Top 50 Most Popular Weird Movies Of All Time [2025]

Aishwarya Aishwarya - Updated Jan 20, 2025

When we think of entertainment, fun times, or relaxation, we instantly think of movies. There are several genres of movies ranging from romance, comedy, and action to suspense, thriller, and horror.

There are multiple sub-genres like fantasy romance, rom-com, psychological thrillers, and more. And then there is the next category.

These movies are a mixture of multiple above genres or something that is unique from all. I am talking about weird movies.

If you are confused about what I am speaking of, do not worry. I will explain. Weird movies are those movies that do not prescribe to usual logic or reasoning.

They defy common sense and may even be uncomfortable to watch. However, they are the kind of movies that will jar our senses, and force us to think differently.

Now that we have described weird films, ENTOIN brings you a list of popular weird films that cover this genre.

They range from movies that are emotionally weird to those that might make one feel physically uncomfortable. It is advisable to watch these movies with a pinch of salt.

1
Quiz about Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth
R
imdb icon8.2
IMDb Rating8.2
Rotten Tomatoes Rating95
Metacritic Rating98

DramaFantasyWar

Director:

Guillermo del Toro

Release Date:

Fri Jan 19 2007

Star Cast:

Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López

Budget:

$19,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$83,862,032

Cinematography
Excellent
Screenplay
Very Good
Casting
Very Good
Direction
Fair
Visual
Fair
Sound
Fair

Pan’s Labyrinth is a dark fantasy written, directed, and co-produced by Guillermo del Toro. The film was set in the Francoist era, in the year 1944.

The story combines elements of reality and fantasy to create a framework for this dark fairy tale. A young girl Ofelia and her mother are travelling to a new place to join the man that her mother has recently married.

As the mother is pregnant, her health is not very strong, and this is a cause for concern for Ofelia. We find that her stepfather is the Falangist Captain Vidal, and he is a cruel and strict authority figure.

In his new mansion, Ofelia finds a maze-like place that is overgrown and uncared for. She enters the labyrinth and discovers mysterious faun and fairy-like creatures.

They put forth three challenges to Ofelia, and when she accomplishes them, she receives a big surprise.

 

2
Quiz about The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal
Not Rated
imdb icon8.1
IMDb Rating8.1
Rotten Tomatoes Rating93
Metacritic Rating88

DramaFantasy

Director:

Ingmar Bergman

Release Date:

Mon Oct 13 1958

Star Cast:

Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot

Budget:

$150,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$311,212

Direction
Fair
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

The Seventh Seal is a Swedish film by director Ingmar Bergman. He also wrote the script for the film based on the Bergman play, titled Wood Painting.

He was inspired to make a historical fantasy film after watching his idol, Akira Kurosawa. The film is set during the period of the Black Death across Europe.

A crusader, Antonius Block, and his squire return from their crusades and see their homeland ravished by death and decay.

The Knight is also disillusioned about God and what he fought for. Along the way, the Knight meets the death incarnate and challenges him to a game of chess.

Through the game and the scenes he encounters, the Knight gradually learns the truth of the situation.

 

3
Quiz about Being John Malkovich

Being John Malkovich

Being John Malkovich
R
imdb icon7.7
IMDb Rating7.7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating94
Metacritic Rating90

ComedyDramaFantasy

Director:

Spike Jonze

Release Date:

Fri Dec 3 1999

Star Cast:

John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener

Budget:

$13,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$23,106,667

Screenplay
Excellent
Direction
Very Good
Casting
Very Good
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Sound
Average

Being John Malkovich is a fantasy comedy that was written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. The film explores the fantastical concept of the consciousness of the actor John Malkovich existing as a physical place that is discovered by an unscrupulous person.

Craig Schwartz is an out-of-work puppeteer who finds a hidden floor in an office building that houses John Malkovich’s mind.

It gives a portal into Malkovich’s mind and allows Schwartz to control the actions of the actor. Initially, Schwartz takes a peek out of curiosity and fiddles around with Malkovich for fun.

However, he slowly devises a scheme to control the actor and use him for his promiscuous needs. Later, he discloses this secret to others, which leads to chaos in the actor’s life.

 

4
Quiz about Eraserhead

Eraserhead

Eraserhead
Not Rated
imdb icon7.3
IMDb Rating7.3
Rotten Tomatoes Rating91
Metacritic Rating87

FantasyHorror

Director:

David Lynch

Release Date:

Fri Feb 3 1978

Star Cast:

Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph

Budget:

$10,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$23,557

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

Eraserhead is the debut feature film of David Lynch. Up until that point, all of Lynch’s work was short films, and he was studying a course in advanced filmmaking at AFI.

The film was written, directed, edited, and produced by David Lynch. He also worked on the musical score and sound along with Alan Splet.

Eraserhead is a film where a factory worker and his girlfriend have a child together. However, the child is born with a deformity, and he cries all night long.

The couple is forced to marry to care for the child, and the social pressure and child suffocate them both.

The mother abandons the child to the factory worker. He is unable to care for the child on his own, nor can he carry on working, and the stress of the situation shows no signs of abating.

 

5
Quiz about Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
PG
imdb icon7.6
IMDb Rating7.6
Rotten Tomatoes Rating96
Metacritic Rating79

AnimationDramaFamily

Director:

Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson

Release Date:

Fri Dec 9 2022

Star Cast:

Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann

Budget:

$35,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$109,846

Visual
Fair
Screenplay
Fair
Sound
Fair
Direction
Average
Cinematography
Average
Casting
Average

"Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio" is a forthcoming stop-motion animated film directed by Guillermo del Toro, based on the classic fairy tale of Pinocchio.

