded on the island by the same storm. The survivors manage to escape to safety thanks to some goofy contraptions constructed from trash cans. This one is best remembered by bad-film buffs for its tail-wagging canine stars and a multitude of famous names on both sides of the camera. Curtis and McLendon's companion film The Giant Gila Monster is slightly less ridiculous.

The King Is Alive (Dogme)

King of Porn

The Kingdom
Directed by Lars Von Trier
1994 -- 279 min (2 tapes)
(5)
Surreal comic drama that was originally broadcast on Danish television and which was widely popular in much of Europe. Comprised of interconnected episodes, the story takes place at The Kingdom, a state-of-the-art Danish hospital built upon an ancient swamp. The veil between the spirit-world and the modern scientific world is very thin at The Kingdom. The film opens with a mysterious hand rising from the mist, and blood pouring through the hospital walls. The first episode introduces the highly eccentric main characters. Beneath it's high-tech veneer, much of the staff is crazy, and many of the craziest belong to a secret brotherhood. The chief neurosurgeon is trying to conceal a terrible mistake, and still the spirits are rising from the swamp. The following episodes deal with the staff members in greater depth as they stumble and mismanage their way into solving the mysterious

The Kingdom 2
Directed by Lars Von Trier
1997 -- 289 min (2 tapes)
(4)
Lars Von Trier's second chapter in his ongoing Danish television miniseries chronicles the further misadventures of the staff and patients of an ultramodern Copenhagen hospital located atop an ancient, haunted swamp. The first episode of Riget introduced the broadly drawn, melodramatic characters, their surreal situations and provided a mystery that was only partially solved. The ending of the first also left viewers with many unresolved questions: Will the arrogant, vitriolic Swedish neurosurgeon Helmer obtain the voodoo potion he needs to destroy the earnest young doctor Krogen before Krogen exposes him as a quack? Will the vengeful, crazed anesthetist Rigmor successfully force Helmer to marry her? What of Bondo, the surgeon who became a research guinea pig by having his Masonic brothers transplant a diseased liver into his body? What about Judith who was tricked into pregnancy by a malevolent doctor's ghost? Will her baby be normal? Finally, will the intrepid hypochondriac Mrs. Drusse be able to help the hoards of ghosts accidentally released at the end of the last episode?

Kiss My TV Show (3 Episodes)
(Description taken from www.5minutestolivevideo.com).I think it’s safe to say that this is the first and only TV show written by, produced by, directed by and starring retarded people. Yep, you read it right, this is a Chicago public access show that showcases the ample talents of the windy city’s mentally challenged population. See on the street interviews, helpful question and answer segments, commentary on the state of the nation and even a retarded girl in a giant Christmas present falling over and eloquently stating “I fell down, yeah, I fell down”.

La Soufriere
Directed by Werner Herzog
1977 -- 44 min
(2.5-3)
Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadaloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leaves. Herzog catches the eeriness of an abandoned city, with stop lights cycling over an empty intersection.

Laboratory of the Devil
Directed by Godfrey Ho
1990 -- 91 min
(5)

Le Bunker De La Derniere Rafale
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
1981 - 30min-no dialogue

Les Dents Du Singe
Directed by Rene Laloux
1960 - 12min
Weird animation made of drawings by mental patients

Let's Kill Uncle
Directed by William Castle
1966 -- 92min
The twelve-year old heir to a fortune decides to fight back after he learns that his avaricious uncle is out to kill him in this thriller. He learns of the plot after his uncle, who is next in line for the fortune, generously invites him to visit him on a remote tropical island. To help foil the man's evil scheme, the boy enlists the aide of a young girl. It's a good thing too as the wicked relative has written a book on how to kill people and uses every trick in it to kill him including sharks, poison mushrooms, tarantulas, fire, and hypnotism to do the deed. When the children begin trying to beat him at his own game, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues until the uncle finally calls it quits and leaves the islands.

Linguini Incident
Directed by Richard Shepard
1992 -- 99min
(5)
Two disgruntled restaurant employees (David Bowie, Rosanna Arquette) decide to rob their employers (Buck Henry, Andre Gregory).

Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout
Directed by Kenneth J Hall
1990 - 60min
(4)
After a nice shower, Linnea does some warm-up stretches and then goes for a run. She encounters some flabby zombies who follow her back to the house, where she leads them in some poolside aerobic routines. Later she unwinds by inviting some girlfriends over for a slumber party and some exercise. When something goes bump in the house, her friends begin experiencing an attrition problem.

Little Cigars
Directed by Chris Christenberry
1973 -- 92min
The "little cigars" are five midget criminals, masterminded by Billy Curtis. They team up with full-sized Angel Tompkins, a gangster's girlfriend who's on the lam from her homicidal "protector." Tompkins and the five little people form a travelling carnival as a front for their crooked activities. Two of the midgets kill off the mobsters who've been sent to rub out Tompkins; in gratitude, she begins an affair with Curtis. At first planning to desert the other midgets and abscond with their hard-earned stealings, Tompkins and Curtis have a change of heart, return the money to their chums, and ride off together for a most unusual romantic rendezvous. Though Little Cigars has been unfairly maligned by such "authoritive" books as The Golden Turkey Awards, the film is actually quite entertaining, and not nearly as exploitive of Little People as might be expected. Among the other well-known Hollywood midgets and dwarves in the cast are Angelo Rossitto, Felix Silla, and Jerry Maren.

Little Noises
Directed by Jane Spencer
1991 - 110min
(4)
A struggling writer (Glover) steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.

Lone Wolf & Cub:Baby Cart in Peril
Directed by
1972 - 81min
A group of grieving widows hires Ogami to kill tattooed female assassin Oyuki in this noir-ish fourth entry in the popular Lone Wolf and Cub series. After being raped and subsequently desecrating her perfect body with tattoos to detract her foes, Oyuki, an expert with the short sword, seeks vengeance on those who wronged her. As Ogami seeks Oyuki's father in order to track his hit, Daigoro is separated from his father, encountering Lord Retsudo Yagyu's vengeful son Gunbei in a compelling sequence. After the resourceful boy survives a burning field, as well as defends himself from his would-be assassin, Ogami comes to the rescue of his son. Ogami later discovers the truth about Oyuki, and allows his sympathetic victim to do battle with the man who wronged her before carrying out his mission. After doing battle with another horde of Yagyu soldiers, Ogami is confronted by none other than Lord Retsudo Yagyu himself. This thrilling battle is notable as the only time the two actually cross swords in the series

Lone Wolf and Cub: In these Little Hands

Lord of the Rings:Two Towers (dvd-r screener)
Directed by Peter Jackson

Lost Angels
Directed by Hugh Hudson
1989 -- 116min
(3.5)
Adam Horovitz, of Beastie Boys fame, plays a troublesome teen who is shipped off by his wealthy parents to an institute for "problem" youths. This is the sort of place where any sign of rebellion is dealt with in draconian fashion. The strapped-down Horovitz tells his life story to psychiatrist Donald Sutherland. In flashback, we see a fairly docile young Horovitz, whose chance involvement in a rumble instigated by gang leader Don Bloomfield leads to an arrest. Appearing in court, Horovitz is railroaded into the institute by his father, more as a means of getting even with his divorced wife than out of any concern for his son. Sutherland tries to help, but Horovitz betrays the doctor's trust once too often. Only by extricating himself from the influence of Bloomfield does Horovitz have any chance for redemption-and only by undergoing a domestic reversal of his own is Sutherland truly able to aid the boy.

The Lost Children of Rockdale County

Lost Highway
Directed by David Lynch
1997 -- 135min
(5)
Five years after the critical and commercial disappointment of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, director David Lynch returned to the big screen with this cryptic thriller about confused identities and erotic obsession. Fred (Bill Pullman) is an avant-garde jazz saxophonist who shares a luxurious but fashionably barren house with his wife Renee (Patricia Arquette). Fred suspects that Renee may be unfaithful to him, but realizes he has bigger things to worry about when a series of videotapes appear at his door that prove someone is watching his home from the outside and inside. When Renee is found murdered, Fred finds himself behind bars, but one morning Fred is no longer in his cell. He has seemingly been transformed into Pete Drayton (Balthazar Getty), a young auto mechanic who foolishly allowed himself to get involved with the wife of gangster Dick Laurent (Robert Loggia), a luscious blonde named Alice who looks exactly like Renee

Love & A .45
Directed by C.M. Talkington
1994 -- 91min
(5)
Two young lovers go on the run from the law after a convenience store robbery goes bad in this road movie. Love and a .45 centers on philosophically inclined thief Watty Watts (Gil Bellows), who believes in a little robbery but not real violence. An ill-advised collaboration with a crazed, drugged-out biker (Rory Cochrane) ends badly, however, forcing Watty to go on the run. His girlfriend Starlene (Renee Zellweger) joins him, and the two become media darlings thanks to television coverage of their flight from the law. First-time director C.M. Talkington's combination of violence and ironic attitude recalls both 1970s crime dramas and Quentin Tarantino's violent, quirky takes on the genre. However, the film's warmed-over feel may be redeemed by its irreverent tone and appealing performances, including a self-parodying appearance by Peter Fonda.

Love Letter to Edie
Directed by Robert Maier
1975 -- 14min
The title of this documentary says it all - truly a love letter, in video form, to the beloved Edith Massey, star of many early John Waters films. Best known for her role as the Egg Lady in Pink Flamingos, this short movie will fill you in on Edie's life before she became a Dreamlander. It's written and narrated by the goddess herself. Following Edie around her Baltimore thrift store EDITH'S SHOPPING BAG is a trip, but even better are the fantasy sequences and stories about her past.

Macabre
Directed by William Castle
1958 -- 73 min
(2)
This first "gimmick" outing from horror producer William Castle is mainly distinguished by the clever ad campaign promising $1000 insurance for each patron (from Lloyds of London, no less!) against the possibility that they may die of fright during a screening of the film. (A similar gimmick would later be employed by the producers of the less imaginative thriller The Screaming Skull, who promised patrons an all-expense-paid funeral.) The plot involves small-town doctor Rod Barrett (William Prince) racing the clock to locate his missing daughter after she is buried alive in the town cemetery by the same psychopathic killer who murdered his wife and her sister.

The Mack
Directed by Michael I. Campus
1973 -- 110min
(5)
A box-office success during the early '70s, this blaxploitation flick traces the life of a Bay Area pimp facing drug dealers, crooked cops and fellow pimps ready to settle a few scores. Richard Pryor makes a small appearance as Slim.

Madonna: Sex Book Footage

Maniac
Directed by William Lustig
1980 -- 91min
(3)
Joe Spinell, who appeared in Taxi Driver, stars in this unsavory horror film as Frank Zito, a character reminiscent of an even more disturbed Travis Bickle. Frank is an embittered loser who talks to himself and his dead mother, stalks a pretty model (Caroline Munro), and spends his spare time brutally murdering women. He then scalps his victims and puts the trophies on mannequins which he takes to bed with him at night. An unpleasant film with a relentlessly downbeat tone, Maniac! features graphic, bloody special-effects makeup by cult favorite Tom Savini, who meets a gruesome end in a cameo as "Disco Boy." Highlights include a realistic scalping by Exacto knife and an exploding head. The ending takes an interesting twist as Spinell hallucinates his victims returning to life and tearing him limb from limb. Spinell and Munro reteamed in 1982 for The Last Horror Film. Adult film star Sharon Mitchell (whom director William Lustig discovered in The Violation of Claudia) appears briefly as a nurse.

