Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 17 – Unusual Movies for Unusual People

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…

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.…

Starship Invasions

April 12, 2026

In the summer of 1977, Star Wars came out and changed science fiction forever. A few months later, Canada released STARSHIP INVASIONS, and it did…

The Endless

April 11, 2026

Most cult horror gives you obvious villains. THE ENDLESS gives you people you’d almost want to hang with – warm, communal, strangely at peace -…

Starfish

April 10, 2026

A young woman, a dead friend, cassette tapes, creatures arriving from somewhere beyond. STARFISH is a film about the end of the world. It’s also…

Ciao! Manhattan

April 9, 2026

The film started shooting in 1967. By the time it wrapped in 1972, its star was dead. CIAO! MANHATTAN began as a loose, Warhol-adjacent project…

Times Square

April 8, 2026

In 1979, Allan Moyle took his cameras into Times Square before the city cleaned it up. What he captured – the grindhouses, the neon, the…

Nothing Lasts Forever

April 7, 2026

One of the strangest cult films of the 1980s was barely released at all. NOTHING LASTS FOREVER is a black-and-white fantasy directed by SNL oddball…