Posts Tagged ‘avant-garde’

The Shining (1980)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Shelley Duvall | Danny Lloyd | Scatman Crothers | Barry Nelson | Philip Stone | Joe Turkel | Anne Jackson | Tony Burton | Lia Beldam | Billie Gibson | Barry Dennen | David Baxt | Manning Redwood | Lisa Burns
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as “The Shining” that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - “the little boy who lives in Danny’s mouth”. Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this “Shining” and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.

Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)

Monday, April 13th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gary Oldman | Wallace Wood | Juliette Lewis | David Proval | Will Patton | Gene Canfield | Larry Joshua | Michael Wincott | Lena Olin | William Duff-Griffin | James Cromwell | Paul Butler | Annabella Sciorra | Tony Sirico | Victoria Bastel
Directors: Peter Medak
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A corrupt New York police officer’s double life as a witness protection guard, and as a mafia informant, begins to catch up with him when he’s bribed to kill a deadly female Russian assassin in custody while keeping his lifestyle a secret from both his wife and teenage mistress.

Eraserhead (1977)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nance | Charlotte Stewart | Allen Joseph | Jeanne Bates | Judith Roberts | Laurel Near | V. Phipps-Wilson | Jack Fisk | Jean Lange | Thomas Coulson | John Monez | Darwin Joston | T. Max Graham | Hal Landon Jr. | Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Directors: David Lynch
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Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

Black Christmas (1974)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Olivia Hussey | Keir Dullea | Margot Kidder | John Saxon | Marian Waldman | Andrea Martin | James Edmond | Doug McGrath | Art Hindle | Lynne Griffin | Michael Rapport | Leslie Carlson | Martha Gibson | John Rutter | Robert Warner
Directors: Bob Clark
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This 98-minute film is a stark and stylish horror/thriller that turns everyone’s favorite time of the year inside out. Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house.

Suspiria (1977)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Italy
Actors: Jessica Harper | Stefania Casini | Flavio Bucci | Miguel Bosé | Barbara Magnolfi | Susanna Javicoli | Eva Ax?n | Rudolf Schündler | Udo Kier | Alida Valli | Joan Bennett | Margherita Horowitz | Jacopo Mariani | Fulvio Mingozzi | Franca Scagnetti
Directors: Dario Argento
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A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing from the school. She returns to her apartment where she is gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the young American is trying to settle in at the ballet school, but hears strange noises and is troubled by bizarre occurrences. She eventually discovers that the school is merely a front for a much more sinister organization.

The Holy Mountain (1973)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Hor?cio Salinas | Zamira Saunders | Juan Ferrara | Adriana Page | Burt Kleiner | Valerie Jodorowsky | Nicky Nichols | Richard Rutowski | Luis Lomeli | Ana De Sade | Chucho-Chucho | Let?cia Robles | Connie De La Mora | David Kapralik
Directors: Alejandro Jodorowsky
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A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guide’s assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek out the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal.

Evil Dead II (1987)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Campbell | Sarah Berry | Dan Hicks | Kassie DePaiva | Ted Raimi | Denise Bixler | Richard Domeier | John Peaks | Lou Hancock | Snowy Winters | Sid Abrams | Josh Becker | Scott Spiegel | Thomas Kidd | Mitch Cantor
Directors: Sam Raimi
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Ash - the sole survivor of the original ‘Evil Dead’ - returns with his girlfriend Linda to the remote cabin in the woods. He discovers a tape recorder that a professor had used to record incantations from the Necronomicon XMortis - the Book of the Dead. When he turns it on, the recording releases a dark, sinister force from the woods. It turns Linda into a zombie, her soul possessed by some hideous demon, and then tries to do the same to Ash. Other people come to help Ash, but one by one they are taken over by the Evil Dead force that also possesses Linda, the Professor, and the Professor’s wife…and they try to make sure Ash is…Dead by Dawn!

THX 1138 (1971)

Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Duvall | Donald Pleasence | Don Pedro Colley | Ian Wolfe | Marshall Efron | Sid Haig | John Pearce | Gary Alan Marsh | John Seaton | Eugene I. Stillman | Jack Walsh | Mark Lawhead | Robert Feero | Johnny Weissmuller Jr. | James Wheaton
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The human race has been relocated to a underground city located beneath the Earth’s surface. In the underground city, the population are entertained by holographic TV which broadcasts sex and violence and robotic police force enforces the law. In the underground city, society controls all life, all citizens are drugged to control their emotions and their behavior and sex is a crime. Factory worker THX-1138 stops taking the drugs and he breaks the law when he finds himself falling in love with his room-mate LUH 3417 and is imprisoned when LUH 3417 is pregnant. Escaping from jail with illegal programmer SEN 5241 and a hologram named SRT, THX 1138 goes in search of LUH 3417 and escape to the surface, whilst being pursued by robotic policemen.

Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Malcolm McDowell | Patrick Magee | Michael Bates | Warren Clarke | John Clive | Adrienne Corri | Carl Duering | Paul Farrell | Clive Francis | Michael Gover | Miriam Karlin | James Marcus | Aubrey Morris | Godfrey Quigley | Sheila Raynor
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for the police to find. He agrees to try “aversion therapy” to shorten his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but the rest of his gang members are still after him.

Army of Darkness (1992)

Monday, May 19th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Campbell | Embeth Davidtz | Marcus Gilbert | Ian Abercrombie | Richard Grove | Timothy Patrick Quill | Michael Earl Reid | Bridget Fonda | Patricia Tallman | Ted Raimi | Deke Anderson | Bruce Thomas | Sara Shearer | Shiva Gordon | Billy Bryan
Directors: Sam Raimi
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In this sequel to the Evil Dead films, a discount-store employee (”Name’s Ash. Housewares.”) is time-warped to a medieval castle beset by monstrous forces. Initially mistaken for an enemy, he is soon revealed as the prophecised savior who can quest for the Necronomicon, a book which can dispel the evil. Unfortunately, he screws up the magic words while collecting the tome, and releases an army of skeletons, led by his own Deadite counterpart. What follows is a thrilling, yet tongue-in-cheek battle between Ash’s 20th Century tactics and the minions of darkness.