Maniac Nurses Find Ecstacy
Directed by Harry M. Love
1990 - 74min
(5)
In this bizarre adults-only thriller from Hungary, Ilsa and Sabrina are a mother/daughter team of lesbian nurses with sadomasochistic tendencies who, with their compatriot Greta, enjoy luring unsuspecting strangers back to their remote clinic and subjecting them to various homegrown tortures. Somewhere down the line, Sabrina falls victim to a cadre of feminist terrorists who have decided that she is to be part of their plan for world domination. Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy stars Susanna Makay and Hajni Brown, and was released in America (in edited and re-dubbed form) by exploitation film masters Troma Team Pictures. It has also appeared under the title Bloodsucking Freaks II, though the picture has no connection to Joel M. Reed's memorably sleazy 1977 cult item.

Mark of the Whistler
Directed by William Castle
1944 -- 60min.
The Whistler, the unseen mystery-story narrator of radio fame, relates another tale that he's gleaned from "walking by night" in Mark of the Whistler. Richard Dix stars as a drifter who poses as the owner of an unclaimed bank account. Dix's new identity brings him nothing but misery as he falls victim to the actual claimant's startling secrets, lost loves and dangerous enemies-including one bent on killing for revenge. The second of Columbia's Whistler series, Mark of the Whistler was an enormous improvement on the first film, with a healthy number of unexpected plot twists within its 60-minute time frame. Mark of the Whistler was based on a story by Cornell Woolrich and directed by future horror specialist William Castle.

Married With Children: The "Lost" Episode

Married With Children Reunion

Master of the Flying Guillotine
Directed by Yu Wang (I)
1975 -- 81min
A blind man disguised as a priest has vowed to kill a one-armed boxer (director Wang Yu) who runs a martial arts school. He devises a weapon he calls the Flying Guillotine - which looks like a felt hat on a long chain but has a circular saw blade inside - that he uses to decapitate his enemies (and a few chickens, when he gets hungry).

Masters of the Universe
Directed by Gary Goddard
1987 -- 109min
(5)
Dolph Lundgren stars in this live-action film version of the popular television cartoon series (based on a collection of Mattel action figures). Lundgren is He-Man, a well-muscled super-hero, battling the evil Skeletor (Frank Langella) for control of the universe. Skeletor has designs on conquering the planet Eternia, a ravaged utopia ruled over by the Sorceress of Greyskull Castle (Christina Pickles). He-Man is summoned to stop Skeletor's plans. But when the wily dwarf Gwildor (Billy Barty) utilizes his Cosmic Key, He-Man and Skeletor finds themselves transported to California. There, a waitress named Julie (Courteney Cox) and her boyfriend Kevin (Robert Duncan Mitchell) come across the Cosmic Key and become embroiled in the intergalactic battle between He-Man and Skeletor.

Meat
Directed by Frederick Wiseman
1976 - 113min
In this 113-minute documentary, Frederick Wiseman traced the process through which cattle and sheep become consumer products. James Wolcott (Village Voice) saw it as "Wiseman's most visually lacerating documentary." It depicts the processing of meat products at a highly automated packing plant, illustrating logistical problems and other aspects of production, transportation, equipment design, time-motion studies, and labor management.

Medea
Directed by Lars Von Trier
1988 -- 75 min
(3)
Staggering adaptation of Euripedes' tragedy about woman who kills her children. Sparse script and atmospherics pare story down to its bare essentials. Riveting, must-see fare for serious drama fans.

Meet the Feebles
Directed by Peter Jackson
1990 -- 94 min
(5)
Bearing the same relationship to The Muppet Show that Fritz the Cat does to Felix the Cat, Meet the Feebles is a gleefully rude, decidedly adult comedy about the backstage goings-on amongst an eccentric group of puppets the day before their televised variety special. Made by director Peter Jackson, creator of Bad Taste and Heavenly Creatures, the film features a wide ensemble of creatures known as "The Feebles," led by a walrus named Bletch, the show's gruff, corrupt producer. Amongst the central figures are Heidi the Hippo, the show's prima donna singer; the fey fox Sebastian, who acts as the show's director; and the lovable (and love-struck) Robert the Hedgehog. Other cast members include a sex-crazed rabbit suffering from VD, a junkie frog prone to Vietnam War flashbacks, and a cockroach who directs porno movies in the theater's basement. Romantic jealousies, drug deals gone wrong, murders, and other scandalous activities all threaten to wreak havoc amongst the cast, with all these problems reaching their climax on the evening of the big show (which comes complete with musical numbers). The film's extremely dark sense of humor is supported by skillful gross-out effects and a winningly irreverent attitude.

Mermaid In A Manhole
Directed by Hideshi Hino
1991 -- 63min
(3)
An artist paints whatever he finds in a sewer and guess what he finds there? A mermaid, so he takes her home and puts her in the bathtub and starts to paint her portrait. The only thing wrong here is she starts to rot and worms start to come out of every pore on her body. She also has these multi-colored pus filled nodules that she squeezes into his paint bucket so he can paint his glorious masterpiece. Truly disgusting and wonderfully demented. I recommend this one highly.

Mifune
Directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
1999 -- 98min
(5)
Mifunes Sidste Sang is the third feature produced according to the Dogma 95 manifesto, ten strict rules drawn up by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. The title of the film refers to the late Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune, who played a bogus samurai of peasant origins in Akira Kurosawa's Shichinin no Samurai/ Seven Samurai. The protagonist, Kresten, comes from humble country origins but now lives in the yuppie circles of Copenhagen and has the prospects of a glittering career until a telephone call on his wedding night shatters his hopes of a better life. Kresten's father has just died; he has always told everyone he knows, including his wife Claire, that he has no living family, but now he has to explain he does have one after all. When he returns to his father's dilapidated farmhouse, he meets his elder brother Rud, who is mentally retarded. Kresten is embarrassed by the prospect of having his poverty-stricken past unveiled and keeps his wife away, telling one lie after another. While trying to settle things on the farm, he becomes attached to his brother and tries to find a housekeeper to help alleviate the horrible conditions he is living in, so Kresten can go back to his comfortable life without feelings of guilt. However, the housekeeper turns out to be a high-class hooker on the run, and Kresten is extremely attracted to her. Meanwhile his wife, who is beginning to get suspicious, is threatening to join

Mighty Michelle

Moment To Moment (aka Two Tons of Turqouise to Taos)
Directed by Robert Downey Sr.
near-surreal story that includes a baseball game on horseback, two old men fighting over the honor of one of their sisters, and a young man eating underwear for dinner.

Mondo Trasho
Directed by John Waters
1970 -- 95min.
The first feature film directed by self-proclaimed "Prince of Puke" John Waters, this black-and-white, mostly silent comedy cost just 2000 dollars. Mondo Trasho looks its budget, but has some amusing moments as it tells the story of a woman (Mary Vivian Pearce) who has a very bad day. First, she is accosted in the park by a foot-fetishist who sucks her toes. When she runs away, she is hit by a car. The driver, played by 300-lb. transvestite Divine, lost control of the wheel while staring at a naked man (Mark Isherwood) hitch-hiking by the roadside. Divine takes Pearce along with her, shoplifting some clothes to dress her victim. Unfortunately, both women are kidnapped by a mad doctor (David Lochary) who amputates Pearce's feet, replacing them with those of a chicken. She eventually gets her feet back, gaining magical powers that let her click her heels like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz to escape her situation. Divine is not so lucky, however, and meets her doom in a muddy pigsty. Pearce materializes in downtown Baltimore, where elderly local women with beehive hairdos curse at her until she clicks her heels again and disappears. There isn't much here for casual viewers, as only die-hard Waters fans are likely to countenance the long stretches in which virtually nothing happens. A few laughs are to be had, but not enough to sustain interest, as Waters did not really hit his stride until Multiple Maniacs the following year. At its best, this very rough amateur film suggests interesting ways to tell a story without dialogue, as Waters uses evocative old trash-rock songs to advance the plot. At its worse, it's a bore, of interest to devotees and completists only.

Monkees: Head

The Most Dangerous Game
Directed by Irving Pichel
1932 - 78min
(4)
The first of many official and unofficial screen versions of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game was put together by producer Willis O'Brien and directors Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel in 1932. Leslie Banks stars as looney Russian count Zaroff, a renowned big-game hunter who tires of stalking animals and begins hunting down the "most dangerous game"-human beings. Luring unwary victims to his remote island, Zaroff wines and dines them, gives them a few hours' head start to run into the jungle, then hunts them down with rifle and bow and arrow. As his grisly trophy room demonstrates, Zaroff hasn't missed yet. Shipwreck survivors Joel McCrea and Fay Wray are Zaroff's latest quarry. "First the hunt, then the revels!" declares Zaroff, casting a lecherous eye towards the wide-eyed Ms. Wray. The original Connell story had no heroine, but who wants to watch Joel McCrea lose most of his clothing while scurrying through the jungle. The Most Dangerous Game was filmed on RKO's standing King Kong sets during a lull in the production of that classic film, utilizing most of the Kong personnel (actors Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson, Steve Clemente and Dutch Hendrian; producer O'Brien; director Schoedsack; composer Max Steiner). While the plot has been reshaped and recycled many times since 1932, RKO's only official remake of Most Dangerous Game was 1945's A Game of Death.

Mr. Sardonicus
Directed by William Castle
1961 -- 89min
(4)-picture gets darker and brighter frequently, but is still definitely watchable
In this 1961 William Castle film based on Ray Russell's novel Sardonicus, Guy Rolfe stars as the wicked Sardonicus, a wealthy count who wears a mask because his face is frozen in a horrifying death grimace. Ronald Lewis stars as Sir Richard, a brilliant doctor who is at the top of his field in the early 20th century. A curious letter from his former love, Maude (Audrey Dalton), draws him to Europe where she lives in a remote castle with her brooding husband, his badly scarred, but dedicated man-servant, Krull (Oscar Homolka), and a frightened housekeeper whom Sir Richard finds tied up and covered with leeches. The good doctor soon discovers the truth behind the leeches...and the true nature of his visit when Sardonicus reveals his terrible story: He dug up his father's grave in search of a winning lottery ticket, and upon seeing the corpse, his face muscles froze leaving him looking like a living skull. Dangling Maude as his ransom, Sardonicus forces Sir Richard into attempting a radical treatment to make his face normal again, but even when it is a success, the evil Sardonicus can find no cure from the curse of his father's desecrated corpse. Castle appears in the climax to offer viewers an opportunity to afford additional punishment on Sardonicus which leads to a satisfying conclusion.

Mulholland Drive tv pilot
Directed by David Lynch
2001 -- 88min
TV Pilot edit, runs a complete 88 minutes. copy is a bit blurry from degeneration, but still watchable, especially if you're interested in seeing what he had to work with before expanding the show to a film.....

Mulholland Drive - Korean DVD bonus materials
approx. 25-30 minutes
(5)
Features extras unavailable on the US release. A couple of behind the scenes segments, as well as interviews with the cast and David Lynch, plus a music video.

Multiple Maniacs
Directed by John Waters
1970 -- 90min
(5)
The travelling sideshow 'Lady Divine's Cavalcade of Perversions' is actually a front for a group of psychotic kidnappers, with Lady Divine herself the most vicious and depraved of all - but her life changes after she gets raped by a fifteen-foot lobster.

