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Vampyros Lesbos is an experience where logic and reality are afterthoughts, a truly dreamlike film that exists as a delivery method for beautiful women doing strange and exciting things around some lavishly-designed contemporary decor while one of the grooviest psychedelic scores of all time takes things to another dimension.
Read MoreIn the middle of February, when movie theaters around the country screen both classic Valentine’s Day films and off-the-beaten-path romantic repertory programming, Weird Wednesday at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar presented director Sammo Hung’s rom-com action film Pedicab Driver.
Read MoreVerhoeven trusts us to take in an onslaught of religious parallels and florid symbolism and come to our own conclusions on what it all means—if anything.
Read MoreMovies are often described as having dream logic or otherwise being dreamlike, and this truly feels like a dream.
Read MoreEve of Destruction feels like a literal blast from a video store past. Part 90s action flick, part cautionary tale of the near future, it’s also a lean melodrama with just enough complexity to withstand its 90-minute run time.
Read MoreFootmen is a Baptist propaganda movie about a Communist takeover of the US in the late '60s. It’s normally the kind of thing that sits in a church basement for years before finally dissolving from vinegar syndrome.
Read MorePaul Michael Glaser’s The Running Man bottles up all the absurdity lovingly found in any great ‘80s action flick, but uncorking it almost 40 years later proves that some of the absurdity has matured into a shockingly accurate dystopian satire.
Read MoreIf this is your first Gamera, Super Monster is as satisfying as any other entry point you could choose.
Read MoreIn School of The Holy Beast, director Norifumi Suzuki and the Toei film studio bring a nunsploitation that challenges the audience through the shocking nature of its story juxtaposed with its beautiful imagery.
Read MoreTed Post's The Baby (1973) tells the story of a woman stricken with grief, looking to help an underdeveloped adult man trapped within the warped remains of a nuclear family.
Read MoreJoe Dante’s homoerotic sci-fi comedy Innerspace, captured through its most crazy-ass brain-searing images.
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