The story follows the journey of a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who longs to become a real boy. Set in Italy during the rise of fascism, the film explores themes of identity, morality, and the pursuit of dreams.

Del Toro's distinct visual style and penchant for dark fantasy elements infuse the story with a captivating and visually stunning atmosphere.

The film features an impressive voice cast including Ewan McGregor as Pinocchio, Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz, and David Bradley.

6
Quiz about A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange
X
imdb icon8.3
IMDb Rating8.3
Rotten Tomatoes Rating87
Metacritic Rating77

CrimeSci-Fi

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Release Date:

Wed Feb 2 1972

Star Cast:

Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates

Budget:

$2,200,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$26,960,374

Direction
Very Good
Casting
Very Good
Cinematography
Good
Screenplay
Good
Visual
Average
Sound
Average

A Clockwork Orange is a Stanley Kubrick movie that he adapted, directed, and produced. The film is adapted from a novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess.

The story is a dystopian tale of a world where juvenile crime has increased to such a level that the government employs the most heavy-handed means to control it.

One of these heavy-handed techniques is an experimental new psychological tool by which they brainwash a juvenile criminal to give up his deviant ways.

After the brainwashing is complete, they simply send him back into society. However, the youth faces severe backlash with his current attitude and past history.

A Clockwork Orange was a controversial movie that contained scenes of graphic violence that incited similar crimes in the countries they were screened in. It was subsequently pulled back from theatres.

7

Dead Ringers

Dead Ringers
R
imdb icon7.2
IMDb Rating7.2
Rotten Tomatoes Rating84
Metacritic Rating86

DramaHorrorThriller

Director:

David Cronenberg

Release Date:

Fri Sep 23 1988

Star Cast:

Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske

Budget:

$13,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$8,038,508

Direction
Fair
Screenplay
Fair
Casting
Fair
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Sound
Average

Dead Ringer is a David Cronenberg film about Marcus twins, Samuel and Cyril. The film is a highly fictionalized account of their life and mysterious death.

It is also loosely based on the book The Twins by Baru Wood. We meet two successful gynaecologist twins, Beverly and Elliot Mantle.

While Beverly is shy and passive, Elliot is an outgoing and promiscuous twin. They both work as head gynaecologists in a private clinic.

Elliot flirts and sleeps around with the patients and passes them on to Beverly after he is bored with them. One such patient is Claire. However, the difference with her is that Beverly starts to get attached to her.

He even starts to abuse prescription drugs and barbiturates. He passes this drug dependence to Elliot when he tries to rescue Beverly. Eventually, both brothers succumb to their addiction.

8

Fantastic Planet

Fantastic Planet
PG
imdb icon7.7
IMDb Rating7.7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating91
Metacritic Rating73

AnimationSci-Fi

Director:

René Laloux

Release Date:

Sat Dec 1 1973

Star Cast:

Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

Fantastic Planet is an animated experimental movie made in a collaboration between France and Czechoslovakia. The film is based on the novel Oms en série by French writer Stefan Wul.

The film is set in an animated world that is like Earth but it is inhabited by giant humanoid creatures.

These giant humanoid creatures called Traag live in societies similar to Earth but keep humans as their pets. Some humans live along with the Traag as their house pets, while other humans live in the wilderness like timid and scared animals.

The Traag is violent and ruthless to humans whom they see as animals. Humans plot to revolt against the Traag for their right to co-exist peacefully.

They steal Traag technology and set up their own colony, far from the Traags.

9

The Lobster

The Lobster
R
imdb icon7.1
IMDb Rating7.1
Rotten Tomatoes Rating87
Metacritic Rating82

DramaRomanceSci-Fi

Director:

Yorgos Lanthimos

Release Date:

Fri Oct 16 2015

Star Cast:

Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden

Budget:

€4,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$17,581,104

Screenplay
Very Good
Casting
Very Good
Direction
Fair
Sound
Fair
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average

The Lobster is a black comedy dystopian film that was directed, co-written, and co-produced by Yorgos Lanthimos. The film was presented at many film festivals and won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

It was also nominated for the best original screenplay at the Academy Awards. In a dystopian future, the government has mandated that every single person should be sent to a hotel for a 45-day stay to find a compatible partner to marry.

Failure to do so results in the person being converted into an animal. This is unusual enough, but there is another rebel group of Loners who stay in the forest, and their rules dictate that falling in love is prohibited at all costs.

The lead pair are caught between these two opposing factions.

10

The Holy Mountain

The Holy Mountain
16+
imdb icon7.8
IMDb Rating7.8
Rotten Tomatoes Rating85
Metacritic Rating76

AdventureDramaFantasy

Director:

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Release Date:

Fri Jul 11 1975

Star Cast:

Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders

Budget:

$750,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$104,160

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

The Holy Mountain is a surreal fantasy written, directed, produced, edited, and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. The Beatles were very impressed with Jodorowsky’s earlier film El Topo, so John Lennon, George Harrison, Beatles manager Allen Klein, and Yoko Ono decided to produce the film.

The critics praised the film, which was full of religious symbolism. The film premiered at Cannes Film Festival and was shown at other festivals around Europe.

It received limited screening in New York and San Francisco. The story follows a group of people who take up a journey in search of the Holy Mountain.

They face distractions and experience different negative emotions along the way.

11

Spider-Man

Spider-Man
PG-13
imdb icon7.4
IMDb Rating7.4
Rotten Tomatoes Rating90
Metacritic Rating73

ActionAdventureSci-Fi

Director:

Sam Raimi

Release Date:

Fri May 3 2002

Star Cast:

Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe

Budget:

$139,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$825,025,036

Sound
Very Good
Visual
Good
Casting
Fair
Direction
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average

Spider is a 2002 film made by David Cronenberg and based on a novel of the same name, written by Patrick McGrath.