The Mutations
Directed by Jack Cardiff
1974 - 91min
Creepy horror film about a mad scientist who abducts college students for the subjects he needs in his attempts to crossbreed plants with humans. His failures are turned over to a dwarf who runs a circus freakshow.

My Breakfast With Blassie
Directed by Linda Lautrec, Johnny Legend
1983 - 60min
(4)
In essentially a two-man tour-de-force that parodies the better-known Dinner with Andre by Louis Malle, My Breakfast with Blassie features the late Andy Kaufman (he died from lung cancer soon after this film was released) and Freddie Blassie as two egocentric wrestlers - roles they played in real life. As the two men display their egos like peacocks strutting their plumage, the reactions of people around them are as funny as the "breakfasting" duo. Kaufman announces "I'm a famous TV star" (he played Latka, the foreign mechanic on Taxi) and Blassie's open male chauvinism is so exaggerated as to be only humorous. The two also poke fun at banal table talk in-between their interchanges and develop a few other running gags. Although the climax is misconceived and should have been deleted or reworked, directors Johnny Legend and Linda Lautrec are to be commended for choosing a good duo, an appropriate setting, and putting all this together on close to a real-time shoot.

Mysterious Intruder
Directed by William Castle
1946 -- 61min
Mysterious Intruder was the fifth entry in Columbia's B-picture series based on the radio anthology "The Whistler". Richard Dix, the leading man in all but one of the "Whistler" films, stars as duplicitous private eye Don Gale. Motivating the storyline are a pair of priceless Jenny Lind wax recordings, which are coveted by a Swedish millionaire. Someone is willing to kill to get his or her hands on the records, prompting Gale and the cops to conduct a citywide search for the killer. The film's resolution is surprising only to those who hadn't seen the previous "Whistler" films, but it still works. Predominant in the supporting cast is Mike Mazurki, offering a virtual reprise of his "Moose Malloy" characterization from Murder My Sweet (1945).

MST3K: The Amazing Colossal Man
MST3K: The Brain That Wouldn't Die
MST3K: Cave Dwellers
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Naked Blood (aka Splatter)
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Neil Diamond Parking Lot
Directed by Jeff Krulik

Night of the Lepus
Directed by William F. Claxton
1972 - 90min
Giant Flesh Eating Rabbits Ravage American Southwest after Scientist Slips Up! Such is the plot of this unintentionally campy horror outing. The trouble begins when a researcher's experiment to use hormone injections to control Arizona's burgeoning rabbit population goes terribly awry causing the cuddly rodents to get grow to enormous proportions. In order to facilitate their growth, the rabbits need extra protein, and what better source than the relatively slow-moving human population that surrounds their huge subterranean lairs? With obvious special effects that include real rabbits stomping miniatures to splinters filmed in slow-motion, to attacks by men dressed in fuzzy long-eared suits, it's all good unintentionally campy fun.

The Night Walker
Directed by William Castle
1964 -- 86min
(3.5)- image darkens and lightens periodically throughout picture
Irene Trent (Barbara Stanwyck) was married to the inventor Howard (Hayden Roarke) before the blind electronics genius blows himself up following an argument between the couple. Irene leaves after the arguments only to learn of her husband's demise later. When Irene has reoccurring dreams of a faceless lover, she confides in her friend and attorney Barry Moreland (Robert Taylor) of her vision. She also tells him that Howard had accused her of marital infidelity and had her trailed by a private detective. William Castle directed the suspenseful thriller written by Psycho author Robert Bloch. Taylor and Stanwyck appear in their first film together in 27 years. The two were married from 1939 to 1951 and appeared in two films before their marriage. Their mutual respect as friends and performers is evident in The Night Walker.

Nosferatu in Venice
Directed by Augusto Caminito
1986 - 96min
In this sequel to 1987's Nosferatu the Vampire, Nosferatu (Klaus Kinski) is brought back to life by gypsies and shows his thanks by pushing an old lady out of a window onto a row of spikes. He seduces a local princess and battles a professor (Christopher Plummer) who is out to destroy him. Director Luigi Cozzi was brought in to finish the film when Kinski violently disagreed with original director Augustino Caminito and refused to be directed by him.

Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell
Directed by Brett Piper
1991
(5)
In this campy adventure from the folks at Troma, a female barbarian warrior battles prehistoric beasts and wages war against an evil renegade when she's not busy being kidnapped by mutants or falling in love with good-looking male barbarians.

The Old Dark House
Directed by William Castle
1963 -- 86 min
Set in the title manse, this chilling comedy chronicles the spooky exploits of a Yankee car salesman working in London who sets out to deliver a car to a remote and very creepy Welsh estate. Unfortunately he discovers the owner dead. While attempting to leave a fierce storm erupts and he has a wreck. He returns to the mansion to seek shelter from the disparate sisters therein. Once warm and dry, he meets the rest of their strange family, including twins, a looney who is building an ark, and the matriarch of the household. The storm rages on and as the grim night slowly passes, family members are bumped off at appallingly regular intervals leaving the American to solve the crimes.

On the Air
Directed by David Lynch
1992 -- 168 min
(2)- a little fuzzy at the bottom
The year is 1957. The cast and crew of the Lester Guy Show are extremely apprehensive about their upcoming live television broadcast on the Zoblotnick Broadcasting Co. network. Lester Guy despises fellow cast member Betty Hudson for unknowingly becoming more popular than him and schemes to destroy her career. Only two of the seven episodes were written by David Lynch.

Pace Car For the Hubris Pill
Directed by Matthew Barney
10min

Pamela Anderson & Brett Michaels sex tape

Pig Chicken Suicide

Pink Flamingos (+25th anniversary bonus footage)
Directed by John Waters
1973 -- 95min
(4)
Renegade filmmaker and noted aficionado of expressive bad taste John Waters exploded into international infamy with this darkly comic, no-budget parade of the perverse (his third feature film, and first in color), in which plus-size cross-dresser Divine stars as Babs Johnson, a flashy criminal on the lam from the FBI who is hiding out in a trailer outside of Baltimore, MD. Accompanying Babs are her mother (Edith Massey), an obese and dim-witted woman who is malignly obsessed with eggs; her degenerate son, Crackers (Danny Mills); and Cotton (Mary Vivian Pierce), Babs' duplicitous "traveling companion" and Crackers' co-conspirator in unwholesome erotic play. While Babs would prefer to be left in peace, she takes great pride in her status as "the Filthiest Person Alive" (an honor confirmed by one of America's sleazier tabloid newspapers), and when Connie and Raymond Marble (Mink Stole and David Lochary) announce their plans to take the title away from her, Babs is not about to stand idly by. The Marbles are a hateful couple who kidnap women, force their homosexual manservant, Channing (Channing Wilroy), to impregnate them, and sell the babies to lesbian couples found unfit for legal adoption; the Marbles then turn the profits back into pornography and narcotics trafficking. Impressive stuff, to be sure, but Babs is not about to take a back seat to anyone in a battle of filth, and when the Marbles throw down the gauntlet, Babs and her family retaliate in a no-holds-barred battle to determine who truly are "the Filthiest People Alive." Featuring murder, bestiality, rape, dismemberment, coprophagia, a dizzying variety of sexual perversions, and a performance of "Papa Oom Mow Mow" you will not soon forget, Pink Flamingos is nonetheless a comedy, and a surprisingly successful one; shot on a budget of only 12,000 dollars, the film has grossed close to ten million dollars around the world, and its success launched John Waters into a career as America's leading authority on poor taste.

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Pinnochio 964
Directed by Shozin Fukui
1992
Pinnochio, a cyborg built to sexually satisfy lonely women, is thrown out onto the street by its dissatisfied owners, a depraved lesbian couple. After taking up with a young homeless woman, the rapidly malfunctioning android attempts to confront its creators. Clearly, plot isn't the main thing on writer-director Shozin Fukui's mind. Itâs the grotesque and disturbing imagery that takes center stageexcessive gore, drool, slime and what may be the most prolonged vomiting scene ever.* Definitely not for all tastes, Pinnochio 964 is a love-it-or-hate-it experience which could explain why it hasn't been released in the USA.

Plan 9 From Outer Space
Directed by Ed Wood
1956 -- 78min
(4)
With its incoherent plot, jaw-droppingly odd dialogue, inept acting, threadbare production design, and special effects so shoddy that they border on the surreal, Plan 9 From Outer Space is often called the worst movie ever made. But it's an oddly endearing disaster; boasting genuine enthusiasm and undeniable charm, it is the work of people who loved movies and loved making them, even if they displayed little visible talent. In Plan 9, alien invaders attempt to conquer the world by raising the dead, starting with an old man dressed in a Dracula costume (Bela Lugosi, in a few minutes of left-over footage grafted into this film), his much-younger and well-proportioned wife (Maila "Vampira" Nurmi), and a remarkably overweight police officer (Tor Johnson). Often funny and consistently entertaining (if almost always for the wrong reasons), Plan 9 From Outer Space is an anti-masterpiece if there ever was one, and as Criswell so brilliantly puts it, "Can you PROVE it didn't happen?!?" Its legendary director Ed Wood was played by Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's 1994 biopic, Ed Wood. One of the DVD releases of Plan 9 From Outer Space includes the documentary Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The Plan 9 Companion, an exhaustive and entertaining look at the making of the film that runs a half-hour longer than the feature to which it pays tribute!

Plan 10 From Outer Space
Directed by Trent Harris
1994
It all begins when Lucinda Hall discovers the mysterious "Plaque of Kolob" in a cave near the great Salt Lake. Her search for its meaning leads her on a strange journey through time and space. The ultimate sci-fi epic by Trent Harris, director of THE BEAVER TRILOGY and RUBIN & ED. Starring Karen Black.

Police & the Mentally Ill
Great short "training" film showing the police what to do when they encounter a mentally ill person. Some great quotes in this one. "This woman believes that her nose is growing and her heart is missing." Great for a few laughs.

Polyester
Directed by John Waters
1981 -- 90min.
(4)
After making a name for himself with such underground gross-out epics as Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living, director John Waters made a bid for somewhat wider acceptance with this black comedy, which is sedate only by the standards of his previous work. Francine Fishpaw (Divine) is a housewife whose life has become a living hell. Her husband Elmer (David Samson) runs a porno theater (currently showing the classic My Burning Bush) and is having an affair with secretary Sandra (Mink Stole), a vision of sleaze in Bo Derek-style cornrow braids who informs Elmer, "Children would only get in the way of our erotic lifestyle!" Francine has two teenage children, Dexter (Ken King), who likes to sniff glue and stomp on women's feet, and Lulu (Mary Garlington), a brazen slut who hangs out with overage juvenile delinquent Bobo (Stiv Bators) and gleefully anticipates her next abortion. Francine's best friend, Cuddles (Edith Massey), is a slightly insane heiress who is somehow convinced she's a debutante. Francine's life has become so miserable that her dog commits suicide rather than witness it, but a light appears on the horizon - Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter), the handsome and dashing owner of a local drive-in specializing in art films (their current bill is a Margurerite Duras triple feature), with whom Dawn enters into a torrid affair. Subversive on all fronts, Polyester was originally shown in "Odorama" (patrons were given a card with ten scratch-and-sniff patches, to be smelled at key points in the action) and featured a romantic theme song sung by that new hitmaking duo, Deborah Harry and Bill Murray.

