The Dark, the Bizarre and the Forbidden

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1. Begotten (1989)

Unrated | 72 min | Fantasy, Horror

Presented 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.

Director: E. Elias Merhige | Stars: Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry, James Gandia

Votes: 11,758

2. Mécanix (2003)

70 min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror

Mecanix tells the story of the last human beings who are forced to be the slaves of the strange creatures that rule this strange world.There is only one thing these beasts fear - the embryo... See full summary »

Director: Rémy M. Larochelle | Stars: Stéphane Bilodeau, Julie-Anne Côté, Philippe Chabot

Votes: 165

3. The Dark Planet (1989 Video)

93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Unearthly terror stalks the creatures of The Dark Planet. An anthology, including tentacled horror from the Tower of Blood, a primitive challenges a beast to avenge a murdered mate and a space jockey confronts a master computer.

Directors: Richard Corben, Christopher Wheate | Stars: Bruce Jones, Karen Gilbertson, Richard Corben, Stan Dresser

Votes: 86

4. Debbie Does Damnation (1999 Video)

63 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Debbie goes to hell after she commits suicide. When she gets there she finds herself in the middle of a power struggle. The Devil asks her to get his horns back so that he can regain control of his realm.

Director: Slain Wayne | Stars: Ernest Brummer, Jeanin Lake, Tony Nittoli, Lisa Pete

Votes: 57

5. Flesh of the Void (2017)

77 min | Horror

Death is imminent and meaning absent in this visual exercise of pointless nihilism. A visual experiment of anger and psychosis, captured on all kinds of manipulated film. Pain and anguish ... See full summary »

Director: James Florian Quinn | Stars: Man Without a Face, Kmsura, Dead Flesh, Elektriking

Votes: 166

6. Visions of Suffering (2006 Video)

Not Rated | 120 min | Horror

Demons cross the divide between the world of dreams and waking reality to capture a victim and drag him back to their nightmarish realm.

Director: Andrey Iskanov | Stars: Igor Anikin, Alexandra Batrumova, Yukari Fujimoto, Svyatoslav Iliyasov

Votes: 592

7. Andrey Iskanov's Visions of Suffering (Final Director's Cut) (2016)

126 min | Fantasy, Horror

Andrey Iskanov's Visions of Suffering (Final Director's Cut) (2016) After losing his girlfriend because of his obsession with necrophilia, death and a morbid fascination for decomposing ... See full summary »

Director: Andrey Iskanov | Stars: Victor Silkin, Zoya Alexandrovna Makarova, Julia Vaigel, Anastasia Asafova

Votes: 63

8. Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)

R | 110 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

49 Metascore

Despite being under heavy sedation, a young woman tries to make her way out of the Arboria Institute, a secluded, quasifuturistic commune.

Director: Panos Cosmatos | Stars: Eva Bourne, Michael J Rogers, Scott Hylands, Rondel Reynoldson

Votes: 16,903 | Gross: $0.06M

9. On the Silver Globe (1988)

Unrated | 166 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

72 Metascore

A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.

Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trela, Grazyna Dylag, Waldemar Kownacki

Votes: 4,572

10. Alice (1988)

Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power

Votes: 13,987

11. Stalker (1979)

Not Rated | 162 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

85 Metascore

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko

Votes: 144,765 | Gross: $0.23M

12. Chronopolis (1982)

52 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Weary immortals inhabit a metropolis in the sky and amuse themselves with constructions as they kill time and await whatever comes next.

Director: Piotr Kamler | Star: Michael Lonsdale

Votes: 566

13. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

Not Rated | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Surreal tale in which love, fear, sex, and religion merge into one fantastic world. Based on a classical Czech novel of the same title.

Director: Jaromil Jires | Stars: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva, Jirí Prýmek

Votes: 11,232

14. Faust (1994)

97 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

An ordinary man is lured into a strange puppet theatre by a map and finds himself embroiled in a production of the Faustian legend.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla, Antonin Zacpal

Votes: 4,297

15. Little Otik (2000)

TV-14 | 132 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

74 Metascore

A childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Nový

Votes: 6,877 | Gross: $0.12M

16. We Are the Strange (2007)

Not Rated | 88 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Two outcasts fight for survival in a sinister fantasy world. Their lives are constantly in jeopardy after they're caught in the middle of a deadly battle between bizarre monsters on their way to the ice cream shop.