The film received a limited release after it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. 'Spider' was a hit with Cronenberg enthusiasts and critics, in general.

It also garnered praise for the acting talent of Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Richardson. The film follows a schizophrenic patient who is released from a mental institution and sent to a halfway home.

Initially, he appears to have recovered a semblance of normalcy in life. However, he starts to recollect his childhood memories.

Oftentimes, they are fractured images that further confuse him and lead him down a spiral toward relapse.

12

Coriolanus

Coriolanus
R
imdb icon6.1
IMDb Rating6.1
Rotten Tomatoes Rating92
Metacritic Rating79

DramaThrillerWar

Director:

Ralph Fiennes

Release Date:

Fri Jan 20 2012

Star Cast:

Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox

Box Office (Worldwide):

$2,435,325

Direction
Good
Casting
Fair
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Sound
Average

Coriolanus is a film directed by Ralph Fiennes, who also acted in the titular role. It is an adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

Coriolanus was a Roman general who was famous for his war exploits. He brought great glory to his empire but fell prey to his own arrogance and the envy and greed of power-hungry people.

Based on his exploits in war, Coriolanus ran for a seat in the senate and won it. However, he let his arrogance get the best of him, and his enemies used this chance to have him deposed as a traitor.

In a fit of rage, he joined the enemy camp and waged a war on Rome. In the end, he realized his folly and tried to rectify the wrongs. But he was misunderstood and paid a price for betraying both sides.

13
Quiz about Under the Skin

Under the Skin

Under the Skin
R
imdb icon6.3
IMDb Rating6.3
Rotten Tomatoes Rating84
Metacritic Rating82

DramaHorrorMystery

Director:

Jonathan Glazer

Release Date:

Fri Apr 18 2014

Star Cast:

Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay

Budget:

$13,300,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$5,968,016

Direction
Fair
Cinematography
Fair
Sound
Fair
Visual
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average

Under The Skin is a science-fiction film that presents the views of an alien who is investigating and understanding humans.

The film follows a woman who entraps men and takes them into a liquid void where they are submerged in a tar-like black liquid.

The woman is assisted in her pursuit by an unknown motorcyclist, but it is unclear what their mission or end goal is.

Some critics have opined that it is a take on immigration and the assimilation of race. The acting of Scarlet Johansson was praised but the underlying meaning was lost on the audience.

14

Cul-de-sac

Cul-de-sac
Not Rated
imdb icon7
IMDb Rating7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating84
Metacritic Rating75

ComedyDramaThriller

Director:

Roman Polanski

Release Date:

Mon Nov 7 1966

Star Cast:

Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander

Box Office (Worldwide):

$1,500

Cinematography
Good
Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

Cul-de-Sac is a British film written and directed by Roman Polanski. The film is a typical Polanski film that explores themes like jealousy, alienation, paranoia, etc.

It is comparable to other Polanski films like Rosemary’s Baby, The Tenant, etc. in this regard. A British couple is living in a lonely castle on a tidal island.

An American gangster and his accomplice drive up the causeway to the island before the high tide sets in.

They are escaping after a crime, and one of them has been fatally wounded. The gangster holds the couple hostage while he waits for his boss to come to his rescue.

He does not expect the series of events that follow and the fact that his boss refuses to come to his aid.

15
Quiz about My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho
R
imdb icon7
IMDb Rating7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating80
Metacritic Rating77

Drama

Director:

Gus Van Sant

Release Date:

Sat Jul 20 1991

Star Cast:

River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo

Budget:

$2,500,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$6,401,336

Screenplay
Fair
Casting
Fair
Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Sound
Average

"My Own Private Idaho" is a 1991 independent film directed by Gus Van Sant. The movie follows the journey of two friends, Mike and Scott, played by River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves respectively, who are male hustlers navigating the streets of Portland and Idaho.

The film explores themes of friendship, identity, and unrequited love through a mix of drama and road movie elements.

"My Own Private Idaho" received critical acclaim for its unconventional narrative style, powerful performances, and sensitive portrayal of complex characters.

It garnered recognition for its unique blend of art-house and mainstream sensibilities, contributing to the rising popularity of independent cinema.

The film's success solidified its place as a cult classic and further established Gus Van Sant as a visionary director.

16

THX 1138

THX 1138
GP
imdb icon6.6
IMDb Rating6.6
Rotten Tomatoes Rating86
Metacritic Rating75

DramaSci-FiThriller

Director:

George Lucas

Release Date:

Thu Mar 11 1971

Star Cast:

Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley

Budget:

$777,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$2,437,000

Direction
Fair
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

THX 1138 is the directorial debut of George Lucas. The film is based on a story that he wrote during his college days for a short film.

The movie was declared a flop in its initial days. Later, after Lucas made the Star Wars films, his fans revisited this movie, and THX 1138 became a cult classic.

The film is set in a dystopian world where society is strictly regulated and governed by draconian laws that prohibit most human emotions.

Strict uniformity is implemented among workers and they are enforced by android police. To ensure the complete loyalty and obedience of the masses, mandatory drug administration is carried out that suppresses all emotions.

17

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
R
imdb icon7.4
IMDb Rating7.4
Rotten Tomatoes Rating80
Metacritic Rating65

ComedyHorrorMusical

Director:

Jim Sharman

Release Date:

Thu Dec 18 1975

Star Cast:

Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick

Budget:

$1,200,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$115,798,478

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a bizarre comedy horror film based on the musical stage production of the same name.

