2013 • Sweden • Directed by Antonio Tublén

In this darkly comic sci-fi thriller, an amateur scientist hypnotizes his neighbours with sound frequencies and subjects them to increasingly outlandish scenarios in order to fuel his megalomania.

1981 • United Kingdom • Directed by Roy Ward Baker

A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night. The vampire then regales him with three stories, each int...

1987 • United States • Directed by Deborah Brock

Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to their condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.

Burst City is an explosive Molotov cocktail of dystopian sci-fi, Mad Max-style biker wars against yakuza gangsters and the police, and riotous performances from members of the real-life Japanese punk bands The Stalin, The Roosters, The Rockers and INU. In a derelict industrial wasteland somewhere...

2002 ･ Japan ･ Directed by Takashi Miike

From Takashi Miike, the prolific director of such shocking hits including Audition and Ichi the Killer comes “The Sound of Music meets Dawn of the Dead”!

The Katakuri family run a peaceful country inn at the foot of Mount Fuji. A little more peaceful th...

1999 • United States • Directed by Charles Band

Virgil is an eccentric freak... a brilliant billionaire whose mask conceals a horrific secret and who finds amusement in his personal house band... four beautiful rock and roll girls-in-a-cage who play on command. He's also a biological inventor an...

1988 · United States · Directed by Richard Casey

A bandleader whose career is nosediving makes a deal with the owner of a bar to sell his soul for success.

A film imbued with the ideas of Sufism, The Silence tells of Khorshid, a young blind boy from Tajikistan who earns rent money for his family by tuning rare instruments but becomes enraptured by the sonorous music he hears on his way to work each day.

Nikkatsu, the oldest film studio in Japan, inaugurated a star system in the late 1950s, finding talent and contracting to their Diamond Line for a series of wild genre pictures. In Saito’s The Rambling Guitarist, mega star Akira Kobayashi (Battles Without Honor and Humanity) stars as wandering st...

1978 • Italy • Directed by Federico Fellini

Made in 1978 for Italian television, Orchestra Rehearsal is possibly Fellini's most satirical and overtly political film. An allegorical pseudo-documentary, the film depicts an Italian television crew's visit to a dilapidated auditorium (a converted 13...

2000 • France • Directed by Claude Chabrol

After the death of his second wife, concert pianist André Polonski remarries his first wife, Swiss chocolate-company heiress Mika Muller. Soon a young piano student, Jeanne Polet, gets the idea that she may be André's daughter. She visits his house in L...

1986 • France • Directed by Alain Resnais

Master director Alain Resnais ('Last Year in Marienbad') blurs the line between cinematic technique and theatrical artifice in his acclaimed 'Mélo', adapted from Henri Bernstein's classic play about a doomed love triangle in 1920s Paris. Pierre (Pierre ...

2007 • United States • Directed by Brian Lonano

A refreshing return to the "B" movies of the 50s and 60s, this music video film tells the horrific and hilarious events one night in a deserted graveyard.

2021 • United States • Directed by Nora Unkel

In this ultra-short horror film, a young woman is plagued by demonic sounds. In an attempt to fall asleep, she aims to ignore it by listening to music. But soon she's forced to confront the terrifying presence possessing her.

Music video "Psycho-Fiction" by Screaming Mad George

Music video "Persecution" by Screaming Mad George

Claudio Simonetti on Deep Red.

Music is Not Sound – a newly-filmed interview with composers Rich Macar and Christopher Hyams-Hart