Director: M. dot Strange | Stars: Chaylon Blancett, David Choe, Stuart Mahoney, Halleh Seddighzadeh

Votes: 655

17. I Am Nightmare (2014)

128 min | Animation, Action, Horror

In a quiet town that never changes, four kids uncover a secret that unleashes a horror like the town has ever seen.

Director: M. dot Strange | Stars: Damon Barry, Anna Brisbin, Richard Grove, Rakel Musicbox

Votes: 63

18. Heart String Marionette (2012)

122 min | Animation, Action

A tale about a kid, a samurai mime, and a stripper who all try to defeat a warlord and an evil clown who have successfully turned a countryside into a never ending nightmare filled with horrible monsters.

Director: M. dot Strange | Stars: JP Anderson, Asil Aceves, Jimmy Urine, Richard Grove

Votes: 202

19. Prometheus' Garden (2008)

28 min | Animation, Short

Inspired by the Greek myth of Prometheus, a Titan who created the first mortals from clay and stole fire from the gods, Prometheus Garden immerses viewers in a cinematic universe unlike any... See full summary »

Director: Bruce Bickford | Stars: Emily Bishton, John Hanford, Bill Jedrzejewski, Gerard Jones

Votes: 132

20. Cas'l (2010)

Not Rated | 48 min | Animation, Fantasy

Mercenaries and other obnoxious brutes are trying to muscle in on the CAS'L' area. They're looking for trouble and find it. Stray energies in the area morph them into grotesque bulbous ... See full summary »

Director: Bruce Bickford

21. November (2017)

115 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

79 Metascore

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

Director: Rainer Sarnet | Stars: Rea Lest, Jörgen Liik, Arvo Kukumägi, Heino Kalm

Votes: 6,034 | Gross: $0.02M

22. Hagazussa (2017)

102 min | Drama, Horror

72 Metascore

After the loss of her tormented mother, the erratic behavior of a 15th century woman living in an isolated mountain village becomes a threat to the safety of her infant child.

Director: Lukas Feigelfeld | Stars: Aleksandra Cwen, Celina Peter, Claudia Martini, Tanja Petrovsky

Votes: 6,983 | Gross: $0.01M

23. Häxan (1922)

Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, Fantasy, Horror

Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.

Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Benjamin Christensen, Elisabeth Christensen, Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan

Votes: 16,723

24. A Field in England (2013)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, History, Horror

73 Metascore

Amid the Civil War in 17th-century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field. Captured by an alchemist, the men are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field.

Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Julian Barratt, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover, Ryan Pope

Votes: 13,996 | Gross: $0.03M

25. The Second Self (2012)

27 min | Short, Horror

A filmmaker, a mysterious box and a doppelganger.

Director: Christopher James Miller | Stars: Erin Blaisdell, Todd Brown, Alanna Burns, Steve Dorfman

26. Ironhorse (2010)

Not Rated | 83 min | Fantasy, Horror, Musical

A mad scientist creates a formula that brings inanimate objects to life.

Director: Christopher James Miller | Stars: Justin Apone, Kit Bateman, Erin Blaisdell, Todd Brown

Votes: 36

27. Ethereal Chrysalis (2011)

10 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror

Enter the multidimensional maze of the Ethereal Chrysalis, where the doors of perception become the annihilation of all rational thoughts.

Director: Syl Disjonk | Stars: Syl Disjonk, Raynald Lapierre, Pierrot Néron, Youri Raymond

Votes: 36

28. Atmo HorroX (2016)

101 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Through a surreal chase of spying, Catafuse, a dubiously dressed creature, hunts humans with the help of Molosstrap. But in a world ruled by the pharma industry, reality become so complex, ... See full summary »

Director: Pat Tremblay | Stars: Roch Desrosiers, Syl Disjonk, Claude Dubé, Pawel Krol

Votes: 50

29. Actium Maximus (2005 Video)

78 min | Sci-Fi

The wretched colony world of Actium is crumbling under the ego of its dictator, Grand-Automaton Polpox. Rebel Laffrodites, a religious minority, are being exterminated in a government run ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Hicks | Stars: Johnathan Daniel McCuin, Mark Hicks, Jennifer Hamil, David Matt Duncan

