Anywhere But Hollywood – Unusual Movies for Unusual People

The Battle of Algiers

November 2, 2026

The man who produced the film had actually led the National Liberation Front’s operations in the Casbah during the war the story depicts. He wrote…

Moon 44

November 1, 2026

The furniture warehouse belonging to the director’s own father became a space station, its leftover packing foam turned into set dressing for a science fiction…

Velvet Goldmine

November 1, 2026

David Bowie refused to let his song catalogue anywhere near the production, so the film invents its own glam star and borrows the outline of…

Eyes Without a Face

October 31, 2026

Hammer’s success led a French producer to answer with a homegrown horror. EYES WITHOUT A FACE (1960), directed by documentary filmmaker Georges Franju from a…

Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural

October 31, 2026

A young girl travels alone by night bus into a town of shadows and feral children, chasing a letter that may be a trap. The…

The Vampire Lovers

October 31, 2026

A British censor warned Hammer that a lesbian drama had already lost five minutes of footage to his office, and that this one would get…

Evilspeak

October 30, 2026

On a sixteenth-century beach, an excommunicated Spanish priest conducts a Black Mass and beheads a peasant girl as an offering. Centuries later, an orphaned cadet…

Mausoleum

October 30, 2026

A ten-year-old girl flees into her family’s mausoleum during her mother’s funeral, and something ancient and evil finds its way inside her. MAUSOLEUM (1983) stars…

Tourist Trap

October 29, 2026

A roadside museum full of wax mannequins turns out to have an owner who can move objects with his mind, and dummies that may not…

Demons

October 29, 2026

A stranger in a metal mask hands out free tickets to a movie screening. A woman puts on a prop mask as a joke and…

Let the Right One In

October 28, 2026

A boy practices stabbing a tree with a knife, rehearsing revenge against the classmates who torment him, in the snow outside a housing block in…

The Asphyx

October 28, 2026

A Victorian gentleman studies photographs of the dying and keeps finding the same smudge of light hovering near their faces at the instant of death.…

Pink Flamingos

October 27, 2026

A trailer outside Baltimore housed a 300-pound drag queen who ate dog feces on camera, in a single take, and was crowned by a tabloid…

Daughters of Darkness

October 27, 2026

A concierge who has worked the same seaside hotel for decades recognizes a countess the moment she steps through the door. She has not aged…

Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands

October 26, 2026

A man watches a film reel documenting an attack on his own lover, then pays a professional killer to settle the matter. The killer accepts…