Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 13 – Unusual Movies for Unusual People

The City of Lost Children

May 29, 2026

This is a fairy tale with rust under its fingernails. A scientist on a platform in a fog-bound sea cannot dream, causing him to age…

The Strangeness

May 28, 2026

The creature was designed to resemble a fusion of male and female genitalia. The plot concerns a survey team entering the abandoned Golden Spike Mine,…

Lost Highway

May 27, 2026

A stranger rang David Lynch’s doorbell. A voice came through the intercom: “Dick Laurent is dead.” Lynch never found out who was at the door…

Sex and Lucía

May 26, 2026

Most films have one beginning. This one has two, and you can start from either. SEX AND LUCIA, the 2001 film from Spanish director Julio…

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

May 25, 2026

Hugh Everett III proposed the theory that every quantum event causes the universe to branch into a parallel reality. His son Mark leads the band…

Too Hot to Handle

May 25, 2026

A cosmetics magnate is lured into a mud bath and killed with skin-rejuvenation electrodes. A man is coaxed into a bedroom, whipped and suffocated. Cheri…

But I’m a Cheerleader

May 24, 2026

A teenage girl is ambushed by her parents. They want her to confess to being a lesbian. Their evidence: she likes tofu, keeps a Melissa…

Target Earth

May 23, 2026

The robot invasion consisted of one robot. The eerily deserted street scenes were filmed at dawn before traffic started. The city feels abandoned not because…

Ms .45

May 22, 2026

She is a mute seamstress in the New York garment district. In a single day she is attacked twice. Then she takes the gun. MS.…

Ninja III: The Domination

May 22, 2026

A ninja is shot dead by police and his demonic spirit invades the body of an aerobics instructor. Lucinda Dickey, fresh off Breakin’, carries the…

Heavenly Creatures

May 21, 2026

Before The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson made a film about two teenage girls and a real murder. One of those girls grew up…

Miracle Mile

May 20, 2026

A payphone rings. A man picks up. A voice panics: “It’s happening!” Nuclear warheads have been launched. Los Angeles will be gone in seventy minutes.…

Vesper

May 19, 2026

They spent ten years pitching English-language sci-fi projects. Then they went home to Lithuania and made one of the most fully realized dystopian worlds in…

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

May 18, 2026

A boy with a vision. A group of medieval travelers willing to follow him anywhere. And a hole in the fabric of time that leads…

Bloody Bridget

May 17, 2026

Richard Elfman founded Oingo Boingo before his younger brother Danny Elfman joined the band and eventually left to become one of the most celebrated film…