Horror

  • David Cronenberg – The Death of David Cronenberg (2021)

    David Cronenberg2021-2030HorrorShort FilmUSA

    “The Death of David Cronenberg” is a short 1-minute film written by and starring filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor David Cronenberg.

    “The Death of David Cronenberg” features the subject standing in a small, softly lit room. He wears a robe and looks deeply into the camera before his gaze shifts to a motionless figure in a bed. The film, a collaboration with Cronenberg’s daughter Caitlin, who shot and produced the film, explores mortality, surrealism, and the metamorphosis of life and death.Read More »

  • Atsushi Shimizu – Injû kyôshi II aka Angel of Darkness 2 (1995)

    1991-2000Atsushi ShimizuEroticaHorrorJapan

    Quote: Sealed away for eons, the egg from an Injuu, a lusty demon tentacle, manages to escape its earthly confinement when an earthquake shatters its prison into tiny bits. Mad as hell (not to mention sexually frustrated after being incarcerated for all those years) it’s out to get revenge!Read More »

  • Mitsunori Hattori – Injû kyôshi aka Angel of Darkness (1995)

    1991-2000EroticaHorrorJapanMitsunori Hattori

    Quote: The first of five completely independent live action erotic horror films based on the hit anime Angel of Darkness, one of the best-selling adult anime titles ever! Angel of Darkness brings together the hottest demon tentacle action and the most stylish erotic horror! Sex, Passion and Demonic Possession! The college students of Shibuya seemed so innocent until a depraved sex demon unleashed the carnal desires of their teachers possessed! Now its writhing tentacles are about to teach them a lesson of desire and ecstasy that they might just not survive!Read More »

  • Valeri Rubinchik – Dikaya okhota korolya Stakha AKA The Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1980)

    1971-1980HorrorUSSRValeri Rubinchik

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    It was a dark and stormy night…. at the turn of the century and Bielarecki (Boris Plotnikov), a young ethnographer seeks shelter at Marsh Firs, a gloomy baronial manor set amidst Byelorussian marshes, while he conducts research into the myths and legends of the region. He discovers from the castle’s young and tragic owner, Nadzieja Jankowska (Yelena Dimotrova), that the place is haunted by two ghosts-the Little Man of Marsh Firs and the Lady in Blue-and that her family line was accursed centuries ago when ancestor Roman Jankowska denied the hand of his daughter to King Stach, whose ghost now rides with those of thirteen horsemen to drag Jankowska offspring and their servants to death in the surrounding marshes…Read More »

  • Wes Craven – Stranger in Our House (1978)

    Wes Craven1971-1980HorrorUSA

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    A teenage girl’s life is turned upside down after her cousin moves into her house, and as time goes by, she begins to suspect that she may be a practitioner of witchcraft.Read More »

  • Oleg Teptsov – Gospodin oformitel AKA Mister Designer (1987)

    1981-1990FantasyHorrorOleg TeptsovUSSR

    In this surreal take on Pygmalion set in 1900s St. Petersburg, Russia, a time known in art as Russian Decadence, a famous artist and decorator, Platon Andreevich, strives to find the secret to eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates, and his latest masterpiece, more perfect in his hubristic mind than anything that God had ever created, is based on a young dying girl. However, years later, he meets the wife of a rich merchant, who looks just like the now supposedly long time dead girl he used as model for his perfect mannequin. The artist becomes obsessed with uncovering the woman’s mysterious past, which puts him in grave danger.Read More »

  • Krsto Papic – Izbavitelj AKA The Rat Savior (1976)

    1971-1980HorrorKrsto PapicSci-FiYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito

    A poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the transformations in Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, or the covert conspiracy of pod-people in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This film’s story is based on a book by the Soviet writer Alexander Grin.Read More »

  • Yasuzo Masumura – Blind Beast AKA Môjuu (1969)

    1961-1970CultHorrorJapanYasuzô Masumura

    Blind Beast is a grotesque portrait of the bizarre relationship between a blind sculptor and his captive muse, adapted from a short story from Japan’s foremost master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, The Black Lizard, Caterpillar).Read More »

  • José Mojica Marins – Exorcismo Negro AKA Black Exorcism of Coffin Joe (1974)

    José Mojica Marins1971-1980BrazilHorrorThriller

    The director José Mojica Marins travels to spend Christmas with friends in the small farm where they live and write the story of his next film. However, he observes eerie things in the house, with his friends being possessed one by one by some supernatural evil force. Sooner he learns that the matriarch of the family had made a deal with a local witch Malvina to get pregnant and save her marriage. In return, Malvina should indicate who would marry the girl. However, her daughter Wilma is engaged of her beloved fiancé and Malvina wants her to get married with Eugenio, who is the son of Satan. Further, José Mojica Marins discovers that his fictional creation Zé do Caixão (a.k.a. Coffin Joe) is ready to collect the souls of Wilma’s family and only and exorcism may save the doomed family.Read More »

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