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In one of the most auspicious directorial debuts in movie history, Mario Bava bridged the gap between the gothic horror picture and the European art film with Black Sunday. Made in 1960 and now considered a cult classic, it continues to reverberate through the cinema, inspiring and influencing new generations of filmmakers.
In an absolutely mesmerizing performance, Black Sunday stars Barbara Steele as Asa Vajda, a beautiful woman tortured and executed as a witch – but not before pronouncing a curse upon those who have condemned her, a curse that is fulfilled some 200 years later.
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The enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton receives a strange gift from his ne’er-do-well younger brother on his forty-eighth birthday: a voucher for a game that, if he agrees to play it, will change his life. Thus begins a trip down the rabbit hole that is puzzling, terrifying, and exhilirating for Nicholas and viewers alike. This multilayered, noirish descent onto one man’s personal hell is also a surreal, metacinematic journey that, two years after the phenomenon Se7en, further demonstrated that director David Fincher was one of Hollywood’s true contemporary visionaries.
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Seven years after innovating the grisly Italian genre known as giallo, Mario Bava returned to the form to create one of its deliriously frightening examples: Hatchet for The Honeymoon.
Stephen Forsyth stars as John Harrington, the head of an affluent fashion house, who harbors an uncontrollable bloodlust for women in bridal veils. Only by murdering a succession of them, each in a grisly manner, can he delve deeper into his subconscious and bring to light the primal scene that spawned his very specific homicidal fetish.
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Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a beautiful girl is held captive by a twisted scientist, her mind controlled by a sinister technology. To escape, she must journey through the darkest reaches of the Institute and avoid the watchful eye of Dr. Nyle, who won’t easily part with his most gifted and dangerous creation.
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Holy Flying Circus reimagines the controversy surrounding Monty Python’s 1979 film, Life of Brian, which was greeted with widespread outcry and accusations of blasphemy. Matters reached a head when Michael Palin and John Cleese agreed to take part in a BBC talk show about Life of Brian with a Church of England bishop and a staunchly Catholic broadcaster. The ensuing TV debate put the Pythons in their most absurd role yet: the voice of reason.
From Oscar-nominated writer Tony Roche and starring Darren Boyd, Charles Edwards, Tom Fischer, and Stephen Fry, this fantastical docudrama is a Pythonesque peek behind the scenes of one of the most notorious – and beloved – films from the legendary troupe.
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Before Baron Von Frankenstein can retire as the head of the powerful Worldwide Organization of Monsters, he must inform his faithful group of ghouls. How to deliver the news? Through a Mad Monster Party, of course! Von Frankenstein’s guests include the who’s who of Halloween favourites, including the Werewolf, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, and more in this frighteningly fun holiday classic from Rankin/Bass that will leave kids of all ages howling with delight.
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A highly acclaimed film from 1980, Death Watch was directed by the great French director Bertrand Tavernier and filmed on location in Glasgow, Scotland.
The story is part human drama and part futuristic cautionary tale and focuses primarily on two people: terminally ill Katherine and Roddy, who, after having a camera implanted into his brain, is hired by the producer of the TV series Death Watch to film a documentary of Katherine without her knowledge. Both deeply moving and a fascinating look at society in decay, this is a must-see film, and one made even more poignant knowing that star Romy Schneider herself died tragically only two years later at the age of 44.
Also starring Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Max von Sydow and Roby Coltrane.
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This one-of-a-kind western stars Joan Crawford as a saloon owner battling the local townspeople headed by Emma, the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. The title character played by Sterling Hayden is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Crawford and has been offered a job in her saloon. Nicholas Ray’s epic western is considered one of the most original westerns of all time – the women are far tougher than the men and some saw in the film a bizarre allegory for the McCarthy era Red Scare. In addition to the stars, Johnny Guitar is well stocked with great supporting players, including Ernest Borgnine, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Paul Fix, Royal Dano, and John Carradine. Classic score title song written by Peggy Lee and the film’s composer Victor Young and sung by Peggy Lee.
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