Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 14 – Unusual Movies for Unusual People

A Summer Story

May 16, 2026

Penelope Mortimer wrote the screenplay in the 1960s, took the money, and forgot about it. 20 years later the film went into production and she…

Häxan

May 16, 2026

Banned in the United States and censored throughout Europe for its depictions of demonic orgies and possessed nuns, this was the most expensive Scandinavian silent…

Psychomania

May 15, 2026

George Sanders took his own life shortly after the film’s completion, leaving a note that read, “Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored.”…

Liquid Sky

May 14, 2026

Aliens land on the roof in a ship the size of a dinner plate – searching for heroin. They discover something better: the endorphin released…

Galaxina

May 13, 2026

Dorothy Stratten was murdered by her husband and manager Paul Snider on August 14, 1980, two months after the film’s release. She was twenty years…

Becky

May 12, 2026

A fourteen-year-old girl discovers that she is far more dangerous than the escaped convicts who have taken her family hostage. She dispatches them using, among…

The Lair of the White Worm

May 11, 2026

The skull of the pagan god was built by adding sculpted sections to a real cow skull with fabricated teeth. The phallic symbolism was not…

The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays

May 10, 2026

Wayyyyyyyyy before Wicked. Wayyy before MGM’s The Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum (El-Pha-Ba… get it?) stood on stage in a white suit, delivering a…

God Told Me To

May 9, 2026

A Catholic detective hunts a cult leader who may be his half-brother, born from the same extraterrestrial visitation. This film is a police procedural, then…

Etoile

May 8, 2026

This is not Black Swan. When Black Swan premiered in 2010, some audience members pointed out similarities to the well-known anime Perfect Blue. A smaller…

The Thing with Two Heads

May 7, 2026

Terminally ill racist surgeon Dr. Maxwell Kirshner (Ray Milland) has been experimenting with head transplants in his basement. His plan is to have his own…

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

May 6, 2026

He was handed a minimal budget and the task of building seven animatronic mutant children who had to emote while vomiting, urinating, and breaking into…

Dogra Magra

May 5, 2026

There is an urban legend in Japan that the novel Dogra Magra can drive its reader insane. The book was published in 1935 by Yumeno…

A Dark Song

May 4, 2026

Liam Gavin had watched a documentary about Aleister Crowley performing the Abramelin ritual at Loch Ness. The ritual, drawn from a fifteenth-century grimoire known as…

King Frat

May 3, 2026

Animal House is a beloved classic of American comedy. This isn’t that. This is what Animal House looks like from the bottom of a ditch,…