A Double Life (1947)
Mar 13, 2010Mad Shakespearean Actor
George Cukor was one of the legendary Hollywood directors. Here he dives into film noir with Ronald Colman as a stage actor who psychopathically over-identifies with Shakespeare's Othello
Shelley Winters
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Jan 6, 2001Children Pursued by Psycho Preacher
Absolutely extraordinary directorial debut from actor Charles Laughton who transforms the story of an evil preacher (Robert Mitchum) pursuing two children into something approaching a stylised Expressionist fairytale
Wild in the Streets (1968)
Jun 10, 2002Satiric Youth Revolution
Satiric 1960s Youth Revolution film where a rock star becomes US President, reduces the voting age and everyone over thirty is placed in a concentration camp
The Mad Room (1969)
Oct 2, 2024Psycho Film
One among the spate of 1960s psycho films with Stella Stevens dealing with her brother and sister, one of whom is a killer
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
Oct 23, 2024Grand Old Dame Thriller
From the great and overlooked Curtis Harrington, a Grand Old Dames film with Shelley Winters going mad in the Baby Jane vein. This also becomes a modernised retelling of Hansel and Gretel
The Devil’s Daughter (1973)
Nov 18, 2007Satanist Conspiracy
TV movie that copies Rosemary's Baby as closely as copyright will allow with Belinda J. Montgomery encountering Satanists and the realisation she is the devil's daughter
The Tenant (1976)
Jul 2, 2005Apartment Block Paranoia/Identity Exchange
One of Roman Polanski's least recognised films in which he both directs and plays the lead as a mousy man driven to a state of paranoia and the point he loses his identity by the neighbours in a Parisian apartment building
Tentacles (1977)
Jun 11, 2025Giant Octopus
One of the more absurd of the Animals Attack films that sought to cash in on the success of Jaws concerning a giant octopus on the attack
Pete’s Dragon (1977)
Mar 29, 1999Boy and Invisible Dragon/Disney Film
Disney live-action film about a boy and his dragon where the dragon is represented by animation
The Initiation of Sarah (1978)
Dec 15, 2007Sorority Girl's Telekinetic Revenge
A TV movie that has been construed as a blatant copy of Carrie where innocent Kay Lenz moves into a sorority house and finds occult goings-on around her
The Visitor (1979)
May 4, 2003Satan is an Alien/Impregnation
Head-scratchingly strange Italian film that seems made as a crosshatch of 1970s Devil Child films and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Makes no sense in terms of story but worth watching for the bizarreness of its imagery
Alice in Wonderland (1985)
May 3, 2023Alice in Wonderland TV Adaptation
From Irwin Allen, the creator of Lost in Space etc, a tv version of Alice in Wonderland, conceived as an all-star musical that comes out as ponderous and leaden in Allen's hands
Purple People Eater (1988)
Aug 14, 2001Cute Musical Alien
An inanely awful film based on the Sheb Wooley song. This is a really lame copy of E.T. in which a young Neil Patrick Harris forms a band with the title alien
The Silence of the Hams (1994)
Dec 24, 2002Psycho-Thriller Parody
An Airplane/Naked Gun styled parody of The Silence of the Lambs
Raging Angels (1994)
Oct 19, 2002Christian Spiritual War
Christian film in which Sean Patrick Flanery is a recovering rock musician who fights to rescue his girlfriend from the clutches of a music promoter who is the Ant-Christ