The film is a parody of all old horror movies with grotesque masks and weird costumes. The film was a major success around the world and has amassed a cult following.

The film starts with a newly engaged couple on a road trip. Their car breaks down in a remote location amidst heavy rain.

Typical of horror movie stories, they find an old castle nearby and go there to make a phone call or ask for help.

The castle’s owner is a mad scientist who had created a Frankenstein-like monster called Rocky. The story continues along the lines of B-grade horror movies and parodies them to the full extent.

18
Quiz about Dark City

Dark City

Dark City
R
imdb icon7.6
IMDb Rating7.6
Rotten Tomatoes Rating76
Metacritic Rating66

FantasyMysterySci-Fi

Director:

Alex Proyas

Release Date:

Fri Feb 27 1998

Star Cast:

Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly

Budget:

$27,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$27,200,316

Screenplay
Fair
Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

Dark City is a science fiction suspense thriller co-written and directed by Alex Proyas. The film was well-received by critics who liked the dark ambience, art direction, set design, etc.

The story was also imaginative and suspenseful. A man is suffering from amnesia, and he is accused of murder.

Unable to recall his past or identity, the man struggles to prove his innocence. At the same time, he is chased by a mysterious group of people called The Strangers.

As the film progresses, we realize that The Strangers are aliens who intend to replicate earth-like living conditions.

19

The Double

The Double
R
imdb icon6.5
IMDb Rating6.5
Rotten Tomatoes Rating84
Metacritic Rating68

ComedyDramaMystery

Director:

Richard Ayoade

Release Date:

Fri Apr 4 2014

Star Cast:

Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn

Box Office (Worldwide):

$1,662,515

Casting
Fair
Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Sound
Average

The Double is a black comedy and mystery movie. It is written and directed by Richard Ayoade, and it is based on the novella titled The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The film was praised by critics for its bleak and dark storyline that is also darkly funny.

The film is about doppelgangers Simon James and James Simon, whose personalities are polar opposites of each other. They constantly cross paths and snatch things that the other values.

Despite the best efforts of Simon James, everybody misunderstands him and believes the effort and words of James Simon, who is the imposter.

20

Meadowland

Meadowland
R
imdb icon5.8
IMDb Rating5.8
Rotten Tomatoes Rating92
Metacritic Rating67

Drama

Director:

Reed Morano

Release Date:

Fri Oct 23 2015

Star Cast:

Olivia Wilde, Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

Meadowland is a drama that deals with the issue of child loss. It is a deeply painful experience to lose one’s child.

However, when one goes missing, the parents do not understand how to deal with it. The concept is the nightmare of every parent.

A happy couple goes on a road trip with their son. At a gas station, the son goes missing without a trace.

The father, who is a policeman, tries to attend support groups and tries his best to find his way out.

His wife goes on the unconventional path and puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations to deal with her loss.

21

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
PG
imdb icon7
IMDb Rating7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating93
Metacritic Rating53

DramaHorrorMystery

Director:

Nicolas Gessner

Release Date:

Wed Jan 26 1977

Star Cast:

Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith

Budget:

CA$1,100,000 (estimated)

Casting
Fair
Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Sound
Average

The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane is an American suspense film. It is based on a novel of the same name written by Laird Koenig.

When the film was released, it raised quite a controversy over the apparent nude scenes in the film. However, the film was praised for Jodie Foster's acting.

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane has been viewed by critics as a film about children’s rights.

A young girl of 13 years is living in a small house down the lane. Her father is constantly absent and this gives an opportunity for the landlady and her son to harass the child for seemingly minor things.

As the film progresses, we are shown that the girl’s father has died and left her with a bottle of cyanide to protect her from the unscrupulous mother.

22

Bringing Out the Dead

Bringing Out the Dead
R
imdb icon6.8
IMDb Rating6.8
Rotten Tomatoes Rating73
Metacritic Rating72

DramaThriller

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Release Date:

Fri Oct 22 1999

Star Cast:

Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman

Budget:

$55,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$16,797,191

Cinematography
Fair
Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

Bringing Out The Dead is a film by Martin Scorsese based on a novel of the same name written by Joe Connelly.

The film was received well by critics who have praised the work of Scorsese and Nicholas Cage. However, the audience was not able to connect with the film.

The story is about a New York City paramedic who is bogged down by his recent spate of unsuccessful cases.

He has been dispatched with multiple partners to different emergencies that have resulted in varying degrees of failure. He starts to drink and hallucinate in unclear situations.

The reason for his depression could be his failure to save people, but what brought it on and what cures it is unclear. In fact, we are not sure if his hallucinations are cured or not.

23

Inland Empire

Inland Empire
R
imdb icon6.8
IMDb Rating6.8
Rotten Tomatoes Rating71
Metacritic Rating73

DramaFantasyMystery

Director:

David Lynch

Release Date:

Wed Feb 7 2007

Star Cast:

Karolina Gruszka, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie

Box Office (Worldwide):

$4,299,667

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

Inland Empire is a David Lynch film that he wrote, directed, and co-produced. The film was hailed by a few critics as a surrealist film that is typical of Lynch films.

Inland Empire was praised as a nuanced, incisive film that devolves into a parody of itself. The film follows a female movie star who gets a script and auditions for it.

Her neighbour assures her that she will succeed in getting the role and tells her that this is a cursed project.

The actress doesn't believe her and begins work on the film. It slowly dawned on the actress that the lines between the film and real life were getting blurred.

Eventually, the actress loses all grip on reality and completely gets immersed in the film script till the director calls for a cut and declares that the filming was done.

24
Quiz about Mother!

Mother!