Porcile (aka Pigsty)
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
1969 - 90min
(4)
Julian (Jean-Pierre Leaud) is the son of German industrialist Klotz (Alberto Lionello) who seeks to go into business with the former Nazi Herdhitze (Ugo Tognazzi). Herdhitze had spent most of World War II collecting human skulls for experiments with brain matter. As a protest, Julian refuses to marry his fiancé from a pre-arranged marriage, and he becomes romantically involved with pigs. Part two finds a man driven to cannibalism by hunger while wandering Mount Etna. He scavenges the mountainside looking for any kind of sustenance. In both cases, humans revert to animal behavior when they are removed from the spectrum of social rules and opinions.

Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
Directed by Scott J Gill
2001 - 75min
(5)
In 1978, Ron Hyatt was a special education teacher who, like many people, dreamed of some day becoming an actor. One day, Ron's girlfriend sent a nude photo of him on a whim to Playgirl magazine, who published it as part of their "Boy Next Door" feature; before long, Ron was asked to appear in a hardcore pornographic movie, and thus was the beginning of the career of Ron Jeremy, one of biggest and least-likely male stars in the adult film industry. Short, pudgy, and possessing an excess of body hair, Jeremy hardly looks like anyone's idea of a sex-show stud, but Jeremy's charm, intelligence, self-effacing good humor, and professional attitude in a business where such focus is rare made him the best-known man in porn, starring in literally hundreds of adult films and eventually breaking through to bit parts and cameo roles in mainstream features. Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy is a feature- length documentary that offers an inside look at Ron Jeremy's life and career, including interviews with his friends, co-workers, and family; the film won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2001 No Dance Film Festival

Port Sinister
Directed by Harold Daniels
1953 -- 65min
Port Sinister was produced by the team of Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen, whose chief claim to fame was the 1951 sci-fi "sleeper" The Man From Planet X. Soldier of fortune Tony Ferris (James Warren) leads an expedition to an island threatened with extinction by a volcano. No, Ferris isn't crazy: it is his belief that the eruption will reveal a fortune in buried pirate treasure. Surrounded by highly suspicious-looking characters, Ferris can trust only his longtime companion, Jean Hunter (Lynne Roberts) - and even she doesn't seem too trustworthy. Originally distributed by RKO Radio, Port Sinister was re-issued by Realart Pictures in 1961 under the title Beast of Paradise Isle.

Pound
Directed by Robert Downey,Sr.
1972 -- 92 min
(2.5 - 3)
This allegorical film by Robert Downey finds humans all playing the role of animals in cages as they wait to be gassed. Flashbacks are used to tell the character's fantasies outside the cage. It is hard to tell if the characters are supposed to be animals, although a depressed prized fighter plays a boxer and a bald man is supposedly a Mexican hairless. Robert Downey Jr. makes an early film appearance as a puppy.

Pretty As A Picture: The Art of David Lynch
1997 -- 80min
(4)-occasional lines on screen
Director David Lynch has produced as distinctive a body of work as any filmmaker of his generation, with films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and Lost Highway. Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch shows the filmmaker at work on the set of Lost Highway as well as examining his creative pursuits as a writer, composer, photographer, and painter. Also features interviews with some of his collaborators, including Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Mel Brooks, Robert Loggia, and the late Jack Nance.

Privelege
Directed by Peter Watkins
1967 - 101min
After directing several extraordinary documentaries for the BBC, including the award-winning The War Game and Culloden, Peter Watkins made his first dramatic feature with this flawed but striking film about Steven Shorter (Paul Jones), a pop singer in a future society where entertainment is controlled by a totalitarian government. Shorter's music and image is used to channel the impulses of rebellious youth; in one concert sequence, the crowd watches him sing a plaintive plea for love and understanding while locked in a cage surrounded by police officers armed with clubs. While Shorter is remarkably popular, he's also living a life created for him by the government, which Steven knows is a sham. When Shorter's handlers decide to revamp his image into that of an obedient, religious boy, he rebels, to his peril. Model Jean Shrimpton made her film debut here as an artist comissioned to paint a portrait of Shorter. Privilege later became something of a cult film; one of the film's admirers was rock poet Patti Smith, who recorded one of "Steven Shorter"'s songs, "Set Me Free" on her 1978 album Easter.

Project: ALF

Project X
Directed by William Castle
1968 -- 97min.
(3.5 - 4)-workprint
Project X boasts better special effects than usual for tight-fisted producer/director William Castle, but it crumbles in the story department. Christopher George is a secret agent living in the year 2118, who through a complex scientific charade is convinced that he's living in 1968. The plan is for George to uncover a secret germ formula that had been hidden away 50 years earlier. Castle's propensity for borrowing gimmicks from earlier films is well known; this time he reaches back as far as a nearly-forgotten 1954 episode of the TV series Flash Gordon! The biological warfare throughline of Project X was more convincing in its source material, a novel by Leslie P. Davies.

Putney Swope
Directed by Robert Downey,Sr.
1969 -- 84 min
(4)
After several years working along the margins of the underground film scene in New York, director Robert Downey broke through to wider recognition with the arthouse hit Putney Swope, a wildly irreverent satire of race and advertising in America. Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson) is the token African-American executive at an otherwise all-white advertising agency when the chairman of the board unexpectedly drops dead. Through a fluke in the chain of command, Swope becomes the new head of the firm, and decides its time to do things his way. He fires nearly all the staff (except for his one token white employee), renames the agency Truth and Soul, Inc., and announces they'll no longer accept accounts advertising tobacco, alcohol, or war toys. The ads they do produce - for acne remedies and breakfast cereal, among other things - are wildly successful, and the iconoclastic ad agency (which only accepts payment in cash) is targeted by government operatives as a threat to the national security. Antonio Fargas and Allen Garfield lead the supporting cast; Mel Brooks makes a cameo appearance.

Quad & Nurse
This is one of the most disturbing things I've seen. Shot on video quality. A "nurse" takes a quadripalegic (sp?) out of his wheelchair, undresses him, and shoves dildos up his hairy ass while he lies there motionless. This one is truly truly disturbing. I honestly would barely reccomend it unless you're truly screwed up. I didn't know what I was in for when I got it.

Rabid Grannies
Directed by Emmanuel Kervyn
1989 - 90min
(5)
Two elderly sisters invite their wonderful nieces and nephews to a dinner party in celebration of the sisters' upcoming birthdays. The one nephew who is not invited is the ostracized black sheep of the family whose devil-worshipping activities have resulted in his being removed from the sisters' inheritance. The rest of the guests are merely putting in time; they're really just waiting for their aunts to kick the bucket, leaving them amply endowed via their respective inheritances. But, the nephew sends a party gift that turns the scene into a frolic of the macabre: the aunts turn cannibal and eat up all their guests! This film's definitely not for the squeamish.

The Rainbow Thief
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
1990 -- 87min
(4)
An eccentric prince decides one day to give up all his wealth and position and live his own life. His idea of living his own life, though, is to take up residence in the city's sewers. His dutiful servant, who happens to be a thief, accompanies him. Appeals to his rich uncle to do something about it fall on deaf ears - the uncle, who prefers the company of his Dalmations to that of people, is as nutty as he is.

Rainy Dog
Directed by Takashi Miike
1997
Takashi Miike directs this brooding, hard-boiled gangster drama set in monsoon-soaked Taiwan. Yuji (played by Miike regular Sho Aikawa) ekes out an existence working as a Japanese hit man for a gang in Taipei. A laconic character with a lizard-like gaze, he seems to have little use for other people — even for his unbalanced godfather who calls him his son. All he is interested in is the money. His life takes a sudden change when a former lover appears at his doorstep, drops off a boy (He Jianxian) she claims is his, and beats a hasty retreat. With the child in tow, Yuji carries out his business — shooting a mobster from a rival gang as he eats dinner with his family. After receiving his fee, he takes home a comely young hooker named Lily (Chen Xianmei). While they are getting to know one another, the boy sleeps on a piece of cardboard in the rain, snuggling up to a stray dog. Amused at the kid's tenacity, Yuji eventually throws the boy a towel. Later, Yuji stumbles upon a briefcase full of money while taking out a rival godfather. With the cash in hand, he plots to take Lily and the boy someplace better. In the meantime, the trio flees to an isolated beach in central Taiwan, hoping to escape the bloodthirsty gangster on their tail. Waiting for the interminable rain to cease, they hold up in a World War II-era pillbox. Something resembling family develops between the three. When the rain stops, they are forced to continue their escape.

Re-Animator
Directed by Stuart Gordon
1985 -- 86min
(5)
Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a brilliant medical student who has perfected a green-glowing serum for regenerating life into dead things - or even parts of dead things. But a corrupt superior, Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale), assumes control of West's experiments and winds up, by ghastly necessity, using the stuff on his own severed head and body. West and in-over-his-head co-worker Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) struggle to control the now out-of-control effects of the serum, but the bone-saws and zombies complicate their plans.

The Recruit (screener) 2VCDs

The Reflecting Skin
Directed by Philip Ridley
1990 - 95min
(4)
A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from seeing her. He must deal with an abusive mother, a father with a charge of molestation, a band of youths creating havoc, and an unforgiving environment in general.

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Directed by Ngai Kai Lam
1989
An excessively gory, over-the-top adaptation of the extreme manga "Riki Oh." When his drug-addled girlfriend commits suicide, the titular hero kills her dealer and finds himself locked up in a privatized prison where the accused have no rights. The other inmates torture Ricky with any available implement, but he fights back with a bloody vengeance. You know that head that gets smashed at the beginning of every episode of THE DAILY SHOW? That's from this movie.

Ring
Directed by Hideo Nakata
1998 -- 96 min.
(4)
After the death of her cousin Tomoko, reporter Reiko hears stories of a videotape that kills everyone who sees it exactly one week after viewing. At first she discounts the rumors, but when she learns that Tomoko's friend (who watched the video with her) died at exactly the same time, she begins to investigate. After viewing the tape herself, strange things start happening, and so she teams up with her ex-husband to try to stop the death clock that has once again begun ticking.

Ring 0
Directed by Norio Tsuruta
2000 -- 98min
Cashing in on the phenomenal success of Ring and Ring 2 - about a malevolent spirit named Sadako residing in a videotape that kills all who watch it - Norio Tsuruta directs and Masato Hara produces this prequel to the two horror blockbusters. As a child, Sadako (Yukie Nakama) became increasingly aware of her unusual supernatural powers, inherited from her professional psychic mother. One day in 1957, Sadako's mom gives a public illustration of her uncanny abilities. When a reporter casts aspersions on her talents, Sadako strikes him dead without touching him. Sadako's mom commits suicide as a result of the incident and Sadako develops a split personality. Years later, Sadako is trying to put the pieces back together, working as an intern at a Tokyo theater company. Radiantly beautiful, she grabs the attention of both the company's debauched director and handsome fellow intern Toyama (Shinichi Tanabe). One day, the lead of the new play suddenly keels over and the director casts Sadako as the star, raising the eyebrows of many in the crew and of a young reporter (Yoshiko Tanaka) whose fiancée was the journalist she killed years ago. When the director tries to rape her, he too dies a horrible death. Soon her co-worker begins to wonder if she is a sociopathic murderer, or the victim of powers beyond her control.