Votes: 183

30. In the House of the Sin Eater (2007)

Animation, Short

A man mourns his dead wife. He weeps at her bedside. Following Welsh folklore, he performs a ritual that helps the dead release their obligations to this world. He bakes a loaf of bread and... See full summary »

Directors: Matt Acheson, Paul Kloss | Stars: Deana Acheson, Matt Acheson, Oliver Dalzell, Tom Lee

31. The Kingdom of Shadows (2016)

70 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

The Kingdom Of Shadows is a mystical cinematic experience which stirs from the darkness the spirits of our ancestors and reawakens the horror of unresolved crimes and denied desires.

Directors: Daniel Fawcett, Clara Pais | Stars: Joana Castro, Bruno Senune, Rouzbeh Rashidi, Fabrizio Federico

Votes: 15

32. In Search of the Exile (2016)

63 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In this film a lone figure wanders through a mysterious wilderness while hounded by spectres and unseen forces. This is a solitary journey, a path of exile and hardship that leads beyond ... See full summary »

Directors: Daniel Fawcett, Clara Pais | Stars: Joana Castro, Daniel Fawcett, Fabrizio Federico, Clara Pais

33. Savage Witches (2012)

70 min | Fantasy

Savage Witches is a playful, poetic and experimental film about two teenage girls who want nothing but to play games, dress up and have adventures, but when they find themselves in conflict... See full summary »

Directors: Daniel Fawcett, Clara Pais | Stars: Christina Wood, Victoria Smith, Philip Fawcett, Andrew Fawcett

Votes: 12

34. The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes (2004)

Not Rated | 99 min | Animation, Drama, Family

66 Metascore

Dark fairy-tale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay | Stars: Amira Casar, Gottfried John, Assumpta Serna, César Sarachu

Votes: 1,526 | Gross: $0.03M

35. Eclectic Shorts by Eric Leiser (2004 Video)

Not Rated | 107 min | Animation

Eric Leiser displays his boundless creativity in this collectible shorts collection; A stunning compilation of works presented with a mixture of live action, stop motion animation, puppetry... See full summary »

Director: Eric Leiser | Stars: Bunny Lampert, Tania Padilla

Votes: 63

36. Glitch in the Grid (2011)

Not Rated | 82 min | Animation, Drama

Three artists struggling against the grid of society find spiritual renewal.

Director: Eric Leiser | Stars: Jay Masonek, Jeffrey Leiser, Eric Leiser, Travis Bellman

Votes: 78

37. Bobby Yeah (2011)

TV-MA | 23 min | Animation, Short, Horror

Bobby Yeah is a subhuman creature who experiences a series of increasingly bizarre, nightmarish encounters after stealing a malevolent baby's prized pet.

Director: Robert Morgan

Votes: 723

38. Amethyst (I) (2016)

70 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

A girl tragically consumes a full vial of LSD and quickly succumbs to a bizarre fantasy world, with strange beings and a magical obelisk that might be her portal home.

Director: Jared Masters | Stars: Grace Klich, Valerie Miller, Derrick Biedenback, Olivia Yohai

Votes: 58

39. Lunacy (2005)

Not Rated | 118 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

63 Metascore

A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may've predicted.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Jan Tríska, Pavel Liska, Anna Geislerová, Martin Huba

Votes: 3,951 | Gross: $0.05M

40. Marquis (1989)

R | 83 min | Animation, Comedy

The scene is a pre-French Revolution Bastille, where various political prisoners are being held: a woman who was raped and impregnated by the king, a police chief who was accused of selling... See full summary »

Director: Henri Xhonneux | Stars: François Marthouret, Valérie Kling, Michel Robin, Isabelle Wolfe

Votes: 1,525

41. Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)

85 min | Comedy, Drama

Six people unknowingly form a cycle of masturbation as they each cause others to privately indulge in their fetishes.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová, Anna Wetlinská

Votes: 3,684

42. Hard to Be a God (2013)

Not Rated | 177 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

93 Metascore

In the distant future, a space traveler from Earth breaks a special law and interferes with the history of another, Medieval-like planet.

Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Leonid Yarmolnik, Aleksandr Chutko, Yuriy Tsurilo, Evgeniy Gerchakov

Votes: 6,368

43. When Black Birds Fly (2015)

Not Rated | 105 min | Animation, Horror, Mystery

A charismatic leader named Caine demands obedience from the citizens of a town named "Heaven". The town is at peace until two children break his greatest rule: Never venture beyond the town's walls.

Director: Jimmy ScreamerClauz | Stars: J.D. Brown, Brandon Slagle, Devanny Pinn, David Firth

Votes: 350

44. Melancholie der Engel (2009)

Unrated | 158 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Two friends meet again to share their last days in an old house where everything happened a long time ago. They gather a group of people, which results in a disastrous turn of events, during which reveals the deepest human depths.

Director: Marian Dora | Stars: Zenza Raggi, Carsten Frank, Frank Oliver, Janette Weller

Votes: 1,498

45. Where the Dead Go to Die (2012)

Unrated | 95 min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror

A troubled group of children living on the same block are haunted by a talking dog named Labby who brings them on surreal hell-rides between different dimensions and time periods.

Director: Jimmy ScreamerClauz | Stars: Ruby Larocca, Brandon Slagle, Joey Smack, Victor Bonacore

Votes: 1,417

46. Artemis 81 (1981 TV Movie)

185 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

The epic battle for the future of mankind is fought between an angel of light and an angel of death.

Director: Alastair Reid | Stars: Hywel Bennett, Dinah Stabb, Dan O'Herlihy, Sting

Votes: 208

47. Reflections of Evil (2002)

Unrated | 138 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Julie, who died of a PCP overdose as a teen in the early '70s, searches from beyond the ethers for her little brother, Bob, an obese watch-seller, who is dying of sucrose intolerance, in the early '90s.

Director: Damon Packard | Stars: Damon Packard, Nicole Vanderhoff, Beverly Miller, Dean Spunt

Votes: 745

48. Fury of the Demon (2016)

60 min | Documentary, Fantasy, Horror

A documentary investigation on the rarest and most controversial French movie in the history of early cinema: a fascinating, lost and dangerous short film which causes violent reactions to those who watch it.

Director: Fabien Delage | Stars: Alexandre Aja, Dave Alexander, Jean-Jacques Bernard, Christophe Gans

Votes: 1,453

49. The Blood of a Poet (1932)

Not Rated | 55 min | Fantasy

67 Metascore

Told in four episodes - an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.

Director: Jean Cocteau | Stars: Enrique Rivero, Elizabeth Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Odette Talazac

Votes: 7,368

50. The Fallen Word (2013)

60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

In a fantastic quasi Georgian (18th century) world, a fanatical religious sect "The Holy Exaltation" have taken control.

Director: Oliver Harrison | Stars: Julian Bleach, Steve Smith, Will Strange, Jim Conway

Votes: 41

51. Three Fragments of a Lost Tale (2011)

12 min | Animation, Short

A collection of John Frame's fragmented, stop-motion animated vignettes.

Director: John Frame

52. Prayer Cushions of the Flesh (2006)

26 min | Short

Based on Robert Irwin's erotic novel Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh. Set in the shadowy world of a mysterious harem, Prayer Cushions of the Flesh is a dark, erotic fantasy about desire, ... See full summary »

Directors: Magnus Irvin, Ray McNeill | Star: Anne Pigalle

Votes: 5

53. Saint Bernard (2013)

Not Rated | 97 min | Fantasy, Horror

A classical musical conductor unravels into the abyss of insanity.

Director: Gabriel Bartalos | Stars: Jason Dugre, Katy Sullivan, Peter Iasillo Jr., Jack Doroshow

Votes: 200

54. Christmas on Mars (2008)

Not Rated | 83 min | Music, Sci-Fi

Major Syrtis goes insane as he tries to improve morale in an abandoned colony on Mars through a Christmas pageant, where the first colonist baby will be born.

