Up! (1976)
67%
“Motorpsycho and Up! represent two very different tendencies within the Meyer filmography.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 23, 2025
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Motorpsycho (1965)
71%
“Motorpsycho and Up! represent two very different tendencies within the Meyer filmography.” –
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Apr 23, 2025
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Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
88%
“Lucio Fulci’s 1972 film is a haunting examination of guilt, innocence, and repression.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 21, 2025
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Supervixens (1975)
49%
“Supervixens pushes past the absurd and straight into the realm of pure surrealism.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 10, 2025
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Night Moves (1975)
86%
“Arthur Penn’s Night Moves is one of the great revisionist noirs, taking its place alongside Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Roman Polanski’s Chinatown. ” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 25, 2025
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The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)
“Beneath all the japery, there are some serious matters that are being sent up.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 18, 2025
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The Golden Fern (1963)
“Jiří Weiss’s film is a haunting fable about arrogance and infidelity.” –
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Mar 13, 2025
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Performance (1970)
81%
“The film remains a beguiling time capsule—sensual, cerebral, both ode to and threnody for a very specific time and place.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 4, 2025
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Felidae (1994)
“Gorgeous, gruesome, and slightly surreal, the German animated feature Felidae examines hefty sociopolitical issues through the lens of familiar genre tropes.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 11, 2025
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Torso (1973)
60%
“Torso is a top-shelf giallo that also clearly paved the way for the rise of the slasher film.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 11, 2024
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Long Live Death (1971)
“Fernando Arrabal’s Viva la Muerte embodies the surrealist desire to meld the real and the dreamlike in the filmmaker’s recollections of his youth during the Spanish Civil War.
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Slant Magazine
Sep 4, 2024
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Five Minutes to Live (1961)
“Bill Karn’s Door-to-Door Maniac is a fever dream of a heist film that features a ferocious turn from country music icon Johnny Cash.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 28, 2024
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Squirm (1976)
31%
“Striking a delicate balance between funny and truly creepy, Jeff Lieberman’s Squirm is an engaging entry in the animal-attack subgenre that was all the rage in the mid-1970s.
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Slant Magazine
Aug 21, 2024
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Bad Company (1972)
84%
“Robert Benton’s Bad Company is a downbeat revisionist western that deflates generic mythmaking while also saying a few choice things about its own day.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 15, 2024
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Welcome to Spring Break (1989)
“Umberto Lenzi’s Nightmare Beach is a gonzo slice of late-’80s Italian horror, replete with gory killings and surreal narrative non sequiturs.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 13, 2024
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The Conversation (1974)
93%
4/4
“A shout-out to Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-up, The Conversation perfectly encapsulates the disaffection, alienation, and paranoia infecting America’s body politic in the era of Watergate.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 5, 2024
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Ruslan and Ludmilla (1972)
“Aleksandr Ptushko’s final film, Ruslan and Ludmila, is a gorgeously rendered fable about the salvific power of love, fidelity, and patriotism.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 4, 2024
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Case of the Bloody Iris (1973)
“Giulian Carnimeo’s The Case of the Bloody Iris is a quintessential giallo, stylishly assembled, and with something to say about race and gender in the Italian society of the 1970s.
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Slant Magazine
Jun 19, 2024
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Kin-Dza-Dza! (1986)
“Bittersweet satire posing as postapocalyptic science fiction, Georgiy Daneliya’s Kin-dza-dza! has as much to say about today as it does the last gasps of the Soviet Union.” –
Slant Magazine
Jun 12, 2024
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Cry Baby (1990)
73%
“Packed with catchy musical numbers, John Waters’s Cry-Baby is a riotous satire of ’50s teen idol and JD films that still has something to say about class in America.
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Slant Magazine
Jun 7, 2024
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Peeping Tom (1960)
96%
“Michael Powell’s elegant and disturbing Peeping Tom turns its camera eye on an unhealthy obsession with all things cinematic.” –
Slant Magazine
May 24, 2024
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Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
“The play of fact and fiction in Goodbye Uncle Tom is like two mirrors, both true and untrue, reflecting each other into an infinite abyss.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 15, 2024
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Night of the Blood Monster (1969)
“Jess Franco’s The Bloody Judge, a.k.a. Night of the Blood Monster, splits the difference between period-drama gravitas and exploitation-film titillation.
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Slant Magazine
Apr 9, 2024
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Dark Water (2002)
84%
“Suffused with a haunting mood of melancholy, Nakata Hideo’s J-horror classic Dark Water examines recurrent cycles of familial and institutional negligence.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 7, 2024
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What! (1963)
80%
“Mario Bava’s The Whip and the Body is a gorgeously stylized gothic ghost story, replete with kinky sex, fiery passions, and coldblooded murder.
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Slant Magazine
Apr 2, 2024
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