![]() | Martin [1977]
Buy used from: £6.94 Romero classic, combining gritty downbeat 70's realism with lush b and w fantasy (or are they?) sequences. Director's most emotional, bleak film.
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![]() | Uzumaki [2000]
Buy used from: £32.99 Japanese oddity.
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![]() | Affliction [1998]
Buy used from: £2.75 Excellent, bleak Schrader. His best film, I think.
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![]() | Affliction [1998]
Buy used from: £3.50 Which version shall I get?
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![]() | Intimacy [2001]
Buy used from: £15.95 Still not seen this one.
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![]() | The Last Of England [1988]
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £5.65 Jarman always at his best with stream-of-consciousness flow of images rather than dealing with actors/dialogue. See also 'The Garden'.
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![]() | Werckmeister Harmonies/Damnation [2001]
Hungarian arthouse bleakness. Only seen 'Damnation' so far - so grim, it makes Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' look like 'Little Women'.
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![]() | The House By The Cemetery [1981]
Buy used from: £1.39 Fulci gruesomeness, featuring the fantastically named Dr. Freudstein. Like a pop-art collage of scenes from other horror movies - as with Argento, totally non-linear/anti-narrative.
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![]() | Nightmare In A Damaged Brain (DVD) [1981]
Buy used from: £1.98 Old school nasty, with that unmistakably grotty 70's grindhouse ambience that films like 'Se7en' ironically tried to replicate using a massive budget.
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![]() | The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue [1974]
Buy used from: £16.95 Atmospheric mid-70's Spanish/British zombie flick - visceral (literally) FX anticipate Dawn/Day of Dead.
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![]() | The Adjuster [1991]
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £13.43 Atom Egoyan's best.
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![]() | Magnolia - Single Disc Set (1999)
Buy new: £6.88 / Used from: £2.92 Bit mainstream - what a sellout I am. Awful music, but often impressive, even though I hated the director's previous effort.
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![]() | Dead Creatures
Buy new: £19.99 / Used from: £0.88 Sounds interesting (like a 'serious' version of 'Shaun of the Dead', i.e. combining kitchen sink realism and horror) - but way too expensive. Who's going to take a chance at that price?
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![]() | Shock Waves [1977] (NTSC)
Creates the kind of unique atmosphere only low budget cinema can achieve.
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![]() | The Homecoming [1973]
Buy used from: £30.97 Very menacing and absorbing Pinter. Beckett with balls.
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![]() | The Birthday Party [1968]
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.93 Well worth seeing this 60's Friedkin version. Scene where Goldberg's head starts spinning round clearly looks forward to 'The Exorcist'.
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![]() | The Machinist [2004]
Buy used from: £1.45 Looking forward to this one coming out on DVD. For fans of Lynch and Polanski. See Brad Anderson's previous 'Session 9' - superbly understated horror. Working on remake of Romero's 'The Crazies' next.
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![]() | Pitfall - Masters of Cinema series
Buy new: £12.67 / Used from: £9.97 Teshigahara/Abe/Takemitsu gem. 'Woman of the Dunes' still best of quartet, I think.
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![]() | God Told Me To
Buy used from: £7.95 Larry Cohen's highly inventive mid-70's micro-budgeter.
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![]() | Carnival Of Souls [1962]
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.99 No collection complete without this. Totally blown away when saw it in the cinema. Keep coming back to 'atmospheric' cliche, but no other way to describe it........
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![]() | The Servant [1963]
Buy used from: £8.00 Losey/Pinter classic. Slightly let down by overblown finale (OTT camera angles and sub-Fellini orgies) - understated first half way more menacing.
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![]() | House Of Sand And Fog [2004]
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.42 OK, there's something a bit MOR, even soap-ish about this downbeat melodrama, but I found it pretty absorbing.
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![]() | Dolores Claiborne [1995]
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.96 Ditto. Far bleaker than the more feelgood Stephen King adaptations 'Shawshank Redemption' and 'Green Mile'.
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![]() | The Door In The Floor [2004]
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.90 Again, another impressive mainstream offering.
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![]() | 3 Modern Classics - The Stepfather / Glengarry Glen Ross / The Last Seduction [1987]
Buy new: £17.99 Haven't seen 'The Stepfather' in ages - but the Mamet film as psychologically brutal as any recent Neil LaBute offering.
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![Uzumaki [2000]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AEAJX3D0L._SL75_.jpg)
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![Werckmeister Harmonies/Damnation [2001]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41K8HXQDJ1L._SL75_.jpg)
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![Nightmare In A Damaged Brain (DVD) [1981]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XQEPCF51L._SL75_.jpg)
![The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue [1974]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510EER0W24L._SL75_.jpg)
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![The Birthday Party [1968]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RQXR6C26L._SL75_.jpg)
![The Machinist [2004]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HFT20HK0L._SL75_.jpg)


![Carnival Of Souls [1962]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CgniISLML._SL75_.jpg)
![The Servant [1963]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41T059PBJ4L._SL75_.jpg)
![House Of Sand And Fog [2004]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415QVMTZ4PL._SL75_.jpg)
![Dolores Claiborne [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413YVYYG0GL._SL75_.jpg)
![The Door In The Floor [2004]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QZ3YY542L._SL75_.jpg)
![3 Modern Classics - The Stepfather / Glengarry Glen Ross / The Last Seduction [1987]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510A1527JSL._SL75_.jpg)
![A Ma Soeur! [2001]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YBVNRBJGL._SL75_.jpg)
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