Guy Maddin Archives

Archangel (1990)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 24, 2025Kitsch Surrealism

The second film from Guy Maddin, which comes with all of his familiar homages to German Expressionism and silent cinema, wrapped up in a surrealist plot of hilarious melodrama and side-splittingly deadpan dialogue

Director: Guy Maddin

Actors: Kyle McCulloch, Sarah Neville, Ari Cohen, Michael O'Sullivan, …

Category: Fantasy

24 November 202524 November 2025 by Roog

Careful (1992)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 14, 2001Kitsch Surrealism

The third film from Guy Maddin film. This feels like a parody/homage to German Expressionism all filmed on deliberately unreal sets and purple dialogue played with an hilarious deadpan

Director: Guy Maddin

Actors: Kyle McCulloch, Brent Neale, Sarah Neville, Victor Cowie, …

Category: Fantasy

14 February 200124 November 2025 by Roog

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)

Rating: ★★★½

Apr 5, 1999Kitsch Surrealism

Another of Guy Maddin's surreal kitsch films all delivered in deadpan prose, this boasts more of a name cast than usual for Maddin

Director: Guy Maddin

Actors: Nigel Whitmey, Pascale Bussieres, R.H. Thomson, Shelley Duvall, …

Category: Fantasy

5 April 199929 March 2021 by Roog

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 8, 2003Dracula Ballet Adaptation

Guy Maddin's reinterpretation of Bram Stoker's Dracula as a ballet and silent movie is an extraordinarily creative work while remaining far more faithful to the original story than many other film versions do

Director: Guy Maddin

Category: Horror

8 August 200314 October 2025 by Roog

The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 25, 2004Kitsch Surrealism

The best budgeted of Guy Maddin's films, a renaissance of his familiar kitsch surrealism and silent movie homages

Director: Guy Maddin

Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney, Maria de Madeiros, David Fox

Category: Fantasy

25 July 200416 January 2024 by Roog

Cowards Bend the Knee, or The Blue Hands (2003)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 29, 2004Surreal Silent Movie Melodrama

Another of the surreal films from Guy Maddin, involving incest, strange love triangles and transplanted hands, all shot of which has been shot as a silent movie

Director: Guy Maddin

Actors: Darcy Fehr, Amy Stewart, Louis Negin, Tara Birtwhistle, …

Category: Fantasy

29 July 200411 January 2026 by Roog

Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)

Rating: ★★★½

Aug 17, 2007Surreal Silent Movie Melodrama

Another of Guy Maddin's silent movie pastiches, all shot in a deadpan style throwing together a hilariously convoluted madcap plot involving child detectives, mad scientists and spy capers

Director: Guy Maddin

Actors: Isabella Rossellini

Category: Fantasy

17 August 200724 November 2025 by Roog

My Winnipeg (2007)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 27, 2008Surreal Documentary

Guy Maddin was hired by the Documentary Channel to make a documentary about his hometown Winnipeg and turns it into a surreal confabulation of fact and tall tale

Director: Guy Maddin

Actors: Ann Savage, Guy Maddin, Darcy Fehr, Amy Stewart, Louis Negin

Category: Fantasy

27 July 200828 October 2024 by Roog

Keyhole (2011)

Rating: ★★

Feb 7, 2012Surrealist Haunted House Film

Disappointment from Guy Maddin where he abandons much of his trademark kitsch surrealism … feels like cross between a haunted house film and a 1940s crime drama as filtered through the indecipherable obscurtianism of the French New Wave

Director: Guy Maddin

Actors: Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier, Louis Negin, …

Category: Fantasy

7 February 201229 October 2024 by Roog

The Forbidden Room (2015)

Rating: ★★★★

Oct 3, 2015Tapestry of Surreal Tall Tales

Guy Maddin has perfected a blend of silent movie stylistics and hilariously surreal melodrama. This is a Guy Maddin film on acid, a sumptuously madcap fantasia of visuals wound around a tapestry of tall tales

Director: Evan Johnson, Guy Maddin

Actors: Roy Dupuis, Udo Kier, Mathieu Amalric, Maria de Madeiros, …

Category: Fantasy

3 October 201525 October 2025 by Roog