Mother!
R
imdb icon6.6
IMDb Rating6.6
Rotten Tomatoes Rating69
Metacritic Rating76

DramaHorrorMystery

Director:

Darren Aronofsky

Release Date:

Fri Sep 15 2017

Star Cast:

Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris

Budget:

$30,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$44,516,999

Casting
Fair
Sound
Fair
Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average

Mother! is a psychological horror that was written and directed by Darren Aronofsky. The film was met with generally positive reviews from critics.

It also competed for the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival. However, Mother! Courted controversy with religious groups protesting against biblical allegories.

The film starts with a burned-down house with a beautiful garden surrounding it. In the ruin sits a man who is lamenting the ruin.

The next day, the ruin is reset back into a beautiful house, and the man runs into the bedroom to find his dead wife alive again.

The couple restarts their idyllic life and the man, once again, garners fame and recognition. With this, he starts to have visitors, and the weirdness starts. The film has scenes of extreme violence, adultery, chaos, and confusion.

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A Scanner Darkly

A Scanner Darkly
R
imdb icon7
IMDb Rating7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating68
Metacritic Rating73

AnimationComedyCrime

Director:

Richard Linklater

Release Date:

Fri Jul 28 2006

Star Cast:

Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr.

Budget:

$8,700,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$7,659,918

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

A Scanner Darkly is a Richard Linklater movie that is adapted from the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name.

The film is an adult animated film that was shot in live-action and later converted into animation using an interpolated rotoscope.

The film received positive reviews for Linklater's direction and the performance of the cast, especially Robert Downey Jr. A New York police detective is sent undercover to investigate the widespread use of drugs, particularly the new drug called Substance D.

While undercover, the identities of fellow agents and their handlers have been kept a secret using scrambler suits. As the film progresses, the goalpost keeps moving away as the detective himself becomes addicted to the drug.

There also appear to be many more deep-cover operations that run parallel to his role, making things confusing.

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eXistenZ

eXistenZ
R
imdb icon6.8
IMDb Rating6.8
Rotten Tomatoes Rating74
Metacritic Rating68

HorrorMysterySci-Fi

Director:

David Cronenberg

Release Date:

Fri Apr 23 1999

Star Cast:

Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm

Budget:

$15,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$2,856,712

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

eXistenZ is a science-fiction film that is written, directed, and co-produced by David Cronenberg. The film is about a struggle between virtual reality game designers and realists who oppose the game.

eXistenZ is about assassins, secret agents, double agents, and more. Allegra Geller is a game designer presenting her newly developed game called eXistenZ. Multiple parties set out to sabotage the game.

They even send out assassins to kill her. With the help of a security officer, Ted Pikul, she must set out on a dangerous mission to rescue her game and identify all the enemy parties.

Things get murkier as the film progresses until they are stuck in a diseased game.

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Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus

Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus
Not Rated
imdb icon5.9
IMDb Rating5.9
Rotten Tomatoes Rating83
Metacritic Rating67

AdventureComedyDrama

Director:

Sebastián Silva

Release Date:

Thu Apr 24 2014

Star Cast:

Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Juan Andrés Silva

Box Office (Worldwide):

$223,821

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus Is a film about the trip that a group of youngsters experiences under the influence of a psychotropic drug.

The trip starts with a young American teen who is footloose and fancy-free. He decides to go to Chile along with three Chilean brothers to locate a variety of San Pedro Cactus.

Using this cactus, the four men plan to make a psychotropic drug. But a fifth person tags along who is a new-age hippie who quickly gets on to their last nerve.

After experiencing a series of comedic events, the group coalesces and finds peace. The critics gave favourable reviews to the movie.

They felt that Michael Cera was adorable as a self-absorbed youth, and the director kept the movie together perfectly.

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Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder
R
imdb icon7.4
IMDb Rating7.4
Rotten Tomatoes Rating72
Metacritic Rating62

DramaHorrorMystery

Director:

Adrian Lyne

Release Date:

Fri Nov 2 1990

Star Cast:

Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello

Budget:

$25,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$26,118,851

Sound
Fair
Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average

Jacob’s Ladder is a psychological horror written by Bruce Joel Rubin. The film is a story of the ordeals of a Vietnam war veteran that slowly descends into a chaos of hallucinations, reality, and dreams.

By the end of the movie, we see light at the end of the tunnel, but the experience is nerve-wracking.

Jacob is a Vietnam War veteran trying to overcome the after-effects of his brutal war experiences. He keeps hallucinating about his days with his unit and trying to piece together the reasons for his condition.

To add to his ordeal, Jacob also starts seeing his dead son and family. As the hallucinations get more insane and his grip on reality becomes tenuous, Jacob receives help from his friend, who shows him the way out of this hell.

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Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch
R
imdb icon6.9
IMDb Rating6.9
Rotten Tomatoes Rating71
Metacritic Rating67

Drama

Director:

David Cronenberg

Release Date:

Fri Apr 24 1992

Star Cast:

Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm

Budget:

$16,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$2,641,357

Direction
Fair
Cinematography
Fair
Screenplay
Fair
Casting
Fair
Visual
Average
Sound
Average

Naked Lunch is another David Cronenberg film that he directed and wrote based on a novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs.

The film became a cult classic, despite its dismal performance at the box office. The film received good reviews from critics and also won honours for direction.

The film chronicles the effects of overexposure to insecticide on an exterminator. He starts to get addicted to the use of the insecticide and has hallucinations.

He sees that most of the people in his life are undercover bugs who are working for a secret organization. They offer him secret missions that involve killing people and recording extensive mission logs.