Directors: Wayne Coyne, Bradley Beesley, George Salisbury | Stars: Steven Drozd, Wayne Coyne, Steve Burns, Fred Armisen

Votes: 823

55. The Beast (1975)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In order to inherit a fortune a young woman agrees to marry a young man. She soon discovers that his family harbours a dark past involving a monstrous beast.

Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza, Pierre Benedetti

Votes: 5,347

56. The Sandglass (1973)

124 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.

Director: Wojciech Has | Stars: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska

Votes: 4,968

59. Gallino, the Chicken System (2012)

84 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

An strange meeting at night in a poultry store lost in Antarctica. A story full of lechery, sarcasm, extravagance, impossible geometries, discovery of existence's hidden sides and a pinch of Magick.

Director: Carlos Atanes | Stars: Octavi Pujades, Manel Solás, Sasha Slugina, Pablo Puyol

Votes: 78

60. The Mysteries of Myra (1916)

Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Myra Maynard, is plagued by a wide variety of metaphysical assaults by the corrupt Black Order, a secret organization which uses magic, curses and any supernatural means possible to achieve its ends.

Directors: Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton | Stars: Jean Sothern, Howard Estabrook, Allan Murnane, M.W. Rale

Votes: 33

61. The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (1988)

115 min | Drama, Fantasy

A dream-like odyssey of a young man across plague-ridden 16th century Germany.

Director: Wojciech Has | Stars: Rafal Wieczynski, Michael Lonsdale, Adrianna Biedrzynska, Gabriela Kownacka

Votes: 279

62. Blood Tea and Red String (2006)

Not Rated | 71 min | Animation, Fantasy

73 Metascore

A handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults that tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart's desire.

Director: Christiane Cegavske

Votes: 1,625

63. The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993)

Unrated | 60 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

A boy born the size of a small doll is kidnapped by a genetic lab and must find a way back to his father in this inventive adventure filmed using stop motion animation techniques. Tom meets... See full summary »

Director: Dave Borthwick | Stars: Nick Upton, Deborah Collard, Frank Passingham, John Schofield

Votes: 1,620 | Gross: $0.07M

64. Blood on Méliès' Moon (2016)

125 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

France, 1890. Inventor Louis Le Prince vanishes under mysterious circumstances right after he created a device that, five years later, the Lumière Brothers will call The Cinematographer.

Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Luigi Cozzi, Philippe Beun-Garbe, Alessia Patregnani, Brahim Ahmadouche

Votes: 117

65. Orpheus (1950)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.

Director: Jean Cocteau | Stars: Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares, Marie Déa

Votes: 13,408

66. Testament of Orpheus (1960)

Not Rated | 79 min | Biography, Fantasy

75 Metascore

The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions.

Director: Jean Cocteau | Stars: Jean Cocteau, Françoise Arnoul, Claudine Auger, Charles Aznavour

Votes: 3,736

67. The Cremaster Cycle (2003)

Not Rated | 398 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

The Cremaster Cycle is a series of five feature-length films, together with related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and artist's books, created by American visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney.

Director: Matthew Barney | Star: Matthew Barney

Votes: 291

68. Lyrisch nitraat (1991)

50 min | Documentary

A compilation of scenes from silent films made between 1905 and 1915 that sat in storage in an Amsterdam cinema for many years. The title refers to the deteriorating nitrate film stock used in these films.

Director: Peter Delpeut | Stars: Lyda Borelli, Henny Porten, Anni Timm

Votes: 222

69. Aylaqruh: hurqalyA (2008)

Not Rated | 80 min | Animation

A man takes the form of goat in order to find the meaning of Death in a world overwhelmed by its own ideologies.

Director: Tawd B. Dorenfeld

70. Born of Fire (1987)

R | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A musician searches for the Master Flautist, a supernatural creature who is planning to blow up the world.

Director: Jamil Dehlavi | Stars: Peter Firth, Suzan Crowley, Stefan Kalipha, Orla Pederson

Votes: 650

71. Naked Lunch (1991)

R | 115 min | Drama, Mystery

67 Metascore

After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands

Votes: 56,665 | Gross: $2.54M

72. The Holy Mountain (1973)

16+ | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

76 Metascore

In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders, Juan Ferrara

Votes: 48,054 | Gross: $0.06M

73. Elliot (2017)

Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Elliot is a lonely maintenance worker inside a stark and mysterious power supply complex. His only interactions are with a supervisor named Face who communicates to Elliot via different ... See full summary »

Director: Craig Jacobson | Stars: Joshua Coffy, Cassandra Sechler, Craig Jacobson, Rachel Toups

Votes: 99

74. Flesh City (2019)

84 min | Horror

A young couple stumbles into a dark, incomprehensible world in the basement of a nihilistic night club, opening a portal to mutation and mayhem.

