1971 • Italy • Directed by Mel Welles and Aureliano Luppi

Co-produced by Roger Corman, "one of the most underrated horror movies of all time" (Classic Horror) features lurid direction by Mel Welles (LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS) from a story by by Dick Randall (PIECES), and a cast that includes Hollyw...

1972 • France • Directed by Jess Franco

Inspired by Universal's 1940s monster mash-ups, writer/director Jess Franco instead delivered "a weird and wonderful masterpiece that transports you to a world like no other" (Scream Magazine): With minimal dialogue and maximum gothic atmosphere, Franco cr...

1965 • Italy • Directed by Vittorio Salerno and Ernesto Gastaldi

The screenwriter of classics that include THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH, ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK and TORSO, Ernesto Gastaldi made his directorial debut with one of the most groundbreaking yet underseen gialli of them all: When ...

1969 • Czech Republic • Directed by Jiří Brdečka

In the vein of horror anthologies like Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH, the long-unseen PRAGUE NIGHTS is a gorgeous and supernatural vision of ancient and modern Prague: caught between Mod Sixties fashions and nightmarish Medieval catacombs, and filled...

2022 • United States • Directed by Chuck Magee

When a couple of intergalactic space crabs land on Earth, they encounter the one thing they didn't expect... A duo of dumb frat boys force-feeding them cocaine! As it turns out, cocaine gives space crabs an overbearing impulse to kill! Their string ...

2023 • France • Directed by Quarxx

Director Quarxx (All the Gods in the Sky) explores the peculiar, welcoming all those hungry for wonder, in Pandemonium, a unique cinematic blend of fantasy, drama, genre, and humour.

Nathan (Hugo Dillon) and Daniel (Arben Bajraktaraj) are caught in a road acci...

1976 • United States • Directed by Tobe Hooper

Nearly a decade before he donned Freddy Krueger's famous red and green sweater, horror icon Robert Englund delivered a supremely sleazy performance in Eaten Alive another essay in taut Southern terror from Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chain Sa...

1967 • United States • Directed by Jack Hill

This was the first solo feature by Jack Hill (Coffy, Switchblade Sisters, Foxy Brown), whom Quentin Tarantino dubbed 'the Howard Hawks of exploitation filmmaking', and it remains one of his wildest and weirdest.

The credits dub this 'the maddest stor...

1968 • Brazil • Directed by José Mojica Marins

The Strange World of Coffin Joe is an anthology horror film hosted by Zé do Caixão featuring three short films directed by José Mojica Marins which feature a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a foot fetish, and a psychotic profes...

1981 • Japan • Directed by Shinji Sômai

A perky high-schooler takes on the mob in Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, a one-of-a-kind genre-bender that riffs on the yakuza film, coming-of-age drama and ‘idol movie’, inventively adapted from Jiro Akagawa's popular novel by director Shinji Somai (Typhoo...

Written by, directed by and starring Van Bebber, Deadbeat follows the story of Goose - a gang leader whose girlfriend is brutally slaughtered when he attempts to leave the thug life behind. Pulled back into the gang, who've now formed an uneasy alliance with the thugs that butchered his girl, Goo...

A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of dis...

1989 • Italy • Directed by Antonio Margheriti

For one of the final films of his legendary career, director Antonio Margheriti headed to the Philippines to deliver "the perfect '80s Italian popcorn flick" (Mondo Digital): When environmental activists attempt to expose an evil corporation dumping ...

1959 • United States • Directed by Monte Hellman

"Screaming young girls sucked into a labyrinth of horror by a blood-starved ghoul from Hell." So said the original advertising for Beast from Haunted Cave. Directed by Monte Hellman, filmed in the Black Hills of South Dakota, this feature is about...

2023 • Canada • Directed by Tim Rutherford and Cody Kennedy

A love letter to video rental stores and the B-movie treasures that lined their walls, Cody Kennedy & Tim Rutherford's debut feature, The Last Video Store, is a genre-loving blast of pure joy: "a real treasure trove for genre fans, both...

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.

1983 • Hong Kong • Directed by Lu Chun-ku

Actor Lu Chun-ku really hit his stride as a director of mystical kung-fu epics such as this, truly one of the best of its kind. Norman Tsui stars as a put-upon illegitimate son of a “Martial Arts World” master, who nearly sacrifices all to learn the “Sil...

1982 • Hong Kong • Directed by Taylor Wong

In the arsenal of classic martial arts secret weapons, there is none more lethal than the Buddha’s Palm, a technique by which an ordinary hand is transformed into a formidable force. Koo, a blind recluse living in a cave, knows its secret, which proves ...

A visionary and bizarre slice of Mexican arthouse cinema, We Are the Flesh is an extraordinary and unsettling film experience, a sexually charged and nightmarish journey into an otherworldly dimension of carnal desire and excess, as well as a powerful allegory on the corrupting power of human des...

1989 • Italy • Directed by Michele Soavi

For his second feature film - and first full collaboration with co-writer/producer/mentor Dario Argento - writer/director Michele Soavi unleashes a "mind-blowing" (Bloody Disgusting) "masterwork" (DVD Drive-In): In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass gra...

1991 • Italy • Directed by Michele Soavi

The Sect, also known as The Devils Daughter, the third feature by director Michele Soavi - his second collaboration with producer/co-writer Dario Argento - can now be experienced like never before: As a global satanic cabal grows in ferocity, an unwitting...

1985 · Japan · Directed by Macoto Tezka

In 1985, Macoto Tezka (son of the great manga artist Osamu Tezuka) met musician and TV personality Haruo Chicada who had made a soundtrack to a movie which didn’t actually exist: The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. At the time Macoto was just 22 years old...