30

Swiss Army Man

Swiss Army Man
R
imdb icon6.9
IMDb Rating6.9
Rotten Tomatoes Rating73
Metacritic Rating64

ComedyDramaFantasy

Director:

Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

Release Date:

Fri Jul 1 2016

Star Cast:

Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Budget:

$3,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$4,935,501

Casting
Fair
Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Sound
Average

Swiss Army Man is described as an absurd black comedy. The film was made by debutant directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who also wrote the story.

The film received positive reviews, with many critics calling the movie odd and well-acted with a deeply dark sense of humour.

A man is marooned on a deserted island and stumbles upon a corpse that washes ashore. The body is weirdly flatulent.

The man uses this to jet ski onto a bigger island. Feeling grateful for the corpse, he pulls it along with him. As the film progresses, the man realizes that the corpse has many more weird powers that are useful, entertaining, and awkward.

The corpse slowly starts to learn how to speak and learns to be civilized. However, he is not up to the task of being integrated into society.

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Quiz about Silent Running

Silent Running

Silent Running
G
imdb icon6.6
IMDb Rating6.6
Rotten Tomatoes Rating71
Metacritic Rating67

DramaSci-Fi

Director:

Douglas Trumbull

Release Date:

Fri Mar 10 1972

Star Cast:

Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin

Budget:

$1,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$336

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

Silent Running is an environment-themed post-apocalyptic film. Earth has been ravaged by decades of environmental neglect. To save the flora and fauna, as many plants and animals as possible have been kept in geodesic domes that are attached to large spaceships and stationed in an orbit outside Saturn.

A group of researchers, including a botanist, are left to take care of the various plants and animals. As the situation on Earth deteriorates, an executive decision is made to abandon all plants and animals and use the spaceship elsewhere.

This disturbs the botanist, who revolts and wreaks havoc on the spaceship. The film starts out as an ecological-themed film, but it meanders and loses track.

It does not reach its potential and falls short on many counts. Yet, it is a unique theme that was previously overlooked.

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Quiz about Enemy

Enemy

Enemy
R
imdb icon6.9
IMDb Rating6.9
Rotten Tomatoes Rating71
Metacritic Rating61

DramaMysteryThriller

Director:

Denis Villeneuve

Release Date:

Thu Feb 6 2014

Star Cast:

Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon

Box Office (Worldwide):

$3,468,224

Direction
Fair
Cinematography
Fair
Casting
Fair
Visual
Average
Screenplay
Average
Sound
Average

Enemy is a psychological drama directed by Denis Villeneuve. It is based on the novel titled, The Double by José Saramago.

The film received favourable reviews from critics and the audience alike. The style, picturization, ambience, etc., were all compared to the work of David Lynch.

The film starts with a history professor who leads a mundane life that lacks change or novelty. One day, he discovers a movie that stars a person who looks like him, and this intrigues him.

He obsessively follows that guy and tries to meet him. When he does meet the look-alike, the professor realizes that nothing is the same anymore.

It starts to dawn on him that he might have a look-alike after all, and both characters are different personalities of the same person.

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The Congress

The Congress
Not Rated
imdb icon6.4
IMDb Rating6.4
Rotten Tomatoes Rating73
Metacritic Rating63

AnimationDramaSci-Fi

Director:

Ari Folman

Release Date:

Thu Jul 24 2014

Star Cast:

Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Jon Hamm

Budget:

PLN 34,148,170 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$758,754

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

The Congress is a film based on the novel The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem. The film is science-fiction about a world where the lines between the real world and the animated world are all blurred with the help of questionable technology.

The film follows the life of an ageing actress who is also a mother, struggling to keep her son safe from his illness.

Initially, in need of money, she agrees to sell her image as an animation that acts in films. As technology progresses, the boundaries between the real world and computer animation blur, and human identity gets lost.

The world becomes a dystopian society where reality is dismal and animation reigns.

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The Happiness of the Katakuris

The Happiness of the Katakuris
R
imdb icon6.9
IMDb Rating6.9
Rotten Tomatoes Rating69
Metacritic Rating60

ComedyFantasyHorror

Director:

Takashi Miike

Release Date:

Sat Feb 23 2002

Star Cast:

Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda

Budget:

$1,500,000 (estimated)

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

The Happiness of the Katakuris is a 2001 Japanese musical comedy horror film directed by Takashi Miike, with screenplay by Kikumi Yamagishi. It is loosely based on the South Korean film The Quiet Family.

The plot follows the Katakuri family, who opens a rustic mountain inn after the patriarch, Masao, is fired from his job. However, their plans to start a new life are quickly derailed when their guests start dying in strange and gruesome ways.

The film is a dark and disturbing comedy that is not for the faint of heart. It is full of violence and gore, but it is also surprisingly funny and heartwarming. The Katakuri family is a dysfunctional but lovable bunch, and their attempts to keep their inn running are both hilarious and heartbreaking.
 

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Beau Is Afraid

Beau Is Afraid
R
imdb icon6.8
IMDb Rating6.8
Rotten Tomatoes Rating67
Metacritic Rating63

ComedyDramaHorror

Director:

Ari Aster

Release Date:

Fri Apr 21 2023

Star Cast:

Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan

Budget:

$35,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$11,480,078

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

Beau Is Afraid is a 2023 psychological horror film made by Ari Aster. Director Ari Aster crafts a visually stunning and deeply unsettling world, blurring the lines between reality and delusion as Beau's grip on sanity starts to slip. 

Joaquin Phoenix stars as Beau, a man haunted by his childhood trauma and debilitating anxiety. As he embarks on a surreal and nightmarish journey after the death of his mother, Beau confronts his deepest fears and darkest secrets.The film takes a deep dive into Beau's fractured psyche, exploring the themes of family dysfunction, generational trauma, and the power of fear. 