Ring 2
Directed by Hideo Nakata
1998 -- 95 min
(4)
Hideo Nakata follows up on the phenomenal success of Ring - the highest grossing Japanese film up to that point - with this effort. In the previous film, Reiko (Nanako Asakawa) was a television reporter doing a piece on videotape that seemed to kill those who watched it. Not long after learning that the cause of the killing was a vengeful spirit named Sadako who inhabited the video, Reiko's research husband (Hiroyuki Sanada) died a painful death and the fate of Reiko's son Yoichi (Rikiya Otaka) - who watched the tape - was in doubt. Ring 2 opens with an autopsy of Sadako, whose supernatural rage was sparked when she was dumped in a well. Sadako's powers affect Yoichi, who survived the video and has become a medium of sorts for the wraith. Also affected is Reiko's dead husband's mistress Mai Takano (played by pop star Miki Nakatani) whose life has become a living nightmare. Also under her power is Masami Kurahashi (Hitomi Sato), who was a schoolmate of one of Sadako's first victims. Though many try to get to the bottom of the problem - including a psychologist (Fumiyo Kobinata) and a police detective (Kenjiro Ishimaru) - the bodies start piling up.

Sam Raimi & Co. shorts
Directed by Sam Raimi,etc.
90min
Various short films by Sam Raimi and friends (Bruce Campbell, Scott Spiegel, Josh Becker, Ted Raimi, etc.) inlcudes: Cleveland Smith Episode #36 (an Indiana Jones parody) 10min, Torro, Torro, Torro! (hijinx ensue when a lawnmower runs away on its own) 7min, The Blind Waiter (Bruce Campbell in the title role) 18min, Attack of the Helping Hand (the Hamburger Helper Hand is scary and dangerous) 6min, The Sappy Sap (crossing the street slapstick) 5min, Six Months to Live (quality on this one is awful) 14min. Interspersed in between the shorts are: a local radio commercial, previews for The XYZ Murders (aka Crimewave, directed by Raimi, written by the Coen Bros.), Thou Shall Not Kill Except..., Evil Dead 2, Book of the Dead, and a visit to the makeup and props lab for an unidentified film. Just under 90 minutes.

Santa Sangre
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
1989 -- 123min
(4)
Circus horrors cross over into the mundane world in this terrifying, psychedelic film from Alejandro Jodorowsky, the man who brought you the infamous El Topo. Fenix (Adan Jodorowsky, the director's son) is the son of a circus strongman (Guy Stockwell) and an aerialist (Blanca Guerra). One night, the mother sees from her high perspective that her husband is fooling around with the tattooed lady. She later confronts him and throws acid on him in retaliation. He saws off her arms in return and kills himself. Fenix, witness to all this, runs away raving. Years later, Fenix (now played by older brother Axel Jodorowski) is released from an insane asylum by his armless mother. She wants to go on a murderous revenge spree, and maybe play a little piano, and she needs Fenix to be her arms for both tasks

Satan's Brew
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1976 - 112min
(4)
Walter, a German anarchist poet, is short of money after his publisher refuses to give him an advance. He tries various ways of raising money, including shooting one of his mistresses and relying on the life savings of a woman from the country who is fanatically devoted to him. He also has to contend with his long-suffering wife, his fly-obsessed crazy brother, his other mistress and a police murder investigation.

Saved By the Bell, Vol. 5

Screwed:Al Goldstein's Kingdom of Porn
Directed by Alexander Crawford
1996 -- 85min
Al Goldstein, the publisher of the notorious hard-core pornographic magazine Screw, provides the subject for this documentary that is a low-brow answer to Oliver Stone's glittery 1996 biopic of pornographer Larry Flynt, The People versus Larry Flynt. Like Flynt, Goldstein helms a pornographic media empire and he considers himself an outlaw dedicated to upholding the First Amendment. Most telling about Goldstein, his profession and his regard for fans and peers is his comment that the porno industry is "a self-hating business of losers." In addition to interviews with Goldstein himself, the documentary also features interviews of his biggest fans most of whom aptly illustrate his comment.

Serial Mom
Directed by John Waters
1994 -- 93min
(5)
Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) is the perfect suburban housewife and mother. She likes to cook, her home is immaculately clean, she's always well-groomed and cheerful, and she loves her husband Eugene (Sam Waterston) and her two children, Misty (Ricki Lake) and Chip (Matthew Lillard). There's just one problem with Beverly - if you do anything to make someone in her family feel bad, you're dead meat on a stick. While she does a great job of hiding it, Beverly has a vicious and vengeful streak, and when she's not making obscene prank calls to the neighbors or bribing her garbagemen to save embarrassing items from her neighbors' trash, she's mowing down whoever would be so rude as to make her husband go into his office on a Saturday, break up with her daughter, or suggest that her son watches too many horror movies. Taking John Waters back to R-rated territory after the relatively sedate Hairspray and Cry Baby, Serial Mom captures a comfortable middle ground between Hollywood professionalism and Waters' subversive sense of humor, and Kathleen Turner has a field day as the sweet-on-the-outside, evil-on-the-inside Beverly. The supporting cast includes such Waters favorites as Patty Hearst, Traci Lords, Mink Stole, and Susan Lowe; Joan Rivers and Suzanne Somers appear as themselves, and all-female grunge-metal band L7 plays the all-female grunge-metal band Camel Lips.

Seytan - Turkish Exorcist

Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD
Directed by Michael Herz ; Lloyd Kaufman
1990 - 104min
(5)
This comical sci-fi cop adventure is set in the future and follows the exploits of a New York detective who is given superhuman powers from a mysterious Kabuki. Suddenly he turns into a colorfully dressed, but still somewhat bungling crime fighter.

Shanks
Directed by William Castle
1974 -- 93 min
(4) from tv
William Castle's last film. Shanks is not so much a movie as an hallucinatory experience. World-renowned mime Marcel Marceau plays a dual role as a mute puppeteer and an eccentric inventor. The inventor dies, passing along his secrets for reviving corpses to the puppeteer. With the help of an enigmatic little girl, Marceau activates several dead bodies and goes on a robbery spree. Costarring with Marceau are fellow mime artists Tsilla Chelton and Phillipe Clay.

Shaolin Soccer
Directed by Stephen Chiau
2000 -- 111min
One of Hong Kong's top screen comics, Stephen Chow, co-wrote, co-directed, and headlines this three-way blend of sports, action, and humor. Sing (Stephen Chow) is a modern-day Shaolin monk who has become a master of traditional fighting skills, and is renowned for his "leg of steel." However, these days there isn't much call for a Shaolin warrior, and Sing and his fellow monks are earning their keep as garbage men until a soccer coach gets the bright idea of translating Sing's talent for kicking to the football field. Sing becomes the lynchpin of a team playing in a tournament that could net them a one-million-dollar purse, but even with Sing's footwork, beating the steroid-fueled champions will be no easy task. Siulam Chukkau (released in English-speaking countries as Shaolin Soccer) also features Man Tat Ng and Vicki Zhao.

Sizzle Beach USA
Directed by Richard Brander
1986
(5)
A teen-age Kevin Costner appears in this story of three young women and their love life, shot in 1981 but released in 1986. The three women team up to rent a beach house in Malibu. One of them lands a job in a high school thanks to an investment broker she meets jogging along the beach. Another is taking acting lessons and enjoys horseback riding, though the young owner of the stable (Costner) turns out to be more interesting than the riding itself. And the third woman practices her guitar, shuns the owner of the studio where she records, and hangs out with her hunk cousin Steve, the fourth roommate in the house

Song of the South
Directed by Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson
1946 - 94min
(3)
Song of the South is a master Disney blend of live action and animation, based on the popular "Uncle Remus" stories of Joel Chandler Harris. Set in the years just after the Civil War, the story begins with young Johnny (Bobby Driscoll) being sent to live at the southern plantation of his grandmother (Lucile Watson) while his parents contemplate divorce. At first disconsolate, the boy is cheered up by African-American handyman Uncle Remus (James Baskett), who tells him many delightful fables concerning the clever trickster Br'er Rabbit, whose adventures are illustrated in cartoon form. Each story has a moral, which Johnny applies to the exigencies of his real life. Johnny's mother (Ruth Warrick) disapproves of Uncle Remus, and orders the boy never to visit the kindly old black man again. Uncle Remus packs his bags and leaves; while chasing after him, Johnny is injured by a bull. He recovers thanks to the friendly presence of Uncle Remus, and all is forgiven. As with any of the best Disney movies, the charm of Song of the South cannot fully be captured on paper; suffice it to point out that this is the film which introduced the Oscar-winning song "Zip-a-dee Doo Dah." Despite this, Disney has withheld the movie in the U.S. ever since its last theatrical re-release in 1986, due to controversy over what some (including the NAACP) argue is a sugar-coated depiction of the Reconstruction-era South.

South Park Episodes - Lots of Misc. Episodes

Spider(Screener)
Directed by David Cronenberg
(4)-(from VHS screener)

The Spirit Is Willing
Directed by William Castle
1967 -- 100min
In this spooky comedy, a couple and their adolescent son move into a quiet New England summer cottage. Soon their arrival, a series of strange and increasingly destructive occurrences begin to happen. Not believing in poltergeists, the puzzled parents immediately suspect their son. The real perpetrators are a trio of angry ghosts who want the cabin all to themselves. When the mortal family refuses to move, the ghostly trio (two women and a man) sink two boats belonging to the couples' wealthy uncle. Once again the poor boy is blamed and this nearly drives him insane for he can see the ghosts. More trouble follows when one of the lady spirits falls in love with the handsome uncle.

Spirited Away
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
2001 - 124 Min.
(4)
From the director of Princess Mononoke. A surreal Alice in Wonderland-like tale about a lost little girl. The film opens with ten-year-old Chihiro riding along during a family outing as her father races through remote country roads. When they come upon a blocked tunnel, her parents decide to have a look around, even though Chihiro finds the place very creepy. When they pass through the tunnel, they discover an abandoned amusement park. As Chihiro's bad vibes continue, her parents discover an empty eatery that smells of fresh food. After her mother and father help themselves to some tasty purloined morsels, they turn into giant pigs. Chihiro understandably freaks out and flees. She learns that this very weird place, where all sorts of bizarre gods and monsters reside, is a holiday resort for the supernatural after their exhausting tour of duty in the human world. Soon after befriending a boy named Haku, Chihiro learns the rules of the land: one, she must work , as laziness of any kind is not tolerated; and two, she must take on the new moniker of Sen. If she forgets her real name, Haku tells her, then she will never be permitted to leave.

Springtime In Greenland

Squeal of Death
Directed by Tom Stern & Alex Winter
1989
(3)
Squeal of Death is a comedic short film from Tom Stern and Alex Winter, the team that was later responsible for the similarly twisted humor of Freaked. The story itself is purposefully cliched: from his cell on Death Row, a convict (portrayed by Winter) recounts the events of his life, from his rough childhood to the crimes that brought about his downfall. The film can be found on video with several other Stern and Winter collaborations, including Aisles of Doom, a short parody of horror films set in a convenience store, and a Tom Stern video for the Butthole Surfers song "Cherub".

St John's Wort (aka Otogiriso)
Directed by Shimoyama Ten
2001 - 85min.
(4)
Nami has been creating artwork for a new video game based on images she's been seeing in her dreams. With one of the game producers, she travels out to an abandoned house that seems to match her visions. As they explore the old mansion, Nami begins to have more visions of a forgotten childhood, until at last she comes across a photo of twin infants, labelled "Nami" and "Naomi". As Nami and the producer go from room to room, an unseen person seems to be watching them from a hidden room.

