Anywhere But Hollywood – Unusual Movies for Unusual People

Stalker

October 23, 2026

By the commonly told story, the first attempt at STALKER was lost in a Mosfilm lab: footage shot on faulty stock was ruined, the original…

Roadgames

October 23, 2026

A truck driver crosses the Australian outback with only a dingo for company, making up stories about the cars he passes to stay sane. Then…

The Music Teacher

October 22, 2026

A celebrated baritone walks away from the stage at the height of his powers, retreats to a country estate, and pours everything he has left…

Alice, Sweet Alice

October 22, 2026

A figure in a yellow raincoat and a translucent mask strangles a young girl in a church during her first communion. ALICE, SWEET ALICE (1976)…

The Man Who Fell to Earth

October 21, 2026

By his own later account, a rock star who had barely eaten or slept for months, living on cocaine and milk, walked onto a film…

The Innocents

October 21, 2026

A governess arrives at a country estate to care for two orphaned children, and almost immediately begins to wonder whether the house is haunted, or…

Withnail & I

October 20, 2026

Two unemployed actors, a flat full of unwashed dishes, and a holiday to the countryside that solves nothing. The trip was meant to be a…

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…