Anywhere But Hollywood – Unusual Movies for Unusual People

Vampyr

October 20, 2026

Its star was a wealthy baron who financed the production in exchange for the lead role. In VAMPYR (1932), baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, acting under…

Tampopo

October 19, 2026

A dying woman gets out of bed to cook one last meal for her family, and her husband makes them eat it. A gangster passes…

The Pit and the Pendulum

October 19, 2026

A visiting brother comes looking for answers about his sister’s death and instead finds a castle full of torture devices, a husband unraveling before his…

Ballad of a Soldier

October 18, 2026

A young soldier is offered a medal for an act of bravery against enemy tanks. He asks for something else instead: a few days’ leave…

The Stone Tape

October 18, 2026

A team of engineers moves into an old Victorian house to invent a new recording format, and finds that the building invented one of its…

Glen and Randa

October 17, 2026

Two teenagers set out across a ruined continent to find a city they have only read about in a comic book. They have no reason…

Ratcatcher

October 17, 2026

A boy holds a secret by a canal, and a garbage strike piles the city’s rubbish into mountains around him, as if the whole world…

House

October 16, 2026

A piano eats a girl alive. A severed head bites another girl on the behind. A Japanese film studio asked its ad-director hire for something…

Nadja

October 16, 2026

Dracula is dead in a New York morgue, and his daughter has come to claim the body. The attendant at the desk is David Lynch,…

Dust Devil

October 15, 2026

In the Namibian desert, a serial killer believes he is something older than human: a shapeshifting spirit who must murder to cross between worlds, drawing…

Baraka

October 15, 2026

Fricke and his crew traveled to twenty-four countries across six continents to make a film without a single line of dialogue, a single interview, or…

Daisies

October 14, 2026

Two young women decide that if the world is spoiled, they might as well be spoiled too. They eat their way through other people’s banquets,…

Messiah of Evil

October 14, 2026

Before American Graffiti made their names, two screenwriters who co-wrote it for George Lucas made something so strange it barely got released at all. MESSIAH…

The Case of the Grinning Cat

October 13, 2026

A grinning yellow cat began appearing on walls across Paris in 2001, painted by an anonymous street artist, and nobody knew who was responsible or…

The Cat

October 13, 2026

A centuries-old alien in the body of a house cat is stranded on Earth, hunting for the weapon that will allow him to destroy an…