Director: Thorsten Fleisch | Stars: Christian Serritiello, Eva Ferox, Maria Hengge, Helena Prince

Votes: 64

75. Flesh In The Machine (2018 Video)

60 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

In Russia ladybugs are sitting on the lower third of the flag, since they are hiding there like spies in the cables of a computer. Bugs in the machine. On. Off. The mysterious bug ate the ... See full summary »

Director: Cosmotropia de Xam | Stars: Rachel Audrey, Mari K., Günter Schickert

Votes: 7

76. The Book of Birdie (2017)

91 min | Fantasy, Horror

The Strange Events of the Life of Birdie.

Director: Elizabeth E. Schuch | Stars: Ilirida Memedovski, Suzan Crowley, Kymberly Mellen, Kathryn Browning

Votes: 142

77. The Winter (2013)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

When Niko's finances go astray, he hides out in thefamily house in the Greek mountain town of Siatista. Surrounded by ghosts of his past, Niko must uncover the mystery of his father's death.

Director: Konstantinos Koutsoliotas | Stars: Vangelis Mourikis, Efi Papatheodorou, Theo Albanis, Andreas Andreopoulos

Votes: 91

78. La cinquième saison (2012)

93 min | Drama, Mystery

In a scenic Belgian village, nature is turning its back on man. How will the locals cope with this new reality?

Directors: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth | Stars: Aurélia Poirier, Django Schrevens, Sam Louwyck, Gill Vancompernolle

Votes: 1,480

79. El barón contra los Demonios (2006)

96 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

In the closing stages of the 21st Century, an enigmatic warrior, called the Baron, leads the crusade that the religious organization Exorcio Deus Machine is conducting against the forces of... See full summary »

Director: Ricardo Ribelles | Stars: Juan Carlos Romeu, Helena Lecumberri, Alejandro Ribelles, Xavier Bertran

Votes: 183

80. Bella in the Wych Elm (II) (2017)

36 min | Short, Crime, Fantasy

In 1943 a group of boys wondering the woodland of Hagley Hall discovered the remains of an unknown woman stuffed inside a hollowed-out Wych Elm tree. To this day her identity is still ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Lee Rutter | Stars: Barry Anscomb-Moon, Matias Barnes, Peter Grail, Jim Heal

Votes: 29

81. Fool's Fire (1992 TV Movie)

60 min | Drama

A crippled dwarf is forced to become jester to a tyrannical king, but when the king abuses a beautiful dwarf with whom the jester is in love the jester plots a terrible revenge.

Director: Julie Taymor | Stars: Michael J. Anderson, Mireille Mossé, Tom Hewitt, Paul Kandel

Votes: 131

82. The Return of the Näcken (2024)

22 min | Short, Horror

The Return of the Näcken is a gothic horror tale about a lonely water demon and her quest for human souls focusing on the existential anguish of being an enchanted creature doomed to an immortal life filled with grief, isolation, and loss.

Director: Cassandra Sechler | Stars: Cassandra Sechler, Emilie Struthers, Anthony A. Russell, Chanelle Peterson

83. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

Directors: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid | Stars: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid

Votes: 15,206

84. The Grandmother (1970)

Not Rated | 34 min | Animation, Short, Horror

A young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Dorothy McGinnis, Richard White, Virginia Maitland, Robert Chadwick

Votes: 7,357

85. The Alphabet (1969)

TV-MA | 4 min | Animation, Short, Horror

A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

Director: David Lynch | Star: Peggy Reavey

Votes: 8,547

86. Luna (I) (2014)

106 min | Drama, Fantasy

After losing their baby, Grant and Christine visit a friend in his isolated and idyllic sea-side house. Over a long week-end, secrets are revealed and the life of the dead child is lived out in a series of fantastic dreams.