"Beau Is Afraid" is a mind-bending cinematic experience that will challenge viewers' perceptions and leave them questioning the very nature of reality.

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The American Astronaut

The American Astronaut
Not Rated
imdb icon6.9
IMDb Rating6.9
Rotten Tomatoes Rating63
Metacritic Rating51

MusicalComedySci-Fi

Director:

Cory McAbee

Release Date:

Sat Jan 20 2001

Star Cast:

Cory McAbee, Rocco Sisto, Gregory Russell Cook

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

The American Astronaut is a science-fiction film that was written and directed by Cory McAbee. The film has a plot that is built on the premise that space travel is a job or hard labour that was created for manual labourers and not an intellectual pursuit.

An astronaut, Samuel Curtis, does the job of delivering and undertaking missions from different planets in the solar system.

While on a mission to locate a boy who saw a woman, Samuel Curtis realizes that all women are confined to the planet Venus. At the same time, another person is hunting him down on a mission to kill him.

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Onibaba

Onibaba
Not Rated
imdb icon7.9
IMDb Rating7.9
Rotten Tomatoes Rating90
Metacritic Rating-

DramaHorrorThriller

Director:

Kaneto Shindô

Release Date:

Thu Feb 4 1965

Star Cast:

Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô

Cinematography
Fair
Casting
Fair
Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Screenplay
Average
Sound
Average

Onibaba is a Japanese period film that is set in 14th-century Japan. It was written and directed by Kaneto Shindo, and he used his usual cast of stage play performers for the movie too.

The film opens with a country that is at war, resulting in a shortage of food and money. Most men have been drafted into the army, but they are deserting the war and stealing food from farmers.

In these tough times, a mother and daughter-in-law pair resort to killing soldiers and stealing their belongings. One day the neighbour returns from war and shows a liking for the daughter-in-law.

This makes the old woman angry and jealous. She encounters a lone samurai, wearing an oni mask of jealousy, and she kills him.

Using this mask, the old woman scares the younger woman, but the mask refuses to come off.

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Phase IV

Phase IV
PG
imdb icon6.4
IMDb Rating6.4
Rotten Tomatoes Rating50
Metacritic Rating49

HorrorSci-FiThriller

Director:

Saul Bass

Star Cast:

Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick

Box Office (Worldwide):

$289

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

Phase IV is a science-fiction horror film made by Saul Bass. It was the only feature film directed by him and was inspired by the short story Empire of the Ants, by H. G. Wells.

The film was a flop, but it gained a cult following after it was telecast during the KTMA era. The story starts with an unexplained cosmic event that affects the ants, and they start to develop a superior intellect.

Coupled with their hive mentality, they aggressively engage hums in the desert of Arizona and start to take over the place.

The film received mixed reactions, with critics calling it a monster film and a film where special effects take precedence over the story.

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The Perfect Host

The Perfect Host
R
imdb icon6.7
IMDb Rating6.7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating44
Metacritic Rating48

ComedyCrimeThriller

Director:

Nicholas Tomnay

Release Date:

Sat May 7 2011

Star Cast:

David Hyde Pierce, Clayne Crawford, Nathaniel Parker

Budget:

$500,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$453,708

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

The Perfect Host is a black comedy and crime thriller. It was written and directed by Nicholas Tomnay, based on a short film that he made earlier.

The film received mixed reviews. The story was initially engaging but lost its way towards the end. A bank robber is trying to escape the police who have issued warnings and notices on TV and radio.

While he is trying to look for a hideout, the robber stumbles into the house of a strange man, who is preparing for a dinner party.

Although he finds shelter in the house, the robber finds the host’s behaviour to be odd. Soon, it is revealed that the host is hosting a party with all imaginary people who turn out to be murder victims, and the robber has been drugged with no way to escape.

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Quiz about Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Not Rated
imdb icon6.9
IMDb Rating6.9
Rotten Tomatoes Rating82
Metacritic Rating-

HorrorSci-Fi

Director:

Shin'ya Tsukamoto

Release Date:

Sat Jul 1 1989

Star Cast:

Tomorô Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a Japanese body horror that was written, directed, produced, and edited by Shinya Tsukamoto.

He is known for making low-budget, underground productions that have a massive following in Japan and around the world.

The film revolves around a metal fetishist who can mysteriously survive and function with plates of metal inserted into his body.

On one occasion, he is overrun by a car and appears to be dead. The man driving the car panics and goes away from there.

However, the driver realizes that slowly his body is transforming into a metallic body. His body parts are either encased in metal or turned into a metal object, and he is unable to escape or do anything about it.

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Mandy

Mandy
Not Rated
imdb icon6.5
IMDb Rating6.5
Rotten Tomatoes Rating-
Metacritic Rating82

ActionFantasyHorror

Director:

Panos Cosmatos

Release Date:

Fri Sep 14 2018

Star Cast:

Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache

Budget:

$6,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$1,653,784

Casting
Fair
Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Sound
Average

Mandy is a drug-fueled gore fest with revenge as the main theme. A logger and his artist girlfriend are leading a simple idyllic life, far from the bustling city.

A sinister cult moves into the neighbourhood, and the cult leader takes a liking to the girlfriend. With the help of a drug-dealing MC gang, the cult leader captures and kills her.

The logger who has witnessed all this flies into a rage and exacts his revenge on the MC gang and the cult.

It is a John Wick-style movie but is much more chaotic, gory, and drug-fueled. The performance of Nicholas Cage was praised, and the story was also appreciated, but the film did not do well.

