By Anton Bitel
A group of bourgeoise friends attend the strangest dinner party in this late period Buñuel classic.
By Anton Bitel
An intergenerational matriarchy embarks on a crime spree in the late director’s 1975 action-comedy.
By Anton Bitel
The director’s short experimental feature, Lux Æterna, plays like a panic attack before reaching a rapturous crescendo.
By Anton Bitel
The likes of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream owe something to Robert Deubel’s co-ed carve up Girls Nite Out.
By Anton Bitel
Fredric Hobbs' surreal 1973 film sees a giant mutant sheep terrorise the residents of a sleepy town in rural Nevada.
By Anton Bitel
Ethan Hawke stars in this poetic and strange thriller about a military operative chasing multiple threads in Rome.
By Anton Bitel
Kaizo Hayashi’s ’80s crime drama To Sleep So as to Dream is a rich homage to Japan’s cinematic heritage.
By Anton Bitel
Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine and Shunichiro Miki’s offbeat Funky Forest: The First Contact is now available on Blu-ray.
By Anton Bitel
The Duplass brothers’ Baghead, starring Greta Gerwig in one of her first screen roles, is a charming love letter to DIY filmmaking.
By Anton Bitel
Crazy Thunder Road, director Sogo Ishii’s explosive anti-establishment thriller, is dedicated “to all crazy bikers”.
By Anton Bitel
The Italian genre maestro’s final film, 1977’s Shock, is a haunted house horror quite unlike any other.
By Anton Bitel
Renee Harmon is the eponymous Lady Street Fighter in one of the most outrageous exploitation movies ever made.
The late Japanese director explores the twin national disasters of 3.11 and World War Two in an epic series of films.
By Anton Bitel
Richard Benjamin’s hokey My Stepmother is an Alien is an effects-heavy time capsule of ’80s excess.
By Anton Bitel
Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler’s 1998 horror mockumentary The Last Broadcast predates The Blair Witch Project.
By Anton Bitel
The maverick Italian director’s 1976 film Free Hand for a Tough Cop is now available in the UK for the first time.
By Anton Bitel
The Roger Corman-produced Dementia 13 is much more than a quickie Hitchcock ripoff, as this Director’s Cut proves.