Director: Dave McKean | Stars: Ben Daniels, Dervla Kirwan, Stephanie Leonidas, Michael Maloney

Votes: 309

87. La femme qui se poudre (1972)

18 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror

A study of human anxieties about beauty, youth and objectification.

Director: Patrick Bokanowski | Stars: Jean-Jacques Choul, Jacques Delbosc d'Auzon, Claus-Dieter Reents, Nadine Roussial

Votes: 383

88. L'ange (1982)

64 min | Animation, Fantasy

A surreal, nightmarish collection of imagery.

Director: Patrick Bokanowski | Stars: Maurice Baquet, Jean-Marie Bon, Martine Couture, Jacques Faure

Votes: 634

89. N[eon] (2002)

28 min | Short

A man wanders through a desolate Venice, finding old masks, dead books and a naked ghost.

Director: Dave McKean | Stars: Eileen Daly, Eamonn Collinge, John Cale

Votes: 101

90. Ascension (I) (2002)

108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An unknown creature has murdered the Creator of Universe and unleashed the ability to produce miracles. This ability is now in the hands of human beings who have driven themselves into ... See full summary »

Director: Karim Hussain | Stars: Marie-Josée Croze, Barbara Ulrich, Ilona Elkin, Gregoire Dunlevy

Votes: 504

91. Wireboy (2012)

15 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror

Wireboy is a visual representation of cyberspace, sexual desires, over-stimulation, surveillance, identity, depravity, and corruption. Representation of the self and the future that is ... See full summary »

Director: Cassandra Sechler | Stars: Jill Darnell, Aaron Grobler, Craig Jacobson, Stefano Lima

Votes: 34

92. Lovesick (I) (2018)

8 min | Short, Fantasy

Enter a dying alien's fantasy about having sex as a human. Artist Statement: Lovesick is an abstract analysis of idealization, objectification, and the Other; a dark fantasy peering into ... See full summary »

Director: Cassandra Sechler | Star: Cassandra Sechler

Votes: 32

93. Food (1992)

16+ | 17 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Ludvík Sváb, Bedrich Glaser, Jan Kraus, Pavel Marek

Votes: 3,588

94. The Cat with Hands (2001)

16+ | 4 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy

The dark, surreal story of a cat who wants to be human.

Director: Robert Morgan | Stars: Livy Armstrong, Daniel Hogwood-Kane, Victoria Hayes

Votes: 2,038

95. Tantrum (2015 Video)

35 min | Short, Horror

A man commits suicide and ignites a firestorm of visions from his past, dreams of his future and his twisted desires.

Director: James Bell | Stars: Amanda Bell, James Bell, Brian Papandrea

Votes: 41

97. Nutsack Pt. 1: Lucifer's Cosmonauts (2016 Video)

49 min | Short, Horror

A guy struggling to find his place in life, starts his day looking for a job but finds the world he knew has regressed into a mess of confusion and the only one with the answers is too busy killing everyone.

Director: James Bell | Stars: Lauren Abbott, Amanda Bell, James Bell, Brian Papandrea

Votes: 34

98. South Mill District (2018)

25 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi

Ten years have passed since the alien war, and now the line between human and alien is blurred. The film follows two vagrants who were once subjects of a dangerous experiment involving the assimilation of alien and human DNA.

Director: Joe Meredith | Stars: Toby Johansen, Cidney Meredith, Joe Meredith

Votes: 98

99. Teratomorph (2019)

35 min | Short, Horror

The lethal alien virus known as 'Havoc' has spread beyond the South Mill District, and into the rural outreaches. An infected boy wanders the ravaged region, finding necrotic remains and ... See full summary »

Director: Joe Meredith | Stars: Joe Meredith, Martin Trafford, Cidney Meredith, Toby Johansen

Votes: 49

100. Nutsack (2016)

44 min | Horror

Set in a surreal future where everyone is on drugs and doctors are giving them out in return for body parts. The plot follows a couple (James and Mae Bell) with a deformed drug addicted ... See full summary »

Director: James Bell | Stars: Amanda Bell, James Bell, Zach Hill, Rick Hubble

Votes: 30



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