Subgenre Sampler
Cult: 1365 Films to Buy & Rent
Saragossa Manuscript, The (1965)
- Dir. Wojciech Has
Feat. Zbigniew Cybulski
- Captivating Polish oddity with a labyrinthine plot involving the discovery of a book which reveals all manner of beguiling…
Shooting, The (1965)
- Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates, Millie Perkins
- Avant–garde cowboy tale co–written by and featuring a typically crazed performance from Jack Nicholson, plus a memorable and unexpected…
Simon of the Desert (1965)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal, Claudio Brook
- A short surrealist fantasy concerning the life of Simon Stylites (Claudio Brook), an early Christian ascetic, who stood for years atop a column in…
Tattooed Life, A (Irezumi ichidai) (1965)
- Dir. Seijun Suzuki
Feat. Hideki Takahashi
- Rare period excursion for dir. Seijun Suzuki trades pistols for samurai swords, but not much else as dir’s lurid aesthetic and heady production…
Tomb of Ligeia (1965)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Vincent Price
- The last of the director's Poe interpretations is one the most memorable. Effective use is made of the eerie English locations and Vincent Price's…
Village of the Giants (1965)
- Dir. Bert I. Gordon
Feat. Ron Howard, Beau Bridges
- From the brainchild of Bert I. Gordon, an atomic monster and ‘giant’ movie specialist who did a lot of his own special effects, comes this gaudy…
Dead Ringer (1964)
- Dir. Paul Henreid
Feat. Bette Davis
- Enjoyable, high camp star vehicle for Bette Davis who is driven by jealousy to murder her twin sister in order to assume her identity. Bette, of…
Evil of Frankenstein, The (1964)
- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, Duncan Lamont, David Hutcheson
- Number three in the renowned Hammer horror Frankenstein series set in an isolated castle. The Baron (Cushing) and his assistant, in need of help to…
Fistful of Dollars, A (1964)
- Dir. Sergio Leone
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonte
- Perhaps the most famous of the spaghetti Westerns, with Clint Eastwood influencing a generation of tough guy anti–heroes with his formidable,…
Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films (1964-1992)
- Dir. Jan Svankmajer
- A superb, forty–year anthology of the terrifying, eccentric short films of Jan Svankmajer, the influential and cutting edge Czech…