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- The first printed use of the term "underground film" occurs in a 1957 essay by American film critic Manny Farber, "Underground Films." Farber uses it to refer to the work of directors who "played an anti-art role in Hollywood."
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Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's homage to exploitation double features in the '60s and '70s with two back-to-back cult films that include previews of coming attractions between them.
- Anarchy in The UK: The New Underground Cinema
- Cathedral of New Emotions
- Frozen May
- Merzfrau: Portraits of The Muse, Anna Blume
- Suffering of Ninko
- The Camellia Girl
- Sleep Has Her House
- Still The Earth Moves
- Ten Years in The Sun
- The Kingdom of Shadows
Fabrizio Federico’s most accomplished effort to date is directed by his late alter ego Jett Hollywood who was none other than Ziggy Stardust’s illegitimate son from Mars, according to the happy-go-lucky auteur’s official page. Chronicling the UK’s ‘Misrule Cinema Movement’ boom of the period 2010-2016, this loud, deliberately out-of-tune documentar...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVTMe55QuoA The only fully animated (and the oldest) feature on the list marks the comeback of the psychedelic seventies in the weirdest style possible, resting upon Helmut Herbst’s TV movie The Fantastic World of Matthew Madson (Die phantastische Welt des Matthew Madson, 1974). Focused on the one-time members of a B...
In one step, we move from Germany to Hungary where we are put in the shoes of an unnamed protagonist who struggles to survive in a hostile environment of a bold, patience-testing subversion of the ‘cabin’ subgenre. Face to face with the big Unknown whose presence is sensed all throughout this avant-garde horror, we experience first hand what it fee...
The Scottish wizards of Super 8 processing (in so-called Caffenol) Sarahjane Swan and Roger Simian create their music as The Bird And The Monkey, whereby their cinematic wonders carry the label of AvantKinema. From the mind-boggling debut Alchemikal Sundays to these days, they have delivered a number of ‘miniatures’ showcasing their skills in handc...
What happens when a Buddhist monk strives for enlightenment, but instead keeps sinking in the sultry sea of lust? The answer to this question is offered in a weird genre-bender Suffering of Ninko (Ninkō no junan) which welcomes the audience in the world of alternative Edo-era Japan. In his first (and so far, sole) directorial outing, Norihiro Niwat...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFnnyG-eqxE Another Japanese offering is the ultra-campy adaptation of Suehiro Maruo’s ero guro manga of the same name which was already brought to life by Hiroshi Harada, in a 1992 controversial anime. The Camellia Girl (Shōjo tsubaki) tells the tragic story of a 14-yo orphan, Midori (played by a 27-yo model, Risa N...
Described as ‘the greatest filmmaker of the millennial generation’ by the founder of the Remodernist movement Jesse Richards, the Welsh-born artist Scott Barley is already the master of painting with black. His feature debut Sleep Has Her House – intended to be seen with headphones and lights off like his previous (and highly recommended!) offering...
Pablo Chavarría Gutiérrez is quite possibly the most talented biologist amongst the filmmakers and he has extraordinary films to prove that, his latest opus being the most fascinating of the bunch. Realizing the full potential of cinematic form, he favors associative imagery over all other aspects and defies the norms of dramatic structure, eschews...
One of the most prolific and prominent heralds of Remodernist Movement, the Iranian-born, Ireland-based director Rouzbeh Rashidi has made dozens of short and feature films alike, during his less-than-two-decades-long career. Never working with a script (or a budget), he does manage to conjure impressive images through improvisation and surprise the...
Shot in Portugal, the latest venture by Daniel Fawcett and Clara Pais – the UK’s mavericks of the Underground Film Studio– is a daring surrealist phantasmagoria which borrows from ‘dreams, biblical myths, alchemy and family history’, in the words of its creators. Marrying performative to cinematic art, it provides a unique, oneiric experience and d...
Jan 25, 2021 · From ‘The Room’ to ‘Eraserhead’ to ‘Rocky Horror,’ these are the best movies to ever inspire deep obsession
- The Ringer Staff
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- 694 votes. The Descent. Five female friends take out their sixth friend, who lost her husband and child the year before, on a spelunking adventure.
- 301 votes. Sanctum. In what seems to be an increasingly bad idea, a mixed team of veteran and inexperienced divers/cave explorers, venture into an unexplored cave system in Papua New Guinea.
- 380 votes. As Above, So Below. In this found footage horror film, caves in Iran lead a professor of archaeology, Scarlett Marlowe, to the Catacombs of Paris to find the philosopher's stone.
- 238 votes. The Cave. A team of American spelunkers is hired explore a cave system under a buried Eastern Orthodox abbey. Despite being outfitted with the latest equipment that allows divers to be submerged for up to 24 hours, the spelunkers run into cave-ins, rapids, and unknown creatures.
Jun 28, 2024 · Films about cults display the seductive allure and dangerous consequences of these secretive groups. From psychological horror to unsettling drama, these best cult movies reveal the complexities of human beliefs, ritualistic practices, and the lengths individuals will go in search of a sense of belonging and purpose.
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
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