Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 15 – The Cure for the Common Algorithm

Chosen Survivors

April 21, 2026

A computer selects eleven people at random. They are sedated, loaded onto helicopters, and deposited into a state-of-the-art nuclear bunker two miles beneath the desert.…

Blue My Mind

April 20, 2026

The mermaid has always been male fantasy made flesh – and fin. This film twists the fantasy into something biting and precise. Lisa Brühlmann’s 2017…

The Spirit of the Beehive

April 19, 2026

A 1973 film about a child in 1940 watching a movie made in 1931. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE was made under Franco’s dictatorship, which…

Creatures the World Forgot

April 18, 2026

Hammer Films made three prehistoric spectaculars. The first had Raquel Welch in a fur bikini, plus Ray Harryhausen’s dinosaurs. The second had Victoria Vetri in…

Escape from Tomorrow

April 17, 2026

Somebody made a horror film inside Walt Disney World and Disneyland without asking Disney. They used tiny cameras, dressed the cast as ordinary tourists, hid…

Paperhouse

April 16, 2026

PAPERHOUSE is sometimes categorized as a children’s fantasy film. It’s really not. Bernard Rose (Candyman) adapted it in 1988 from Catherine Storr’s 1958 novel Marianne…

Unforgiven

April 15, 2026

Hollywood remakes Japanese films all the time. Japan remaking Hollywood is rarer. Japan remaking a film that was itself a spiritual descendant of Kurosawa? That’s…

Demon Angel : A Day And Night With Roky Erickson

April 15, 2026

The tagline was “High school honor student by day, Hollywood hooker by night.” Audiences showed up for the premise and stayed for an incongruously warm-hearted…

Angel

April 14, 2026

The tagline was “High school honor student by day, Hollywood hooker by night.” Audiences showed up for the premise and stayed for an incongruously warm-hearted…

Eyes of Fire

April 13, 2026

Before The Witch. Before Midsommar. Before folk horror hit the mainstream as a popular subgenre, Avery Crounse made EYES OF FIRE in Missouri in 1983.…