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Quiz about Gummo

Gummo

Gummo
R
imdb icon6.6
IMDb Rating6.6
Rotten Tomatoes Rating38
Metacritic Rating19

ComedyDrama

Director:

Harmony Korine

Release Date:

Mon Nov 24 1997

Star Cast:

Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Lara Tosh

Budget:

$1,300,000 (estimated)

Box Office (Worldwide):

$116,799

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

Gummo is an experimental film that is set in a small town in midwestern America. The town has been torn by a devastating tornado and the signs of decay are everywhere.

The townsfolk who remain are stuck in poverty and lack civic amenities like police, governance, or even medicines. The youth start to pass the time by indulging in various illegal, immoral, and unethical behaviours.

The director, Harmony Korine tried to make a stylized film that shows everything that is wrong with the youth without making excuses or romanticizing it.

The story is filled with themes like drug abuse, homophobia, racism, prostitution, sexual abuse, suicide, sadness, animal cruelty, and more.

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Figures in a Landscape

Figures in a Landscape
R
imdb icon6.5
IMDb Rating6.5
Rotten Tomatoes Rating47
Metacritic Rating-

ActionThriller

Director:

Joseph Losey

Release Date:

Mon Mar 22 1971

Star Cast:

Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell, Andy Bradford

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

Figures in The Landscape is an action thriller that raises more questions than answers. It is based on a novel of the same name written by Barry England.

The film follows the struggle of two men who are trying to escape something or someone. They are constantly chased by a mysterious black helicopter.

Out of the two men who are escaping, one of them is a leader who is more aggressive with a fighting spirit, while the other wants to escape with minimum violence and appears to be a pacifist.

We are not given any clear indication about the identity of the escapees, their backstory, or their reason for escape. We are also not given any lead on who is the pursuer and if they are the good guys or the bad guys.

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The Grapes of Death

The Grapes of Death
R
imdb icon6.1
IMDb Rating6.1
Rotten Tomatoes Rating48
Metacritic Rating-

Horror

Director:

Jean Rollin

Release Date:

Wed Jul 5 1978

Star Cast:

Marie-Georges Pascal, Félix Marten, Serge Marquand

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

The Grapes of Death is a French horror film with a weird logic and ending. The film is set in a vineyard where an experimental new pesticide is used on the grapes.

Soon, we see groups of people with boils on their faces and bodies who turn violent and kill others.

A young woman inadvertently comes upon this situation and has a long struggle to get to the root of the problem.

After she finds the cause, inexplicably, she adds to the problem by killing the only other normal people with her. The film is a combination of surreal atmosphere, blood, gore, and weirdness.

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The Grandmother

The Grandmother
R
imdb icon5.9
IMDb Rating5.9
Rotten Tomatoes Rating34
Metacritic Rating-

Horror

Director:

Paco Plaza

Release Date:

Fri Jan 28 2022

Star Cast:

Almudena Amor, Vera Valdez, Karina Kolokolchykova

Box Office (Worldwide):

$3,033,653

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

The Grandmother is a wildly imaginative film written and directed by David Lynch. It is a combination of live-action and animation with no dialogue.

We can only find intermittent rants of gibberish to convey the mood or emotion of the scene. It is a short film, but it became pivotal in helping David Lynch earn a scholarship to join the AFI's Center for Advanced Film Studies/ A young boy lives with his abusive and neglectful parents.

Even though his situation is not ideal, he has a very strong imagination. The young boy finds a bag of seeds in his house and plants them in the middle of a single bed.

As the plant grows, it fruits to a grandmother who is always smiling and approving of him. It only remains to see if his grandmother is helpful to the kid in overcoming all the abuse of his parents.

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The Hourglass Sanatorium

The Hourglass Sanatorium
imdb icon7.5
IMDb Rating7.5
Rotten Tomatoes Rating-
Metacritic Rating-

DramaFantasyHorror

Director:

Wojciech Has

Release Date:

Wed Dec 12 1973

Star Cast:

Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

The Hourglass Sanatorium is a surrealist film by the Polish director Wojciech Jerzy Has. The film is the adaptation of Bruno Schulz's story collection Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass.

It is well-known in Western countries with the name The Sandglass. The film takes us on a bizarre, fantastical journey with Joseph, who comes to visit his dying father in the sanatorium.

The condition of the dilapidated sanatorium shocks him, but the fact that time passes differently in this place is the main surprise.

He starts to behave like a child and relives his childhood memories. The film was not appreciated by the Polish people as alluded to their difficult past with Jews.

The film's Jewish characters and the holocaust imagery were not to the taste of the Polish government.

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The Man Who Haunted Himself

The Man Who Haunted Himself
PG
imdb icon6.4
IMDb Rating6.4
Rotten Tomatoes Rating-
Metacritic Rating-

DramaMysteryThriller

Director:

Basil Dearden

Release Date:

Thu Sep 2 1971

Star Cast:

Roger Moore, Hildegard Neil, Alastair Mackenzie

Budget:

£400,000 (estimated)

Direction
Average
Visual
Average
Cinematography
Average
Screenplay
Average
Casting
Average
Sound
Average

The Man Who Haunted Himself is a psychological thriller based on the novel titled The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham,  written by Anthony Armstrong.

Roger Moore starred in the lead role, and he considered the movie his favourite film ever. Critics also agreed that this film was his best film apart from the Bond movies.

The story of the film is similar to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in some ways. Mr. Pelham is a creature of habit and strictly follows his mundane life.

After an unusual car accident, the life of Mr. Pelham is turned chaotic with events that he cannot recollect that involve him.

He starts to behave uncharacteristically and identifies that he has a doppelganger who has taken over his life. How all this happened and why adds to the weirdness and suspense of the film.

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