Maxi Contenti Selects
Maxi Contenti – director – The Last Matinee
“I was honored to make a selection from the Arrow player catalogue, I must confess I’m quite terrible at this, but I could not resist. So here is my eclectic and very personal mix bag of movies I found compelled to include. Some are personal favs or directed by filmmaker idols. There’s some giallos and movies about movie theaters. Pick and choose.”
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Tideland
To escape her unhappy life in a remote part of Texas, nine-year-old Jeliza-Rose dreams up an elaborate fantasy world. But the reality of having junkie parents - played by Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski) and Jennifer Tilly (Bound) - and the influence of her eccentric neighbours begins to encroach,...
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Tenebrae
A notorious horror classic returns in all its depraved glory. This infamous video nasty updated the classic Giallo blueprint for the gorified 80s, courting controversy and drenching the viewer in crimson arterial spray.
A razor-wielding psycho is stalking the horror writer Peter Neal, in Rome to...
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Slugs
1988 • Spain • Directed by Juan Piquer Simón
From celebrated Spanish director Juan Piquer Simón, the man behind the truly demented slasher flick Pieces (1982), comes a terrifying tale of mutant slugs on the rampage in small-town America.
The townsfolk of a rural community are dying in strange a...
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Don't Torture a Duckling
1972 • Italy • Directed by Lucio Fulci
From Lucio Fulci, the godfather of gore (City of the Living Dead, The House by the Cemetery), comes one of the most powerful and unsettling giallo thrillers ever produced: his 1972 masterpiece, Don't Torture a Duckling.
When the sleepy rural village of Acc...