Average rating: 4.17   83.4% from 6 members


2001 - A Space Odyssey

"Arguably the major cinematic fortean work of the last 25 years -uncompromising in its unwillingness to explain the inexplicable... a clear expression of the fortean notion of an organismic universe." -MC

The Birds

"Hitchcock makes no attempt to explain the bird attacks, nor is the threat ended at the film's conclusion Moments of extreme disquieting strangeness of the sort discussed in surrealist criticism abound." -MC
  • The Birds on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Rod Taylor,  Tippi Hedren,  Jessica Tandy
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In THE BIRDS, Alfred Hitchcock's heart-pounding followup to PSYCHO, the director couples a tone of rigorous morality with dark humor to create a thriller that begins as a light comedy and ends as an apocalyptic allegory. Wealthy, reformed party girl Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) enjoys a brief ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 13,496 members

The Last Wave

"At times, though, it feels like sections of Fort's Book of the Damned realized cinematically -there is an ice fall, black rain, aboriginal magic, weird interconnections, prophetic dreams, apocalypse" -MC (Please note, this is really for Peter Weir's 1978 film which isn't about surfing. -J.)
  • The Last Wave
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A rare glimpse into the world of Long-Boarding with demos and stunt lines from the waves of Malibu.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 43% from 6 members

Picnic At Hanging Rock

"...fascinating as a perception of the psychological and sociological effects of a high strangeness experience. This film can only be described as strange and fits firmly into a new cinematic genre." -MC
  • Picnic At Hanging Rock on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Rachel Roberts,  Dominic Guard,  Helen Morse
    Director: Peter Weir
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Situated somewhere between supernatural horror and lush Victorian melodrama, director Peter Weir's lyrical, enigmatic masterpiece is an imaginative tease. The setting is a proper turn-of-the century Australian boarding school for girls, a suffocating institution built on strict moral codes, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,527 members

The Shout

"The possibility for the existence of magic is realized in this chilling and enimatic film by director Jerzy Skolimowski." -MC
  • The Shout (1978)
    Starring: Alan Bates,  Susannah York,  John Hurt
    Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A macabre tale about a man who claims he has the power to kill using a horrifying 'death shout'. A composer and his wife agree to letting the man stay, since the husband wishes to hear the 'shout' for himself.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 191 members
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The Man Who Fell To Earth

"Roeg reverses the convention of aliens menacing the earth and presents a case of Earth being a menace to aliens, probably the more realistic of the two possibilities..." -MC
  • The Man Who Fell To Earth on DVD (1976)
    Starring: David Bowie,  Rip Torn,  Candy Clark
    Director: Nicolas Roeg
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Nicolas Roeg's sci-fi tale based on the novel by Walter Tevis, a humanoid alien from a dried-up husk of a planet falls to Earth in a spaceship--and later falls again metaphorically through alcohol abuse and the manipulations of a hostile culture. Arriving as a secret ambassador from a dying ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,550 members

Don't Look Now

"Roeg was also responsible for the eerie psychic thriller Don't Look Now (1973) and is clearly a director with fortean sensibilities and someone to watch for further projects in this genre." -MC

The Lost World

  • The Lost World on DVD (1925)
    Starring: Wallace Beery,  Bessie Love,  Lewis Stone
    Director: Harry Hoyt
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Harry Hoyt directed the first film version of the dinosaur-inhabited land that time forgot, featuring wonderful early stop-motion animation by Willis O'Brien. The silent film, based on a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, features Lewis Stone and the great Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger, as ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 316 members

Koyaanisqatsi

  • Koyaanisqatsi on DVD (1983)
    Director: Godfrey Reggio
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    First-time filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's experimental documentary "Koyaanisqatsi" from 1983 - shot mostly in the desert Southwest and New York City on a tiny budget with no script, then attracting the support of Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas and enlisting the indispensable musical contribution ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,662 member

The Haunting

  • The Haunting on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Julie Harris,  Claire Bloom,  Richard Johnson
    Director: Robert Wise
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Dr Markway (Richard Johnson), a paranormal investigator, invites a pair of psychic researchers to help him examine the restless spirits at Hill House, a sinister family estate haunted by the angry souls from its troubled past. The owner insists her nephew (Russ Tamblyn) join the team of Theodora (..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,118 members




Average rating for this collection: Average rating: 4.17   83.4% from 6 members

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