The Hellraiser movies are awesome, and this box set is awesome! Weirdly, it was cheaper to import this box set than buying domestically.
Another great box set from Arrow. Tsukamoto’s most famous film, Tetsuo: Iron Man, is on here and it looks amazing. Highly recommended if you like Japanese psychosexual body horror. I’m working my way through watching his other movies and each has been great too!
Beautiful set with extensive booklet, poster, and postcards. The definitive version of the definitive sexy space girl movie!
I know A24 has a US box set of this, but the UK version via Arrow Video has better extras and was cheaper. A modern classic!
This is an unauthorized Joker movie about if the Joker was a trans woman. It was screened once at TIFF and then banned by Warner Bros, so it’s been a long time coming for a home release. I saw it at a “secret screening” with the director/writer/star doing a Q&A at the end—awesome trans movie!
This is a modern movie that was produced using totally analogue/film processes, and it really nails the 70s horror pastiche it’s going for. Also, it’s just a fun movie about a witch killing men.
I think I’m in the right age bracket for this movie to really scare me. Almost no dialogue and super dark the entire time. It’s available on Shudder but, again, the Blu-Ray really does it justice!
I need to replace this box set since it’s just a DVD, but it’s jam packed with a few discs of bonus features. It’s super fun to watch footage of Twin Peaks meetups from ~20 years ago!
One of the GOAT folk horror movies, ‘nuff said. This release includes three cuts of the movie, including the rare Director's Cut which includes previous lost, recently salvaged extra scenes on video tape.
This is one of the great British folk horror movies, along with The Wicker Man. If you like The Wicker Man, you totally gotta see this movie! Unfortunately, Severin only puts this movie up for sale like one day a year, but I emailed them and asked them to sell me a copy and they did. DO NOT GO TO EBAY
Possession might be my favorite movie ever. After I watched it for the first time, I could not stop thinking about it for weeks. It was nearly impossible to watch for a long time… there was a (far inferior) US cut floating around which trimmed out all the psycho-sexual elements (boo!), it wasn’t streaming anywhere for a while, and some versions have a weird color grading that makes everything look greenish. There’s still a notion that it’s Out of Print, so it sells on eBay for crazy prices. Mondo Vision’s version is perfect, so just buy it right from them (officially sold through toufaan).
One of the GOAT 80s horror movies. Directed by Romero, written by Stephen King, with special effects by Savini. Perfection!! And Scream Factory’s release includes a metric ton of special features!
This is a fucked up mixtape of Satan-themed porno from the 1970s, but with the sex removed. Yes, we are watching it just for the plot. Very entertaining, but not for the faint of heart!
This is a modern classic and a must-watch for folk horror fans. Eggers said that A24 messed up the color grading on the US release, so I imported the approved UK version. Annoying, but it looks damn good! Also, great special features as usual!
This is a local film which was super trippy for me to watch since it partially took place in at the venue where I saw the premier. Like, it takes place in this old mausoleum showroom-turned arts venue. And it premiered at that venue, so I was watching all this debauchery on the screen taking place in the same room I was sitting in. It’s a Christmas movie about necrophiles in Philly, check it out!!
This is by the same team that made A Corpse for Christmas, and another local Philly movie. In this one, a cult of women kill their dopey husbands!
This is one of my favorite Halloween movies ever! It recreates the experience of watching a recorded VHS tape off live TV in the 80s (commercials included!). It’s spooky and silly, and a perfect movie to watch with friends in October.
This is the sequel to WNUF and it’s only available on DVD. I saw the premier and the director said that he didn’t want it on streaming because he only wants indie horror fans to see it. He said, “If your favorite movie is The Conjuring, you will not like my movie” and I feel that so much. This takes the same formula as the original WNUF, a VHS recording off a live broadcast, including all the whacky commercials, and brings it into the 90s. I wasn’t around in the 80s, so this movie resonates with me more than the original. Another perfect Halloween movie!
One of my few Not-Horror/Speculative Fiction movies. Classic French New Wave, so super influential.
Classic absurdist-dystopian-sci-fi-comedy. Lots of great special features!
Cronenberg my beloved. This is a gross movie about a writer on bug powder. Total classic!
This movie came to director Robert Altman in a dream, and it totally reflects that. It stars Sissy Spacek (Carrie) and Shelley Duvall (The Shining) and in one of my favorite genres: surrealist movie about women fighting over the same identity, maybe lesbian vampires. Amazing Blu-Ray quality, but unfortunately not many special features.
The best of Cronenberg. It’s about a BDSM video signal that makes you hallucinate. Great special features on this one!
Another rare non-horror/speculative fiction movie in my collection, and another French New Wave. The style in the movie is off the charts! Also, lots of jump cuts, so blame this movie for modern YouTube.
This is easily in my top three movies of all time. A group of girls go to a haunted house. It’s like watching Scooby-Doo on acid. Amazing picture, amazing special features-- including an early Obayashi movie!
This is Out of Print and I don’t really wanna give Polanski any money, so I picked this up on eBay. I’m missing the booklet, but the picture quality is great and there are tons of special features!
This is like the proto-movie for one of my favorite genres: surrealist lesbian vampires fighting over the same identity. This would be a crazy triple feature with 3 Women and Mulholland Drive.
The definitive midnight movie. Tons of special features on this one, including a bunch of early Lynch shorts, animations, and films.
Maybe my favorite Lynch movie? Honestly, it’s perfect, and fits nicely into one of my favorite aforementioned paradigms of lesbian-vampires-fighting-over-the-same-identity.
This might have the best physical props in my whole boutique Blu-ray collection. The booklets and extras are all styled like props from the movie, including a miniature Holy Bible & Russian Phrasebook. Also, it’s a banger movie!
So much darker than the original show, and I love it. Funny story—when I first watched this with my partner, we pirated it. We had heard it was different than the TV show so we prepared ourselves appropriately, but we were so confused. Scenes would pass with seemingly no connection. Was it really that surrealist that there was no coherent plot? No… we accidentally downloaded one of the special features, a featurette of nothing-but deleted scenes edited together. The actual movie makes sense and is awesome!!
Classic movie and one of the GOAT horror flicks. If you haven’t seen this one, do yourself a favor and watch it. It’s in the public domain, so there are versions floating around all over, but Criterion’s is the best. They really cleaned up the picture and it looks awesome. Plus, it’s got a whole disc of bonus features, including an early cut titled Night of Anubis.
Another Lynch banger. Heineken? Fuck that shit! PABST BLUE RIBBON!!
This movie won a whole bunch of awards, and for good reason. It’s super tense the entire time. The packaging for this movie is pretty cool, it’s got a cutout sleeve with morse code of the movie’s title.
Yet another banger from Lynch. The Nu-Metal soundtrack alone makes it worth watching this. The plot is like a moebius strip, it freaking rocks. Great special features as always.
This might be Lynch’s most inaccessible movie. It’s three hours of non-sequitur, and all filmed on a cheap DV camera. Criterion cleaned it up and the movie looks great, but still retains this unnerving budget-quality essence that makes the film famous. This might be Lynch’s scariest too. I love it so much.