The State: Skits and Stickers

Storytelling (unrated version)
Directed by Todd Solondz
2002 -- 87min.
(4)
This is the version of the film without the censored "red box". From the controversial director of Happiness comes another dark look at New Jersey, this time broken into two separate stories. The first is a 26-minute segment entitled "Fiction," which highlights the life of Marcus (Leo Fitzpatrick), an aspiring writer who was born with deformities due to cerebral palsy. He unsuccessfully tries to read a new short story to his girlfriend Vi (Selma Blair), and leaves her after the story is similarly dismissed by his fellow students and teacher, Mr. Scott (Robert Wisdom), a black Pulitzer Prize winner. Vi approaches Mr. Scott in a bar one night and agrees to go home with him, recalling a "fictional" account of their experience in the next class. The second segment, titled "Nonfiction," follows Toby Oxman (Paul Giamatti), a thirtysomething sad sack who gets the idea to make a documentary of contemporary suburban teenage life. Looking for subjects, he runs into Scooby (Mark Webber), a disaffected, dim young man who dreams of being a TV star. Scooby's home life is highly dysfunctional, with a strict father (John Goodman), a prim and proper mother (Julie Hagerty), a football player brother (Noah Fleiss), and a younger brother Mikey (Jonathan Osser), who continually chats up the family's put-upon maid Consuelo (Lupe Ontiveros). Consuelo is soon banished from the household due to her involvement with Mikey, becoming an outcast just like Scooby.

Strait-Jacket
Directed by William Castle
1964 -- 90 min
(4)
In this chilling blood-tale in "Psycho" style, Robert Bloch modernizes the Lizzy Borden story. A wife (Joan Crawford) literally axes her cheating husband and his lover, witnessed by her three-year-old daughter. Mom is packed off to the insane asylum for 20 years before reuniting with the daughter (Diane Baker). From this point, the axe murders continue along a contrived plot intended to lead the audience astray until the mystery is solved.

Stray Dog
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
1949 - 122min
(4)-DVD-R
This was the ninth film by acclaimed director Akira Kurosawa, one of the most internationally known and influential men in 20th-century filmmaking. In this suspenseful drama, a young detective, still wet behind the ears, has had his gun stolen by a murderer. Determined to track down the killer and retrieve his weapon at the same time, the detective sets out on a series of harrowing adventures, all leading up to a climactic confrontation. Along the way, Tokyo nightlife is explored in an original fashion and Kurosawa's knack for pacing and visual impact is amply demonstrated.

Suicide Club (aka Suicide Circle)
Directed by Shion Sono
2002 - 99min
(4)
54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train. This appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer, which isn't as simple as one could hope.

Superstar:The Karen Carpenter Story
Directed by Todd Haynes
1987 -- 43min
(2.5 - 3)
Director Todd Haynes first gained the attention of underground film enthusiasts with this unusual and thought-provoking look at the life and death of pop singer Karen Carpenter. In 1970, as America entered a new decade following the turmoil and uncertainties of the 1960s, the Carpenters first hit the charts with glossy, well-scrubbed pop tunes like "Close to You" and "We've Only Just Begun," which suggested a deliberate retreat from the aggressive rebellion that dominated rock music in the late '60s. But while Karen Carpenter and her brother Richard represented all that was good and wholesome about America's youth in the eyes of many (Richard Nixon even invited them to play the White House), there was often a dark and melancholy undercurrent to their music, and it turned out Karen had a troubling secret of her own - the pressures of stardom and her longtime problems with self-image manifested themselves in a severe case of Anorexia Nervosa, an eating disorder which helped to claim her life in 1983. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story looks at how Karen's music helped to redefine popular music (for better or worse), as well as how her disease mirrored the darkness that lurked beneath the surface of '70s pop culture, but Todd Haynes' creative vision throws a crucial twist into the tale. Instead of live actors, most of the key roles in Superstar are played by Barbie or Ken dolls, and while the concept might sound like a mean-spirited joke, in practice the technique adds a strange storybook quality to the material that's compelling and genuinely moving. Unfortunately, Haynes failed to secure permission from Richard Carpenter and A&M Records for use of the many Carpenters recordings used on the film's soundtrack, and Richard was reportedly offended by his less-than flattering portrayal in the film; consequently, after a handful of film festival screenings, Superstar went into legal limbo, and since Richard's attorneys have prevented any authorized exhibition of the film, it can now be seen only on low-quality bootleg videocassettes.

Teen Set

Terror Firmer
Directed by Lloyd Kaufman
1999 - 114min.
(5)
Troma Team Pictures, the company that brought you such classics as The Toxic Avenger, When Nature Calls and Class Of Nuke 'Em High, takes a look inside the making of a "typical" Troma release with Terror Firmer, directed and co-written by Troma co-founder Lloyd Kaufman, who also appears as the director of the film-within-the film. Here, Kaufman (whose character is blind, which would explain a lot about Troma's product) and his crew are making a willfully sleazy horror flick, complete with monsters, gore, gratuitous nudity and loud rock 'n' roll, when a serial killer appears who doesn't happen to be in the script. Terror Firmer is based in part on Kaufman's 1998 book about his career with Troma, All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger, and includes a plug for the upcoming Jane Austen's Schlock and Schlockability (possibly a follow-up to 1996's Shakespeare variant Tromeo and Juliet).

The Terror of Tiny Town
Directed by Sam Newfield
1938 -- 65min.
(4)
This film is, as far as is known, the world's only western with an all-midget cast. The conventional plot - about a cowboy helping out a beautiful ranch-owner menaced by local thugs - is an excuse for the filmmakers to show cowboys entering the local saloon by walking under the swinging doors and pint-sized cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies. Many of these same actors were part of a performing troupe called Singer's Midgets who also played Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.

Thundercrack!
Directed by Curt McDowell
1975 -- 158min.
(3)
This hardcore pornographic feature production is intended as a spoof of wholesome movies with rural settings and of pornography, generally. In the story, on a rainy night a group of travelers (including a man in love with a gorilla) take refuge in a stage-set mockup of a farmhouse and are hosted by an insane widow who has a yen for sexual encounters. There, she acts as ringmaster to a sexual circus.

THX1138:4EB (aka Electronic Labyrinth)
Directed by George Lucas
1967 - 15min
The short film that George Lucas made before the feature THX-1138. The story is set in a futursitic society somwhat similar to George Orwell's 1984. People are identified by 4 digit numbers rather than names and all their movements are under constant scrutiny via computerized cameras. The story revolves around one man (1138) trying to escape from the system. The number of the leader of this society is 0000.

The Tingler
Directed by William Castle
1959 -- 82 min
(5)
As famous for the gimmick with which the film was shown as for its genuinely spine-tingling story, The Tingler follows a pathologist (Vincent Price) as he searches for the cause of a series of deaths and discovers that the victims have a large insectlike creature growing on their spinal chords. The creature attacks when the people are frightened and are only killed when the host emits a blood-curdling primal scream. This is coupled with a subplot to scare the deaf-mute owner of a silent movie house to death. Along the way, a couple of characters are injected with LSD and begin hallucinating like mad. The show stopper came when one of the nasty monsters "escaped" into a movie theater. The gimmick is one of director William Castle's most famous. In order to further frighten audiences, he had certain theater seats rigged with small Army surplus devices that would deliver a mild electric shock to the spine in hopes of inducing terrified screams. If no audience member screamed, then Castle had a back-up plan in which a planted audience member would scream and faint. The house lights would go up, the film would stop and ushers would carry the unconscious person out of the theater.

Titicut Follies
Directed by Frederick Wiseman
1967 - 84min
Frederick Wiseman made his documentary debut with this controversial 84-minute survey of conditions that existed during the mid-'60s at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Made in 1967, the film was subjected to a worldwide ban until 1992 because the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that it was an invasion of inmate privacy. The film goes behind the walls to show stark and graphic images exposing the treatment of inmates by guards, social workers, and psychiatrists. The title refers to a musical revue staged by inmates and guards. Richard Schickel, writing in Life, stated, "The repulsive reality revealed in Titicut Follies forces us to contemplate our capacity for callousness." The documentary was cited as the "Best Film Dealing with the Human Condition" at the 1967 Festival Dei Popoli (Florence) and also honored as the "Best Film" at the 1967 Mannheim International Filmweek. Robert Coles (The New Republic) wrote, "After a showing of Titicut Follies the mind does not dwell on the hospital's ancient and even laughable physical plant, or its pitiable social atmosphere. What sticks, what really hurts is the sight of human life made cheap and betrayed." The story behind the complicated legal issues raised by this film and the attempts to suppress it are detailed by Carolyn Anderson and Thomas W. Benson in their book, Documentary Dilemmas: Frederick Wiseman's "Titicut Follies" (Southern Illinois University Press, 1991).

Tom Waits: Big Time
Directed by Chris Blum
1988 - 87min
(4)
You've seen gravelly-voice actor/singer Tom Waits in meaty dramatic roles in such films as The Fisher King (1989), At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). And you've heard his compositions on the soundtracks of films like Divine Madness (1980), Wolfen (1981) and Let's Get Lost (1988). The 1988 documentary Big Time combines the vocal and visual Tom Waits, endeavoring to juxtapose glimpses of Waits in concert with staged dramatic scenes, allegedly inspired by his songs. Waits himself assumes several wacky characterizations during the fictional sequences. The film's intermingling of styles required the services of two directors, Chris Blum and Howard Cummings. The "real" scenes in Big Time were filmed during a Waits concert at Los Angeles' Wiltern Theatre.

Tonya Harding's Wedding Night Video
You remember good ole' Tonya. Here she is in all her white trash glory getting it on with boyfriend Jeff Gilooly(sp?) on their wedding night. You can also catch Tonya boxing Paula Jones on the Celebrity Boxing tape I have.

Toxic Avenger
Directed by Michael Herz , Lloyd Kaufman
1985 - 87min
(5)
In a crazy spoof of heroic monster movies that spawned two sequels, The Toxic Avenger is about the transformation of a mild-mannered, scrawny janitor into a thundering, muscular hero out for justice, morality, and in one case, a bit of sex. Melvin (Mark Torgl) has a job as a custodian at a work-out club where his humiliating treatment by the musclebound reaches an ugly climax in which Melvin is forced to jump out of a window. He lands in a toxic waste truck, and by some miracle of modern pollution he is transformed into a pumped-up monster, heretofore known as the Toxic Avenger (Mitchell Cohen). From that moment on, TA saves damsels and others in distress by some pretty gory mauling and maiming but finds his moment of fulfillment too

Toxic Avenger 2
Directed by Michael Herz &Lloyd Kaufman
1989 - 96min
(5)
Ron Fazio returns as The Toxic Avenger, "the first hideously deformed monster hero of superhuman size and strength ever to come from New Jersey," in Troma's mercenary sequel to their hit film The Toxic Avenger. Since Toxie cleaned up Tromaville, New Jersey in the first film, he now has no one to fight. He works at the Tromaville Center for The Blind and has a girlfriend named Claire (Phoebe Legere). But the peace in Tromaville is shattered when an evil chemical company, Apocalypse Inc., and its dastardly chairman (Rick Collins), set their sights on Tromaville. In order to take over Tromaville, the Toxic Avenger must be eliminated. By intense study, Apocalypse's second-in-command, Maifaire (Lisa Gaye) discovers that Toxie's desire to vanquish villains is caused by particles manufactured in his body called "tromatons." Apocalypse Inc. bribes Toxie's psychiatrist to suggest that Toxie form a relationship with his father in order to get Toxie out of the country. His father happens to be in Japan and Toxie makes the trip to find him. While out of sight of his hometown, Apocalypse Inc. takes over Tromaville. Meanwhile, in Japan, Toxie finally finds his father but it turns out that his father is an arch-villain who must be killed. "Anti-tromatons," employed in the battle with his father, render him weak and wounded. But a team of sumo wrestlers nurse him back to health and Toxie travels back to New Jersey for a confrontation with Apocalypse Inc. in Tromaville.

