A very strange little number which was released, then immediately withdrawn in 1932 to remain banned for over fifty years. Still pretty disturbing today, despite the triumph of the various aesthetically-challenged "freaks" over their so-called normal tormenters, showing the revenge taken by a group of circus freaks on a beautiful trapeze artist and her strongman lover after they have tried to kill a midget for his fortune. find out more...

A death obssessed teenager and a 79 year old woman who lives life to the full gang up together in one of the wittiest black comedies ever made. An inventive, enduring classic which was far ahead of its time. You mean you haven't seen it? find out more...

Veronica is a dissatisfied member of the in-crowd at high school until she meets JD, a cool newcomer to town, and they decide to play a practical joke on the 'queen bee', unaware she's about to become complicit in a series of murders. An offbeat, highly original and very black teen comedy. Brilliant, one to watch. find out more...

The staging of a musical, a romance, a bumbling private eye and a man who keeps wandering on with a pot plant for 'Mrs Jones'! is almost incidental to the speed, imagination and sheer craziness in a film that gives the Marx brothers a run for their money. Justifiably described as ‘Pythonesque', Hellzapoppin is a hugely influential comedy classic that can now be seen as way ahead of its time.. find out more...

Based on Steve Gerber's subversively hilarious comics, this film is not only one of the worst and most expensive films of the 1980s, it's also, perversely, one of the most sought after. Agonisingly ill-conceived this tale of a gobby extra-terrestrial duck reluctantly faced with saving the world is so truly awful it's almost hypnotic…..go on….risk it. find out more...

Brad Pitt is as superficially smooth as the suede of his name, obsessed by the shoes that fall to his feet at the start of the film and a sultry hedonistic girl. But in reality the man behind this cool, hip image must mature and decide what he wants out of life. find out more...

After the apparent death of her husband, King Arald, Karin takes her son Moki to live as peasants in hiding from Hagen, Arald's enemy. A mysterious knife-throwing Viking stranger, Rurik, begins acting as Karin's guardian. Eventually, of course, leading to a brutal showdown with bad man Hagen. find out more...

Ismael is the male at the centre of a ménage-a-trois with his long-time girlfriend Julie and his work colleague Alice, but when you have more than you should the result is often dissatisfaction and it is only the full frontal assault of fate that brings the lives and destinies of all into sharp focus. "Les Chansons d'Amour" is a joyful homage to the French New Wave and Jacques Demy's classic "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", a musical tale of love and longing. Full of knowing references and a cult h find out more...

A 'Leatherface' type murderer who wears other people's faces, kills at an all-night horror-thon at an old theatre put on by a bunch of film students. Maggie, the lead character, believes it's really Lanyard Gates, a crazed film maker who killed his family live on stage fifteen years ago. And now he's back to kill his daughter, Sara, who is believed to really be Maggie. 

 

Superlative horror that blends great diy special effects, cinephilia and frights with aplomb. AN find out more...

Made eight years after Psycho, Perkins again plays a mentally disturbed young man. Just released from an institution for, as a teenager, burning down his aunt's house with her inside, he lives in a fantasy world, pretending he's a CIA agent. This seems to work brilliantly as a chat up line for he picks up a beautiful, but very gullible, all American small town girl. This is a pure mix of Hitchcock and 60s rebellion. Watch it. find out more...