Weekly Pick

Week of May 12th - Bad Boy Bubby

DIRECTOR
Rolf de Heer
STARRING
Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill, Nicholas Hope, Carmel Johnson
L.A. Weekly called it "disturbing and compelling," and it was awarded The Grand Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Despite a limited release in America, it would shock and delight audiences to become one of the most daring and controversial cult films of the past decade.

Week of May 5th - Cemetery Man

Cemetery Man

DIRECTOR
Michele Soavi
STARRING
Rupert Everett, Anna Falchi
Rupert Everett (My Best Friend's Wedding) stars as Francesco Dellamorte, a cemetery watchman whose job it is to slaughter the living dead when they rise hungry from their graves. But following a tragic tryst with a lusty young widow (stunning Anna Falchi in one of three sexy roles), Francisco begins to ponder the mysteries of existence.

Week of April 28th - The Orphanage

DIRECTOR
Juan Antonio Bayona
STARRING
Geraldine Chaplin, Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Montserrat Carulla
Award-winning visionary Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy) and acclaimed director J.A. Bayona present a "positively terrifying" (John Anderson, Newsday) new vision of the classic ghost story

Week of April 21st - The Isle

DIRECTOR
Kim Ki-duk
STARRING
Kim Yu-seok
Recalling both the erotic tension and the surrealist imagery of Woman of the Dunes, Kim Ki-duk's film is set near a remote lake where men come far and wide to fish on anchored rafts. Running a little bait-and-tackle shop is the earthy -- almost feral -- young lass Hee-jin (Seoh Jung), who sometimes sells herself for a price to horny fishermen.

Week of April 15th - Wild Zero

DIRECTOR
Takeuchi Tesuro
STARRING
Guitar Wolf
Ace, a rockabilly fan who really wants to be cool, is on his way to seeing his favorite group Guitar Wolf, when a strange thing occurs. Aliens invade the Earth and people start returning to life as flesh eating zombies!

Week of April 7th - The Great Silence

The Great Silence DVD cover

DIRECTOR
Sergio Corbucci
STARRING
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, Vonetta McGee
On an unforgiving, snow-swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski - Nosferatu, For a Few Dollars More) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills.

Week of March 31st - Magic

Magic DVD cover

DIRECTOR
Richard Attenborough
STARRING
Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter, E.J. Andre
Academy Award® winner Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs) is Corky, a painfully shy, failed magician who finds overnight success as a ventriloquist. His brash, foul-mouthed dummy, Fats, becomes a huge nightclub hit.

Week of March 23rd - 13: Game of Death

DIRECTOR
Chukiat Sakweerakul
STARRING
Krissada Terrence, Achita Sikamana
Intense thriller about a man who is given the chance to complete 13 challenges for the chance to win $100 million.

Week of March 17th - From Beyond

From Beyond

DIRECTOR
Stuart Gordon
STARRING
Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel, Ken Foree
H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale of suspense became "a grisly amalgam of sex, shock and satire" (Newsweek) in the hands of the creators of Re-Animator.

Week of March 10th - Alucarda

Alucarda

DIRECTOR
Juan López Moctezuma
STARRING
Claudio Brook, Tina Romero, Susana Kamini, David Silva
The Psychotronic Video Guide describes this film as "the strongest, most imaginative, and visual witch movie since Ken Russell's The Devils.