Toxic Avenger 3
Directed by Michael Herz & Lloyd Kaufman
1989
(5)
Upon temptation from Satan himself, Melvin Junko (aka the Toxic Avenger) has visions of yuppiedom dancing in his head when he begins working for an evil Japanese conglomerate which plans to destroy the world (including Melvin's hometown) with toxic waste. When he realizes what he is doing, he becomes the mutant superhero and begins, again, his heroic crime fighting.

Toxic Avenger 4: Citizen Toxie

Toxic Crusaders: The Maxing of Toxie (animated)
(5)
The cartoon follows roughly the same plot as the films The Toxic Avenger and it's two suceeding sequels. A complete and hopeless nerd, Melvin, falls into toxic waste and becomes Toxie, a hideously deformed mutant of superhuman size and strength. Teaming with other mutants, No-Zone (whose power comes from radioactive sneezes), Major Disaster (he can control plants), Head-banger (Fender + Bender, fused together-based on the siamese twins in Troma's War) and an unamed dog/hobo hybrid to become The Toxic Crusaders! Together they fight crime in everysense of the word and finally turn their attention on the Apolalypse Inc. of the movies Toxic Avenger Parts II & III, although in the series the chairman is an alien as opposed to Satan. The series follows the attempts of the crusaders to fight crime and be enviromentally safe.

Troma's War
Directed by Michael Herz &Lloyd Kaufman
1988 - 105min
(5)
When a plane filled with residents from Tromaville crash on a desert island, the pilot literally goes all to pieces, and only one crew member survives along with a diverse array of passengers. Among them are insufferable yuppies, car salesmen, little old ladies, and housewives. The group must band together to fight terrorists who plan to take over the United States by infecting the entire population with the AIDS virus.

Tromeo & Juliet
Directed by Lloyd Kaufman
1996 - 102min
(5)
Notorious schlock and psychotronic production company Troma (known for such classics as Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke 'em High) hails Tromeo & Juliet, its contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's love tragedy, a "thrill-a-minute, body-piercing, computer sex, sapphic, car-crashing extravaganza." Set in New York City, the tale centers on the Ques and the Capulets. The bitter feud begins when father Capulet steals father Que's Silky Films production company. As enemies, the two warring clans are always doing horrible things to each other. Tromeo Que is a computer nerd who spends much time fondling himself in front of his favorite sexy CD-ROMs until he falls in love with lovely Juliet and proposes to her while she sits upon a toilet. The film, seemingly aimed at adolescent boys, features violence, considerable gore, profanity, vulgar situations (featuring buckets of fake vomit), and the graphic depiction of body piercing. (Of course, if it didn't, it wouldn't be a Troma film.)

Trouble Every Day
Directed by Claire Denis
2001 - 102min
Two strangers share a strange and terrible bond in this stylish horror tale that juggles sex and graphic bloodshed. Shane Brown (Vincent Gallo) is a strange man with a forbidding nature who has just married lovely but nervous June (Tricia Vessey), and they've decided to go to Paris for their honeymoon. In the City of Lights, a beautiful but dangerous woman named Core (Beatrice Dalle) has been leaving a trail of dead bodies in her wake when she's captured by Leo Semeneau (Alex Descas), a mysterious scientist who spirits her away to his estate. As Core is placed under guard, Semeneau leaves to return to the city for an unnamed assignment; we soon learn that one of Shane's reasons for coming to Paris was to find him and retrieve some important information. In time, we also discover that Shane and Core have something rather unusual in common - both are murderous cannibals who regularly feast on the flesh of their victims, and Semeneau's information may hold the key to the secret behind their deadly appetite. Trouble Every Day generated a certain amount of controversy in its screenings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where a number of patrons walked out in disgust at the film's intense blend of sensuality and cannibalism.

Turkish Star Trek (aka Turist Omer Uzay Yolunda)
Directed by Hulki Saner
1973
(1.5)
Another classic Turkish take on an already popular american sitcom/movie. But this one's got Dr. Spak. In Turkish with NO subtitles.

Turkish Star Wars (aka Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam:The Man Who Saves the World)
Review coming soon.

Turkish Superman
Description coming.

Turkish Wizard of Oz

Tusk
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
1980 -- 119min
NOTE: THIS FILM IS IN FRENCH WITH NO SUBTITLES. I DO NOT KNOW OF ANY RELEASE OF THIS FILM WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Perhaps meant as an experimental film with a dash of politics and two shakes of comedy, this ultimately unpalatable mix by noted director Alexandro Jodorowsky might have had too many cooks. Three people are cited as having had a hand in the story, written and rewritten three times. The tale itself follows the life of a young British colonial woman in India around 1900 or so and is based on a novel by Reginald Campbell. Rather than simply focus on the woman (Cyrielle Clair), the tale juxtaposes her life with that of an elephant named Tusk (convincingly played by Tusk, the elephant). The results are beautiful shots of the landscape unmatched by the mix of characters ranging from a Maharaja to a reverend to a few idiotic merchants and various types in-between.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Directed by David Lynch
1992 -- 135min.
(5)
David Lynch's prequel to his cult television series "Twin Peaks" concerns the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), whose plastic-wrapped corpse, found floating in a river, was the fulcrum for the television series. During the day in the town of Twin Peaks, Laura is a top honors student at the local high school. By night, she is a sex-crazed cokehead, prostituting herself at a sleazy sex club to get money to feed her drug habit. Her race to oblivion is fueled by her father, Leland (Ray Wise), who, as his alter ego Bob (Frank Silva), has been sexually abusing Laura since she was a child. But Laura has an attack of conscience when she realizes that she is leading her best friend Donna (Moira Kelly) down the same rocky road. Leland, however, discovers Laura's nocturnal debauchery when, during a business trip out-of-town, his mistress for a sexual tryst sets him up with his own daughter. In a fit of jealous rage, Leland follows Laura as she travels to a sex party in an abandoned railroad car. Consumed by insatiable longing, Leland transforms himself into Bob, with tragic results for Laura and her friends.

Twin Peaks: Pilot
Directed by David Lynch
1989 -- 113min
(5)
Also known as "The Northwest Passage," the two-hour pilot episode of Twin Peaks originally aired April 8, 1990. The central plot of the series is set when Pete Martell (Jack Nance) finds the body of high school student Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) wrapped in plastic by the water at the Packard Sawmill dock. As the town slowly gets word of her murder, Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) from the FBI arrives in the Washington town of Twin Peaks to investigate. Assisted by Sheriff Harry S. Truman (Michael Ontkean), Cooper retrieves Laura's secret diary and a videotape. At the morgue, Cooper discovers the letter "R" from under Laura's fingernail, evidence similar to the murder case of Theresa Banks a year ago. Meanwhile, at the Great Northern Hotel, Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn) disrupts her father's business deal, causing the would-be investors to back out. Deputy Hawk (Michael Horse) and Deputy Andy Brennan (Harry Goaz) locate the scene of the murder and find half of a gold heart necklace. Also, Laura's safe deposit box is opened, revealing a copy of Fleshworld magazine and about ten thousand dollars. Laura's boyfriend, Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook), who is having a secret affair with waitress Shelly Johnson (Madchen Amick), is brought in for questioning. Later on at the Roadhouse, Laura's other boyfriend, James Hurley (James Marshall), kisses Donna Hayward (Lara Flynn Boyle), Laura's best friend. This episode features Julee Cruise singing "Falling" and "The Nightingale" during the scenes at the Roadhouse. The American broadcast version ends with Sarah Palmer (Grace Zabriskie) having a vision about the other half of the heart necklace.

The Underground Comedy Movie
Directed by Vince Offer
1999 - 88min
(4)
Bad comedy movie, featuring lots of Troma-style campiness. Features guest appearances by Gena Lee Nolin, Slash, Michael Clarke Duncan (the big guy from the Green Mile and Daredevil), Joey Buttafuoco and Karen Black.

Untold Desires

Upright Citizen's Brigade
2 VCD's
contains misc. skits/episodes of this classic sketch comedy troupe. more info coming soon.

Urban Dance Squad: Mental Floss For the Globe (the videos)

Uzumaki (aka Spiral)

Victory Through Air Power
Directed by David Hand, Perce Pearce, H.C. Potter
1943 - 65min
(3)
Walt Disney's animation/live action hybrid feature Victory Through Air Power is unabashed, and undeniably entertaining, wartime propaganda. At the time the film was made, Disney was fascinated with the theories of Major Alexander de Seversky, a proponent of strategic long-range bombing. Since America's military leaders did not altogether subscribe to Seversky's "revolutionary" notions, Disney hoped to win their support with this 65-minute film. Beginning with a semicomic animated history of aviation, the film then segues into a retelling of Seversky's accomplishments, with the Major himself appearing to explain key points of his theories. Switching back to animation, the finale shows Seversky's "dream air force" in action, scientifically bombing enemy war factories and supply lines and thereby incapactitating their power to make war. Released by United Artists rather than Disney's usual conduit RKO, Victory Through Air Power served its purpose both in terms of the War Effort and in terms of enlightening the civilians in the audience. It has not been seen theatrically since, though portions of the animated sequences have popped up on Disney's various TV anthology series.

Violated Angels

Violent Virgin

Visitor Q
Directed by Takashi Miike
2001 -- 84min
A father, who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. "Q", a perfect stranger somehow gets involved and enter the bizzare family who's son beats his mom, who in turn is also a prostitute and a heroin addict...

Voice of the Whistler
Directed by William Castle
1945 -- 60min.
In this drama based on a popular radio series, a millionaire believes he has six months left to live and so marries his nurse. She doesn't love him, but he has promised to make her the sole heir to his fortune. She leaves her real fiancé for the ailing magnate with the promise that she will return a rich woman. After the wedding, they move to a lonely lighthouse where the woman finds herself falling in love with her husband after he miraculously recovers. Things are fine until the jealous, jilted fiancé comes to try and kill the millionaire. He ends up being killed by the husband who is sentenced to die in the electric chair. The woman is left to live alone in the lighthouse.

The War Game
Directed by Peter Watkins
1965 - 49min
(4)
Peter Watkins' The War Game is the cinematic equivalent of a blow to the solar plexus. Filmed in hand-held documentary fashion, the film speculates on the aftereffects of a nuclear war. Some of the images are almost impossible to look at; they truly illustrate the theory that, in the wake of such a holocaust, the living will envy the dead. The most heartwrenching scene is the simplest. Asked what he wants to be when he grows up, a sullen young boy, physically unhurt but with obviously deep emotional scarred, mutters "I don't want to be nothin'". Filmed for BBC television, The War Game was rejected by that august concern as being too graphic. The 47-minute film was released to theatres, making it eligible for the "best documentary" Academy Award.

