Posts Tagged ‘avant-garde’

Suspiria (1977)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Italy
Actors: Harper, Jessica | Casini, Stefania | Bucci, Flavio | Miguel Bosé | Magnolfi, Barbara | Javicoli, Susanna | Axén, Eva | Schündler, Rudolf | Kier, Udo | Valli, Alida | Bennett, Joan | Horowitz, Margherita | Mariani, Jacopo | Mingozzi, Fulvio | Scagnetti, Franca
Directors: Argento, Dario
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A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing from the school. She returns to her apartment where she is gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the young American is trying to settle in at the ballet school, but hears strange noises and is troubled by bizarre occurrences. She eventually discovers that the school is merely a front for a much more sinister organization.

Holy Mountain, The (1973)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Salinas, Horácio | Saunders, Zamira | Ferrara, Juan | Page, Adriana | Kleiner, Burt | Jodorowsky, Valerie | Nichols, Nicky | Rutowski, Richard | Lomeli, Luis | De Sade, Ana | Chucho-Chucho | Robles, Letícia | De La Mora, Connie | Kapralik, David
Directors: Jodorowsky, Alejandro
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A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guide’s assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek out the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal.

THX 1138 (1971)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Duvall, Robert | Pleasence, Donald | Colley, Don Pedro | Wolfe, Ian | Efron, Marshall | Haig, Sid | Pearce, John | Marsh, Gary Alan | Seaton, John | Stillman, Eugene I. | Walsh, Jack | Lawhead, Mark | Feero, Robert | Weissmuller Jr., Johnny | Wheaton, James
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The human race has been relocated to a underground city located beneath the Earth’s surface. In the underground city, the population are entertained by holographic TV which broadcasts sex and violence and robotic police force enforces the law. In the underground city, society controls all life, all citizens are drugged to control their emotions and their behavior and sex is a crime. Factory worker THX-1138 stops taking the drugs and he breaks the law when he finds himself falling in love with his room-mate LUH 3417 and is imprisoned when LUH 3417 is pregnant. Escaping from jail with illegal programmer SEN 5241 and a hologram named SRT, THX 1138 goes in search of LUH 3417 and escape to the surface, whilst being pursued by robotic policemen.

Last House on the Left, The (1972)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hess, David | Lincoln, Fred J. | Sheffler, Marc | Towers, Richard | Anker, Marshall | Kove, Martin | Edwards, Ray | Craven, Jonathan | Forcelli, Anthony J. | Miner, Steve
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After kidnapping and butchering two teenagers, a gang of rapists and murderers unknowingly seeks refuge with the parents of one of the victims.

Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: McDowell, Malcolm | Magee, Patrick | Bates, Michael | Clarke, Warren | Clive, John | Corri, Adrienne | Duering, Carl | Farrell, Paul | Francis, Clive | Gover, Michael | Karlin, Miriam | Marcus, James | Morris, Aubrey | Quigley, Godfrey | Raynor, Sheila
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for the police to find. He agrees to try “aversion therapy” to shorten his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but the rest of his gang members are still after him.

Army of Darkness (1992)

Monday, May 19th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Campbell, Bruce | Davidtz, Embeth | Gilbert, Marcus | Abercrombie, Ian | Grove, Richard | Quill, Timothy Patrick | Reid, Michael Earl | Fonda, Bridget | Tallman, Patricia | Raimi, Ted | Anderson, Deke | Thomas, Bruce | Shearer, Sara | Gordon, Shiva | Bryan, Billy
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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In this sequel to the Evil Dead films, a discount-store employee (”Name’s Ash. Housewares.”) is time-warped to a medieval castle beset by monstrous forces. Initially mistaken for an enemy, he is soon revealed as the prophecised savior who can quest for the Necronomicon, a book which can dispel the evil. Unfortunately, he screws up the magic words while collecting the tome, and releases an army of skeletons, led by his own Deadite counterpart. What follows is a thrilling, yet tongue-in-cheek battle between Ash’s 20th Century tactics and the minions of darkness.

Fantastic Planet, The (1973)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Czechoslovakia | France
Actors: Drake, Jennifer | Baugin, Eric | Topart, Jean | Valmont, Jean | Lenoir, Sylvie | Chahan, Michèle | Barsacq, Yves | de Lapparent, Hubert | Hernandez, Gérard | Joseph, Claude | Ogouz, Philippe | Ruisseau, Jacques | Bostwick, Barry | Gruner, Mark | Miller, Marvin
Directors: Laloux, René
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La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or “Oms”have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them…But will the deomizing destroy them?

Evil Dead, The (1981)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Campbell, Bruce | Sandweiss, Ellen | DeManincor, Richard | Baker, Betsy | Tilly, Theresa | Gillis, Philip A. | Tapert, Dorothy | Guttridge, Cheryl | Carey, Barbara | Horton, David | Thomas, Wendall | Long, Don | Smith, Stu
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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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.

Gummo (1997)

Friday, December 28th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Reynolds, Jacob | Sutton, Nick | Tosh, Lara | Sewell, Jacob | Dougherty, Darby | Sevigny, Chloë | Glucksman, Carisa | Guzak, Jason | Guzak, Casey | Carr, Wendall | Lawhorn, James | Glass, James | Smith, Ellen M. | Coatney, Charles Matthew
Directors: Korine, Harmony
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Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

Evil Dead II (1987)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Campbell, Bruce | Berry, Sarah | Dan Hicks | DePaiva, Kassie | Raimi, Ted | Bixler, Denise | Domeier, Richard | Peaks, John | Hancock, Lou | Winters, Snowy | Abrams, Sid | Becker, Josh | Spiegel, Scott | Kidd, Thomas | Cantor, Mitch
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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Ash - the sole survivor of the original ‘Evil Dead’ - returns with his girlfriend Linda to the remote cabin in the woods. He discovers a tape recorder that a professor had used to record incantations from the Necronomicon XMortis - the Book of the Dead. When he turns it on, the recording releases a dark, sinister force from the woods. It turns Linda into a zombie, her soul possessed by some hideous demon, and then tries to do the same to Ash. Other people come to help Ash, but one by one they are taken over by the Evil Dead force that also possesses Linda, the Professor, and the Professor’s wife…and they try to make sure Ash is…Dead by Dawn!