Avant-Garde/Experimental Horror films
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- DirectorNicolas Winding RefnStarsElle FanningChristina HendricksKeanu ReevesAn aspiring model, Jesse, is new to Los Angeles. However, her beauty and youth, which generate intense fascination and jealousy within the fashion industry, may prove themselves sinister.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsWillem DafoeCharlotte GainsbourgStorm Acheche SahlstrømA grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack NanceCharlotte StewartAllen JosephHenry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
- DirectorBrian Patrick ButlerStarsNick YoungAlexandra SladeMichael C. BurgessAfter a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.
- DirectorJesse KellerStarsCarr CavenderMolly BeucherConnor SullivanA backstage romance leads a pair of actors down a dark path, as they discover their lives beginning to mirror the story of Shakespeare's bloodiest play.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsSheryl LeeRay WiseMädchen AmickLaura Palmer's harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of Twin Peaks' neighboring town.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko ÔbaA schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAxel JodorowskyBlanca GuerraGuy StockwellA former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".
- DirectorEmiliano Rocha MinterStarsNoé HernándezMaría EvoliDiego GamalielAfter wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they find a man who will make them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world.
- DirectorE. Elias MerhigeStarsBrian SalzbergDonna DempseyStephen Charles BarryPresented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.
- DirectorHarmony KorineStarsRachel KorineBrian KotzurTravis NicholsonFollows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in Nashville, Tennessee.
- DirectorHélène CattetBruno ForzaniStarsCassandra ForêtCharlotte Eugène GuibeaudMarie BosAs a young girl Ana was a rebellious child. She was also tormented by images of death and a shadowy, ominous figure in black. Now an adult, she is once again tormented by shadowy, other-worldly forms.
- DirectorTodd HaynesStarsEdith MeeksLarry MaxwellSusan NormanA boy shoots his father and flies out the window. A man falls in love with a fellow inmate in prison. A doctor accidentally ingests his experimental sex serum, wreaking havoc on the community.
- DirectorHélène CattetBruno ForzaniStarsKlaus TangeUrsula BedenaJoe KoenerReturning home from a business trip to discover his wife missing, a man delves deeper and deeper into a surreal kaleidoscope of half-baked leads, seduction, deceit, and murder. Does anyone in the building know something?
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsMalgorzata BraunekLeszek TeleszynskiJan NowickiSet during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers slaughter a woman, her son, and mother-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The husband decides to join the resistance but at the first meeting the Gestapo kills his go-between and chases him. During his escape he gets into the apartment of a pregnant woman in labor and helps her with the childbirth. He works in the typhus center where he is a guinea pig for lice after being immunized to make more vaccine. He goes to the hospital to end the misery of a man mistaken as him and tortured. He seems to see his own body and is finally reconciled with himself.
- DirectorJay WoelfelStarsNick BaldasareRick KeslerSusan PinskyBen hasn't been able to dream since the deaths of his parents, but as he attempts to make human connections, his nightmares begin to spill over into all of their waking lives.
- DirectorJohn ParkerBruno VeSotaStarsAdrienne BarrettBruno VeSotaBen RosemanThis film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman's nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.
- DirectorHisayasu SatôStarsMisa AikaYumika HayashiMika KiriharaA scientist taints his mother's scientific experiment with his own drug that transforms pain into a pleasurable experience. Unfortunately for the three women involved in the experiment, the drug works a little bit too well.
- DirectorTetsuro TakeuchiStarsGuitar WolfDrum WolfBass WolfOnly legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying earth with an army of zombies.
- DirectorMasato HaradaStarsYûki AmamiAtsuro WatabeEugene HaradaAkira, the young new schoolteacher in town falls for secretive Miki, an older woman who takes care of her family's urn that supposedly holds a forest wolf-spirit, inugami. People soon start disappearing and the town blames Akira.
- DirectorAkio JissôjiAtsushi KanekoHisayasu SatôStarsTadanobu AsanoYûko DaikeChisako HaraThis four-part anthology takes its cue from the short fiction of legendary horror writer Edogawa Rampo.
- DirectorFranco BrocaniStarsNicoletta MachiavelliTina AumontPierre ClémentiBizarre Art Movie which purports to be a 'statement about life'. The longer 120 minutes 35mm. version includes bloody Countess Elizabeth Bathory (here called Marthory), the Frankenstein monster, a really strange Satan, surrealistic King Kong, Attila the Hun, Montezuma, the fearful Minotaur and other hellish characters.
- DirectorJuan Daniel F. MoleroStarsMuki SabogalTeromLiliana AlbornozA teenage misfit spends her first days out of school slacking and experimenting with drugs and cybersex. She meets Junior online, he's an amateur porn dealer on a delusional journey regarding the Mayan Apocalypse and other conspiracy theories. Once they meet in the 'real world' unusual events start to unfold as bizarre characters appear in this contemporary non-love story that portrays a post-modern Lima, an internet glitchy virus, corruption, psychedelia and ancient ruins.
- DirectorFernando BirriStarsTerence HillLidija JuracikIsaac Twen ObuExplores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile, which lasted a very long time. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend.
- DirectorJonathan WeissStarsVictor SlezakAnna JuvanderMichael KirbyA university professor is fascinated with humankind's history of violent self-destruction.
- DirectorMars FargoStarsMars FargoKennedi HobbsReagan KacmarAn incompetent time traveler must team up with his unpredictable alternate self, to fix a paradox which is now slowly destroying the universe.
- DirectorRyan StandfestStarsGeorge BassoClarice BradleyMorris DrapeMister Ricky lives in the basement of a woman he calls "Grammy," who may or may not be poisoning him, thereby creating delusional yearnings within Ricky to channel the spirit of the long-departed "Gramps."
- DirectorAchyut Prashast SinghStarsAchyut Prashast SinghA nearly-reformed psychopathic shooter with a history of violence is assigned to hunt down a psychopathic killer who's on the run and plans to flee the country.
- DirectorGok KimSun KimStarsKim Min-jinA strange and yet unique story about hoodlums who spend most of their times either on gambling or dealing pornography's, high school students who sell their bodies, and prostitutes.
- DirectorMatt HewittStarsRyan AbernathyTravis John AdamsFrankie AlvarezDale Dugay, a young IRS agent who gets a chance for promotion must travel out to the sticks and audit some troublesome locals. The task seems simple, but he soon finds that the natives are a degenerate band of sadistic maniacs.
- DirectorDmitri FrolovStarsOriza TriznyakIgor ArsenyevAleksey FrolovThe film "Nights full moon" shows the tendency of moral decay in society. The main character is torn apart by internal contradictions, leading him to the path of Evil. Bans on self-identification - philosophical, existential, sexual, and then permissiveness spawn a monster that is not aware of its true nature and genuine desires. Throughout the film-trilogy, the protagonist goes through a series of temptations that ruin his soul and lead, after all, to a madhouse. In a general sense, the film allegorically shows the tragic path of the Russian lumpen intellectual, lost between the past and the present, not finding the strength to accept and comprehend the unexpected changes that happened in our country twenty years ago. In the global sense - the tragic circle of Russian history.