Welcome to the Dollhouse
Directed by Todd Solondz
1995 -- 87 min
(5)
Twelve-year-old Dawn Weiner (Heather Matarazzo) is perhaps the most put-upon adolescent in film history in Todd Solondz's bitterly hilarious black comedy Welcome to the Dollhouse. Dawn is bright but awkward, both physically and socially, and is appallingly unpopular among her peers, to whom she's better known as "Weiner Dog." Possessing little charm or grace and perhaps the most misguided fashion sense of her generation, Dawn is not an easy girl to like and practically no one seems interested in making the effort. If life is tough for Dawn at school, it's hardly any better at home. While her folks dote on her gratingly cute younger sister Missy (Daria Kalinina) and look with pride to her bookish older brother Mark (Matthew Faber), Dawn is either ignored or treated as an annoyance. Dawn has developed a crush on Steve (Eric Mabius), the hunky guitarist Mark has drafted into his rock band (significantly, Mark is less interested in making cool noise or unloading teenage angst than in having another extracurricular activity to put on his college applications); Steve is polite but obviously not interested in her. However, Dawn has attracted the attention of a boy at school - Brandon (Brendan Sexton Jr.), a mean-spirited junior thug whose idea of a good time is threatening Dawn with rape. A painfully accurate account of life in junior high (what Matt Groening called "the lowest pit of hell"), Welcome to the Dollhouse is also very funny, but writer and director Todd Solondz never lets the film's humor dilute the agony of its leading character; anyone who has ever been 12 years old will doubtless laugh at Dawn while uncomfortably recalling the horror of their own preteen years.

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Directed by Les Blank
1980 -- 22 min
(3)
A film exactly described by its title. German film director Herzog had made a bet with fledgling director Errol Morris that, if Morris made a film, Herzog would eat his shoe. Morris went on to film 'Gates of Heaven', so Herzog kept his promise. While eating the boiled shoe, Herzog carries on a dialogue with the film premier audience on film, art, and life.

Westworld
Directed by Michael Crichton
1973 -- 88min
(5)
Welcome to Westworld, where nothing can go wrong...go wrong...go wrong....Writer/director Michael Crichton has concocted a futuristic "Disneyland for adults", a remote resort island where, for a hefty fee, one can indulge in one's wildest fantasies. Businessmen James Brolin and Richard Benjamin are just crazy about the old west, thus they head to the section of Westworld populated by robot desperadoes, robot lawmen, robot dance-hall gals, and the like. Benjamin's first inkling that something is amiss occurs when, during a mock showdown with robot gunslinger Yul Brynner, Brolin is shot and killed for real. It seems that the "nerve center" of Westworld has developed several serious technical glitches: the human staff is dead, and the robots are running amok. Suddenly promoted to the film's hero, Benjamin (who seems as surprised and shocked as the audience) must first avoid, then face down the relentless Brynner. While the special effects seem quaint by 1990s standards, they still work effectively within the framework of this seriocomic thriller. Much of Westworld was lensed on the expansive grounds of the old Harold Lloyd estate in Beverly Hills, so it's no surprise that there's something Lloydlike about Dick Benjamin's instinct for self-preservation.

What?
Directed by Roman Polanski
1973-112min
After his gory film MacBeth, terror-film specialist Roman Polanski briefly decided to switch gears: the result was the uncharacteristic, and quite funny, French/Italian coproduction What? Sydne Rome stars as a drop-dead-gorgeous young woman who is invited to spend the weekend at the mansion of an oddball millionaire (Hugh Griffith). Evidently fresh out of the wrapper, Rome wanders about the hallways stirring up all manner of teasing sensations in the male guests and prompting murderous glances from the females—and the girl honestly doesn't know why. Originally released as Che?, What? was later reissued as Diary of Forbidden Dreams.

When Strangers Marry (aka Betrayed)
Directed by William Castle
1944 -- 67min.
(3)
Betrayed is the reissue title for the classic melodrama When Strangers Marry. In her third film, Kim Hunter plays a waitress who comes to New York to meet her husband Dean Jagger. Kim's marriage was a whirlwind affair, and as a result she barely knows her husband. She soon discovers that Jagger may be involved in a murder - and that he very well may be a homicidal maniac. Designated by film-historian Don Miller as the finest "B" picture ever made, Betrayed is chock full of superb cinematic touches, courtesy of director William Castle. Best bits include the shot of Kim Hunter staring out her hotel window, her face illuminated by a flashing neon sign, and a "shock cut" straight out of Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. Third-billed Robert Mitchum was elevated to star status on the reissue prints of When Strangers Marry, which unfortunately tended to give away the film's surprise ending; also in the cast in a tiny role is Mitchum's future Out of the Past co-star Rhonda Fleming. One of the most convincing performances is delivered by character actor Lou Lubin, who plays a shaking-in-his-boots murder witness. Filmed in ten days, Betrayed was another box-office winner for the canny King Brothers producing team.

The Whistler
Directed by William Castle
1944 -- 59min
The Whistler was the first of eight Columbia "B" thrillers based on the popular radio series of the same name. The Whistler, a shadowy (and unbilled) figure, introduced each film as he'd done on radio: "I am the Whistler...and I know many things, for I walk by night." This time the Whistler tells the strange story of despondent Richard Dix, who, believing his wife dead, hires professional killer J. Carroll Naish to put him out of his misery. Then the wife suddenly shows up...and Dix can't locate his would-be assassin. An old story with plenty of fresh new twists (for example, Naish talks of his profession as though it were a fine art like painting and sculpture), The Whistler bode well for the seven films that followed. Richard Dix starred in all but one film in the series, alternating between hero and heavy.

White Dog
Directed by Samuel Fuller
1982 - 90min
(3)
Paul Winfield is a trainer attempting to reprogram vicious dog who's been trained to attack and kill people with black skin.

White Trash Flasher
See a middle aged woman come to the door in her robe and flash different naked body parts to young teen boys sitting in a car filming her. Near the end she gets pretty nasty with a zuccini. This is entertaining, but kind of sad when you really think about it.

Who Do You Think You're Fooling/You're Still Not Fooling Anybody
Mike White's infamous 2 shorts exposing "Mr.Originality" Quentin Tarantino. The first one "Who Do You Think You're Fooling", syncs up Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" with a late 80's Yakuza flick, "City On Fire". The dialog from "Reservoir Dogs" remains over the audio track, while different scenes from the two films are spliced together, showing a strange continuity. The second short "You're Still Not Fooling Anybody" is the same idea, White does split-screen this time, and shows memorable scenes from Tarantino's films on the left side, while showing earlier non-Tarantino films on the right side that were OBVIOUS rip offs/influences. This also includes the minute-long blurb that Mike got on MTV, with Kurt Loder mentioning the film.

The Wide World of Hasil Adkins

Wild At Heart
Directed by David Lynch
1990 -- 125min
(5)
Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern play a pair of lovers on the run in David Lynch's surrealist road movie Wild at Heart. Cage's Sailor Ripley is a violent ex-convict with an Elvis Presley fixation who falls in love with Dern's Lula Pace Fortune, the daughter of a rich, but mentally unstable, Southern belle named Marietta (Diane Ladd, Dern's real-life mother). Just after he's released from prison, where he was jailed for brutally killing one of Marietta's thugs, Sailor and Lula take off on a wild cross-country trip, pursued by his parole officer, her mother, criminals, bounty hunters, and detectives. Along the way, Sailor and Lula have a lot of sex, share their pasts, share their respective obsessions for Elvis and The Wizard of Oz, and meet a lot of bizarre characters. Inevitably, the voyage ends in tragedy, as a seedy ex-marine (Willem Dafoe) persuades Sailor to participate in a bank robbery.

Wild Goose Chronicles
Directed by Trent Harris
25min
Lost loves, dead pets, magic mushrooms and Timbuktu, filmmaker Trent Harris chronicles his weird journey from Hollywood to a pet cemetary in the Utah desert, and finally to the sand dunes of Timbuktu. Revealing portrait of a man obsessed with the memory of his long deceased dog. An interesting piece to get to know the man behind RUBIN & ED.

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Willard
Directed by Daniel Mann
1971 - 95min
This film is based on the novel Ratman's Notebooks, by Stephen Gilbert. Bruce Davison is Willard Stiles, a 27-year-old mama's boy, whose repressions are bottled up inside and comes to the fore in his nervous nail-biting. As one character describes Willard, "Willard is basically an extrovert, but it's all inside." Willard and his possessive invalid mother, Henrietta (Elsa Lanchester), live in thrall to Al Martin (Ernest Borgnine), the man who took over a foundry business after the death of Willard's father. Willard inwardly seethes but mostly stays in his run-down mansion with his mother, making friends with the rats that infest the place — he even names them, Ben and Socrates. However, when Henrietta dies, things change. Al, in a rage, kills one of Willard's pet rats. Not only that, but Al also fires Willard from his job at the foundry. Losing his patience, Willard meets with his rat friends to exact his revenge for a lifetime of humiliation and neurosis.

The Worm Eaters
Directed by Ted V.Mikels
1977 -- 94min
(4)
Schlockmeister Ted V. Mikels (The Corpse Grinders) produced this dreadful gross-out comedy featuring lots of bad actors consuming live worms onscreen. After the bouncy title rendition of "Nobody likes me/Everybody hates me/Guess I'll go eat worms," the viewer meets Herman Umgar (Herb Robins, who directed and scripted from Nancy Kapner's story), a worm-breeder with a club foot and a German accent. Umgar sneaks a worm-filled cake into a little girl's birthday party, causing the grossed-out guests to run around in sped-up comic style. Umgar's father was killed by his partner, the mayor's father, in 1939, but Umgar actually owns half the town and the mayor is determined to have the worm-breeder committed and take the town for himself. The first worm is eaten in a plate of spaghetti by a woman named Heidi, who turns into a half-worm mutant from the waist down for no apparent reason. Soon, Umgar has several mutants in a wire pen, gobbling like turkeys. The local lake turns red, and then three fishermen show up in Umgar's bedroom, explaining that they are part-worm and "live in peace under the red tide." They came to find mutant worm-women, and Umgar promises to make mates for them while attempting to maintain his land claim. By the time Umgar is force-fed a whole mouthful of worms and the mutants lead an attack on the mayor, the joke has worn off.

Your Studio and You
Directed by Trey Parker
1995 -- 17min
(1.5 -2.0)(pretty poor)
A parody of 1950s corporate/industrial films, commissioned by Universal Pictures executives after the studio's purchase by Seagrams, and featuring cameos by James Cameron, Shaun Cassidy, Michael J Fox, Heavy D, Angela Lansbury, Traci Lords, Demi Moore, John Singleton, Steven Speilberg, Sylvester Stallone and many more.

Zapped!
Directed by Robert J Rosenthal
1982 - 1996
(4)
In this comedy, a science experiment goes awry, leaving high-school wiz Barney (Scott Baio) with telekinetic powers. As Barney begins to experiment with his new abilities, he and his friend discover a variety of uses for them, including undressing the local high school girls.

Zombie
Directed by Lucio Fulci
1979 -- 91min
(5)
Zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to do a famous scientist. Peter West,a journalist, travels to the Antilles with Ann, the daughter of the scientist. On the way, they meet with with Brian, a ethnologist, and Susan. When they arrive at Matul Island, they find Dr. Menard, and discover a terrifying diease which is turning the Islanders into horrifying Zombies which devour human flesh and seem indestructable....

Zotz!
Directed by William Castle
1962 -- 87 min
(4)
TV actor Tom Poston stars as Prof. Jonathan Jones in this early feature-film appearance, a standard comedy-fantasy oriented to the youngsters. The good professor has come into possession of "zotz," a coin that has three magical properties. It can either cause intense pain if its bearer points an accusing finger at an intended victim or it can make things move in slow-motion, with the right command. If the accusatory finger and the command are used simultaneously, the victim dies. Naturally, just about everyone wants this coin. The hapless professor is soon involved in problems at school, at the Pentagon, and worse yet, with a group of commie agents who have their own designs on the coin.